About Me

Toussaint Ngozi Santicola Jones is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer from Albany, NY. His music is motivated by a deep love of orchestration, and he thinks of his sound as the infusion of motion into atmospheres, and the contrapuntal weaving of timbre. Toussaint’s work has been commissioned, performed, and recorded by Sō Percussion, the Albany Symphony, Bergamot Quartet, the Little Orchestra Society, Maestro Michael Pratt, Princeton Sinfonia, the Cornell Weill Medical School Orchestra, Princeton Camerata, and more. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 2025, having studied with Steve Mackey, Dmitri Tymoczko, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Dan Trueman, Juri Seo, Donnacha Dennehy, and others, and received the Edward T. Cone Memorial Prize. He has also studied with Chris Theofanidis. Toussaint’s compositional interests lie in writing orchestral works that are descriptive of natural wonders, historical events, and profound emotional experiences, and is deeply committed to the preservation of medieval text and language through incorporation into his music. At Princeton, Toussaint undertook extensive medieval studies coursework and research, and plans to found a chamber orchestra, for which he will be the composer and vocalist, adapting medieval literature into chamber music concept albums. He also has extensive experience as a tracking and mix engineer for the Princeton-formed band Strawberry Milk, for whom he is also the primary songwriter and vocalist, as well as providing the bass, some lead guitars on recordings, piano, saxophone, and string and horn arrangements. Toussaint drinks way too much coffee, enjoys the studies of etymology and ornithology, and is a die-hard fan of both Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.