Employment Resume

Name:Brian Jones

Address:3 Cherry Street

Winsted, CT 06098

Phone:(860) 459-5288

Email:

Education: Central Connecticut State University

  • Years of Study: 2006-2010
  • Achieved Degree: BA Music- Vocal Performance
  • Voice Part: Bass/ Baritone

Certification: Connecticut Teachers Certification- Music K-12 (pending)

Current Employment:

  • North Haven Congregational Church- Music Director
  • Hall High School- Women’s Choir Director
  • Voce, Inc., Hartford, CT- Vocalist

Post/Collegiate Extracurricular Activities:

  • Divisi- All male a cappella group
  • Position- Assistant Director and section leader
  • ACDA (American Choral Directors Association) CCSU Chapter
  • Position- President
  • Central Connecticut A Cappella Society
  • Position- Secretary
  • The Valley Chordsmen- Barbershop choir in Waterbury, CT
  • Position- Bass
  • The Elements- 5-member professional a cappella ensemble
  • Position- Bass
  • Catholic Newman Club
  • Position- Vice President

Collegiate Awards and Scholarships:

  • Half-tuition scholarship with CCSU’s chamber choir University Singers
  • Renewed all four years based on GPA
  • True Achievement Award from CCSU’s University Singers
  • Based on overall musical excellence and professionalism
  • Member of the 2009 ACDA National Collegiate Honor Choir
  • Member of the 2011 ACDA National Men’s Honor Choir
  • Accepted into CCSU National Honor Society
  • Dean’s List

Other Work Experience:

  • Central Connecticut State University-
  • Graduate Assistant for 2011-2012 academic year
  • Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus-
  • Assistant Conductor for 2010-2011 Season
  • Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Hartford, CT-
  • Bass Section Leader, Soloist, Children’s Choir Director and member of the Hand Bell Choir from 2008-2011
  • Hartford Public High School-
  • Show Choir Director from 2010-2011
  • The Music Shop, Southington, CT-
  • Voice Instructor from 2009-2011
  • St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church, Naugatuck, CT
  • Cantor and Youth Choir Director from 2008-2009
  • Farmington High School, Farmington, CT
  • Artist in Residence for fall semester of 2009
  • Rawson Middle School Academy
  • Volunteer Choir Director for fall semester of 2010
  • Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Twin Lake, MI
  • Camp Counselor, Lifeguard, and Rehearsal Assistant summer of 2009

Career Highlights:

  • Guest clinician for a high school choir festival in Montville, CT
  • Conducting Voce singing Maurice Durufle’s Ubi Caritas
  • Conducting the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus with members of the New London Symphony Orchestra in Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus
  • University Singers tour of China in March of 2009
  • Conducting Where the Earth Meets the Sky- Z. Randall Stroope
  • Requiem – W.A. Mozart
  • Bass Soloist
  • Chichester Psalms - Leonard Bernstein
  • Bass soloist
  • Lord Nelson Mass- Josef Haydn
  • Bass soloist
  • Joint concert w/ University Singers and Voce featuring Morten Lauridsen
  • Singing Beethoven’s 9 th Symphony with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra
  • Singing Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna with members of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra
  • Recording Studio Album w/ Collegiate a cappella group Divisi

References:

Dr. Pamela J. Perry

Full Time Music Professor at Central Connecticut State University

1615 Stanley Street

New Britain, CT 06051

School Phone: (860) 832-2903

Email:

Steven Mitchell

Directory of Music Ministry at Asylum Hill Congregational Church

814 Asylum Avenue

Hartford, CT 06105

Phone: (860) 525-5696

Email:

Mark Singleton

Music Director at Immanuel Congregational Church

10 Woodland Street

Hartford, CT 06105

Phone: (860) 527-8121

Email: