Graham Jones

Graham was educated at Gresham’s School in Norfolk where he conducted his first orchestra. He went on to study music at Durham University where he was organ scholar at Hatfield College with responsibility for the chapel choir and college music events, and where he gained further experience in workshops with Sir David Willcocks and Roger Norrington.

Having been appointed assistant director of music at Eastbourne College in 1976, he became director of music in 1991, and retired in 2012. He co-founded the Orchestra in 1980, has conducted most of its concerts, and has been responsible for many of the Orchestra’s initiatives including the now nationally recognised annual Young Soloist Competition for which he is the chair of the adjudicating panel.

In his spare time, Graham is a steam-train enthusiast, an aficionado of English churches, enjoys gardening, and is an expert in the kitchen where the ESO’s leader and others have enjoyed many a culinary delight.

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