Simon Rowland-Jones (born 1950) is a

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, composer, and music editor. He is best known for his arrangement of the

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Cello Suites for Viola, which is widely praised as one of the best scholarly editions of the work for viola. He has taught at the

Malmö Academy of Music Malmö Academy of Music (Swedish: Musikhögskolan i Malmö) is a Swedish public collage dedicated to education and research within the fields of music and music pedagogy. The school is located in Malmö in southern Sweden and belongs to the Facu ...

in Sweden, the

Royal College of Music The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Music including performanc ...

, the Royal Northern College of Music, the

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and the

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. He studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School, and later with Bruno Giuranna at the Academia de Santa Cecila in Rome. He was the founding violist of the

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, and has also recorded several albums as a soloist.

Selected works

* ''Four Phases'' for violin solo (1979) * ''Serenade'' for 10 winds (double wind quintet) (1979) * ''Seven Pieces'' for viola solo (1979) * Sonata for piano (1981) * String Quartet (1993)

Sources

Bio, Meridian Record Label Website (Retrieved Sept 16, 2006)
1950 births Living people English classical violists English composers Academics of the Royal College of Music Place of birth missing (living people) {{violist-stub