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| Mark Padmore, Tenor |
 ©Marco Borgrevve He has established a flourishing career in opera, concert and recital. His performances in Bach’s Passion have gained particular notice throughout the world. In the opera house he has worked with such theatrically-minded directors as Peter Brook, Katie Mitchell, Mark Morris and Deborah Warner. Recent work includes Les Troyens at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and Handel’s Jephtha at WNO and ENO. He also played Peter Quint in an acclaimed BBC TV production of Turn of the Screw and the Evangelist in a staging of St Matthew Passion at Glyndebourne. Plans include Tom Rakewell in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress at La Monnaie. He recently recorded the title role in La Clemenza di Tito with René Jacobs for Harmonia Mundi. In concert he has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras including the Berlin, Vienna and New York Philharmonics, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the LSO and BBCSO. He makes regular appearances with the OAE with whom he conceived a project exploring Bach’s John Passion which took place in Aldeburgh and London in 2005 and that will be given further performances on tour in 2008. In 2007 he will make his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Rattle. He has recently toured with the Hallé Orchestra as soloist in Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings conducted by Mark Elder and in 2008 he will be appearing as soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra on their European tour. He has given recitals in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Milan, Moscow, New York and Paris. He appears frequently at the Wigmore Hall in London where he has been invited to perform the three Schubert song cycles in May 2008 and in the same season will give the Premiere of a new work written by him by Mark-Anthony Turnage with the Nash Ensemble. As well as his regular collaborators Julius Drake, Roger Vignoles and Andrew West he works with many internationally renowned chamber musicians including Imogen Cooper, Till Fellner and Paul Lewis. He has made many recordings including the Bach Passions with Herreweghe and McCreesh, Bach Cantatas with Eliot Gardiner and Herreweghe, Haydn Masses with Hickox, Don Giovanni with Harding and operas by Rameau and Charpentier with Christie. A disc of Handel arias with The English Concert and Andrew Manze was released by Harmonia Mundi in April 2007 and future releases include Haydn’s Creation for Deutsche Grammophon, Messiah with Colin Davis and the LSO and Britten Winter Words with Robert Vignoles for Harmonia Mundi. website : www.markpadmore.com |