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 include Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard (Oregon Bach Festival), conducted by the composer, J.S. Bach’s cantatas Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben and Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr zu dir (Three Notch’d Road), and Handel’s Messiah (Ensemble Altera). Other recent solo engagements 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), Martines’ Dixit Dominus (Spire Chamber Ensemble), Kapsberger’s I Pastori di Bettelemme and an anonymous Historia von der Gebuhrt Christi (Harmonia Stellarum Houston), and Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs (St. Thomas More Festival Chorus). Jared made his Carnegie Hall solo debut in June 2024 with Fourth Wall Ensemble and the Silver Nitrate Big Band, presenting Emmy Award-winning composer Jeff Beal’s score to the silent film The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari.

In August 2024, Jared debuted with Opera Theater of Connecticut as Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Previous 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, 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. He sings liturgically at First Presbyterian Church and the Basilica of St. John the Evangelist in Stamford, CT, at Watch Hill Chapel in Westerly, RI, and appears frequently at Saint Thomas Fifth Avenue and Trinity Church in New York City among others.

Recording credits include upcoming studio albums covering the works of Kenneth Leighton & Calvin Hampton with The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and 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) in collaboration with Time for Three where he is 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 debuted a number of world premieres and workshops of contemporary classical repertoire. His most recent premieres include 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.

Jared 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.

In April 2025, Jared began working with Carus-Verlag, a music publisher based in Germany, as a liaison to American conductors, ensembles, & festivals. His work helps promote the publisher’s extensive catalog in the United States and beyond.