Haitian-American vocalist Tyreek McDole is one of the most compelling new voices in Jazz and Black American Music. The Florida-raised, New York-based baritone with a voice steeped in warmth, gravity, and soul, McDole creates performances that are both intimate and expansive—honoring tradition while inviting listeners toward reflection, healing, and shared imagination.

 

McDole’s critically acclaimed debut album, Open Up Your Senses, blends originals with freedom songs, spirituals, and works that speak to justice, unity, and ancestral memory. His 2026 sophomore album CHROMA, on Artwork [PIAS], is an examination on his own identity, the pursuit of self-actualization and a celebration of Black American Music’s greatest Icons that exhibit “HIGH CHROMA.”

 

In 2023, Tyreek earned first place at the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, joining a lineage of standout winners that includes Samara Joy and Jazzmeia Horn, and becoming only the second male winner in the competition's history. His competitive pedigree dates back to 2018, when he won the Outstanding Vocalist Award at Jazz at Lincoln Center's prestigious Essentially Ellington National Competition.

 

Since then, McDole has shared the stage with Kenny Barron, Theo Croker, Jeff Goldblum, Nicholas Payton, Christian McBride, Maurice Brown, Nick Jonas, among many others, and has appeared at leading venues and festivals worldwide.

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“Tyreek McDole is a leading jazz voice of his generation” — The New York Sun

 

This engagement of Tyreek McDole is made possible in part through the Jazz Touring Network program

of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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This performance is brought to you in partnership with The University of Virginia's College at Wise and The Town of Wise.

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Pro-Art partners with a variety of venues, for accessibility inquiries or general questions, call (276) 376-4520 or email contact@proartva.org. For weather related updates, patrons are encouraged to check proartva.org for real-time information.

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Pro-Art is supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly. Pro-Art is additionally supported in part by the C. Bascom Slemp Foundation, The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, Smith Vicars Family Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.