Timothy Jones

Timothy Jones is the longtime principal French horn player with the London Symphony Orchestra and has a flourishing career as a concerto soloist. He is also an important educator who holds an endowed chair at the Royal College of Music. Jones left school at 17 to take a position as second horn with the Munich Philharmonic. He joined the London Philharmonic in 1984. Two years later, he moved to the London Symphony as principal horn, a position he has held ever since. Jones appeared on the album Ladies and Gentlemen ... We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized. A highlight of his career involved composer Kenneth Fuchs' Canticle to the Sun, which was written for Jones, recorded with the London Symphony under JoAnn Falletta in 2006, and premiered with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra in 2008. In 2021, Jones was heard on the London Symphony's Mozart: Wind Concertos album.