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Mark Ashmore, Bass, was born in Birmingham and has a degree in Marine Biology. After three successful years as a teacher, he took up a place at the Royal Northern College of Music to study with Neil Howlett.
During his time there, Mark performed Sarastro The Magic Flute and the Mayor, Jenufa. He also won the Schubert Lieder Prize and was a finalist in the Elizabeth Harewood Memorial competition. He also had intensive study with Donald Maxwell, Gwynne Howell, and Martin Issep at the National Opera Studio.
Roles have included, Four Villains, Les Contes d’ Hoffman for IVAI Tel Aviv, Old Cossack, Cheryevichki, Garsington Festival, Don Annibale, II Campanello di Notte Les Azuriales Festival, Ceprano, Rigoletto Musik und Theater Saar, Second Armed Man, The Magic Flute English Touring Opera, Colline, La Boheme Opera-on-a-Shoestring, Cold Genius, King Arthur, Somnus Semele, Tempus, The Return of Ulysses, and Christus in Bach’s St. John Passion, Yorke Trust, and Faust’s Mephistopheles, and Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess Shell International Summer School.
Concert work included the Verdi Requiem, Ripon Cathedral, Haydn Nelson Mass with Liverpool Choral Society, Bach Passions and Magnificat; Nicolai Missa Sanctus recorded for Radio 4 from Buxton Festival and the premier of Andrew Carter’s, Mystic Trumpeter, Chester Cathedral amongst many others.
From 2001-2003 he was on contract with Opera North, where his roles included Sciarrone, Tosca, Count, Manon, Dottore La Traviata, and Don Basilio, Barber of Seville.
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