Maureen Jones

This article is about the Australian classical pianist. For the Australian athlete whose married name is Maureen Jones, see Maureen Caird.

Maureen Jones (born 6 June 1927) is an Australian classical pianist.

She was born in Sydney and grew up in the Sydney suburbs of Warrawee, Turramurra, and Gladesville. At primary-school age she was invited to study at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music by its director Edgar Bainton, and made her debut with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at age ten playing Beethoven's first piano concerto.[1][2] Having studied with Alexander Hmelnitsky[3] she performed with Musica Viva from 1948 to 1950, before emigrating to Europe. She briefly lived in London and then went to Zürich, where she formed a duo with Australian violinist Brenton Langbein which became a trio with him and Australian horn player Barry Tuckwell.[1] She began collaborating on four-hand piano repertoire with Dario De Rosa, the pianist of the Trio di Trieste [it], whom she married; she moved to Trieste with him and the couple had a daughter. She later married the cellist of the trio, Amadeo Baldovino.[1]

She performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, and the Berlin Philharmonic, for the Edinburgh International Festival, the BBC and the RAI; and for the Academy of St. Cecilia and at La Fenice in Venice.[1] In 1979 she co-founded Quintetto Fauré with violinist Pina Carmirelli.[1] She lived in Rome for ten years until moving to Florence to teach at the Fiesole School of Music, living with Baldovino until his death in 1998. She stayed in Florence for eighteen years before moving to Lugano in Switzerland.[1] In 2017, she performed a concert in Trieste for her 90th birthday with pianist Massimiliano Baggio; they played Brahms's two-piano arrangement of his Piano Quartet No. 2 in A, Op. 26.[1] She was made a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.[2]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Celebrating Maureen Jones". Musica Viva Australia. 31 August 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b Burke, Kelly (12 March 1997). "A fortunate life". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  3. ^ Sitsky, Larry (2005). "Alexander Hmelnitsky (1891–1965)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 20 September 2024.