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The American baritone, Jared Hiscock, obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree with majors in Music and Theology from Walla Walla University (2010); and his Master of Music degree and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music (December 2020) where he worked as a graduate teaching assistant. He has studied Alexander Technique and Feldenkrais at the Barstow Institute, worked closely with soprano Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Vrenios at the Redwoods Opera Workshop, and been mentored by Dr. Everett McCorvey as a part of the inaugural NATS Mentoring Collaborative.
Jared Hiscock is the Director of Performance - Music at Hastings College, where he teaches in the music department and works in tandem with the Office of Student Engagement to support student growth and success. In addition to his work with Hastings College, he is the co-founder and artistic director the Salt Creek Song Festival, the first art song festival in Nebraska, and serves on the faculty of the Vocal Academy of Opera in Bodrum, Turkey. Prior to joining Hastings College Jared spent three years as a Holland Community Opera Fellow at Opera Omaha where he worked to co-create inclusive programming to support Opera Omaha’s community partners and to serve a diverse population. He has led programming with such Omaha area organizations as Quality Living Inc., Sienna Francis House, and Nelson Mandela Elementary, as well as piloted programming at the Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility.
During the 2019 summer season Jared Hiscock performed Guglielmo in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte with Vocal Academy of Orvieto in Città della Pieve, Italy, and Marquis de la Force in Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites with Saltworks Opera in Cape Charles, Virginia. He spent two seasons (2017-2019) doing educational outreach with the professional opera touring company Opera for the Young, performing Power House in the world premiere of Super Storm! by Scott Gendel and the Sea-King in Rusalka. In addition, he has performed as a soloist with the Omaha Symphony with conductor Ian Passmore.
Jared Hiscock is a 2019-2022 Holland Community Opera Fellow with Opera Omaha and the cofounder and artistic director of the first art song festival in Nebraska, the Salt Creek Song Festival. As a Holland Fellow he has worked to co-create inclusive programming to support Opera Omaha's community partners and to serve a diverse population. Performance highlights of the 2021-2022 season include performances of Melchior in Amahl and the Night Visitors with Music On Site, Gallery 1516, Cathedral Arts Project, and Poetry and Music Project; Music recital series performances with Opera Omaha, and the title role in Don Giovanni with Vocal Academy of Opera. Upcoming, Jared will perform premieres of a staged version of The Andrée Expedition by Dominick Argento and Dover Beach/Dover Bitch by Kurt Knecht as a part of the 2022 Salt Creek Song Festival Season with grant support from the American Music Project and the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust Grant.
Recent performances as a baritone include a new production of Argento's The Andrée Expedition and the world premiere of Kurt Knecht’s Dover Beach/Dover Bitch. Other highlights include performances of the title role in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, William Jennings Bryan in The Ballade of Baby Doe, Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Don Alfonso in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte, Friedrich Bhaer in Little Women, and Ivar in the world premiere of Tyler White’s revised O Pioneers. Other recent opera credits include Figaro in the OperaUpClose production of W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Leporello as a guest artist in the University of Kansas production of W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, and Melchior in Amahl and the Night Visitors. Recent concert credits include the Nebraska premiere of Adams' The Wound-Dresser, Ralph Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs with conductor Ernest Richardson and Orff's Carmina Burana with the Mankato Symphony Orchestra.
Jared Hiscock is a student of Dr. Robert White of the Juilliard School and Singing Body Clinic founder Jay Cowell. He lives in Ashland with his stunning wife, Damie, their three boys, Clifton, Walden, and Desmond, and goldador, Charlie. |
