A very special Stories from the Studio feature with Mark Brooker and Riccardo Barone ahead of the Sydney Sacred Music Festival.

Singer Mark Brooker will be accompanied on Piano by Ricardo Barone to perform rare and little known classic sacred music as part of the Sydney Sacred Music Festival online concert on 11 September from 7pm.

STA have been working with them for months on this program and we spent some virtual time with Mark to chat about his practice. 

I have over 30 years of performance experience which has taken me around the world. As a performer, my career has seen me on stages in Australia, New Zealand, Germany and America as a classically trained opera singer and recitalist as well as in ensembles and as a soloist on trombone and trumpet.

I teach music because I love teaching music; as an art form, as a way to build better brains, as a way to empower people and because it is a challenge. Every student is an individual and every musical sound they make should be driven by their own creativity and passion. My job is to give them the tools they need to understand, be moved by and ultimately create their own expressions in music making it a reality so other people can hear their music , vocal or otherwise