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 2025, he looks forward to performances at The Park Avenue Armory in the North American debut of 11,000 Strings by Georg Friedrich Haas with the Klangforum Wien and at If Music be the Food with violist Jackson Hill. Recently, he was a participant in Music for Food, soloist in Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Greater Buffalo Youth Orchestra, and performer in Hilary Hahn’s collaboration with the Juilliard Dance Division. He teaches with Forte and Upper East Side Music and has given masterclasses at the Brooklyn Music School and BRAVO International Chamber Music Festival 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. At Juilliard, he plays for Stella Chen, Betsy Bishop, Samuel Rhodes, Carol Rodland, Aretta Zhulla, and the ACHT Viola Studio among others.