JARED SWOPE

baritone

Acclaimed for his “breezy baritone” (Bachtrack) and voice “perfectly suited to baroque music” (KCMetropolis), Jared Swope sings as soloist and chorister across a wide range of repertoire—from Gregorian chant to new collaborative oratorios and song cycles. His performances have been praised for both expressive nuance and stylistic clarity. Critics have noted his “angelic assurance” (New Haven Independent) and “fine baritone.” (Stuttgarter Nachrichten) Jared appears regularly in early music, oratorio, and contemporary classical projects across the United States and abroad.

Upcoming solo engagements for 2026-2027 include several engagements with the Trinity Choir, including J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, cantatas 192 and 198, Handel’s Messiah, and Porpora’s Dixit dominus. Other engagements include J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion (Viva Bach Peterborough) and a program of French Baroque repertoire with La Grande Bande.

March 2026 features Jared’s debut with National Sawdust in New York, staging Philip Glass’ A Madrigal Opera alongside the Trinity Choir. Previous stage roles include Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, 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 collaborates with ensembles such as the Trinity Choir, True Concord Voices & Orchestra, Spire Chamber Ensemble, Handel & Haydn Society, Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, Ensemble Origo, 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. Jared sings liturgically at Trinity Church in New York City. Previously, he sang at the Basilica of Saint John the Evangelist and First Presbyterian Church in Stamford, CT. He also substitutes frequently at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue in New York.

Recording credits include The Music of Kenneth Leighton with the Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys (2025), Yale Schola Cantorum’s album of Judith Weir & Amy Beach (2025), and projects with Fourth Wall Ensemble; the group’s debut album Ad Manus (2024) where he is featured soloist on the track “Danny Boy,” Jeff Beal’s The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (2024) with the Silver Nitrate Big Band, Samuel Siskind’s Release (2024), and a live recording of Resonance in collaboration with Stuart Bogie (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 also debuted numerous world premieres and workshops of contemporary classical repertoire. His most recent premieres include David Hurd’s Great Awakenings, Jeff Beal’s 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 is a graduate of Yale University (2023), 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 (2020), and bachelors degrees from Missouri State University in Vocal Performance and Music Education (2016). 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.