Jared Swope

Acclaimed for his “fine baritone” (Stuttgarter Nachrichten) 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.

Selected solo engagements for 2023–2024 include 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 Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (True Concord), Fauré’s Requiem (Monadnock Chorus), Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Wykoff’s Out of This Darkness (Missouri State University), and a concert of English & American folk & sacred music (Three Notch’d Road Baroque Ensemble) among others. Jared makes his solo Carnegie Hall debut in June 2024 with Fourth Wall Ensemble, presenting Emmy Award-winning composer Jeff Beal’s The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari.

An avid collaborator, Jared regularly sings with ensembles such as True Concord Voices & Orchestra, Spire Chamber Ensemble, Fourth Wall Ensemble, Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, Apollo’s Fire, CORO Vocal Artists, Ensemble Altera, Artefact Ensemble and more. 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.

Recent recording credits include The St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys two studio albums covering works by Kenneth Leighton & Calvin Hampton (2024), and two projects with Fourth Wall Ensemble; the group’s debut album in collaboration with Time for Three (2024), and Jeff Beal’s The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari. Yale Schola Cantorum’s album of Amy Beach & Judith Weir is also set to release with Hyperion Records in 2024. Other published albums include Fauré Requiem & Other Masterworks with the Choir of Saint Paul’s Harvard Square, Michael John Trotta's Seven Last Words with the Kansas City Repertory Singers, Chorosynthesis Singers' album Empowering Silenced Voices, and numerous publisher recording sessions from Walton Music, GIA Music, Choristers Guild, and Morningstar Publications.

Jared has participated in a variety of world premieres and workshops of contemporary classical repertoire. His most recent premieres include 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), 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 and consistently looks for ways to improve his cycling in his basement bike shop.