Mark Andrew Cleveland

Mark Andrew Cleveland, bass, with extensive credits as a soloist with many of the premiere choral ensembles in the Northeast, made his Boston Symphony debut in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion under the direction of Bernard Haitink. He has been a featured soloist with Boston Cecilia, Back Bay Chorale, Boston Baroque, Cantata Singers, Spectrum Singers, Masterworks Chorale, Brookline Chorus, Cambridge Community Chorus, Chatham Chorale, Chorus North Shore, Newburyport Chorale, Northfield Chorus and Worcester Chorus in Massachusetts. He has performed with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, PA, the Southwest Florida Symphony, Festival of Two Worlds in Charleston, SC and Spoleto, Italy and the Vermont Symphony. During the Thirtieth Anniversary tour with Boston Baroque, Mr. Cleveland soloed 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, Mr. Cleveland’s chamber music performances includes appearances with The Raven Consort, Tyaga String Quartet, Arcadia Players, Sarasa and performances 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 appeared in the critically acclaimed production of Granite State Opera’s Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti. Other performances include roles for New Jersey June Opera Festival, Monadnock Music, Prism Opera and Salisbury Opera. A featured soloist in concerts at many colleges and music schools including Brandeis, Dartmouth, Harvard, M.I.T., Smith and Tufts, Mr. Cleveland has appeared at the Universities of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina and SUNY-Fredonia. Mr. Cleveland’s recent appearances include performances of Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Mass in B minor with Cantata Singers and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music with Spectrum Singers. A recent recording on the MRS label with The Raven Consort of Nicholas White’s The Raven (E. A. Poe) and Songs of Innocence (William Blake) was followed by the multi media premiere performance last season of the White’s Songs of Innocence. A Senior Adjunct Faculty member of the Music Department at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, for over twenty years, Mr. Cleveland has taught at St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH and is currently a part-time faculty member 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 Choir Director at Grace Episcopal Church in Manchester, NH.