Dr. Kelvin Jones (’07 BME) is the Assistant Director of Bands at Louisiana State University. His responsibilities include assisting with the “Golden Band from Tigerland,” teaching undergraduate conducting, marching band techniques, conducting the Symphonic Band, and directing the Bengal Brass.
Jones is a 2011 recipient of the Louisiana Music Educators Association’s Young Music Educator of the Year, the 2013 recipient of the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra’s Teacher of Distinction, and the 2014 LSU A.P. Tureaud award recipient for significant contributions to the university.
He is the former band director at West Feliciana High School in St. Francisville, Louisiana. At WFHS, he led an active, comprehensive music program that produced numerous award-winning performances at state and national events, including the 2013 United States National Presidential Inauguration Music Festival in Washington DC.
Jones has presented at state music education conferences across the United States, published in the Instrumentalist magazine (Jan. 2014 and Dec. 2015), an active clinician, and has traveled internationally working with music programs in South America (Chile) and with the LSU marching band in Dublin, Ireland.
