In his 2024-2025 season, Jarod is a SongStudio 2025 Artist, participant in Music for Food, and masterclass teacher at the Brooklyn Music School. He regularly collaborated with musicians from the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Houston Symphony Orchestra, concertized with soprano Gemma Nha and violinist Sam Parrini, and performed Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Greater Buffalo Youth Orchestra. This summer, he is performing in a masterclass for Renee Fleming through the Cincinnati Song Initiative, teaching as staff pianist at Lyra Music and guest artist at BRAVO Chamber Workshop, and participating in Source Song Festival. He has performed at outstanding venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. Notable moments include working with Hilary Hahn on her collaboration with the Juilliard Dance Division, receiving the 2024 Virginia Allison Award in Collaborative Piano, performing at The Juilliard 2023 Convocation, and competing as a finalist in the Duo Competition at the Music Academy of the West. He has collaborated with the violinists David Chan and Stella Chen, cellists Amy Barston and Horatio Contreras, tenor Michael Butler, bassist Kebra Seyoun-Charles, singer Kanisha Feliciano, and members of the Argus and Prometheus Quartets. 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). 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, and the Collaborative Piano Institute. Important master classes were with JoAnn Falletta, Augustin Hadelich, Susan Graham, Roger Vignoles, Julius Drake, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Angelo Xiang Yu, and more. At Juilliard, he plays for Areta Zhulla, Carol Rodland, ACHT Viola Studio, Samuel Rhodes, Betsy Bishop, Bill Burden, and Kevin Short among others.