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The David W. Jones Voice Scholarship/Pedagogy Endowment
For more than forty years, David Jones devoted his professional life to that of an academic musician. He was an accomplished singer, a tenor, and performed in many university, church, and regional productions as soloist, conductor and producer.
Dr. Jones established himself as an outstanding lecturer on Vocal Pedagogy. He presented lectures at Western Illinois University, University of North Texas, McLellan County College, Opera in the Ozarks, and at San Jose, California. He was invited to read a paper at the third Interdisciplinary Voice Conference honoring Van L. Lawrence in Fort Worth in 1990. He gave a lecture and vocal demonstration at the National Association of Teachers of Singing in Waco.
As a voice teacher Dr. Jones placed numerous contestants in the finals at the Texoma Regional NATS Auditions. Many of his students have won district and regional Metropolitan Opera Auditions.
In 1992, Yvonne Gonzales, soprano, was one of the National Metropolitan Opera Auditions winners and was awarded a three-year apprentice contract with the company. In November 1993, when made her Metropolitan debut as "Papagena" in Mozart's The Magic Flute. She is now a regular with the company and is also out singing in regional companies in Europe.
Bruce Brown, baritone, is a member of the Vienna Stats Opera Ensemble, and opened the 1996 season as "Marcello" in La Boheme by Puccini. He sings or covers over one hundred roles a year with the Vienna Stat Oper or the Vienna Volks Oper.
Jill Grove, mezzo-soprano, is a new professional on the horizon building an international singing career. She recently sang "Magdalene" in Die Meistersinger at the Met which was recorded for later PBS telecast. Critic Hugh Canning praised her "sensational" Ulrica as "the best I've heard in any theater."
Dr. Jones has numerous other former students singing in the professional ranks at this time: Danny Bergen, tenor; John Pickle, tenor; Michael Tally, tenor; Kay Paschall, soprano; Terry Morris, baritone; and Sarah Hibberd, soprano, to mention some of the most successful. His daughter, Juli Wood, is a professional singer and member of the voice faculty at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Dr. Jones was honored in 1988 by being appointed Regents Professor for Teaching at Stephen F. Austin State University. In 1987 he was elected by the SFA Student Government as Teacher of the Year in Fine Arts. In 1997 he was selected by his peers for the University Teacher Excellence Award. In 1996 he was chosen Outstanding Alumni of College Music at The University of North Texas at Denton.
Dr. Jones founded the Opera Workshop, and with the able help of his colleagues, he was the artistic director and stage director for over 30 productions of major operas during the past 25 years. He also founded the Vocal Pedagogy Program at SFA.
Please mail donations to:
David W. Jones Endowment Fund
c/o SFA School of Music
Box 13043 SFA Station
Nacogdoches, TX 75962-3043All checks should be made out to the:
"SFA Foundation" with a memo that it is for the David W. Jones Endowment.
Department
of Music
Stephen F. Austin State University
Box 13043, SFA Station
Nacogdoches, TX 75962-3043
Phone: 936-468-4602 | Fax: 936-468-5810
Dr. Ron Anderson, Chair
Roni Lias, Webmaster
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 11, 2007