Maureen Jones (born 6 June 1927) is an Australian classical pianist. She was born in Sydney and grew up in the Sydney suburbs of

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, and

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. At primary-school age she was invited to study at the

Sydney Conservatorium of Music The Sydney Conservatorium of Music (formerly the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music and known by the moniker "The Con") is a heritage-listed music school in Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the old ...

by its director

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, and made her debut with the

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at age ten playing Beethoven's first piano concerto. She performed with

Musica Viva Musica Viva was founded in 1945 by Romanian-born violinist Richard Goldner, with the aim of bringing chamber music to Australia. The co-founder was a German-born musicologist, Walter Dullo. At its inception, Musica Viva was a string ensemble per ...

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 Brenton James Langbein, AO (21 January 1928 – 6 June 1993) was an Australian violinist, conductor, and composer. Life Langbein was born on 21 January 1928 in the South Australian town of Gawler to James Langbein, an accomplished pianist who h ...

which became a trio with him and Australian horn player

Barry Tuckwell Barry Emmanuel Tuckwell, (5 March 1931 – 16 January 2020) was an Australian French horn player who spent most of his professional life in the UK and the United States. He is generally considered to have been one of the world's leading horn p ...

. She began collaborating on four-hand piano repertoire with Dario De Rosa, the pianist of the , whom she married; she moved to

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with him and the couple had a daughter. She later married the cellist of the trio, Amadeo Baldovino. She performed with the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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, for the

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, the

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and the

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; and for the Academy of St. Cecilia and at

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in Venice. In 1979 she co-founded Quintetto Fauré with violinist

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. She lived in Rome for ten years until moving to Florence to teach at the

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, living with Baldovino until his death in 1998. She stayed in Florence for eighteen years before moving to

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in Switzerland. 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. She was made a Knight of the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Maureen Australian classical pianists Australian women pianists Sydney Conservatorium of Music alumni Australian expatriates in England Australian expatriates in Italy Australian expatriates in Switzerland Musicians from Sydney 20th-century classical pianists 20th-century Australian musicians 20th-century Australian women Knights of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1927 births Living people 20th-century women pianists