This season sees Mark make his Canadian Opera Company debut singing Capulet in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette and his debut at Opéra national de Lorraine singing Ferryman in a new co-production of Britten’s Curlew River with Opéra de Rennes. Mark will also join the San Diego Symphony for their season closing with concert performances of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle conducted by Rafael Payare. In the Summer of 2025.

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Mark’s highlights from last season include the title role of Der fliegende Holländer for Trondheim Symfoniorkester and Klingsor in Parsifal at the Hamburgische Staatsoper. On the concert platform, Mark joined Carolyn Kuan and the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra for a concert performance of Ruo’s M. Butterfly and sang Sir George Benjamin’s Written on Skin with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. 

 

Other notable engagements include il Mostro Venere e Adone conducted by Kent Nagano at the Hamburgische Staatsoper and The Protector in George Benjamin’s Written on Skin under Marc Albrecht at the Deutsche Oper. He also sang the latter with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir George Benjamin himself and returned to Longborough Festival Opera to sing his first complete Ring Cycle as Alberich. On the concert platform Mark’s sang Bruckner’s Third Mass with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Dinis Sousa, Sea Symphony with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and Leonard Slatkin and Carmina Burana with the Orchestre de Paris and Andrés Orozco-Estrada.

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Noteworthy opera performances include the title role in Wozzeck for Grand Théâtre de Genève, Wotan in Die Walküre for Grimeborn, for which he won the Offie Award for best performance in an opera, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly for Welsh National Opera, the White Knight in Gerald Barry’s Alice's Adventures Underground at the Royal Opera House, Balstrode in Peter Grimes at Opera Queensland and the The King in George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence at the Mariisnky Theatre.

 

A distinguished concert artist, who is an acclaimed exponent of new music, Mark has sung Thomas Ades’s Totentanz with the Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by the composer, a piece for which he has become synonymous, having debuted it with the New York Philharmonic, and subsequently performed it with the Swedish Radio Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, Danish National Symphony, and Finnish Radio Symphony. Mark also sang the world premiere of Lera Auerbach’s Requiem with Vladimir Jurowski and the Dresden Staatskapelle, Gerald Barry’s Beethoven with the Britten Sinfonia and West Side Story with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano. 

 

His many recordings include Thomas Ades’s Totentanz with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon) which was nominated for a Grammy Award, the Grammy-Award-winning Les Troyens with Sir Colin Davis (LSO Live), the Grammy-Award-winning Billy Budd with the London Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding (Virgin/EMI), Eugene Onegin (extracts) with Sir Antonio Pappano (EMI), Bellini’s La Straniera with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and David Parry (Opera Rara) and Mozart arias with the Classical Opera Company (Sony BMG). His solo recital discs – including Quilter Songs (Sony BMG), the complete Butterworth songbook and the complete Delius songbook (Stone Records) – have all received widespread praise. 

 

Mark was born in London and studied Mathematics at King's College Cambridge and singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1998 he was awarded the Decca Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards.