Jesse Jones, composer, is the winner of prizes from the Heckscher Foundation, commissions from the Barlow Endowment, Scharoun Ensemble Berlin, and the Juilliard String Quartet, and fellowships from several music festivals, including Tanglewood and Aspen. Jones received his DMA at Cornell University, with a dissertation on microtonal theory. He is currently assistant professor of Composition at the University of South Carolina.