Rufus Jones Jr. Rufus Jones Jr. is Music Director at Gulliver Preparatory, lead conductor of the Miami Music Project Leaders Orchestra, and conductor with the Florida Youth Orchestra. Prior to moving to South Florida, Dr. Jones was Assistant Professor of Music at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. He began his professional career as Assistant Conductor of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra in 1998. As a guest conductor Dr. Jones has appeared with the Utah Symphony, Shreveport Symphony, Siena Chamber Orchestra, Detroit Youth Symphony, Omaha Area Youth Symphony, Binghamton Youth Symphony, and the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra, to name a few. In addition, he has been accepted to prestigious conducting programs like the Tanglewood Music Festival (auditor), the Conductors Institute in South Carolina (fellow) and the Leiston Abbey Conducting Masterclass in Suffolk, England (fellow). He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music at the University of Texas at Austin, Master of Music degree in Instrumental Conducting at the State University of New York in Binghamton and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Orchestral Conducting at Texas Tech University. Following the success as an author for his full-length biography, “Dean Dixon: Negro at Home, Maestro Abroad,” Dr. Jones is currently working on his second biography, which will chronicle the life of Joseph Henry Douglass (grandson of Frederick Douglass). ***Content for the Daily Showcase social media series is obtained from information found online and is presented for educational and informational purposes only. Please let us know if you would like to delete, edit, correct or provide an attribution to a post by emailing us at [email protected]. We also encourage you to contact us at this same email address to inform us of other outstanding Black classical instrumentalists and/or composers, conductors and administrators whom you recommend we feature in the Daily Showcase.***