Virginia native Kevin Phillip Jones began his cello studies with Alice Glasco and Virginia Symphony cellist Janet Kriner.

At Old Dominion University, Kevin began studies with Carter Melin, and continued with Leslie Fritelli. In summers past, he has studied at The North Carolina School for the Arts, The National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute at The Kennedy Center, Aria International Music Festival, The Meadowmount School of Music (NY), and Scandinavian Cello School (Denmark).

Kevin currently resides in the Miami, Florida metro area, and formerly the Washington D.C. metro area, where he was recently soloist with the DC Strings orchestra. He performs with several opera companies including Maryland Lyric Opera, and Washington Opera Society. In addition, he has performed with jazz luminaries like Chelsey Green and The Green Project, and Noble Jolley. For the last two years, he has been a performer in The Pansy Craze variety burlesque show, as well as its house band GYNOCEROS—which recently appeared at the Shenandoah Fringe Festival in Virginia, and was also invited to perform at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. This year has twice brought him to NPR’s Tiny Desk series for “All Songs Considered”: performing with hip-hop vocalist Mumu Fresh, aka Maimouna Youssef in July, and with Wu-Tang Clan’s The RZA in November; in addition to the Distant Worlds “Final Fantasy” Orchestra, with renowned composer Nobuo Uematsu; the “Game of Thrones” orchestra tour with series composer Ramin Djawadi, and Father John Misty’s ‘God’s Favorite Customer’ tour. Of special note this year was a performance with rock legends Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey of “The Who”, for their “Moving On!” tour. He has been invited to the Gateways Music Festival (Rochester) for the past several years, and in summer of 2019 performed as part of the Soulful Symphony’s inaugural residency performance at Merriweather Post Pavillion (Maryland). In addition, he had the pleasure of premiering several new pieces with the Fresh Inc. Contemporary Music Festival, in Chicago and Milwaukee. Kevin was most recently a guest soloist with the Colour of Music Festival Orchestra in Charleston, South Carolina; also as a chamber musician at their festivals in Pittsburgh and Houston. Kevin will be returning as a soloist with the D.C.-Strings Workshop Orchestra, in August.