John Pryce-Jones was educated at Penarth and Worcester, from where he won an Organ Scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

He has worked as chorus master/conductor with Welsh National Opera and Opera North and as Head of Music for Scottish Opera conducting over 30 operas. For two years he was music director of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, with whom he recorded the Mikado, Iolanthe, the Gondoliers and the Pirates of Penzance.

He has conducted the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, The Ulster Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Also the Oslo Philharmonic, Berlin Symphony and the Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra. He has conducted in Denmark, Iceland and the Czech Republic and Germany. He has also been active in the Brass Band field.

He is artistic director of the Halifax Choral Society and since 1992 has been music director of Northern Ballet Theatre.