Jared is a composer, violist, and concert curator who is passionate about bringing people together through transformational artistic experiences. He is also a member of the Ad Lib Collective, a group of musicians who are focused on performance creation, community engagement and collaboration with a wide variety of artists. As a composer, he has studied with Christopher Tonkin, James Ledger, Iain Grandage, Brian Fernyhough, Fabien Lévy and Oscar Bianchi, the latter three at the Voix Nouvelles course at the Royaumont Foundation in France. His works and arrangements have been commissioned and performed by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Perth Symphony Orchestra, the Penny Quartet, the Australian National Academy of Music as well as by individual artists from around Australia.