Marcus Deloach
Baritone
New England Finalist, 2002

Baritone Marcus DeLoach was unanimously voted the first place winner of London's inaugural Wigmore Hall International Song Competition in 1997, and gave a critically acclaimed recital debut in 1999 at the Wigmore Hall with pianist Thomas Bagwell. A sought-after recitalist he has appeared four times on the Marilyn Horne Foundation and WQXR's radio series On Wings of Song. Of one of the concerts, The Song Continues in English, he received high praise from Anthony Tommasini in The New York Times who wrote, "Mr. DeLoach is a fine baritone who puts words across with clarity and naturalness".

In 2000 he joined the New York City Opera roster and this season he will be appearing there in La Boheme, Don Giovanni, The Mikado, Litlith, and Carmen. Mr. DeLoach has performed with the Boston Lyric Opera, Nashville Opera Association, Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, Santa Barbara Grand Opera, and at the San Francisco Opera Center's Merola program. In 1996 the Opera Theatre of St. Louis awarded him the distinguished Gaddes Fund Grant and subsequently engaged him to create the role of the Son in the world premiere of Paul Schonfield's The Merchant and the Pauper. An advocate of contemporary music, he has recorded Elie Siegmeister's opera The Lady of the Lake with Gerard Schwartz and the Seattle Symphony.

Mr. DeLoach made his debut with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center when he stepped in at the last minute for Hermann Prey performing an entire concert of Bach and Schumann with the CMS Players and Charles Wadsworth. He has since returned to CMS in several critically acclaimed performances at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall with pianist Martin Katz and the Borromeo String Quartet.

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