Mark Tatlow

Mark Tatlow is a classically trained musician who has spent most of his life working in opera as conductor, vocal coach and keyboard player. Born in Wolverhampton, England, and educated in Cambridge and London, he has lived in Sweden for over 25 years. From 2002-12 he held the position of Professor of Musical Studies at the University College of Opera (now Stockholm University of the Arts/SKH), and from 2007-13 he served as Artistic Director at Drottningholm, the eighteenth-century palace theatre just outside Stockholm. In 2013 he co-founded the research project Performing Premodernity at Stockholm University, and is now pursuing artistic research for a PhD at the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg. In his dissertation, provisionally entitled “Assaggio: Retelling Handel and Haydn”, he explores how his approach to making music is deeply entwined with the effects of colonialism, and experiments with ways early vocal music can instead resonate with a world facing a potentially catastrophic future. In 2022 he was awarded the Gustavian Scholarship by the Swedish Academy.