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Marcus Farnsworth - Baritone Marcus Farnsworth (baritone) is a versatile artist whose repertoire spans baroque to contemporary works, in opera, concert and recital. He was awarded first prize in the 2009 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Prize, and currently studies with Glenville Hargreaves and Audrey Hyland on the opera course at the Royal Academy of Music. Other awards include the Sir Thomas Armstrong Prize, the 2009 Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize, and the 2008 Major van Someren-Godferey Prize for English Song. Marcus is generously supported by the Josephine Baker Trust, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and the Musician’s Benevolent Fund.Recent appearances include the Spitalfields Festival with the RAM, a recital at St John’s Smith Square as part of Graham Johnson’s ‘Young Songmakers’ Almanac’, a joint recital with acclaimed mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly at the Oxford Lieder Festival, and as a soloist with The King’s Consort at the Wigmore Hall. He has given recitals at Southwell Minster, Manchester Cathedral, the University of Manchester, Salford University, Lotherton Hall, the Royal Northern College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music and the Exon Singers Festival. Concert repertoire includes Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat, Mass in B Minor and St John Passion, Handel’s Messiah and Saul, Requiems by Brahms, Mozart, Fauré and Duruflé, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Finzi’s In Terra Pax, and Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem and Five Mystical Songs. He has appeared with the Southbank Sinfonia, Manchester Camerata, the Britten Sinfonia, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.On the opera stage Marcus has performed the roles of Adonis in Venus and Adonis by John Blow (Newark Festival Opera), Aeneas in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Suffolk Villages Festival), Guglielmo in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte (Heritage Opera), the Narrator in Britten’s Paul Bunyan (Manchester University), and the title role in a semi-staged performance of Handel’s oratorio Saul (Ad Solem). At the Academy he has performed scenes from Le nozze di Figaro, Die tote Stadt, Lakmé, Chérubin, Falstaff, Sir John in Love and Owen Wingrave. |
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