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Brynmor Jones - Conductor/Composer

Brynmor Jones

Brynmor Jones (aka Brynmor Llewelyn Jones) is a conductor/composer living and working in Germany.

Education

Brynmor Jones was educated at William Ellis Grammar School from 1961 to 1968. While studying for A-levels in english, french, german and music, he was offered an unconditional place to read music at the University of East Anglia leading to a B.A in music. Teachers included Philip Ledger, Julian Rushton and Duncan Druce. The University Operatic Society provided the first opportunity to conduct opera - 3 performances of Verdi's "Nabucco" with Iris Bourne in the role of Abigail.

From 1971 to 1972 he continued his studies in London - conducting with Barclay Wilson at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and for the Associate Pianoforte Diploma A.L.C.M.

Several scholarships enabled participation in more specialised conducting courses:

• The Carnegie Trust Bursary for Conducting at the Canford Summer School with George Hurst
• Italian Government Scholarship for the Accademia Chigiana, Sienna with Franco Ferrara
• British Council Scholarship for Conducting at The Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi, Milan with Mario Gusella
• Mozarteum Summer Academy, Salzburg with Otmar Suitner
• Austrian Government Scholarship for Conducting at the Vienna Master Classes with Witold Rowicki

Career

Engagements with amateur and semiprofessional organisations such as the Seren Orchestra, the Corelli Choir and Orchestra, the Christchurch Choral Society and the Gwalia Male Voice Choir confirmed the wish to conduct professionally. In 1975 Brynmor Jones moved to Italy to join Mario Gusella's course for the diploma of Maestro di Direzione d'Orchestra. 1977 he co-formed the Berlin Arts Company specialising in the performance of contemporary chamber music and in 1978 was invited to conduct in the Berlin Sommerfestspiele - Kurt Weil's Requiem with members of the Deutsche Oper Orchester, Berlin. Thus began a period of conducting engagements and radio broadcasts with the Scharoun Ensemble, the Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen, NDR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra Altenburg-Gera, East Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra, Szolnok, the Rhine Philharmonic and 3 days of recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Abbey Road Studios for the Master Musicians Cooperative Record Label.

In 1981 he became the Music Director of the Berlin Chamber Opera (Berliner Kammeroper) and took over the Artistic Direction in 1996. Over the course of the next 26 years Brynmor Jones and the stage director Henry Akina produced and directed over 60 new opera productions, principally in Berlin but also on European tour. The Berliner Kammeroper was responsible for Berlin, German or World first performances of primarily lesser known baroque operas on the one hand and contemporary works on the other - eg. the operas of Cavalli, Handel and Keiser, Peter Maxwell Davies and Hans Werner Henze.

As a film composer Brynmor Jones has written and produced the scores for several cinema films. A short selection:

Nur aus Liebe director: Dennis Satin with Katja Riemann, Hannes Jaenicke und Heinz Hoenig

Alles auf Anfang director: Reinhard Münster with Harald Juhnke, Katharina Thalbach, Udo Samel und Christiane Hörbiger

Gorilla bathes at Noon director: Dusan Makavejev

Bloody Atlantic director: Peter Keglevic with Patsy Kensit, Elizabeth Hurley und Jürgen Prochnow

Helden und andere Feiglinge director: Dennis Satin with Ralf Bauer, Carin C. Tietze, Andreas Wisniewski

Der Bulle und das Mädchen director: Peter Keglevic with Annette von Klier und Jürgen Prochnow

Bella Donna director Peter Keglevic with Krystina Janda und Erland Josefson

and numerous soundtracks for ZDF, RTL, NDR, WDR, ARD, Arte und Discovery Channel television channels. Recently Brynmor Jones has concentrated on biopics and documentary features for ZDF in the series Terra-X.

As arranger and conductor he has also worked on Universal Soldier (Carolco Pictures) directed by Roland Emmerich with Jean-Claude van Damme and Dolph Lundgren and McBain directed by James Glickenhaus starring Christopher Walken

Recordings

• Hans Werner Henze Kammermusik 1958 with Neil Jenkins, Timothy Walker, Scharoun-Ensemble on Musica Mundi
• Daniel O’Brien Orchestral Suites with the London Symphony Orchestra on MMC Records
• New American Music with the London Symphony Orchestra on MMC Records
• Alvin Curran Crystal Psalms with RIAS-Kammerchor and RAI Milan, on New Albion Records
• Hans Werner Henze Elegie für junge Liebende“with Richard Lloyd Morgan, Lawrence Richard und Regine Schudel on Deutsche Schallplatten
• G. F. Händel Ezio with Christopher Robson and Lori McCann, Oriol Ensemble on Deutsche Schallplatten
• Thomas McKinley Emsdettener Totentanz with the Silesisches Streichquartett / Berliner Saxophonquartett on MMC Records
• Helge Jörns „uropa und der Stier with Elaine Woods, Ian Comboy and Harry Nicoll on Col Legno
• Brynmor Jones Filmmusic Volumes 1 & 2 conducted by the composer on Chinatown Filmmusic

Personal

Brynmor Jones and his wife Margot have travelled extensively to Europe, the Middle East, India and South-East Asia, Australasia, Africa and the Americas.

They now divide their time between Berlin and their house on Lake Ruppin.

References

imdb: Brynmor Jones

official website: www.brynmorjones,com