Bo Lee Jones is a fife instrumentalist with the United States Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps. Prior to being selected for this position, she was stationed on Fort Stewart, Georgia where she was a flute player with the Third Infantry Division Band. In 2022, she was a recipient of the Colonel Finley R. Hamilton Outstanding Military Musician Award.
Before becoming a military musician, Bo was a freelance flutist and teacher in Augusta, Georgia and performed with the Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra. She was a 2018 Kenan Fellow at Lincoln Center Education (LCE) in New York City. While a Kenan Fellow, Bo collaborated with theater artist Max Gayford to present Magic Pearl: a shadow puppet play with new music by Christopher Vu, which premiered at LCE on December 14, 2018. This project has resulted in the formation of Pinwheel, a collective of musicians and theatre artists. In 2019, Pinwheel created an entirely auditory experience of Magic Pearl and was played as part of the Atlanta Fringe Festival. Most recently, Pinwheel held a residency at Puppet Showplace Theater in Brookline, Massachusetts in February 2023 and performed for diverse and sold-out audiences.
In 2017, she was named the second prizewinner of the James Pappoutsakis Memorial Flute Competition (Boston, MA) as well as the South Carolina Flute Society Young Artist Competition. Bo has performed in masterclasses for flutists such as Jeanne Baxtresser, Denis Bouriakov, Sir James Galway, Michael Hasel, Lorna McGhee, Emmanuel Pahud, Gary Schocker, Mimi Stillman, and Keith Underwood, among others. She has performed solo and chamber recitals throughout New England and across the southeast region of the country. She has also performed in Canada, Luxembourg, and Spain. While living in North Carolina, Bo's students were successful in district and All-State auditions, and were accepted into prestigious programs such as the Governor's School and the high school division of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
She made her Jordan Hall recital debut in May 2018 with her trio, OWL riot, which was named a 2017-2018 NEC Honors Ensemble. As a member of OWL riot, she received coaching from the John Heiss, Kristopher Tong and Mai Motobuchi of the Borromeo String Quartet, and also was coached on Sofia Gubaidulina's Garten von Freuden und Traurigkeiten by the composer herself.
A native of Augusta, Georgia, Bo studied with Angela Massey and is a graduate of John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School. She holds the Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts where she studied under Tadeu Coelho. She earned the Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music where she studied with Renée Krimsier. Mentored by John Heiss, she has also received additional instruction from Cynthia Meyers, Paula Robison, and Elizabeth Rowe.
Bo lives in the DMV with her husband and two German Shorthaired Pointers. In her free time, she enjoys cross-stitching, running, and participating in performance dog sports.
Before becoming a military musician, Bo was a freelance flutist and teacher in Augusta, Georgia and performed with the Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra. She was a 2018 Kenan Fellow at Lincoln Center Education (LCE) in New York City. While a Kenan Fellow, Bo collaborated with theater artist Max Gayford to present Magic Pearl: a shadow puppet play with new music by Christopher Vu, which premiered at LCE on December 14, 2018. This project has resulted in the formation of Pinwheel, a collective of musicians and theatre artists. In 2019, Pinwheel created an entirely auditory experience of Magic Pearl and was played as part of the Atlanta Fringe Festival. Most recently, Pinwheel held a residency at Puppet Showplace Theater in Brookline, Massachusetts in February 2023 and performed for diverse and sold-out audiences.
In 2017, she was named the second prizewinner of the James Pappoutsakis Memorial Flute Competition (Boston, MA) as well as the South Carolina Flute Society Young Artist Competition. Bo has performed in masterclasses for flutists such as Jeanne Baxtresser, Denis Bouriakov, Sir James Galway, Michael Hasel, Lorna McGhee, Emmanuel Pahud, Gary Schocker, Mimi Stillman, and Keith Underwood, among others. She has performed solo and chamber recitals throughout New England and across the southeast region of the country. She has also performed in Canada, Luxembourg, and Spain. While living in North Carolina, Bo's students were successful in district and All-State auditions, and were accepted into prestigious programs such as the Governor's School and the high school division of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
She made her Jordan Hall recital debut in May 2018 with her trio, OWL riot, which was named a 2017-2018 NEC Honors Ensemble. As a member of OWL riot, she received coaching from the John Heiss, Kristopher Tong and Mai Motobuchi of the Borromeo String Quartet, and also was coached on Sofia Gubaidulina's Garten von Freuden und Traurigkeiten by the composer herself.
A native of Augusta, Georgia, Bo studied with Angela Massey and is a graduate of John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School. She holds the Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts where she studied under Tadeu Coelho. She earned the Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music where she studied with Renée Krimsier. Mentored by John Heiss, she has also received additional instruction from Cynthia Meyers, Paula Robison, and Elizabeth Rowe.
Bo lives in the DMV with her husband and two German Shorthaired Pointers. In her free time, she enjoys cross-stitching, running, and participating in performance dog sports.
