Garrett Jones (Music Supervisor/Associate Music Director, he/him/his) – A Shenandoah Conservatory alumnus, Garrett is a theatre and music educator and most recently served as music director during Shenandoah University’s ’22-’23 academic year for The Apple Tree. Last season with SSMT, he was music director for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella and conductor/associate music director for 42nd Street. He has worked extensively in the Washington, D.C., area as a music director, conductor, accompanist, keyboard programmer, vocal coach, and teaching artist. He is currently staff accompanist at Millbrook High School, theatre music director for John Handley High School here in Winchester and occasionally performs around the area as a soloist and with group shows, notably Robbie Limon’s Buddy Holly and Hank Williams/Patsy Cline tribute shows.

 

Garrett was music director for the D.C. regional premieres of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Sister Act at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts, and other select credits include music direction for Grease, The Color Purple, Some Enchanted Evening and The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber at Riverside Center; the world premiere of Monsters of the Villa Diodati at Creative Cauldron; the world premiere staging of A Killer Party by Jason Howland, and a workshop of Fetching Water by Michael Hunsaker and Leslie Becker at Shenandoah University; associate music director and conductor for Grease at SSMT; and as a guest artist with educational institutions including American University, George Washington University, and Shepherd University and with other organizations including Adventure Theatre MTC, Creative Stages, and the Virginia Thespian Festival.