Name: Joy To Everyone This Christmas - Studio Version (2008) by Stephen Jones
Duration: 4 min 26 s
Description: This song was written in 2008 and released with a video that received over 175,000 views. The video is now archived on YouTube: : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw1BwFp-Ojk. Special thanks to Sam Cardon, who helped me produce the song, and to vocalists Jenny Frogley and David Osmond. Written for and generously funded by Wizard Language Institute, Brazil, Carlos Martins, president.

This song was written in 2008 and released with a video that received over 175,000 views. The video is now archived on YouTube: : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw1BwFp-Ojk. Special thanks to Sam Cardon, who helped me produce the song, and to vocalists Jenny Frogley and David Osmond. Written for and generously funded by Wizard Language Institute, Brazil, Carlos Martins, president. 

Joy To Everyone This Christmas - Studio Version (2008)

I'm a composer and professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, USA. Below is a short bio. I hope you enjoy my music! 

Stephen Jones is Professor of Composition in the School of Music and former Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communications at Brigham Young University. He is also the former chair of the Board of Directors of the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition.  

Jones’ works have been played throughout the United States and internationally, including performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, the Utah Symphony, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the Fairbanks Symphony, the The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, and many other professional and university-based ensembles. His works have been heard in performances at the Beijing Modern Music Festival and at national conferences of the Society of Composers, the College Band Directors National Association, the Percussive Arts Society, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music and the British Association of Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles. 

Jones studied composition as an undergraduate at Brigham Young University and received MM and DMA degrees in composition from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, where his principal teachers were Jonathan Kramer, Joel Hoffman, Alan Sapp, and Earle Brown. His studies also included work with Bernard Rands at Aspen and Joseph Schwantner at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. 

He is the recipient of a Utah Arts Council Artist Grant, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, and a Composer Assistance Grant from the American Music Center. His music can be heard on the Gasparo and Tantara labels. His works for wind band are published by Boosey and Hawkes as part of their Windependence series.