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Dr. Paul S. Jones
(Photograph by Janette Bradley Smith)
Teachers:
Conducting – Thomas Dunn, Jan Harrington, Robert Porco
Piano – Menahem Pressler, Edward Auer, Martin Canin, Samuel Hsu,
           Susan Fullerton
Organ – Robert Carwithen, Roy Brunner
Chamber Music – Josef Gingold
Voice – Alan Bennett
Composition – Ronald Alan Matthews
Music History – George Buelow

Conducted/collaborated with:
Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia; The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia; Tenth Church Choir
PBU Symphony Orchestra, Tenth Chamber Players, Westminster Brass
Sharon Sweet, soprano; Menahem Pressler, piano; Stuart Neill, tenor
Sheryl Woods Olson, soprano; Robert McFarland, baritone; Samuel Hsu, piano; Jerome Hines, bass

Honors/Awards:
Finalist, Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellowship, 2002
Conducting Grant – Awards to Artists, The Canada Council, 1998
Doctoral Conducting Fellow – Indiana University, 1997-99
New Brunswick Arts Award, 1993
Presser Scholar – Theodore Presser Foundation, 1992
Listed in Who's Who Among Students in American College & Universities and Who's Who Among America's Teachers.

Publications:
Hymns for a Modern Reformation, with James Montgomery Boice, Philadelphia: Tenth Presbyterian Church, 2000.
"Writing Hymns" in The Christian Imagination (revised and expanded), Leland Ryken ed., Shaw Books, Colorado Springs: WaterBrook Press, 2002.
"A Case for Biblical Hymnody" in Give Praise to God: Sola Scriptura et Soli Deo Gloria: A Festschrift in Memory of James Montgomery Boice.  Philadelphia:  P & R, Pub., 2003.
Regular columnist for the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals publication God's Word Today.
Host of nationally broadcast radio programs on church music, Sacred Music Through the Ages.

Recordings (can be purchased through www.alliancenet.org)
Hymns for a Modern Reformation, Tenth Church Choir & Soloists, Westminster Brass, Paul S. Jones – organist and conductor (2000)
Praise God In His Sanctuary: Sacred Music for Brass and Organ – Westminster Brass, Paul S. Jones, organ (2001)
Impromptu: Meditative Hymn Improvisations – Paul S. Jones, piano (2002)