EVAN JONES, Associate Professor of Music Theory, holds the Ph.D. in music theory and the D.M.A. in cello performance from the Eastman School of Music. Dr. Jones supervises sophomore aural skills and teaches modal counterpoint, form and analysis, 20th-century styles, music since 1945, post-tonal aural skills, and readings in music theory. Before joining the faculty at The Florida State University College of Music, Dr. Jones coordinated and instructed a wide variety of music theory and aural skills courses at Eastman, taught music theory at the University of Rochester, and taught cello at Colgate University. Dr. Jones is a past winner of the Sproull Fellowship from the University of Rochester and a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; he was also a co-recipient of the inaugural Alfred Mann Dissertation Prize from the Eastman School.

Dr. Jones has presented his research at numerous regional, national, and international conferences, and has published articles on the music of Xenakis, Schubert, Quantz, and Orlando di Lasso in Computer Music Journal, the Journal of Schenkerian Studies, and Perspectives of New Music, as well as in several edited collections of essays. He also edited and contributed to a collection of twenty essays entitled Intimate Voices: The Twentieth-Century String Quartet (Rochester, 2009). From 1997–99 Dr. Jones served as co-editor of Intégral, a peer-reviewed journal of music theory; he now serves on that journal's editorial board. He received the Florida State University Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2007, having previously won teaching prizes from both Eastman and the University of Rochester.

An active cellist, Dr. Jones gave the world premières of solo works by Clifton Callender, Robert Morris, and Ciro Scotto, the North American premières of solo and chamber works by Iannis Xenakis, and the New York City premières of works by Dexter Morrill and Christopher Auerbach-Brown (in Merkin Hall and Weill Recital Hall respectively). He has performed under the auspices of the Banff Centre for the Arts, Baroque Southeast, Electronic Music Midwest, Music on the Lake, Musique Royale, the Orford Arts Centre, the Scotia Festival of Music, the Syracuse Society for New Music, and on faculty recital programs at The Florida State University, and previously appeared as principal cellist of the Binghamton Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, and the Montreal Chamber Players. Recent recital and festival appearances have included DePauw University, Longwood University, UCLA, and the University of Cincinnati, as well as at venues in Kansas, Minnesota, Texas, Virginia, Canada, and Italy.