Linda Jones

Linda Jones is a vocal coach, accompanist, and diction teacher at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she was appointed to the faculty in 1986. She previously served as senior vocal coach for the opera department at Manhattan School of Music, and has been a guest artist in vocal coaching at the University of Akron School of Music. A graduate of the University of Iowa, she studied piano with John Simms, David Saperton, and Martin Canin, as well as accompanying/coaching with Dalton Baldwin, Martin Isepp, and Louise Sherman.

Ms. Jones has been coach, rehearsal pianist, and assistant conductor with opera companies such as the Opera Theater of St. Louis, Santa Fe Opera, Boston Opera, Dallas Civic Opera, Washington Opera Society, and the Juilliard School. She has been heard in recital with artists such as Simon Estes, Lenus Carlson, Judith Christin, Jon Garrison, Cynthia Munzer, Dina Kuznetsova, and Nicole Heaston, and has accompanied masterclasses by Birgit Nilsson, Donald Gramm, John Alexander, Mignon Dunn, Paul Sperry, and Regina Resnick, among others. She recently toured the Midwest with Jane Dressler in a lecture/recital titled "Willa Cather: Her World of Music." Her recordings include Ivana Themmen's Ode to Akhmatova with Jean Kraft. She has also served as music director of the La Mama ETC Company in New York City.

In Cleveland, Ms. Jones has worked with the Lyric Opera Cleveland Apprentice Program as a coach and with the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus as a pianist for masterclasses, mini-recitals, and auditions. She has been the pianist for numerous faculty, student, and Cleveland-area recitals, both with singers and instrumentalists.

She has been a member of the Music Academy faculty since 1993.