Mark Wildman (singer)

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Mark Wildman is an English bass, professor and head of voice studies at the Royal Academy of Music.^[1]

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to the west and Scotland to the north-northwest. The Irish Sea lies west of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.

A bass ( BAYSS) is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a vocal range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C (i.e., E₂–E₄). Its tessitura, or comfortable range, is normally defined by the outermost lines of the bass clef. Categories of bass voices vary according to national style and classification system. Italians favour subdividing basses into the basso cantante (singing bass), basso buffo ("funny" bass), or the dramatic basso profondo (low bass). The American system identifies the bass-baritone, comic bass, lyric bass, and dramatic bass. The German fach system offers further distinctions: Spielbass (Bassbuffo), Schwerer Spielbass (Schwerer Bassbuffo), Charakterbass (Bassbariton), and Seriöser Bass. These classification systems can overlap. Rare is the performer who embodies a single fach without also touching repertoire from another category.

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its Royal Charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the first Duke of Wellington. It is one of the leading conservatoires in the UK, rated fourth in the Complete University Guide and third in the Guardian University Guide for 2018. Famous Academy alumni include Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Sir Elton John and Annie Lennox.

Biography

Wildman was a chorister at the Gloucester Cathedral, after which he joined the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Henry Cummings, Rex Stephens and Rupert Bruce Lockhart. After winning some competitions Wildman began his career as a member of the BBC Singers. As a soloist he has performed in the UK, Europe and America.^[1]

Gloucester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity, in Gloucester, England, stands in the north of the city near the River Severn. It originated in 678 or 679 with the foundation of an abbey dedicated to Saint Peter.

The BBC Singers are a British chamber choir, and the professional chamber choir of the BBC.

Mark Wildman has been a professor of voice at the Royal Academy of Music ^[2] since 1982 and Head of Vocal Studies since 1991.

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References

1 2 "Royal Academy of Music, Staff" . Retrieved 18 July 2009.
↑ "Residency Programme". Oxford Philomusica. Retrieved 15 August 2009.

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[Royal_Academy_of_Music,_Staff-1] 1 2 "Royal Academy of Music, Staff" . Retrieved 18 July 2009.

[2] "Residency Programme". Oxford Philomusica. Retrieved 15 August 2009.