Mark Dobell (tenor)
Monteverdi Vespers of 1610
Bristol Cathedral
Saturday, 20th March 2010
Originally from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, Mark Dobell was a choral scholar of Clare College,
Cambridge, where he read Classics. He later studied as a postgraduate at the Royal Academy of Music, and was awarded
the Clifton Prize for the best final recital.
Mark has worked as a soloist throughout Europe and North America with world-renowned conductors including Harry Christophers,
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Roger Norrington and James MacMillan. His extensive concert and oratorio repertoire includes
many of the major works of Handel, Bach and Mozart, as well as pieces by composers as varied as Monteverdi, Haydn, Mendelssohn,
Britten and Karl Jenkins. Recent highlights include performances of James MacMillan's Seven Last Words from the Cross
at the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Monteverdi's Vespers in Budapest, Haydn's Creation in Liverpool, Handel's
Foundling Hospital Anthem at London's Cadogan Hall, Britten's St Nicolas in St Albans and Schutz's
Christmas Story at St John's Smith Square in London. In 2010 Mark will perform Rachmaninov's Vespers at the
Cadogan Hall, Monteverdi's Vespers in Douai Abbey and Bristol Cathedral, and Bach's B Minor Mass in Cuenca and Pamplona.
Equally established as a consort singer, Mark enjoys performing both at home and abroad with many leading choirs and consort
groups, such as The Cardinall's Musick, I Fagiolini and The King's Consort. He is proud to be a member of The Sixteen,
The Tallis Scholars and The Orlando Consort, and since September 2006 he has sung in the choir of Westminster Abbey.