Mark Stone (baritone)
Mark Stone is a British baritone appearing in concerts, recitals, and opera.
Biography
Early life
Born in London 12 June 1969, he studied at Wilson's School, Wallington before going up to King's College, Cambridge to read Mathematics. After graduating in 1990, he worked as a Chartered Accountant and as an investment banker before studying singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London from 1995 to 1998.Performing
He made his operatic debut in 1998, singing the role of Escamillo for Opera North, since when he has also appeared in the UK at the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Glyndebourne and Welsh National Opera. He made his U.S. debut for the Opera Company of Philadelphia and went on to sing at Santa Fe Opera. Elsewhere he has sung for La Scala, Opera Nationale de Montpellier, Liceu, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Cologne Opera, Leipzig Opera, the Royal Swedish Opera, Nationale Reisoper, Israeli Opera and New Zealand Opera.In 2016 he premiered the role of The Count in Elena Langer's opera Figaro Gets a Divorce, at the welsh National Opera.
He appears regularly in concert, having sung with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Oxford Lieder Festival, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y Léon and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia.
Record producing
In 2008 he formed the CD label Stone Records. Originally created to release his own recordings, the label expanded, as Stone began to release discs from other artists, and the catalogue now includes vocal, choral, orchestral and instrumental music. Artists include American guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan with the 2015 issue of 'The Legend of Hagoromo'.Repertoire
Operatic
Concert
| Composer | Works |
| Adès | Totentanz |
| Auerbach | Dresden Requiem |
| Bach, J.S. | B minor mass, Christmas Oratorio, John Passion, Matthew Passion |
| Bach, C.P.E. | Magnificat |
| Brahms | Requiem |
| Britten | War Requiem |
| Carr | Requiem For An Angel |
| Corp | And all the Trumpets Sounded |
| Delius | Sea drift |
| Duruflé | Requiem |
| Elgar | The Apostles, Coronation Ode, Dream of Gerontius |
| Fauré | Requiem |
| Glass | Symphony 5 |
| Handel | Messiah |
| Haydn | Nelson Mass |
| MacMillan | John Passion |
| Mahler | Symphony 8 |
| Martin | Golgotha |
| Mendelssohn | Elijah |
| Mozart | Mass in C, Mass in C minor, Requiem |
| Orff | Carmina Burana |
| Rachmaninov | The bells |
| Rossini | Petite Messe Solenelle, Stabat Mater |
| Puccini | Messa di Gloria |
| Tippett | A child of our time |
| Vaughan Williams | Sea Symphony, Serenade to music |
| Walton | Belshazzar's Feast |
Discography
| Year | Title | With | Label |
| 2014 | The complete Quilter songbook Vol.II | Stephen Barlow | Stone Records |
| 2014 | The complete John Ireland songbook Vol.I | Sholto Kynoch | Stone Records |
| 2013 | The complete Quilter songbook Vol.I | Stephen Barlow | Stone Records |
| 2013 | Roxanna Panufnik's Love Abide | London Mozart Players, Lee Ward | Warner Classics |
| 2012 | Sondheim's Sweeney Todd | Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ulf Schirmer | BR-Klassik |
| 2012 | The runaway bunny | Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas, Glen Roven | GPR Records |
| 2012 | Requiem Æternam | The Choir of Somerville College Oxford, David Crown | Stone Records |
| 2012 | The complete C.W. Orr songbook - volume 2 | Simon Lepper | Stone Records |
| 2012 | Britten's War Requiem | Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Jaap van Zweden | Challenge Classics |
| 2012 | The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 | Sholto Kynoch | Stone Records |
| 2011 | The complete C.W. Orr songbook - volume 1 | Simon Lepper | Stone Records |
| 2011 | The complete Delius songbook - volume 2 | Stephen Barlow | Stone Records |
| 2011 | Ronald Corp's And all the Trumpets Sounded | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Ronald Corp | Dutton |
| 2011 | The complete Delius songbook - volume 1 | Stephen Barlow | Stone Records |
| 2011 | Time to Time | Onyx Brass | Meridian Records |
| 2010 | In my craft or sullen art | Glen Roven | GPR Records |
| 2010 | Paul Carr: Requiem For An Angel | Bath Philharmonia, Gavin Carr | Stone Records |
| 2010 | The songs of Ronald Corp | Simon Lepper | Stone Records |
| 2010 | The complete Butterworth songbook | Stephen Barlow | Stone Records |
| 2010 | Offenbach's Vert-Vert | Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry | Opera Rara |
| 2009 | Gibbs' Odysseus | BBC Concert Orchestra, David Drummond | Dutton |
| 2009 | English love | Stephen Barlow | Stone Records |
| 2008 | Britten's Billy Budd | London Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding | Virgin Records |
| 2008 | Bellini's La Straniera | Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry | Opera Rara |
| 2007 | The complete Quilter songbook Vol.I | Stephen Barlow | Sony BMG |
| 2007 | Entre Nous | Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry | Opera Rara |
| 2007 | The A to Z of Mozart opera | Classical Opera Company, Ian Page | Sony BMG |
| 2007 | Tchaikovsky Overtures and Fantasies | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano | EMI |
| 2007 | La Serenata | David Harper | Opera Rara |
| 2006 | Ora Divina | David Harper | Opera Rara |
| 2001 | Berlioz's Les Troyens | London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis | LSO Live |
| 2000 | The Magic of Inspector Morse | Exeter College Choir, Barrington Pheloung | Virgin Records |