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 Young Concert Artists audition, finalists in the 2026 songSLAM NYC with composer Steven Ward, participants in the 2026 Cincinnati Song Initiative Fellowship of the Song, finalists for the Brooklyn Art Song Society Young Artists Program, 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 SongStudio 2025 Artist, participant in Music for Food, masterclass teacher at the Brooklyn Music School, 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. During the summer, he teaches as a staff pianist at Lyra Music and as a guest artist at BRAVO Chamber Music Workshop. 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, 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.