JARED SWOPE, Baritone

Acclaimed for his “breezy baritone” (Bachtrack) and voice “perfectly suited to baroque music” (KCMetropolis), Jared Swope sings as soloist and chorister in genres spanning early music, oratorio, contemporary classical works and more. From Gregorian Chant to new collaborative oratorios and song cycles, he can be seen in a vast array of performance venues.

Upcoming solo engagements for this season include Bach’s Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Three Notch’d Road) and Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn (First Presbyterian, Metuchen). Recent solo engagements include Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs (St. Thomas More Festival Chorus), Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus (Oratorio Society of New Jersey) and Messiah (New Haven Symphony Orchestra), Bach’s Mass in B minor (Yale Schola Cantorum) and St. John Passion (True Concord), Fauré’s Requiem (Monadnock Chorus), Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and the North American premiere of Wykoff’s Out of This Darkness (Missouri State University). Jared made his Carnegie Hall solo debut in June 2024 with Fourth Wall Ensemble, presenting Emmy Award-winning composer Jeff Beal’s The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari.

In August 2024, Jared debuted with Opera Theater of Connecticut as Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Other stage roles include Jim O’Dwyer in Anthony Davis’ SHIMMER, Death in Holst’s Sāvitri, Presider in Trinkley’s Saint Thomas the Carpenter, and Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte.

An avid collaborator, Jared regularly sings with ensembles such as True Concord Voices & Orchestra, Spire Chamber Ensemble, Handel & Haydn Society, Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, Apollo’s Fire, CORO Vocal Artists, Ensemble Altera, Artefact Ensemble and more. In 2023 he became a founding member of Fourth Wall Ensemble, a chamber ensemble performing works spanning medieval to contemporary compositions based in New York City. He sings liturgically at First Presbyterian Church and the Basilica of St. John the Evangelist in Stamford, CT, with the Yale Consort in New Haven, and appears frequently at St. Thomas Fifth Avenue in New York City among others.

Recording credits include two upcoming studio albums covering the works of Kenneth Leighton & Calvin Hampton with The St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys (2024), and projects with Fourth Wall Ensemble; the group’s debut album Ad Manus in collaboration with Time for Three (2024), Jeff Beal’s The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (2024) with the Silver Nitrate Big Band, Samuel Siskind’s Choral Works (2024), and a live recording of Resonance in collaboration with Stuart Bogie (2024). Yale Schola Cantorum’s album of Amy Beach & Judith Weir is also set to release in 2024. Other published albums include Fauré Requiem & Other Masterworks with the Choir of Saint Paul’s Harvard Square (2022), Michael John Trotta's Seven Last Words with the Kansas City Repertory Singers (2017), Chorosynthesis Singers' album Empowering Silenced Voices (2017), and numerous publisher recording sessions with Walton Music, GIA Publishers, Choristers Guild, and Morningstar Publications.

Jared has performed in a variety of world premieres and workshops of contemporary classical repertoire. His most recent premieres include Jeff Beal’s score set to the silent film The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Bálint Karosi’s reconstruction of Bach’s lost St. Mark Passion with newly composed recitatives & choruses, Aaron Jay Kernis’ Edensongs as baritone soloist with the Yale Schola Cantorum, Udi Perlman’s song cycle As of Me and of Mine on the New Music New Haven concert series, and a staged reading of Anthony Davis’ musical SHIMMER as Jim O’Dwyer.

He has sung with renowned conductors both domestically and internationally, such as Helmuth Rilling (Weimar Bach Academy), Peter Phillips (Carnegie Hall Chamber Chorus), Hans-Christoph Rademann and Jos Van Veldhoven (JSB Ensemble, Oregon Bach Festival), John Butt (Oregon Bach Festival), David Hill and Masaaki Suzuki (Yale Schola Cantorum), and more.

Jared is a recent graduate of  Yale University, earning a Master of Music concentrated in Early Music, Oratorio and Chamber Ensembles. He also holds a Master of Sacred Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Notre Dame, and bachelors degrees from Missouri State University in Vocal Performance and Music Education. Jared resides in New Haven, CT, where he teaches voice to members of the Yale Glee Club, hones his craft in brewing coffee, plays (semi) competitive ultimate frisbee, and consistently looks for ways to improve his cycling in his basement bike shop.