Baritone Jared Hiscock (he/him/his) is the co-founder and artistic director of the Salt Creek Song Festival, the first art song festival in Nebraska.

Recent engagements include his Opera Omaha mainstage debut as Grenvil in La Traviata, Handel’s Messiah with Hastings College and the HSO, Heggie’s Here and Gone with Salt Creek Song Festival, and Mozart’s Requiem with the Résonance Consort. Other highlights include performances of Argento’s The Andrée Expedition, the world premiere of Kurt Knecht’s Dover Beach/Dover Bitch, the title role in Don Giovanni, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Marquis de la Force in Dialogues of the Carmelites, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Friedrich Bhaer in Little Women, Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro, Leporello in Don Giovanni, and Melchior in Amahl and the Night Visitors; as a soloist in works such as Orff’s Carmina Burana, Vaughan Williams’s Five Mystical Songs, and the Nebraska premiere of Adams’s The Wound-Dresser. Hiscock spent two seasons doing educational outreach with the professional opera touring company Opera for the Young, performing Power House in the world premiere of Super Storm! and the Sea-King in Rusalka.

In addition to his work with Salt Creek Song Festival, Hiscock has served as Director of Performance – Music at Hastings College, as faculty of the Vocal Academy of Opera in Bodrum, Turkey, and as a Holland Community Opera Fellow at Opera Omaha where he worked to co-create inclusive programming to support Opera Omaha’s community partners and to serve a diverse population.

Hiscock holds a M.M. and D.M.A. from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln where he worked as a graduate teaching assistant, and a BA with majors in Music and Theology from Walla Walla University. He has studied Alexander Technique and Feldenkrais at the Barstow Institute, worked closely with soprano Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Vrenios at the Redwoods Opera Workshop, and been mentored by Dr. Everett McCorvey as a part of the inaugural NATS Mentoring Collaborative. He lives in Ashland, Nebraska, with his wife, Damie, their three boys, Clifton, Walden, and Desmond, and doggo, Charlie.