Cerys Jones enjoys a distinguished
performing career as a chamber musician and leader of London
session orchestras.
Cerys graduated from the Royal College of
Music having studied with Rodney Friend, Michaela Comberti, Adrian
Butterfield and Gordan Nikolič. As a postgraduate, she studied
in the class of Lewis Kaplan at the Juilliard School.
As a violinist of the Heath Quartet,
Cerys has performed in the most prestigious concert halls and
festivals worldwide, has broadcast live on British, French and
German radio, and has recorded for Wigmore Live label (Tippett
string quartets) and Harmonia Mundi (Tchaikovsky and Bartok
quartets). The quartet has collaborated with Igor Levit, Adrian
Brendel, Carolyn Sampson, Stephen Hough, Brett Dean, James
Baillieu, Anthony Marwood, Lawrence Power and Richard Lester
amongst many other wonderful chamber musicians worldwide.
Outside of the Heath Quartet, Cerys has played
as a guest with the Nash Ensemble and with the DSCH ensemble in
Portugal, recording the complete Shostakovich chamber music. Cerys
can also be heard as a soloist performing with Katherine Broderick
and James Baillieu on Katherine's latest CD Chanson
Perpétuelle on the Champs Hill label.
Cerys has won numerous national and
international awards for her solo and chamber music performances,
including the 2016 Gramophone Award, the 2013 RPS Young Artists
award, Borletti-Buitoni award and Nord Metal Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
chamber music award with the Heath Quartet, and the Hattori, Solti,
MBF, Martin Musical Scholarship Fund and Countess of Munster awards
as a soloist.
Cerys lives in Cardiff with her husband Thomas
Blunt and her two children Harry and Scarlett. Cerys plays on a
wonderful copy of the Il Cannone ex-Paganini Guarneri del Gesù
violin made by luthier Melvin Goldsmith.