Michaud grew up on the French-Canadian border in rural northern Maine. He graduated from Trinity Laban Conservatoire and earned a master's degree in Vocal Performance & Music Education cum laude with Distinction from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance. He studied with François Le Roux, Susan Manoff and Pascal Rogé and specialised in French art song at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. In the 2023-2024 season, he was a Fulbright/Harriet Hale Woolley Scholar.
Since 2020, he has formed a song duo with pianist Christina Maria Koti with whom he performed at festivals and renowned venues in Europe and North America, including the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in Manhattan, Yale University, St. James Picadilly London, the Rhodes International Festival, the B&M Theocharakis Foundation Museum, the Petit Palais Museum, Salle Cortot and the Romanian Embassy of Paris. As a duo, they won first prize in the Federation of Art Song Fellowship Competition (NYC) 2022, the 4th International SGSM Singing Competition (Slovenia) and the Elisabeth Schumann Lieder Duo Competition 2022 (London).
Recently, Michaud participated in the Art of Song programme, the Toronto Summer Music Festival's programme for emerging musicians. His mentors there were Dame Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton.
Jared Michaud, baritone
Christina Koti, piano
Paris has been a beacon for composers looking for inspiration for centuries. It is fertile ground where cultures merge and artistic revolutions begin. For generations, American composers flocked to the ‘city of light’, attracted by poetry, avant-garde harmonies and the vibrant worlds of jazz and cabaret. They studied under legendary musicians like Nadia Boulanger and Alfred Cortot, whose influence reached from Samuel Barber to Robert Owens.
With the programme An American in Paris Jared Michaud and Christina Koti follow that transatlantic dialogue, from Poulenc's elegant settings of Ronsard to the smoky, jazz-inspired world of Weill and Bolcom. The programme celebrates the syncopated energy of jazz and the playful subversion of cabaret that redefined musical expression, creating a rich musical heritage where French sophistication met American audacity. An ‘American in Paris’ themselves, Jared Michaud and Christina Koti will let you experience the melodies, humour and passion that continue to make Paris a muse for artists on both sides of the Atlantic.
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