MARK SPYROPOULOS

Mark Spyropoulos read Music at Trinity College Dublin and then trained as a singer in London at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama under Laura Sarti and later 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. 

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 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'. He 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 and The Guardian. In 2020 he starred in the BBC documentary Inside the Vatican. In November 2018, Mark established the Sacred Music Programme with a mission to research the sacred choral music of Medici Florence. To facilitate this, he founded Vox Medicea, a bespoke choir of Renaissance specialists based in London. As Music Director of Vox Medicea, Mark has directed concerts in London and Florence, and an extended broadcast feature for the CBS Sunday Morning programme. In July 2022, he launched the Florence Choral Course, offering advanced choral training in Renaissance repertoire.