Mark Spyropoulos

Bio

Mark Spyropoulos read Music at Trinity College Dublin and trained as a singer in London at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama under Laura Sarti, and the Young Singers programme at English National Opera. He has performed with several ensembles in London and France including with William Christie at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, Opera Holland Park, the Philharmonia Chorus and the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court. He is a Maestro Cantore della Cappella Musicale del Duomo di Milano, most recently appearing as soloist for the Missa Papae Marcelli at Teatro Alla Scala, as part of events marking the 500th anniversary of the birth of Palestrina.

In 2015 he became the first British singer to join the Papal Choir of the Sistine Chapel. With the Sistina, Mark has recorded four albums with Deutsche Grammophon including several world-première recordings, winning the Echo Klassik Prize for Cantate Domino in 2015. He has toured extensively across Europe, South Korea, the USA and Canada, appearing as both chorister and soloist. Mark has also made several TV and radio appearances discussing choral music, including interviews on RAI, Sky Arts, CBS 60 Minutes, Fox News, BBC Breakfast, the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 3’s In Tune.

Mark has lectured in London at the China Exchange and at Eton College in addition to contributing to articles for the Independent on Sunday, Early Music Today, The Tablet, The Guardian and The Florentine. In 2020 he starred in the BBC documentary Inside the Vatican.

In 2018, Mark established the Music Programme at the Medici Archive Project in Florence, before moving to the Fondazione Mascarade Opera in 2022. He is Director of the Sacred Music Programme whose mission is to rediscover and perform forgotten sacred music from the time of the Medici. To facilitate this, he founded Vox Medicea, a bespoke choir of Renaissance specialists. Vox Medicea has performed major public concerts in Florence: at the Salone dei Cinquecento -Palazzo Vecchio, Palazzo Pitti, Certosa di Firenza and the Medici Basilica of San Lorenzo; as well as several recitals in London, and an extended broadcast feature for CBS Sunday Morning. In July 2022, he launched the Florence Choral Course, offering scholarships for advanced choral training in the music of the Italian Renaissance.