Mark Sprinkle
Tenor Mark Sprinkle has appeared as a soloist in Carissimi’s Abraham and Isaac at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, with the Handel & Haydn Society in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Vivaldi’s Gloria in Symphony Hall, Boston, in Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers at the Emerson Majestic Theatre under Grant Llewellyn, in concerts of Handel’s Chandos Anthems with Christopher Hogwood in Jordan Hall, and with Concerto Palatino, the Boston Camerata, the Boston Early Music Festival, Emmanuel Music, and Blue Heron. Recent solo turns include performances of Bach cantatas and Magnificat in Jordan Hall with H&H. In February 2010 he will be featured in a concert of newly-composed songs by the winners of the Longfellow Chorus’s annual international composer’s competition in Portland, Maine. An active Bach Passion Evangelist, he has sung the role in the St. John Passion with Chorus Pro Musica (Boston) and with the Boulder Bach Festival in Boulder, Colorado, among others; his performance has been described as “supremely stylish.” He was a founding member of the Cambridge Bach Ensemble, has performed at music festivals in Bergen (Norway), Vancouver, Edinburgh, and Aldeburgh, UK, and has recorded with Dorian, Koch, Harmonia Mundi, Decca, Arabesque, and Telarc. He was a Fellow of the Britten-Pears School. In addition to singing and teaching, he is an American Canoeing Association Open Water Sea Kayaking Instructor and a Registered Maine Guide.
