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Mark Bleeke
Performer (tenor)
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Mark Bleeke’s career spans a vast array of musical styles and idioms, ranging from
medieval and renaissance to jazz and contemporary, including opera. He has sung
throughout Europe, in Australia and of course the USA. In the concert repertoire, M.
Bleeke is in great demand for his interpretations of roles such as the evangelist
(Bach’s St. John and St. Matthew Passions), title roles in different Handel oratorios
as well as Uriel and Lukas in Haydn’s The Creation and The Seasons.
Mark Bleeke performs regularly with many of the great symphony orchestras and
conductors in the USA as well as in Europe.He enjoys performing contemporary music as
well, and has worked with different composers like Gian-Carlo Menotti and Dave
Brubeck.
Recently, Mr. Bleeke has sung Schubert Lieder for President and Hillary Clinton,
performed a program of Handel and Purcell with the newly-formed New York Collegium
(Andrew Parrott) and was Evangelist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Portland
Baroque Orchestra (Eric Milnes) to name but a few of his activities. Recent engagements
include a staged production of Handel’s Messiah with Millenial Arts Productions; Remede
de Fortuna by Guillaume de Machaut and English lute ayres with The Folger Consort; and
The Seven Deadly Sins of Kurt Weill with the Cologne Philharmonic, Dennis Russell
Davies conducting.
Among Mr. Bleeke’s recordings are Dave Brubeck’s To Hope: A Celebration on Telardc
Records; Monteverdi’s Vespers of1610 on Musical Heritage Society; and Evangelist in
Bach’s St. John Passion on Pro Gloria Musicae (PGM) Records. Most recently, he can be
heard on BMG’s new release of Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins with Marianne
Faithfull and the Radio Orchestra of Vienna, with Dennis Russell Davies conducting.
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