Nina Jones is a San Francisco-based mezzo-soprano from Bolton, Massachusetts.

Nina has appeared in hundreds of vocal, theatrical, choral, and ensemble performances. Some of the most notable including Dandini in Rossini’s La Cenerentola (San Francisco Opera Guild, 2024), Geminio in Sartorio and Ziani’s La Flora (Ars Minerva, 2024), chorus in Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale (San Francisco Opera, 2024), chorus in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (San Francisco Opera, 2024), vocal quartet in Balls by Laura Karpman (Opera Parallèle, 2024), Bireno in Freschi's Olimpia Vendicata (Ars Minerva, 2023), L’enfant in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges (SFCM, 2023), Flora in Dove's The Enchanted Pig (SFCM, 2022), and Nireno in Handel's Giulio Cesare (SFCM, 2022), Dorothée in L’Amant Anonyme at Opera McGill (2021), Mrs. Jones (cover) in Street Scene at Opera McGill (2020), Sesto (excerpts) in Giulio Cesare at the Heifetz Baroque Vocal Workshop (2019), Alice in La croisade des dames in the Opera McGill Horizons Projects (2018), Macbeth in Macbeth at Worcester Academy (2017), and Jackie in Mauritius at Worcester Academy (2016), for which they received the Best Actress award from the Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild.

In 2020, Nina was awarded the Mariana Paunova and Stefano Algieri Scholarship in Voice. In 2019, they was awarded the Duncan L. Campbell Memorial Award, first prize winner at the Concours de Musique du Choeur de la Montagne, and a second round finalist in the Classical Singer Competition. In 2018, they were awarded the Mariana Paunova and Stefano Algieri Scholarship in Voice and the Schulich School of Music Special Fund Scholarship. They also placed second in the New England Conservatory’s Baroque Aria Competition in 2017.

They sang mezzo-soprano in the Schulich School of Music’s Early Music Ensemble, Vocal Chamber Ensemble, and Song Interpretation Ensemble as well as soprano in the Schulich School of Music’s Concert Choir and New England Conservatory’s Youth Chorale and Camerata.

They have worked with esteemed musicians including conductors Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Matthew Dirst, Curt Pajer, Corey Jamason, David Stern, Stephen Hargreaves, Brian DeMaris, Jonathan Richter, and Jean-Sébastien Vallée, coaches Louise Pelletier, Taylor Chan, Margaret Halbig, Pierre McLean, Michael McMahon, Dana Sadava, Mai-Linh Pham, and Marie-Ève Scarfone and directors Céline Ricci, Heather Matthews, James Darrah, Raviv Ullman, Sergey Khalikulov, Michael Morey, Patrick Hansen.

Nina graduated with a Masters of Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Susanne Mentzer in 2023. In 2021, Nina graduated from McGill’s Schulich School of Music, with a Bachelors of Music and Dean’s Honor List distinction, studying with Dominique Labelle and Louise Pelletier. They previously studied with Jayne West at the New England Conservatory (Boston, MA). Nina attended high school at Worcester Academy (Worcester, MA).

Nina will begin their 2025 season singing Cherubino in Pocket Opera’s production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.

Jones identifies as non-binary and uses the pronouns they/them.