Keith Jones
Associate Professor of Voice and Choirs
DM Indiana University
MM Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
BM Furman
keith.jones@converse.edu
864-596-9121
Blackman Music Hall, Room 108

Throughout his professional life, tenor Keith Jones has brought distinction to his performances in opera, oratorio, and recital. He has sung with Opera Omaha, the South Carolina Opera, Opera Lite of Hilton Head, Indiana University Opera Theatre, Converse Opera, and in Boris Goldovsky's Opera Scenes Programs with the San Antonio Young Artists Festival. One of South Carolina's busiest oratorio singers, he has been the tenor soloist for some of the most important premieres of the state including the Britten War Requiem and the Beethoven Missa Solemnis. His several dozen performances with the leading orchestras of the state and with the Piccolo Spoleto Festival have won him wide acclaim and the description, "a lustrous component of our musical life." He is a member of the South Carolina Arts Commission's "Community Tours Artist Roster" for the years 2001-2003 and will present around the state a series of recitals featuring American art song and musical theatre.

A native of Newport News, Virginia, he graduated from Furman University (BM), Southern Seminary (MCM), and Indiana University (DM). Dr. Jones is an assistant professor of music at Converse College where he teaches voice and directs the Spartanburg Festival Chorus.