Paul Carey Jones was born in Cardiff and studied at Ysgol Glantaf, Queen’s College Oxford, the Royal Academy of Music, and at the National Opera Studio, where he was the recipient of the Welsh National Opera Bryan Davies Award. His operatic roles include Marcello (Scottish Opera on Tour), Eurymaque in Fauré’s Pénélope and Martino in Rossini’s L’Occasione Fa Il Ladro (Wexford Festival Opera), Richard Nixon (English National Opera - cover), Rossini's Figaro (Opera East), Mozart’s Figaro (Diva Opera), Osmin in Zaïde (Aldeburgh Festival), Papageno (Opera By Definition), Angelotti (Scottish Opera - cover), the Father in Hansel & Gretel (Scottish Opera on Tour - cover), Escamillo (Stowe Opera), Malatesta (Bel Canto Opera), The Forester (Surrey Opera), Sam in Trouble in Tahiti (Second Movement), Paisiello's Bartolo (Bampton Classical Opera, Buxton Festival), John Styx (British Youth Opera), Count Ceprano (Diva Opera), Schaunard (Diva Opera), Ariodates (BYO - cover), and Aeneas (Youthful Promise Wales).

In contemporary opera Paul has created the roles of Freddie Jesson in Peter Wiegold’s Brief Encounter, Paracelsus the Alchemist in Jonathan Owen Clark’s Hidden States and Mohammed in Keith Burstein's Manifest Destiny, as well as performing the eleven roles for baritone in Stephen Oliver's A Man of Feeling.

Paul’s oratorio repertoire comprises over thirty major works, including Mendelssohn's Elijah, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Creation, Bach's Mass in B minor, Orff's Carmina Burana, and the Requiems by Mozart, Brahms, Fauré, Duruflé and Salieri. In 2004 he sang in the UK premiere of Galuppi’s motet Confitebor Tibi Domine, and in 2006 was the baritone soloist in the world premiere of Richard Elfyn Jones' In David's Land at St David's Cathedral. He has performed in concert and recital across the UK, at venues including Cardiff’s St David’s Hall, The Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room on the South Bank, at the Edinburgh Festival and in 2002 at Buckingham Palace with the London Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa at Mstislav Rostropovich’s 75th birthday concert. Recent concert work has included recitals at the Wexford Festival, the North Wales International Music Festival, the Ruthin Festival, the Fishguard International Festival and at the Newport Centre. Paul’s performances in Europe have taken him to France, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Gibraltar and the Channel Islands.

Paul was a member of the late Yehudi Menuhin’s Live Music Now scheme, for whom he gave over 200 concerts in partnerships with the award-winning pianists Llyr Williams, Helen Collyer and Siobhain O’Higgins. In 2001 he was awarded the National Eisteddfod of Wales’ most prestigious award for young singers, the W. Towyn Roberts Scholarship. His broadcast performances include The Little Prince for BBC television, BBC Radio 3’s In Tune, Opera Night for RTE Lyric FM, Eisteddfod 2001 for BBC2, A Visit to the Eisteddfod and Raised Voices for HTV Wales, and Crwtyn Bach y Simne, Heno, Dechrau Canu Dechrau Canmol, Croma and Musicale for S4C.