Timothy Jones is a performer, musicologist and Deputy Principal (Programmes and Research) at the Royal Academy of Music. After his early musical education in south Wales he studied as an undergraduate and postgraduate student at Christ Church Oxford. On completing doctoral work on Mozart in 1991 he became Lecturer in Music at St Peter's College and St Edmund Hall Oxford, and taught music theory and analysis at Oxford University's Faculty of Music. He subsequently held academic posts at the University of Exeter and the Royal Northern College of Music before joining the Royal Academy of Music in 2008.

As a scholar, Timothy Jones's main interests lie in Viennese classical music and the relationships between analysis, interpretation and performance. He is the author of Beethoven: The 'Moonlight' and Other Sonatas Op. 27 and Op. 31 (Cambridge 1999), a new edition and completion of Mozart's Requiem fragment K. 626, and articles on technical issues in music by Mozart and Haydn. He is currently writing a book on expressive troping and reciprocity in Mozart's instrumental music for Indiana University Press. In recent years he has also developed research interests in nineteenth-century French instrumental music. He contributed a chapter to French Music Since Berlioz (Ashgate 2006) and has written about the style and aesthetics of the French symphonic poem at the end of the nineteenth century.

Timothy Jones's career also encompasses a busy schedule as a performer. As a continuo player he has performed a wide repertoire of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music, while as a pianist he has mainly worked in the music of the classical period and of our own day (including many premieres). As a keyboard player he is particularly interested in the role of improvisation within composed musical structures.

If you wish to contact Timothy Jones, please speak to Catherine Jury, Academic Secretary: telephone 020 7873 7361 / email c.jury@ram.ac.uk