Jason Mallory

Baritone Jason Mallory, D.M.A., has been acclaimed as “strong and ardent,” “filled with suitably comic menace,” and a “fine comedian” for his “first-rate comprimario performance” by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Two on the Aisle and KDHX. He has performed opera, operetta and oratorio in the United States, Italy and Poland. He is a National Center for Voice and Speech-certified vocologist and is an instructional associate professor of vocal music at Texas A&M University, where he teaches private voice in all styles, ranging through commercial, musical theatre, classical and operatic music. He also teaches opera ensembles, music history and musicianship. He is the former director of vocal studies and associate professor of music at Missouri Baptist University. He formerly taught at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Lindenwood University in St. Louis, the University of Iowa, the University of Louisville and Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Mallory has performed in operas recently with Winter Opera St. Louis as Dancaïro (Bizet’s “Carmen”), Haly (Rossini’s “L’Italiana in Algeri”), Antonio (Sullivan’s “Gondoliers”), Samuel (Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance”), Jake Wallace (Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West”), Captain Paul Fontaine (Romberg’s “The Desert Song”) and Jeppo (Blumenthal’s “Borgia Infami”); with Union Avenue Opera as Bill Bobstay (Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore”) and Inquisitor (Bernstein’s “Candide”); with Gateway Opera as Figaro, Guglielmo and Leporello (“15 Minute Mozarts”) and as Baron de Pictordu (Viardot’s “Cendrillon”); and with Cedar Rapids Opera as Maximilian (Bernstein’s “Candide”). Some of his other roles performed in the U.S., Italy and Poland include Dr. Dulcamara (Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’amore”), Giorgio Germont (Verdi’s “La Traviata”), Aeneas (Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas”), Count Almaviva (Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro”), Don Alfonso (Mozart’s “Così fan tutte”), Nardo (Mozart’s “La finta Giardiniera”), Jesus (Mozart’s “Die Schuldigkeit des ersten und führnehmsten Gebots”), Top (Copland’s “The Tender Land”), Ben (Menotti’s “The Telephone”) and Pooh-Bah (Sullivan’s “The Mikado”). Mallory’s passion for new opera has led him to associations with current composers in the Kentucky Opera Visions Program, with whom he premiered three 21st-century operas.

His oratorio credits include Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio” and Cantatas BWV 140 and 208, Mozart’s “Requiem” and “Vesperae solennes de Confessore,” Handel’s “Messiah,” Haydn’s “Lord Nelson Mass,” Saint-Saëns’ “Christmas Oratorio,” Fauré’s “Requiem,” Schubert’s “Mass in G,” Vaughan Williams’ “Five Mystical Songs” and “Fantasia on Christmas Carols” and Carissimi’s “Jephthe.”

Mallory received his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Southern California, his Master of Music degree from the University of Louisville and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Iowa.