Justin Jones (he/they) is a Minneapolis-based composer and educator. Their music has been recently supported by the American Composers Forum LM4D grant, New Music USA Creator Development Fund, and the MRAC Next Step Fund. They have created music in collaboration with choreographers Chris Yon, Chris Schlichting, Bodycartography Project (Olive Beiringa+Otto Ramstad), and has been the composer for Ivy Baldwin Dance for 17 years. Their background as a dancer and choreographer has highly influenced their music which foregrounds texture, volume, and space to connect listeners to the experience of the body in motion.  His music has been presented alongside the work of choreographer collaborators nationally and internationally at The Weissman Art Museum, Abrons Arts Center, BAM, MANITOGA/The Russel Wright Design Center, The Chocolate Factory, SFMOMA, Dance Place in Washington DC, The Phillip Johnson Glass House, and the Performance Arcade in Wellington, NZ. They hold a BFA in dance from NYU and were the recipient of the 2007 McKnight Fellowship for Choreography.works: Rumen, Folds, Keen [No. 2]