Mark Dobell

British tenor Mark Dobell was a choral scholar at Clare College, Cambridge, reading Classics before undertaking postgraduate vocal studies at the Royal Academy of Music, where he won the Clifton Prize for his outstanding final recital. He has performed globally as a soloist and recording artist, collaborating with esteemed conductors including Harry Christophers, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Roger Norrington, and Sir James MacMillan. Mark Dobell’s wide-ranging concert, recording and oratorio repertoire embraces major works by Handel, Bach, Purcell and Mozart, alongside compositions by Monteverdi, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Britten, Arvo Pärt, Jonathan Dove and Karl Jenkins.His international performances include Monteverdi’s Vespers at London’s Royal Albert Hall and in Boston and New York with the Handel and Haydn Society; Handel’s Messiah at the Palace of Versailles; Israel in Egypt with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta; Mozart’s Requiem in Santiago de Compostela and Granada; Vivaldi’s Dixit Dominus in Amsterdam; Schütz’s Weihnachtshistorie in London; Purcell’s King Arthur in Edinburgh; and both Evangelist and arias in Bach’s passions and Christmas Oratorio at Westminster Abbey. Recent highlights include James MacMillan’s Stabat Mater in the Sistine Chapel and Lincoln Center, Monteverdi’s Vespers at Canterbury Cathedral and Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, MacMillan’s Symphony No. 5 at Edinburgh and London, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah and St Paul, Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Creation, and Handel’s Israel in Egypt and Messiah. His award-winning recordings feature Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 and Purcell’s Odes and Songs with The Sixteen; Handel’s Acis and Galatea; Howard Goodall’s Invictus; and over 25 medieval and Renaissance discs with the Orlando Consort.