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Vaughan Jones

Bucks, United Kingdom

Personal website: http://www.stringsection.co.uk

Vaughan joined Violinist.com on Nov 30, 2005

Started playing violin at the age of 8 and absolutely loved it.

Played for several years with the London Philharmonic and various other orchestras and like a lot of London musicians, ended up with a good CV but struggled to live on the salary.

Now I do session work and play in both a String Quartet and Duo. The quartet gives recitals of more serious chamber works but we also play for functions and corporate events. The other musicians are really terrific and a pleasure to play with.

Unimpressed with the quality and lack of detail in many published quartet arrangements, I started to do them myself, writing transcriptions or reductions for smaller ensembles. I'm always interested in exploring lesser known chamber music written specifically for strings.

I also play violin and viola in a small commercial string section - we do recording work for bands, television and film music.
In 2009 we have a busy schedule of recitals, recording and corporate work - I aim to do more arranging, research and try out more 'lesser known' chamber works - because you never know when you'll come across a real gem. My quartet are also aiming to record a disc of previously unrecorded works - but we're as yet undecided which ones, so it'll be a project for the summer probably.

I want to keep improving and developing my playing and my priority is always to really enjoy the music.

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Schools:

Birmingham Conservatoire
Royal College of Music, London,
Aspen Music School, Colorado

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Frances Mason
Jacqueline Ross
Kato Havas

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London Philharmonic Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra
English Sinfonia
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orhcestra

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