Hailed as "a master of declamation and interpretation... a wonderful voice with enumerable vocal shadings... and flexibility of expression," (Sharon Mabry, Journal of Singing; author, Exploring Twentieth Century Vocal Music), award-winning artist Aaron Ball enjoys many career highlights as an opera singer, recitalist, concert soloist, actor, director, educator, business leader, audiobook producer and narrator, and coach & consultant for the performing arts.

Aaron has appeared in leading and principal roles with Long Beach Opera, Pacific Lyric Opera, Mission Opera, Independent Opera Company, Lyric Opera of Orange County, Huntington Beach Symphony Orchestra, Valley Chamber Ensembles, TEMPO ensemble, and as soloist at Carnegie Hall; his signature roles include Don Giovanni, Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Papageno, Escamillo, Falke, and Sweeney Todd, among others.

In concert, Aaron has appeared as soloist for much of the standard oratorio and concert cannons as well as for the premieres of new and revised works by composers Glenn Longacre (Exalted), Nancy Reeves (Requiem), and Lori Laitman (The Seed of Dream); he is also an accomplished recitalist with a passion for art song performance, particularly for song cycles.

On screen, Aaron can be seen as “Mr. Projector” in the 2012 feature film The Ghastly Love of Johnny X starring Creed Bratton (The Office), Reggie Bannister (Phantasm), Academy Award-winning actor and composer Paul Williams (The Phantom of the Paradise), Kate Maberly (The Secret Garden, Finding Neverland), and Kevin McCarthy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) in his final role. 

Aaron’s most recent screen appearance is as the fictitious silent film-era matinee idol “Devlin Rogue” in the period thriller A Blind Bargain starring Crispin Glover (Back to the Future, The River’s Edge) and Amy Wright (The Deer Hunter, Breaking Away, The Amityville Horror, The Accidental Tourist), which will see a national theatrical release in 2025. Additionally, Aaron is known for his childhood work in the independent films of Charles B. Pierce, for which his father John worked as production designer and art director. Aaron’s motion picture screen debut was in Pierce’s blockbuster hit The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972).

An accomplished audiobook producer and narrator, Aaron’s debut audiobook project, author Lyle Blackburn’s best-selling The Beast of Boggy Creek: The True Story of the Fouke Monster, is a book that details the making of Pierce’s landmark film and the legendary creature that inspired it and was published by Beacon Audiobooks in 2022. This book and others that Aaron has narrated and produced are currently available on Amazon and Audible.

Aaron serves as principal and creative director for his award winning performing arts production and consulting firm Command virFormance (CvF) offering performing arts organizations solutions for digital delivery of performance content as well as production design for opera including projection design and implementation of digital sets, animations, and video production/direction.

In 2020, Aaron created and directed through CvF the trailer, title sequences, and original animations for client Mission Opera’s electrifying filmed version of Menotti’s The Medium, in which Aaron also performed the role of Mr. Gobineau alongside Metropolitan Opera veteran Janet Hopkins. In June of 2021, the trailer for this production won Aaron, his company, and his client the 42nd annual Telly award for Excellence in Non Broadcast Video Promotion for a Non-Profit Organization. This production went on to be awarded first place in the prestigious American Prize competitions (2023) for outstanding opera production.

In 2021, Aaron was engaged as both director and performer for Independent Opera Company’s very popular IOC Stars in Concert series - a series of concerts co produced by IOC and CvF premiering as livestreams and available for limited periods on-demand for a global audience. In the role of famed Yiddish poet and Holocaust survivor Abraham Sutzkever, Aaron worked closely with composer Lori Laitman in preparing and performing her powerful song cycle for baritone, piano and cello The Seed of Dream to great international acclaim as well as a program of Rachmaninoff songs as part of this successful series. IOC & CvF’s co-production of The Seed of Dream was awarded second place prize for the 2023 Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for outstanding performance of American Music as part of the 2023 The American Prize competitions. This production was also named as an American Prize national finalist for outstanding remote production (performers performing together) and garnered Aaron third place in the 2023 Friedrich and Virginia Schorr Memorial Awards for outstanding vocalist in opera or art song.

Widely sought after as a coach and consultant for the performing arts, Aaron serves on the board of directors for Independent Opera Company in Los Angeles, as an advisory board member for Mission Opera in Santa Clarita, CA, and as a Mission Opera company trustee member of Opera America.

Aaron is an artist-in-residence as vocal soloist for Sunshine Cathedral in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and serves on voice faculty at NOVA Southeastern University and Broward College. He earned his BM and MM in vocal performance from California State University, Northridge where he was the winner of the 2017 CSUN Concerto/Aria competition. He is a lifetime member of Pi Kappa Lambda, the only musical honor society recognized by the Association of College Honor Societies, as well as a member of the National Society of Leadership and Success.

Aaron is a union member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors’ Equity Association, and AGMA.

He currently resides in Deerfield Beach, FL where he maintains a private voice studio.

www.aaronballbaritone.com

www.commandvirformance.com