

The possibilities had me intrigued.Īndy Staples and Assistant Superintendent Andy O’Haver did a great job of sharing updates as the renovation unfolded, and with every photo and video, my excitement grew (I highly recommend following them both Andy Staples and Andy O’Haver his role as a project lead, I’m hoping to be able to add some of Andy O’Haver’s thoughts here at some point. Over the years, much of that Golden Age character had been lost, and Andy was charged with bringing back that spirit in a modern form. It was founded in 1916 and received attention from Willie Park Jr and Donald Ross. While doing a previous interview with Andy Staples, I learned that he would be renovating Meadowbrook County Club. One in particular has risen to the top of my radar as I have watched it unfold from a distance. Marcus is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Southwell Music Festival.įOR USE IN THE 2023/24 SEASON This biography should not be edited without permission from Maxine Robertson Management.The past decade has seen a number of wonderful renovations of classic golf courses – Philadelphia Cricket Club, Moraine CC, Cal Club, Orchard Lake CC and others are exciting for golf geeks at several levels.

He has also sung Bach St Matthew Passion and St John Passion (Christus and Arias) with many symphony and period orchestras, most recently with Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and the Gabrieli Consort. Previous operatic roles have included Sid in Britten Albert Herring in concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra Ned Keene Peter Grimes at the Edinburgh International Festival as well as on tour and recorded with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner Demetrius A Midsummer Night’s Dream on tour with the Aix-en-Provence Festival and Eddy in Turnage Greek for Boston Lyric Opera.Īs well as many new works, including Colin Matthews The Great Journey at the Worcester Three Choirs Festival Turnage The Silver Tassie, the world première of Cheryl Hoad’s Last Man Standing and Hubbard in John Adams’ Doctor Atomic conducted by the composer with the BBC SO, Marcus’s expansive concert repertoire includes Britten War Requiem Elgar The Apostles Orff Carmina Burana Berlioz L’enfance du Christ and the Brahms and Fauré Requiem with conductors including François-Xavier Roth, Paul McCreesh and Bernard Labadie. Past highlights include Candide with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop Maxwell Davies Eight Songs for a Mad King at the BBC Proms with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Sian Edwards HK Gruber’s Frankenstein!! with the Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon in Cologne and his debut at Teatro Real Madrid in Kurt Weill Street Scene.


Other recent and future plans include his debut at Garsington Opera singing Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos orchestrated Schubert songs with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra appearances at the Three Choirs Festival two European tours of Purcell King Arthur with the Gabrieli Consort and Vox Luminis, and recitals at Snape Maltings with Malcolm Martineau as part of their Britten Song Project and the Fundacion Juan March Madrid with Sholto Kynoch. His regular appearances for English National Opera include Guglielmo Così fan tutte, Strephon Iolanthe and Bill Bobstay in HMS Pinafore and this season he reprises the role of Strephon.
