Nevada Jones is a self-taught composer of music for a variety of performance and recording contexts. His melody-driven themes have appeared in stage plays, short films, dance and movement productions, and audio books.
Nevada has collaborated several times with longtime friend, Kevin Lawler. Notable works from this creative partnership include the soundtrack to Lawler’s original play, The Tulip (2008), performed at Omaha’s Blue Barn Theatre; and music for Lawler’s innovative production of Eugene O’Neill’s play, Hughie (2012), which transformed one of Omaha’s aging industrial locations into an experimental theater. Their most recent collaboration, Stranger From Paradise (2017), is Nevada’s first opera and largest musical work to date.
Other select works include the original soundtrack to a world premiere play, The Caterer (2009); and the soundtrack for a web series pilot, Secret Bedfellows (2012); both productions written and directed by Brian Alan Lane.
A lifelong musician, Nevada is reminded that one of his earliest compositions was a short piano piece, “The Spooky Tree Song,” which he composed at age three. Sadly, the work has been lost to time.
Nevada has trained as a singer (countertenor) with Linda Brice in Portland, Oregon. He studied piano with Emil Vajda in New York City, and Janet Guggenheim in Portland. Nevada also has a background in theater. He studied acting at The New Actor’s Workshop with George Morrison in New York City, and has performed in various community theater productions.
He currently lives in Portland, where he works as a composer and voice teacher.