Mark Chambers

Counter-tenor

Since leaving the Royal Northern College of Music in 1992 Mark has performed all over the world with many leading groups and conductors. Solo work has included Bach St Matthew Passion and Mass in B Minor with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 with Paul McCreesh and a recording with Nederlandse Bachverenging of Beloved and Beautiful conducted by Jos van Veldhoven. He has been invited to sing the St Matthew Passion for the last 10 years with Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht, directed by Johannes Leertouwer.

Operatic work has included many roles in Handel operas: Xerxes (Arsamenes), Agrippina (Narciso), Amadigi (Dardano), Tamerlano (Andronico), Il Pastor fido (Silvio) and Monteverdi Orfeo (Speranza) in a Jonathan Miller production. He sang the soprano role of Pilpatoe in Carl Heinrich Graun’s Montezuma in the Sclosstheater in Sanssoucci Palace for Musikfestspiele Potsdam,

Mark works regularly with many of the world’s leading choirs and ensembles including Tenebrae, Gallicantus, The Monteverdi Choir, The Gabrieli Consort, the National Chamber Choir of Ireland and Gramophone award-winning Binchois Consort. He has made many recordings, including a solo recital of songs by Rubbra and Vaughan Williams with David Mason (piano), and a series of discs with The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble.

In the commercial world Mark has created the Voice of the Ood for the Dr Who series for BBC Television with music by Murray Gold and has been featured as a soloist in the electro-acoustic score for Genus – a commission by Paris Opera Ballet by Joby Talbot. Other film work includes The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

Mark currently lives in Buncrana, Co. Donegal and combines his singing career with a post as part-time lecturer in Voice at the University of Birmingham and as musical director of the young ensemble Sestina, who will release their debut CD ‘Master and Pupil’ in April 2022. www.sestinamusic.com