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Katherine Borst Jones

Katherine Borst Jones, Professor of Flute at The Ohio State University since 1985, has served as chair of woodwinds, brass and percussion since 1999. She was awarded the School of Music Distinguished Teacher award in 1995 and 2012, and the Distinguished Scholar Award in 2008. A participant at the Savvy Musician in Action workshop, her group was awarded the Audience Choice Award as well as second place in the Venture Challenge.

She is a founding member and co-principal flutist of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra,  (Miriam and Bernard Yenkin chair), founding member of the flute, viola, harp trio, COSMOS, which has performed at the flute, viola and harp association conventions, and the Jones/Norton Duo with harpist, Jeanne Norton, a former member of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra (forty years) and principal flute of the New Sousa Band, which performed at the 2009 WASBE and Mid-West Band and Orchestra clinics and has toured Japan, China and the United States extensively.

Created in 1976 by Ms. Jones, the annual High School Flute Workshop program at Ohio State draws students nationally.  Ms. Jones conducts the OSU Flute Troupe, a flute choir that has performed at seven national (NFA) and five state (OMEA) conventions and recently recorded for McGinty Music, (mcgintymusic.com).  In 2014 the flute choir music series, the KBJ Collection was launched with ALRY music.  She has conducted flute choirs throughout the United States including the Alla Breve Flute Choir in Arizona and the NFA Collegiate Flute Choir (2000) and the National High School Flute Choir (1997, 2014).

Professor Jones has served in many roles for the National Flute Association, including president twice, vice-president, and 1992 Los Angeles convention program chair and as competition judge and is the current chair of the past presidents’ council. She has performed at numerous conventions and was a member of the NFA delegation to the Soviet Union in 1989.  She received the NFA Distinguished Service Award in 2011.

A chamber music enthusiastic, Professor Jones was elected President of Chamber Music Columbus in 2016.  She had previously served as a trustee on the education and outreach and program committees.

In addition, she is a visiting professor at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music in Shenyang, China where she has performed and given master classes at two international flute festivals.  She performed at the 2012 British Flute Society International Convention in Manchester, England. She was co-founder, teacher, and coordinator for the Robert Willoughby Master Classes at the University of New Hampshire for eight years.  She has taught at Heidelberg College, Denison University, Emporia State University in Kansas, Oberlin Conservatory, Capital University, and at the American Institute for Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.

Devoted to the creation of new solo and chamber music, in addition to the COSMOS commissions by Libby Larsen, Stephen Paulus, Stephen Main and Andrew Boysen, she has commissioned works by Stephen Montague, Michael Ruszczynski, Mark DeVoto, Dale Warland and Rudolfo Bubalo.  Flute choir commissions and premieres include the works of Daniel Bukvich, Roger Cichy, Valerie Coleman, Thomas Duffy, Chris Norman, Matthew Saunders, Robert Spittal, Chris Weait and Tom Wells. She has performed for George Crumb, Vincent Persichetti, Donald Harris, Libby Larsen, William Bolcum, George Perle, John Corligiano, Bright Sheng and Michael Daugherty; she also has premiered works by Jean Françaix, Peter Schickele, (Thurber’s Dogs), Augusta Reed Thomas, (Euterpe’s Caprice for flute alone) Michael Daugherty (Crystals), Libby Larsen (Blinded by the Light, 2017) and Dana Wilson, among others.  She has performed as soloist, (Pied Piper Fantasy by Corigliano) and as a chamber musician on numerous Contemporary Music Festivals at Ohio State as well as on Society of International Composers conventions.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Ms. Jones studied with Keith Brion, Robert Willoughby, Kyril Magg, Donald E. McGinnis, and Julius Baker. Her degrees are from the University of New Hampshire (BA), and The Ohio State University (MM).  She also attended the Congregation of the Arts Program at Dartmouth College, the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, Boxwood program in Nova Scotia and the Savvy Musician Program at the University of South Carolina. She has performed with symphonies, chamber groups and festivals around the world including the Columbus Bach Ensemble, American Chamber Winds and the American Wind Symphony. She is a frequent guest artist and clinician across the country and has recorded for CRI, d'Note and Summit recordings, including a flute and harp compact disc Paradise, with harpist, Jeanne Norton.  A highly acclaimed recording of COSMOS commissions on MSR Classics was released in 2017.