Mark Wilkinson is a Canadian performing artist who defies labels in his pursuit of artistic projects of unique proportions. At once a classically trained actor and singer, he has navigated the largest stages and concert halls and the most intimate venues and black box theatres, performing drama, opera, comedy, musical theatre, jazz, pop, folk, country, and more. His eclectic career expresses a rare versatility of artistry founded in a gift for truthful storytelling in such a vast array of repertoire.
Known as a consummate collaborator, he has journeyed through traditional music and drama, choral repertoire, intimate stage work, cabaret, recital, and premiere works. This has taken him around the world and been broadcast on CBC Music and Television. He owes a fond debt of gratitude to all of his colleagues from whom he has learned so much over the years, thanks to their generous artistry and natural guidance.
Favourite collaborations include those with Margaret Atwood at the Ottawa Writers Festival, Peter Schickele (PDQ Bach) at the Music and Beyond Festival, pianist Audrey Andrist in his Washington, D.C. recital début, Paul Halley and the King's College Chapel Choir, R. Murray Schafer and the Governor General of Canada's Performing Arts Awards, Brian Asawa and Jolaine Kerley at the Early Music Festival of Alberta, pianist Christina LeRose for recitals throughout Austria, Stephen Ralls and Bruce Ubukata for The Aldeburgh Connection, Maria Guinand and Soundstreams Canada, Valerie Dueck and Daniel Mehdizadeh at the East Chamber Music Festival, and a longtime partnership with Sesquisharp Productions and its forward-thinking theatrical creations, including the world premiere of Ryan Keebaugh's DeSceNt inTo mAdnEss.
Known as a consummate collaborator, he has journeyed through traditional music and drama, choral repertoire, intimate stage work, cabaret, recital, and premiere works. This has taken him around the world and been broadcast on CBC Music and Television. He owes a fond debt of gratitude to all of his colleagues from whom he has learned so much over the years, thanks to their generous artistry and natural guidance.
Favourite collaborations include those with Margaret Atwood at the Ottawa Writers Festival, Peter Schickele (PDQ Bach) at the Music and Beyond Festival, pianist Audrey Andrist in his Washington, D.C. recital début, Paul Halley and the King's College Chapel Choir, R. Murray Schafer and the Governor General of Canada's Performing Arts Awards, Brian Asawa and Jolaine Kerley at the Early Music Festival of Alberta, pianist Christina LeRose for recitals throughout Austria, Stephen Ralls and Bruce Ubukata for The Aldeburgh Connection, Maria Guinand and Soundstreams Canada, Valerie Dueck and Daniel Mehdizadeh at the East Chamber Music Festival, and a longtime partnership with Sesquisharp Productions and its forward-thinking theatrical creations, including the world premiere of Ryan Keebaugh's DeSceNt inTo mAdnEss.
Mark Wilkinson, who was not only extremely enthusiastic but extremely flexible, looked like an angel that had been stretched -- short he wasn't -- and the ensemble followed his every sinuous move with rapt attention, as did I.
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Kirchner: I'll Be on My Way
Ohio State Men's Glee Club - Dr. Robert J. Ward, conductor
Cincinnati, Ohio, 2020
Ohio State Men's Glee Club - Dr. Robert J. Ward, conductor
Cincinnati, Ohio, 2020
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Costa: Give Beauty Back to God (mvt 1) *world premiere*
Valerie Dueck, piano 2022 East Chamber Music Festival |
McCauley: A Physician Speaks of Life *world premiere*
Valerie Dueck, piano 2022 East Chamber Music Festival |
Mozart: Vedrò mentr'io sospiro (Le nozze di Figaro)
Frédéric Lacroix, piano
Second Prize, National Capital Opera Competition
Frédéric Lacroix, piano
Second Prize, National Capital Opera Competition
Bach: Selections from Johannes-Passion (live CBC broadcast)
with Marcio de Oliveira, tenor; Edmund Milly, bass-baritone
King's College Chapel Choir, Ensemble Regale - Paul Halley, conductor
with Marcio de Oliveira, tenor; Edmund Milly, bass-baritone
King's College Chapel Choir, Ensemble Regale - Paul Halley, conductor
Bach: Betrachte, meine Seel (Johannes-Passion)
Frédéric Lacroix, piano
Frédéric Lacroix, piano