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Jared is a choral director, itinerant voice teacher, and part-time General Practice Registrar, originally from Ashburton. Alongside his medical training, he has pursued a career in music, studying Piano with Professor Terence Dennis at The University of Otago, accompanying then directing the Wellington Youth Choir, then completing Graduate and Postgraduate Diplomas in Choral Conducting with Dr Karen Grylls at The University of Auckland, while directing the choirs at Saint Kentigern College. Since relocating to Christchurch, Jared has been a conducting intern for the Korokoro Tūī Ngāi Tahu choir project, Assistant Director of Epiphony choir directed by Naomi Hnat, director of The Cecilian Singers, and is currently the director of the Christchurch Youth Choir and the senior choir at St Andrew’s College. He also serves as an itinerant voice teacher at The Cathedral Grammar School and St Andrew’s College, and as the Regional Representative for the Canterbury/West Coast region of the New Zealand Choral Federation. Jared is an alumnus of the New Zealand Secondary Students’ Choir, the New Zealand Youth Choir, and the University of Otago Capping Sextet.