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 many operatic roles include Fiorello in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Schimdt in Andrea Chenier and Angelotti (cover) in Tosca for Scottish Opera, Marcello in La Bohème and the Father (cover) in Hansel & Gretel for Scottish Opera on Tour, Gasparo in Donizetti's Rita, First Comrade in Weill's Silbersee, Eurymaque in Fauré's Pénélope and Martino in Rossini's L'Occasione Fa Il Ladro, all for Wexford Festival Opera, Osmin in Mozart's Zaïde for the Aldeburgh Festival, Rossini's Figaro for Opera East, Mozart's Figaro, Schaunard in La Bohème and Count Ceprano in Rigoletto for Diva Opera, Escamillo in Carmen for Lyric Opera Dublin and Stowe Opera, Dr Malatesta in Don Pasquale for Bel Canto Opera, The Forester in The Cunning Little Vixen for Surrey Opera, Masetto for the Oxford Philomusica, Guglielmo and Papageno for Opera by Definition, Sam in Trouble in Tahiti for Second Movement, Lawrence in Dame Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers for Duchy Opera, Bartolo in Paisiello's Barber of Seville for Bampton Classical Opera and at the Buxton Festival, John Styx in Orpheus in the Underworld, Mozart's Figaro (cover) and Ariodates (cover) in Handel's Xerxes for British Youth Opera, Tom the Coachman in Britten's Little Sweep for S4C, roles in Purcell's Fairy Queen for the English Bach Festival, Mozart's Figaro and Marcello in La Bohème for Opera Mint.

In contemporary English-language 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. 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 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 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 February 2004 he gave the UK premiere of Galuppi's recently rediscovered motet, Confitebor Tibi Domine, and in 2006 was the baritone soloist in the world premieres of Stephen McNeff's Cities of Dreams at the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea in 2007, and in Richard Elfyn Jones' In David's Land at St David's Cathedral in 2006. 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. Recent concert week 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, Italy, 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 partnership with the award-winning pianists Llyr Williams, Helen Collyer and Siobhain O'Higgins. In 2001 Paul 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 Committe of the Lemmings Cricket Club. His other hobbies include golf; 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. He is an occasional guest on Robin Ince's Book Club, and is one half of the operatic comedy duo Curry & Jones.

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