Ann Howard Jones

Ann Howard Jones is professor of music and director of choral activities at Boston University.  She conducts the Symphonic and Chamber Choruses, supervises conducting students in the Concert Chorus and the Women's Chorale, teaches graduate choral conducting, and administers the MM and DMA programs in choral conducting.  She is also the conductor of the BU Tanglewood Institute Young Artists' Vocal Program Chorus, an auditioned ensemble of high school singers which rehearses and performs at Tanglewood in the summer.

Recognized as a distinguished clinician, adjudicator, teacher, and conductor, she has led many all state and regional choruses, workshops, and master classes in the U.S., Europe, South America, Canada, and Asia.

From 1984-1998, Jones was the assistant conductor to the late Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony choruses, where she was assistant conductor for choruses, sang in the alto section, assisted with the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, and helped to organize the Robert Shaw Institute. She sang and recorded with the Festival Singers both in France and in the U.S. After Shaw's death in 1999, Jones was invited to conduct the Robert Shaw Tribute Singers for the American Choral Directors Association conferences in San Antonio and Orlando.

Among the honors which Jones has received are the coveted Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching from Boston University, a Fulbright professorship to Brazil, and a lectureship for the Lily Foundation. She was named the recipient of the Robert Shaw Choral Award for distinguished service to the profession by the American Choral Directors Association and received Chorus America’s Distinguished Service Award in 2014.