Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, January 8, 1995                   TAG: 9501070048
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NAME: CHARLES JONES.

OCCUPATION: Pianist. Is assistant chairman of the piano department at the Harlem School of the Arts, and has given numerous performances there. Also has performed at Hollins College, as a solist with the Charleston (S.C.) Symphony, on radio programs in New York and Virginia and in a concert series at the First Congregational Church in Greenwich, Conn.

LIVES IN: Manhattan.

MARRIED: No.

PARENTS: Charles and Christine Jones, Roanoke.

EDUCATION: Lucy Addison High School, North Carolina School of the Arts, Juilliard School.

ARRIVED IN NEW YORK: 1973.

REASON: To attend Juilliard.

LIFE IN THE ARTS IN NEW YORK IS : "Just lots and lots of hard work, doing lots and lots of things."

QUOTE: "The perfect life would be to be independently wealthy at this point."