Christopher Jones enjoys a musical life as a concert saxophonist and teacher in Tkarón:to / Toronto, ON. Christopher actively interprets contemporary, classical, jazz, and pop music.

Christopher founded and performs with the Toronto Saxophone Collective, an ensemble that debuted their 2023-24 season playing transcriptions and Canadian premieres of works by Robert Lemay and Steven Banks. With a variety of chamber ensembles in Toronto, he has performed world premieres of music by Snežana Nešić, Yikke Zhang, Nolan Hildebrand, Francis Ubertelli, Hayden McGowan, and more.

As a soloist, in March 2024 Christopher advanced to the live quarter final round of the prestigious Andorra Saxfest International Solo Competition. In 2019, he won the University of Toronto Winds Concerto Competition and performed Ingolf Dahl’s saxophone concerto with their Wind Ensemble.

He also frequently plays in saxophone quartets, including the Iriqtus Quartet who, in 2022, placed third among their cohort in the final round of the Canadian Music Competition. In 2020, he co-presented with the aksəs quartet an online concert season of contemporary music by Chen Yi, Viet Cuong, Guillermo Lago, Xinyan Li, and José Río-Pareja. And in 2019, he won the University of Toronto Winds Concerto Competition a second time with the Karisyg Quartet, who subsequently performed with the school’s Wind Symphony.

As a music theorist, he has presented analyses of music by Adolf Busch, Tōru Takemitsu, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edison Denisov, and Florent Schmitt at the University of Toronto. Academic recognition includes being named a University of Toronto Scholar, nominee for a Rhodes Scholarship, and recipient of the school’s Graduate Fellowship.

As a teacher, Christopher maintains a private studio and teaches at schools in the Greater Toronto Area. Last year he also taught music theory at the University of Toronto as a Teaching Assistant. Christopher holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Toronto. His primary teachers include Wallace Halladay, Djamel Mami, and Rami El-Farrah, and he has studied through lessons and masterclasses with Timothy McAllister, Claude Delangle, Vincent David, Stephen Page, Arno Bornkamp, Joonatan Rautiola, Kenneth Tse, Christian Wirth, Otis Murphy, Mariano Garcia, and more.