Jake Runestead's Waves
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About MichaelBorn into a musical family Michael Jones, tenor and trumpet player, performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. This fall, Michael will perform Aniara: Fragments of time and space with the two time GRAMMY-award winning choir, The Crossing, at the Finnish National Opera. After that, Michael continues on throughout Europe to perform with Youngblood Brass Band for a month (see schedule for more details). This season, Michael is excited to be making debuts with Santa Fe Desert Chorale, The Academy of Sacred Drama and Opera Philadelphia.
Michael appears on the GRAMMY-award winning Zealot Canticles and the Grammy-nominated Bonhoeffer, both released by The Crossing. He has performed on five Downbeat Award-winning recordings. In addition, Michael has recorded on Parma, Delos, Albany, World Library Publications (WLP), GIA and several others. Michael studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music for his Bachelors in Jazz Trumpet where he studied with Kim Pensyl, David Adams and Scott Belck. In addition, Michael studied at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music for his Masters in Jazz Trumpet under the tutelage of Victor Goines, Brad Mason and Christopher Madsen. |