Jared Daniel Jones, originally from Ellijay, Georgia, is a Los Angeles based baritone with his most recent engagements being with Lyric Opera of Orange County, Pacific Opera Project, and Opera Italia. Jared performs regularly with the LA Opera chorus, recent performances include Rigoletto, William Grant Still’s Highway 1, Turandot, Otello, Tosca, and Lucia di Lamermoor. A recent graduate of the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA with a Master of Music degree in voice performance, Jared performs throughout Southern California and nationwide as a concert and operatic soloist as well as performing with several professional vocal ensembles. These include the LA Master Chorale, Long Beach Camerata Singers, Pacific Chorale, and Seraphic Fire. Jared’s operatic repertoire includes Shaunard in La Boheme, the father in Hansel and Gretel, Ormondo in Rossini’s L’inganno Felice, Marco in Gianni Schicchi, and principle roles in UCLA’s world premiere productions of Lost Childhood and The Grand Hotel Tartarus.