With his playing described as sensitive and passionate, Jarod has collaborated with violinists David Chan and Stella Chen, cellists Amy Barston and Horatio Contreras, soprano Gemma Nha, and members of the Argus and Prometheus Quartets. He has performed at outstanding venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, and Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. Alongside his duo partner soprano Margaret Tigue, they are semifinalists in the 2025 Young Concert Artists audition, 2025 SongStudio Artists, participants in the 2026 Cincinnati Song Initiative Fellowship of the Song, first place winners of the 2026 virtual songSLAM in New York City with composer Steven Ward, and finalists in the Federation of Art Song Fellowship Competition. In the fall of 2026, he looks forward to competing in the 15th International Art Song Competition Stuttgart at the International Hugo Wolf Akademie with Ms. Tigue, playing in the Tuesday Musicale of Detroit with violinist Bright Johnston, performing Faure Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor and Schubert Arpeggione Sonata with cellist Simon Housner, violinist Andrew Lin, and violist Bob Donowick at Friends of Vienna in Buffalo, and being the Pianist-Intern at Music On Site in Wichita, Kansas for the production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflote. Recent highlights include performances at The Park Avenue Armory in the North American debut of 11,000 Strings by Georg Friedrich Haas with the Klangforum Wien (September 2025), If Music be the Food with violist Jackson Hill in Hindemith’s Viola Sonata op. 11, no. 4 (November 2025), Music for Food (November 2024) with cellist Natasha Brofsky’s studio in Schubert’s Winterreise, as a soloist in Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Greater Buffalo Youth Orchestra and Maestro Lou Vitello, and in Hilary Hahn’s collaboration with the Juilliard Dance Division of Oshima’s Memories with violinist Juliette Greer, choreographer Enzo Cardiff, and dancers Dasha Vishnyakova and Quinn Kuch. He teaches with Forte and has given masterclasses at the BRAVO International Chamber Music Workshop, Brooklyn Music School, and Upper East Side Music in addition to working as the staff pianist at Lyra Music Festival. He has degrees from Rice University (BM), The Juilliard School (MM Collaborative Piano), The Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto (LRCM, ARCT), and the University of Texas-Health Sciences Center (MPH) and will start his DMA at the University of Michigan in An Arbor with Dr. Ana Maria Otamendi and Dr. Elena Lacheva. Notable teachers include Mary Handley, Jeanne Kierman Fischer, Tom Jaber, Desmond Hoebig, Lydia Brown, Jonathan Feldman, and Cameron Stowe. Summer studies were at Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Source Song Festival, and the Collaborative Piano Institute. Important master classes were with JoAnn Falletta, Augustin Hadelich, Susan Graham, Roger Vignoles, Julius Drake, Renee Fleming, and more. During his time as a staff pianist at The Juilliard School, he played for violinist Stella Chen, singer Betsy Bishop, violist Samuel Rhodes, violist Carol Rodland, violinist Aretta Zhulla, and the ACHT Viola Studio among others.