Paul Carey Jones was born and grew up in Cardiff, to an Irish mother and a Welsh father - the Joneses are from Carmarthenshire, the Careys from County Mayo.

While a pupil at Ysgol Glantaf he was awarded a county scholarship to take lessons at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He then went to The Queen's College, Oxford to read Physics as a Styring Exhibitioner. During this period he won several prizes at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, and, having returned to Ysgol Glantaf as a teacher, he then grasped the nettle of a full-time singing career by accepting a place on the postgraduate course at the Royal Academy of Music, London where he was awarded the Hubert Kiver Prize. He subsequently trained at the National Opera Studio in London, where he was supported by Welsh National Opera and the Friends of Covent Garden.

Paul's operatic roles include Fiorello Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Haly L'Italiana in Algeri, Marchese d'Obigny La Traviata and Schimdt Andrea Chenier for Scottish Opera, Marcello La Bohème for Scottish Opera on Tour, Gasparo Rita (Donizetti), First Comrade Der Silbersee (Weill), Eurymaque Pénélope (Fauré), Martino L'Occasione Fa Il Ladro (Rossini) for Wexford Festival Opera, Osmin Zaïde for the Aldeburgh Festival, Sam Trouble in Tahiti for Second Movement, Donner Das Rheingold for the Orchestra of Oxford, Figaro Il Barbiere di Siviglia for Opera East, Don Alfonso Così Fan Tutte for Clonter Opera, Figaro Le Nozze di Figaro, Schaunard La Bohème and Count Ceprano Rigoletto for Diva Opera, Escamillo Carmen for Lyric Opera Dublin and Stowe Opera, Dr Malatesta Don Pasquale for Bel Canto Opera, The Forester The Cunning Little Vixen for Surrey Opera, Masetto Don Giovanni for the Oxford Philomusica, Guglielmo Così Fan Tutte and Papageno Die Zauberflöte for Opera by Definition, Lawrence The Wreckers (Ethel Smyth) for Duchy Opera, Bartolo Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Paisiello) for Bampton Classical Opera and at the Buxton Festival, John Styx Orpheus in the Underworld for British Youth Opera, and Tom the Coachman The Little Sweep (Britten) for S4C.

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, Mohammed in Keith Burstein's Manifest Destiny, and Media Man in Jonathan Dove's Man on the Moon. He has also performed the roles of Andy Warhol in Michael Daugherty's Jackie O for the Teatro Rossini, Lugo and the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Blazes and Officer 2 in Peter Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse, in a production at the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano which was broadcast live worldwide by RAI3, covered the role of Richard Nixon in Nixon in China and Jaufré Rudel in L'Amour de Loin for English National Opera, and performed the eleven roles for baritone in Stephen Oliver's A Man of Feeling for Rendezvous Chamber Opera.

Paul has an extensive concert repertoire, having performed across the UK and Europe, and on many broadcasts on regional and national television and radio, including BBC Radio 3's In Tune and BBC Radio 2's Friday Night is Music Night. His oratorio performances cover more than forty major works, including Mendelssohn's Elijah, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Creation, Bach's John and Matthew Passions and Mass in B minor, Orff's Carmina Burana, and the Requiems by Mozart, Brahms, Fauré, Duruflé and Salieri. In February 2004 he gave the UK premiere of Galuppi's recently rediscovered motet, Confitebor Tibi Domine, and was the baritone soloist in the world premieres of Richard Elfyn Jones' In David's Land at St David's Cathedral in 2006, and Stephen McNeff's Cities of Dreams at the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea in 2007. In 2002 he was accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Seiji Ozawa at a concert celebrating the 75th birthday of the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, held at Buckingham Palace.

As a recitalist, Paul has performed world premieres of songs by Richard Elfyn Jones, David Power, David Lancaster, Dick Blackford, Mike Parkin and Jonathan Owen Clark. His debut song album, ENAID - Songs of the Soul, with the pianist Llyr Williams, was released by Sain in 2007. As a recording artist he also appears as Squire Alworthy on Naxos' 2009 disc of Edward German's Tom Jones, and as Andy Warhol in Michael Daugherty's Jackie O for Dynamic DVD.

Paul was a member of the late Yehudi Menuhin's 'Live Music Now!' scheme, for whom he gave over 200 concerts, and has recently been an audition panel member for the scheme. In 2001 he was awarded the National Eisteddfod of Wales' most prestigious prize for young singers, the W.Towyn Roberts Scholarship, adding his name to a list of winners that includes Rhys Meirion, Leah Marian Jones, Elizabeth Donovan and Bryn Terfel.

Paul is a shareholder at Cardiff City Football Club, where he has sung live during the pre-match build-up, a member of Glamorgan County Cricket Club, and is the offical Bard to the Committee of the Lemmings Cricket Club. His other hobbies include teaching mathematics and physics, and crosswords and quizzes: in 1999 he captained the Royal Academy of Music's pioneering team on the BBC's University Challenge television quiz show.

The latest information on his career and forthcoming appearances is always available online at www.paulcareyjones.com