2008-2009 Season

BYRON JONES

A professor of voice at Shenandoah University, Byron has appeared with
many opera companies and symphonies. His operatic repertoire includes
Gianni Schicchi, L’elisir d’amore, Don Giovanni, La Bohème, Le Villi and
many American chamber works. He sang the role of Meriwether Lewis in
Dream of the Pacific, a new opera co-commissioned by Opera Theatre of
Saint Louis and Opera Omaha to celebrate the bicentennial of the Lewis
and Clark expedition to the west. He frequently performs French cabaret
music and especially the songs of Jacques Brel.