Praised by the New York Times as “an impressive tenor,” Lawrence Jones has established an active presence on the concert and operatic stages. He has appeared as a soloist with the New York City Opera, the Utah Symphony, Boston Baroque, the Naples Philharmonic, Musica Sacra, the New Mexico Philharmonic, Voices of Ascension, Opera Saratoga, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. He has received recognition for his portrayals of Tom Rakewell in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress at the Princeton and Aldeburgh Festivals, for which Opera News praised his “clean, ringing tenor.”
Recent performance highlights include Mozart’s Requiem at Lincoln Center with American Classical Orchestra; the Christmas Oratorio with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem; Liszt’s piano transcription of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum with pianist Christopher Taylor; Handel’s Chandos Anthems with Masterworks Chorale; and appearances at Carnegie Hall in Handel’s Messiah with the Oratorio Society of New York and Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Riverside Choral Society.
Last season Lawrence sang the title role in Handel’s Samson at Carnegie Hall with the Oratorio Society of New York; the tenor solos in a performance of Cantatas at Thomaskirche with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem at BachFest Leipzig; and the title role in Carissimi’s Jepthe with Upper Valley Baroque. Performances this season include the Mass in B Minor with the Bach Society of Saint Louis, Messiah at Epiphany Seattle, and the Evangelist in Bach’s St John Passion with the Grammy-nominated Clarion Choir.
As a long-standing member of Cut Circle, Lawrence has toured extensively across Europe and the U.S. and can be heard on the recordings Guillaume Du Fay: The Tenor Masses, Johannes Ockeghem: The Songs, JOSQUIN: I. Motets & Chansons, and the forthcoming album JOSQUIN: II. Missa L’ami Baudichon; Milanese Motets.