In 1996, Harley Jones started the Accordions Worldwide group of internet sites. These include:
www.accordions.com   www.akkordeon.com   www.accordeon.com
the largest and most visited accordion internet sites in the world. These sites provide advertising banners for companies and artists with a very large readership attacted by such accordion community services as: Weekly News in 8 languages, CD Reviews, Celebrity Interviews, Articles, major event reports etc.
Additional sites include: Accordion Yellow Pages   Search-Accordion   AccordionLinks.com largest accordion links site in the world,   MusicForAccordion.com a site which sells eSheet music (sent by email to the client), CD's for world known artists, music catalogs for publishers in different parts of the world.

Harley Jones has received several international awards for his accordion internet activities:
2000 American Accordionist's Association - USA
2001 National Accordion Organisation of the United Kingdom (NAO) - UK
2006 Castelfidardo Plate and Award - Italy
2007 Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes (CIA) Merit Award

On 13th January 1998, Harley Jones was elected a "Fellow of the Institute" by the Institute of Registered Music Teachers of New Zealand. Harley flew to Dunedin (South Island, New Zealand) to receive this prestigious award. This honour was presented to him in recognition of his distinguished services to the New Zealand teaching profession. Official Citation

Harley Jones is a virtuoso concert piano accordionist. He has appeared on T.V. and National Radio in New Zealand many times, and has performed extensively in the USA, Canada, England, Germany, Holland, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Hong Kong, Singapore and China as well as his home country of New Zealand.

Harley was soloist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra on a C.D. of symphony orchestra works composed by Gary Daverne, recorded in 1992 and now released internationally by EMI. "Rhapsody for Accordion and Orchestra" was written by New Zealand composer Gary Daverne especially for Harley Jones. He premiered this work in New Zealand with the Auckland Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer (December 1987). He performed "Rhapsody" at the International Piano Accordion Competition and Festival in New York (August 1988) and at the Prize Giving of the Coupe Mondiale International Accordion Solo Competition held in Germany in 1990. Harley has performed this work over 120 times worldwide, usually with composer Gary Daverne as the conductor, including Europe, North America, Australasia, China and Turkey.

Harley Jones has performed on a number of CD's:
Accordion Concert Music - solo, duet, group and concerto music composed for accordion by Gary Daverne, performed with accordionists.
Youth of Auckland - concerto with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra composed by Gary Daverne.
On Tour - Air New Zealand Accordion Orchestra. Concerto with accordion orchestra.
Harmonika-Spielring Böblingen E.V. - concerto with accordion solo recorded by Radio Stuttgart and also performed at the 1990 Coupe Mondiale Prize Giving concert.

Harley Jones has been involved with the Confederation Internationale des Accordeonistes (CIA) for many years, having been an adjudicator on a number of ocassions and Chairman of the Coupe Mondiale Adjudicators in 1976 in Washington. He has served on the Music Committee for the CIA for many years and is currently the Public Relations Officer for the CIA.


Harley was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1953. His qualifications include LTCL piano, ATDNZ accordion and AIRMT.

Winner of the New Zealand Accordion Championship at 14 years of age he represented New Zealand at 16 years of age at the Coupe Mondiale International Accordion Solo Competition held in New York in 1969.

His performance repertoire includes novelty and musette pieces, serious original compositions and classical transcriptions. With his brother Maurice Jones, he has recorded an L.P. record and been featured soloist on various other accordion L.P. records and CD's.