A lyric baritone from Ripley, Mississippi, Daland Jones entered Southern Miss at the age of 16. He auditioned for and was accepted to the San Francisco conservatory where he completed his bachelor of music and went on to earn a Masters of Music from Manhattan School of Music. The youngest singer to win the William T. Gower Concerto Competition at The University of Southern Mississippi, he made his professional debut at the age of seventeen in Opera Mississippi’s production of Verdi’s La Traviata as Gastone. He is an alumnus of the Daniel Ferro summer opera program in Greve de Chianti, Italy, as well as the Aspen Festival of Music Opera Center. Having performed throughout the United States and internationally, he is now the Artist-in-Residence at the Bak Middle Shool of Performing Arts and a voice teacher at the Adriana Zabala Music and Voice Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida. Recently Jones was featured in the Whole Review Classical Magazine on his journey of fitness and singing.
