Baritone Jason Brocious, a native and resident of Schuylkill County, PA is a regional accounting manager for Providence Service Corporation, an international human services provider based in Tucson, Arizona. He is a certified public accountant, having earned accounting degrees with honors from both Wilkes University and McCallum Graduate School of Business at Bentley College (now Bentley University).
Jason actively pursues singing as an avocation, studying under the tutelage of Cora Gamelin-Osenbach. He has been featured as a soloist with the Schuylkill Choral Society, the Choral Arts Society of the Upper Perkiomen Valley, the York Youth Symphony, and the Choral Society of Northeast Pennsylvania. Jason has performed on the operatic stage with Wilkes University, Northeast Pennsylvania Opera, Capitol Opera Harrisburg, Mostly Opera of Scranton, and OperaWorks of Pottsville. Other honors have included performing as a guest soloist in the Cadet Chapel at the United States Military Academy at West Point and representing Pennsylvania in the Eastern Division Performance Competition of the Music Teachers National Association. His wide range enables him to sing both tenor and baritone roles.
Jason's oratorio credits include Handel's Messiah and Israel in Egypt, Orff's Carmina Burana, Carissimi's Jepthe, Charpentier's Le Reniement de Saint Pierre, and Ramirez's Misa Criolla. His opera roles include Escamillo in Carmen, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, King Melchior in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Betto in Gianni Schicchi, and Mr. Gobineau in The Medium.
Not only a soloist, Jason has a strong love for ensemble singing. He is a section leader with the Choral Society of Northeast Pennsylvania and enjoys singing in the parish choir of Trinity Episcopal Church in Pottsville with his wife, Francine. He is a former member of the Susquehanna Chorale and has also sung with the Lyric Consort of Scranton.