Mark Spyropoulos

Bio

Mark Spyropoulos read Music at Trinity College Dublin and trained as a singer at London’s Guildhall School of Music & Drama under Laura Sarti, and the young singers program 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 also a Maestro Cantante della Cappella Musicale del Duomo di Milano.

In 2015, Mark 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-premiere 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 a chorister and a 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 November 2018, Mark established the Sacred Music Programme in Florence with a mission to rediscover sacred works from the vast archives of Medici Florence. To facilitate this, he founded Vox Medicea, a bespoke choir of Renaissance specialists based in London, with the sole purpose of reviving this forgotten repertoire. As Music Director of Vox Medicea, Mark has performed several concerts in London, an extended broadcast feature for CBS Sunday Morning, and a major public concert in the Salone dei Cinquecento of the Palazzo Vecchio on behalf of the Comune di Firenze. In July 2022, he launched the Florence Choral Course, an annual summer programme offering full scholarships for advanced choral training for aspiring professional singers in the music of the Italian Renaissance.