Michael Jones (1942 â 19 January 2022) was a British-born Canadian new-age pianist and composer, known for his improvisational new age performance style. He was also a writer and leadership educator.
Jones was born in Surrey, England, and grew up in Kitchener and later Queenston, Ontario. He died on 19 January 2022, at the age of 79 at Mariposa House Hospice in Orillia, Ontario.
Jones' first album, Pianoscapes, was released on the newly formed Narada record label. The album sold more than 100,000 copies. Since then he has released more than a dozen albums of piano music. In 1990 he conducted a concert tour.
He published three books about creative leadership; the most recent is The Soul of Place: Re-imagining Leadership Through Nature Art and Community. Jones was a columnist for the business and leadership website, Management - Issues. He often combined the two sides of his career by performing his compositions at leadership conferences.
In 2015 Jones co-chaired the Mariposa Roundtable, an initiative to improve the economy of Orillia through increased tourism.