✉ Organist and Choirmaster
We can’t wait to welcome Dr. Jones for his first Sunday with us on July 20!
Originally from London, Dr. Jones graduated from the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music in 2024 where he studied with Daryl Robinson and served as a Teaching Fellow in the Musicology department. While in Houston, he was awarded the Katherine M. McGovern Graduate Tuition Fellowship and the Howard Pollack Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Research. He is also a graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY holding a Masters Degree in Organ Performance & Literature from the studio of Edoardo Bellotti and he earned his Bachelors Degree in Organ Performance with Honours at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire studying under Henry Fairs & Daniel Moult.
Upon relocating to the United States in 2016, he has since gone on to win numerous awards and prizes including the Third Prize at the 2022 Elizabeth B. Stephens International Organ Competition in Atlanta, GA; Second Prize at the 2017 West Chester University International Organ Competition in West Chester PA; First Prize in the 2017 American Theatre Organ Society’s National Young Artists Competition and Third Prize in the 2018 Royal College of Organists National Competition in the UK. He has been a featured artist at various festivals around the US including at the 2021 Florenzmusik Festival in Florence, AL, the 2018 Lynchburg International Organ Festival in Lynchburg, VA, the 2016 EROI Festival in Rochester, NY and the 2023 Taylor Memorial Concert Series in Colorado Springs.
He is in demand as a harpsichordist and has appeared in concert and opera productions with the renowned GRAMMY©-nominated ensemble Ars Lyrica Houston. During his time at Eastman, he was awarded the Robert Carwithen Scholarship in recognition for excellence in the field of church music and performed concert engagements in Sacramento, California, Atlanta, Georgia, Washington, D.C. and Dallas, TX. While in Rochester, he appeared in a solo capacity with the Eastman Chamber Players in Francis Poulenc’s Concerto for Organ, Strings & Timpani and with the renowned early music ensemble Publick Musick performing several of Handel’s Organ Concerti at the Memorial Art Gallery.
He is a published author, having contributed an article to the 2018 Organ Historical Society Convention Journal and in 2023, he was named as one of The Diapason magazine’s prestigious “20 under 30”, recognizing extraordinary achievement in the fields of organ performance and church music. Most recently, he was the Principal Organist for the 65th Episcopal Diocese of Texas Choral Festival and conducted the choir of Trinity Episcopal Church, Houston for a performance of Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem.
Alex is also a professional theatre organist and has appeared as a featured artist at the 2018 & 2019 American Theatre Organ Society National Conventions in Los Angeles, CA and Rochester, NY. He has toured extensively having given concerts at the Auditorium Theatre in Rochester, the Empire Theatre in Syracuse, the Riviera Theatre in North Tonawanda, and in other venues around the country including the Dickinson Theatre Organ Society in Wilmington, DE for their 49th Anniversary Season, the Senate Theatre in Detroit, MI and the Tampa Theatre in Florida.
In the UK, he has given solo recitals in major venues in London including St. Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Central Hall and St. John’s Smith Square, as well as Lichfield Cathedral, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge & Peterborough Cathedral. In 2014, he was invited as a guest speaker to appear at London’s Southbank Centre for the “Pulling Out The Stops” festival celebrating the re-inauguration of the Royal Festival Hall organ and appeared in masterclasses with Olivier Latry, David Briggs, Wayne Marshall, Dame Gillian Weir, Bine Bryndorf, Pieter van Dijk, Kola Owalabi and Jean-Baptise Robin.
During his formative years, Alex studied at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester where he held the Junior Organ Scholarship at Manchester Cathedral. While there, he appeared in concert with the Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra at The Royal Northern College of Music & Selby Abbey. As an undergraduate in Birmingham, UK, he was awarded the Anne & Don Smith Memorial Organ Scholarship to Town Hall & Symphony Hall and the William Taylor Recital Prize. He was also awarded a grant from the Birmingham Organists’ Association Leonard Gibbons Fund and performed at The Royal Chapel in Versailles and at the Church of the Madeleine during study trips to Paris. Alex has previously held positions as Organist and Director of Music at St. Louis Catholic Church in Memphis, TN and as an assistant organist at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Germantown, TN and All Saints Episcopal Church in Tupelo, MS.
