Timothy Jones

Timothy Jones is the longtime principal French horn player with the London Symphony Orchestra and has a flourishing career as a concerto soloist. He is also an important educator who holds an endowed chair at the Royal College of Music. Jones was born in London in 1961. He has played popular as well as classical music, sometimes using the name Tim Jones. He took up the horn at 15 and studied the instrument with Ifor James and Frank Lloyd, but as with some other horn players, his formal education was relatively sparse, and he left school at the age of 17 to take a position as ...