Kirsty Jones  a violinist, violist, pianist, and music educator. She studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Wales, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Violin Performance. She also holds a postgraduate Performance Diploma from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, a Licentiate Diploma in Music Teaching (LLCM) from the London College of Music, and a Performance Diploma in piano.

An experienced orchestral musician, Kirsty has worked in a number of South African symphony orchestras as well as the Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Alongside her classical career, she enjoys exploring other musical traditions, particularly Celtic music, and currently performs with the folk quartet Arisan, featuring violin, accordion, guitar, and double bass.

For more than thirty years, Kirsty has taught violin and piano in conservatoires and music schools across South Africa, Wales, Scotland, and France. In Pretoria, her students from the townships performed at the inauguration of President Thabo Mbeki in the presence of Nelson Mandela. In Scotland, she spent five years working with Sistema Scotland, an educational charity that uses music as a catalyst for social change, providing intensive music education to children in some of the country’s most disadvantaged communities. There, she taught violin and conducted student orchestras.

A passionate advocate of music education for both very young children and adults, Kirsty has trained in a variety of alternative pedagogical approaches, including the Kodály Method. She currently teaches violin, viola, piano, and early childhood music education at music schools in Saint-Laurent-des-Hommes and Mussidan, in the Dordogne region of France.