Mark Andrew Cleveland, bass

Mark Andrew Cleveland, bass, with extensive credits as a soloist with many of the premiere choral ensembles in the Northeast recently made his Boston Symphony Orchestra debut in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion under the direction of Bernard Haitink.  Mr. Cleveland has been a featured soloist with the Back Bay Chorale, Boston Baroque, Cantata Singers, Spectrum Singers, Masterworks Chorale, Boston Cecilia, Brookline Chorus and with many of the choral organizations in New Hampshire.   During the Thirtieth Anniversary tour with Boston Baroque, Mr. Cleveland performed at Tanglewood, Ravinia and at the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.  Mr. Cleveland has recorded for Telarc with Boston Baroque and participated in a Grammy award-winning recording of Barber’s opera Antony and Cleopatra with the Spoleto Festival Chorus and Orchestra. In addition, he has appeared with the Vermont Symphony, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, PA, the Southwest Florida Symphony and with the Westminster Choir at the Festival of Two Worlds in Charleston, SC and Spoleto, Italy.  

An active chamber musician, Mr. Cleveland has appeared with the Tyaga String Quartet, Arcadia Players, Sarasa and performed at the Mürten Classics Festival in Switzerland and at the Holland Festival Oudemuziek Utrecht in the Netherlands with La Donna Musicale.  Mr. Cleveland has given recitals in the Netherlands, the Gardner Museum’s Young Artists Series and throughout New England.  A dramatic operatic performer, he has performed for New Jersey June Opera Festival and in New Hampshire with Granite State Opera and Monadnock Music.  

 This past Season, Mr. Cleveland has soloed in performances of Fauré’s Requiem,  Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation and Die Jahreszeiten, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mozart’s Requiem and in Granite State Opera’s critically acclaimed production of  Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor.  An adjunct faculty member at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, Mr. Cleveland teaches at St. Paul’s School and the Concord Community Music School in Concord, NH and at Phillips Exeter Academy.  In addition to his active performing and teaching schedule, Mr. Cleveland, a magna cum laude graduate of Westminster Choir College, serves as the Director of Music at Grace Episcopal Church in Manchester, NH.