Mark Chaundy
Mark Chaundy (tenor) sang as a chorister in the Choir of St David’s Cathedral, and later studied at the Royal College of Music supported by The Countess of Munster Musical Trust and The Arts Council of Wales, and at Tanglewood in the USA. In 2004 Mark was selected to compete in the ‘Operalia’ competition in Los Angeles where he sang for Plácido Domingo. He was announced as one of the recipients of the first Susan Chilcott Scholarship in October 2005, and in 2006 became a Samling Scholar. He has twice been a finalist in the Young Welsh Singers Competition and has won the National Federation of Music Societies Award.
Mark was until recently an Associate Artist with Welsh National Opera, where he has understudied the roles of Lenski Eugene Onegin, The Duke Rigoletto, Kudrjas Kát’a Kabanová, Don Ottavio Don Giovanni, and Giove in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. He sang Roderigo Otello in the WNO Millenium opening gala conducted by Carlo Rizzi. Other operatic appearances include Bajazet in Handel’s Tamerlano for Cambridge Handel Opera Group, First Trojan Man Idomeneo and, for Glyndebourne on Tour, Giuseppe La traviata.
Recent highlights include recitals at the Wigmore Hall and at St David’s Hall in Cardiff, Alvarez in Offenbach’s Barbe-Bleue and Courier La fanciulla del West (Grange Park Opera), Egeo in Cavalli’s Giasone (Early Opera Company), Pedrolino in Mozart’s Jewel Box and Romeo in Benda’s Romeo and Juliet (Bampton Classical Opera), Kudrjash (cover) Kát’a Kabanová (Opera North), Don José Carmen (Opera Project) and Berlioz’s Te Deum in Birmingham Symphony Hall.
This season Mark has sung Tenor 1 (cover) in Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins (Royal Opera House), and, in addition to his performance with the Cambridge Handel Opera Group, will sing Albafiorita (cover) in Martinu’s Mirandolina and Jacquino (cover) Fidelio (Garsington Opera), and Frisellino in Haydn’s Le pescatrici (Bampton Classical Opera).