BARITONE

Born in Cardiff, Irish-Welsh baritone Paul Carey Jones studied at Ysgol Glantaf, Queen’s College Oxford, the Royal Academy of Music, and at the National Opera Studio, where he was the recipient of the Welsh National Opera Bryan Davies Award. His operatic roles have included Marcello La bohème (Scottish Opera on Tour), Figaro The Barber of Seville (Opera East), Sam Trouble in Tahiti (Second Movement), Escamillo Carmen (Lyric Opera, Dublin, Stowe Opera), Gaspar Rita, Eurymaque Pénélope, Martino L’occasione fa il ladro and First Comrade Der Silbersee (Wexford Festival Opera), Osmin Zaïde (Aldeburgh Festival), Malatesta Don Pasquale (Bel Canto Opera), The Forester The Cunning Little Vixen (Surrey Opera), Figaro Le nozze di Figaro (Diva Opera), Papageno Die Zauberflöte (Opera by Definition), Bartolo in Paisiello’s Il barbiere di Siviglia (Bampton Classical Opera & Buxton Festival). In contemporary opera Paul Carey Jones has created the roles of Mohammed in Keith Burstein's Manifest Destiny, Paracelsus the Alchemist in Jonathan Owen Clark’s Hidden States, St David in Richard Elfyn Jones’ In David’s Land, Freddie Jesson in Peter Wiegold’s Brief Encounter, and, as well as performing the eleven roles for baritone in Stephen Oliver's A Man of Feeling. He has also covered Nixon Nixon in China (English National Opera) and been involved with workshops for Almeida Opera with Errollyn Wallen and ROH2 with Stuart MacRae.

Paul Carey Jones sang in the UK premiere of Galuppi’s motet Confitebor Tibi Domine and has performed in concert and recital across the UK, at venues including Cardiff’s St David’s Hall, The Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room on the South Bank, at the Edinburgh Festival and in 2002 at Buckingham Palace with the LSO under Seiji Ozawa at Mstislav Rostropovich’s 75th birthday concert. Recent concert work has included recitals at the Wexford Festival, the North Wales International Music Festival, the Ruthin Festival, the Fishguard International Music Festival, and at the Newport Centre. Performances in Europe have taken him to the Channel Islands, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Poland and Switzerland.

In 2001 he was awarded the National Eisteddfod of Wales’ most prestigious award for young singers, the W. Towyn Roberts Scholarship. His broadcast performances include Media Man Man on the Moon for Tiger Aspect / Channel 4, Pénélope for lyric fM, The Lighthouse for RAI, The Little Prince for BBC television, BBC Radio 3’s In Tune, Opera Night for RTÉ Lyric FM, Eisteddfod 2001 for BBC2, and Dechrau Canu Dechrau Canmol, Croma and Musicale for S4C.

Recent and current engagements include Andy Warhol Jackie O at the Teatro Rossini, Lugo, and the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Blazes The Lighthouse at the Montepulciano Festival, Guglielmo Così fan tutte for opera by definition, Masetto Don Giovanni and the Nelson Mass for the Oxford Philomusica, Fiorello Il barbiere di Siviglia and Marchese d’Obigny La traviata for Scottish Opera, The Dream of Gerontius at the Royal Albert Hall, a Gala Evening with Diva Opera and Friday Night is Music Night for BBC Radio 2. His début CD recording, ENAID – Songs of the Soul – is now available on SAIN.

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