Hilary Jones

INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL DEPARTMENT - flute

Dr. Hilary Jones is a flutist, educator, and scholar based in New York City. Hilary was recently the flutist for the North American Tour of Broadway’s Les Misérables and holds the position of 2nd flute with the Greater Bridgeport Symphony under the direction of Maestro Eric Jacobsen. For the past season, she has also served in an acting Principal flute role for the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra and continues to perform with the New Jersey Symphony, Riverside Symphony, New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra, Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra, and others. Hilary was a young artist fellow at the Talis Festival in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and twice a fellow at the National Orchestral Institute.

Hilary earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 2017 and enjoyed focusing her chamber performance and scholarly interest on 18th-century performance practice, culminating with research on translating historical performance practice to the modern flute in C.P.E. Bach’s Concerto in d Minor for flute   Her current area of scholarly focus is on music of early America and its ties to the philosophies of the Age of Enlightenment. 

As an educator, Dr. Jones has served on the faculties of New York University, Rutgers University’s Adult Chamber Music program, as a teaching assistant in the Rutgers musicology department, and through many non-profit outreach programs, including the Paterson Music Project. 

Hilary is on the faculty of The Diller-Quaile School of Music and continues to share her teaching with the New Jersey Youth Symphony. Dr. Jones is also an adjunct faculty member at Iona College within the Fine and Performing Arts Department, where she teaches courses in Music and Film, Music in World Cultures, Women and Music, and is developing a forthcoming course entitled Music of the Enlightenment and Age of Revolutions.