Barbara Jones, a graduate of Wells College and Brown University, has directed the Stow Festival Chorus and Orchestra since 1979. She has studied choral conducting at Westminster Choir College under Franke Haussman, Joseph Flummerfelt and others. Among numerous large choral works presented over the years was the first Boston performance in more than a century of the "Grand Mass in E-flat" by Amy Beach. This performance was acclaimed by the Boston Globe and has been released on CD by Albany Records. Barbara also teaches piano in Stow.

A resident of Stow, is well known to audiences of the Stow/Concord area for over 25 years of solo and chamber music work. He was born in Vienna and received his training from teachers in a direct line from Beethoven. Although he was professionally a physicist, his life-long study and love has been the piano music of the Classical and Romantic periods.