Jack Lawrence-Jones Baritone

Jack is a classically trained baritone, based in London. He performs as a soloist in operas, oratorio and concert. Jack studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama after singing in the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. He has been a Britten Pears Young Artist, a London Festival Opera Young Artist, a Garsington Alvarez Young Artist and a Live Music Now Artist.

Recent and upcoming opera roles include Borée in Jacquet de La Guerre Céphale et Procris (Ensemble OrQuesta, including CD recording; nominated for OffWestEnd best Opera Performance for Borée), Aeneas in Purcell Dido and Aeneas (Overstrand Festival of Early Music), Lord Dunmow in Berkeley A Dinner Engagement (Staircase Opera), Guglielmo in Mozart Così fan tutte (Opera Kipling, Camden Fringe), Pollux in Rameau Castor et Pollux (The Rameau Project & The Opera Company), Pierrot in de La Guerre Le Raccommodement Comique de Pierrot et de Nicole (Grand Siècle), Osman/Huascar in Rameau Les Indes galantes (Ensemble OrQuesta), Pollux/Rameau in Rameau's Roots (The Opera Company), and Count Almaviva in Mozart Le nozze di Figaro (St Paul's Opera, Ensemble OrQuesta), Belcore in Donizetti L'elisir d'amore (London Opera Productions), Moralès in Bizet Carmen (Kentish Opera), Graf (cover) in Strauss Capriccio (Garsington Festival) and the title role in Dove The Enchanted Pig (Hampstead Garden Opera).

In new operas, Jack has created the roles of Groundhog in Mosley Aurora (Bury Court Opera, Grimeborn Festival), the title role in Ashby Clive (Gestalt Arts), and played Thomas Bowdler in the UK premiere of Alex Paxton's The Equivocal Harriet Bowdler.

Recent concert work includes Tavener Veil of the Temple (step-out baritone soloist, Monteverdi Choir, Edinburgh Festival), Handel Messiah (Kosovo Philharmonic Orchestra 25th Anniversary), Mendelssohn Elijah (Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra, Billingshurst Choral Society), Brahms Requiem and Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs (London Concert Choir, Abingdon Choral Society), Cavalli Music in a time of Plague (Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra), Schubert Mass in G and Saint-Saëns Oratorio de Noël (Billingshurst Choral Society), Charpentier Te Deum, Bach Magnificat and Purcell My Heart is Inditing (Hastings Philharmonic Choir), Bach Johannespassion (Jesus and arias, The Bishop's Consort), Handel Messiah (Uppingham Choral Society) and Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music for the Grenfell Tower Benefit Concert at the Cadogan Hall.

Recent recitals include recitals around England with Live Music Now, a solo recital at the Red House, Aldeburgh, and Jack's Aldeburgh Festival debut as part of a recital of Korngold and Schumann songs.

As an ensemble singer, Jack trained with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, and sings with groups including the Monteverdi Choir, Pygmalion, Tenebrae and Polyphony.

Jack has appeared in masterclasses with Robin Bowman, Susan McCulloch, Sarah Connolly, Roderick Williams, Peter Rose, Andrew Kennedy, Nicky Spence, Graham Johnson, Richard Stokes, Julius Drake, Susan Bickley, Thomas Quasthoff, and Edith Wiens.

Jack is a member of Shards, a London based experimental vocal group. They released their first album, Find Sound, in August 2019 (available on iTunes, Spotify, Bandcamp, and more).

In his spare time, Jack enjoys programming, playing piano and squash.

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