Professional Studies and Awards: University of Southern California, Juilliard School, San Francisco Conservatory, Accademia Chigiana, Siena, Italy. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Austria and also the recipient for three consecutive years of the Alfred Hertz Memorial Scholarship from the University of California at Berkeley. 

Private teachers include Adolph Baller, Alexander Lieberman, Egon Petri , Lili Kraus, and Dario de Rosa, pianist of the Trio di Trieste at the Accademia Chigiana, Siena, Italy. He has audited master classes given by Olga Samaroff, Ernest Bloch, Pablo Casals, Rosina Lhevinne, Lotte Lehmann, Ilona Kabos, Janos Starker, Christoph Eschenbach, Malcolm Frager, Jean-Phillpe Collard, Adele Marcus and Guido Agosti.
Doctoral Equivalency established  in 1973 at S.F. State University.

Performance  experience:
Pianist William Corbett-Jones has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America, Europe, Africa ,Australia, New Zealand , the Philippines, Taiwan, and Singapore  as recitalist, soloist with Orchestra and in collaboration with internationally renowned colleagues.* (see below).  His concertizing  in Europe has included recitals in most of the major capitals, with the Lausanne and Winterthur Orchestras in Switzerland, and with the Florentine Orchestra del Maggio Musicale three times under the direction of Kurt Masur, famed conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also been soloist on eight occasions with the San Francisco Symphony. Professor Corbett-Jones has performed for the BBC, Hilversum, Basel, Paris, Brussels, Lausanne, Cologne and Istanbul radios, in addition to many live performances on local television  and radio stations KQED and KPFA, and has often appeared at festivals such as the Salzburg Chamber Music Festival and the Meiringen Festival in Switzerland. He has also toured in Greece. Dr. Corbett-Jones has presented  cycles of the 32 Piano Sonatas of Beethoven and Schubert and the complete solo works of Chopin and Mozart, all from memory, at three universities. He has also performed the Complete Piano Chamber Music of Beethoven  Brahms and Schubert, Bartok and Stravinsky, plus all the Violin and Piano Sonatas of Mozart, Bach and Grieg.   He has made five trips to China and has taught and concertized in several cities including Shanghai and Beijing, where he gave master classes and a recital at the Central Conservatory in 2004..

With Henri Temianka and the Paganini Quartet he made four films on musical form at the USC film department. In performed several major chamber works, including three quintets. These films, which were funded by the Ford Foundation were shown nationally on public television. Also with Henri Temianka and the Temianka Little Symphony he had two American tours (over 100 concerts). 

He was soloist at the Kalamazoo Bach Festival, where he performed and conducted two Bach Concerti. In 1991 he was director of the American Liszt  Society Festival, which was held in San Francisco. He has Also performed on three cruise ships; the Rotterdam, the Stella Solaris and the QE2. In 1992 he gave a recital, master class and lecture on Mozart at the National Music Teachers Convention in Miami. Also in 1992 he was invited by the daughter of famed photographer Ansel Adams to give a recital in their home as a wedding present to her parents on the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary. Also in 1992 while in Singapore, he was invited to give recital in the home of the American Ambassador to Singapore, Mr. Jon Huntsman. In 1999 he taught and performed at the High School Of Music in Damascus, Syria.

William Corbett-Jones has been  a member of three distinguished  touring chamber music ensembles- the California Trio (with concertmaster Jacob Krachmalnick and principal cellist Robert Sayre of the San Francisco Symphony, The Alma Trio, and the Crown Chamber Players of the University of California at Santa Cruz. With the Alma Trio he was made Artist-in –Residence at USC. He was also music director of the Crown Chamber Players.  He was also piano duo partner with the distinguished  pianist Sylvia Jenkins and had several tours of the USA and Europe with her.

Dedications:
William Corbett-Jones has also been honored to receive dedications from eminent composers, including Kirke Mechem ( Sonata for Piano), Roger Nixon (Twenty Four Preludes for Piano), John Sharpley  (Etude for the Right Hand), and  Phelps Dean Witter (Music for Piano).

Adjudication and student activity:
He has participated frequently as a jury member in local and international competitions, and some of his students have been prize winners in international competition. Many of his students have gone on to careers in music. The late Calvin Simmons became conductor of the Oakland Symphony, John Lo Piccolo became conductor of the Helena, Montana Symphony and the Idaho Falls Symphony. Philip Kelsey occupies a high administrative position at the Seattle Opera, Robert Schwartz (D.M.A. Juilliard) concertizes widely and teaches piano at Skyline College. Inara Morgenstern is a member of the SFSU School of Music and Dance faculty.  Three of his students are on the faculty of the Community Music Center in San Francisco. Recently, three students have completed doctoral programs at Peabody , the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Iowa. Two of his students, Elenor Barcsak and Kwei-Ling Pomerleau, have served as president of the Marin County Music Teachers Association, and another student, Donna Klein has written an acclaimed biography of America’s first native born famous female concert pianist, Olga Samaroff.

Allen Fuller is director of games at Harrah’s Club in Reno and he concertizes in the Nevada area and also in Germany. Richard Olsen, in addition to being a laureate at several national and international piano competitions, is also a distinguished Vice President of Transamerica Corporation and trustee of many institutions including the  SF Conservatory, SF Ballet, SF Performances and the UCSF Medical School Eye Research Foundation. Additionally, Lynn Inglese is pianist for the San Francisco Ballet and Jefferson Packer has been accompanist for the Baroque Philharmonic. Gary Leuenberger is producer of Enchanter Music Productions and also a faculty member at S.F. State University. Several others are actively teaching and performing  in the greater Bay Area, including Elliott Dunlap, Janet McLain, Vanessa Polgar, Eric and Catherine Thompson, and William Kenville.

Courses taught at San Francisco State University:
Piano Performance Practicum
Sight Reading
Keyboard Literature
Piano Ensemble
Piano Accompaniment
Special Courses taught:
The Piano Music of Mozart
The Sonatas of Beethoven
The Songs and Piano Music  of Schubert
The Piano Music of Chopin

Recordings:
Dr. Corbett-Jones has made numerous recordings.  Three LPs for Music Library Recordings feature Bach’s  Goldberg Variations, Four Sonatas of Haydn, and Fourteen Sonatas of Scarlatti.  

He has made five CDs for Cambria Master Recordings Cambria Master Recordings, the most recent of which, a  double CD package of solo works and transcriptions of Bach, is due to be released later this year.
Cambria CD 1119 William Corbett-Jones – Piano Works by Nixon-Schubert-Ravel-Busoni-Bartok.
Cambria CD 1129 William Corbett-Jones - Piano Works by Schubert
Cambria CD-1139 William Corbett-Jones - Piano Works by Nixon and Mozart

These recordings are available at www.Cambriamus.com or on www.Amazon.com

Faculty positions held:
Lecturer at UC Berkeley Extension
Faculty member, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Lecturer and Fellow at Crown College, UC Santa Cruz.
Professorships:

Taiwan National Academy of Arts
La Salle College of the Arts, Singapore
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi, China
Xinjiang College of the Arts, China
Yining University, China
San Francisco State University

*Among the artists with whom Dr. Corbett-Jones has performed are:
Violinists: Henri Temianka, Berl Senofsky, Salvatore Accardo, and Tossy Spivakovsky, Christian Ferras, Hansheinz Schneeberger and Mischa Elman., Andor Toth and Jacob Krachmalnick, Camilla Wicks, Pierre D’Archambeau and Jassen Todorov

He was also rehearsal pianist for Josef Szigeti and Yehudi Menuhin
Violists: Paul Yarbrough Andras Toszeghi  and Ernst Wallfisch
Cellists: Laszlo Varga, Gabor Rejto, Joseph Shuster, Claude Starck,and Christine Walevska William Van Den Burg  and Margaret Tait.
Clarinetists: David Glazer, Rosario Mazzeo,and Rudolf Stalder
Flutists: Paul Renzi, Peter Lukas Graf, and Michel Dubos
Oboist:  Heinz Holliger
Singers: James McCracken, Hilde Rossl-Majdan, Robert Weede, Marilyn Horne,  and Arthur Loosli

Concertos performed include:
Bach:            
Concerto in D Minor
Concerto in F minor
Brandenburg Concerto No.5
Mozart:            
Concerto in D Minor, K.488
Concerto in E flat, K.449
Concerto in C Minor, K491
Concerto in B flat, K.595
Beethoven:            
Concerto No.3 in C Minor
Concerto No. 4 in G Major
Concerto No.5 in E flat Major
Chopin:            
Concerto in E Minor
Schumann:            
Concerto in A  Minor
Brahms:            
Concerto in D minor
Grieg:            
Concerto in A Minor
Rachmaninoff:
Concerto No.2 In C Minor
Stravinsky:            
Concerto for Piano and Winds
Hindemith:     
Four Temperaments
Prokofiev:            
Concerto No.3
Bartok:            
Concerto No.3
Janacek:
Concertino for Piano Left Hand and Winds
Multiple Piano Concerti performed:
Bach:              
Concerto in C Major for Two Pianos
Mozart:            
Concerto in E Flat, K.365 for Two Pianos
Concerto in F Major for Three Pianos
Beethoven:            
Triple Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello
St. Saens:            
Carnival of the Animals
Poulenc:            
Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos
Bartok:
Concerto for Two Pianos
Britten:            
Scottish Ballad for Two Pianos

Personal information:
Married to Louise DiMattio, Nurse-Manager at the Birth Center at SF General Hospital. One child, Laura Corbett Jones, 18 years old and an incoming freshman at Barnard College, NY.

Hobbies: Cats, exploring Italy,  travel and world history.
Dr. Corbett-Jones is a member of the Northern California Great Books Club. In 2001, at the annual retreat devoted to Don Quixote, he presented a lecture to this group entitled  “Spain in the time of Cervantes”.  In 2003 at a retreat devoted to Ford Maddox Ford’s Parade’s End, he presented a lecture, “The Origins of World War 1”.

Languages:
German, considerable background in French and Italian.
Dr. Corbett-Jones is currently studying Mandarin and frequently uses this language in lessons and master classes in the United States and China.