Steven Marking, bass-baritone, is a native of the Coulee Region, and received his Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from Viterbo College in 1986. He pursued further study in the East, receiving his MM degree in 1991 from Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore MD. He completed a year of study in the Artist Diploma Program at Yale University, three summers of study at the Seagle Colony in Schroon Lake NY, and one summer at Israeli Vocal Arts Institute, Tel Aviv. He studies with some of    the best coaches and teachers in New York City.
    He has performed more than 40 operatic and musical theater roles for various opera companies and educational institutions, as well as major Oratorio roles for such organizations as Sinfonia da Camera, Champaign IL; Albany Pro Musica, NY; Rutland Area Chorus, VT; and Octavos Singers, NY. In 1991 he toured Italy with Elaine and Walfredo Toscanini, giving concerts in Milan, Parma and Busseto.
    He has done numerous themed solo recitals of American, Italian, gospel and spiritual music for schools and benefits. His most recent roles were Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau in Der Rosenkavalier and Count Almaviva in Marriage of Figaro.
   Marking’s stage experience also includes stage directing, production, lighting design and conducting. He was a founding member and Artistic Director of You Gotta Hear This! Presents, inc. (2003), a not for profit organization to educate and bring quality performances to his community and surrounding area. YGHT brought students of all ages and levels together with professionals and produced concerts featuring operatic music, art songs, religious, Broadway, gospel and spiritual, pop and rock music. Marking was also a founding member of The Lyric Theater Opera Company in Manhattan (1993-1998) where he sang leading roles, supporting roles, chorus, designed and ran lights, built stages and sets, and sang in fundraising concerts.
   Steven began teacing voice while still in college, as a voice teacher with the La Crosse Boy Choir. At Peabody he was a teaching assistant and at Yale he taught undergraduates. He also taught at the College of Saint Rose, Albany NY; DeSisto School, Stockbridge MA; Hoosac School in Hoosick NY, and the Young Actor’s Guild at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY. His Voice and Musicianship classes have helped singers of all ages find greater satisfaction in singing by learning to produce sound more efficiently and by becoming stronger musicians. He has been teaching classes in his community since 2003 and has been teaching privately since 1998.
    This spring Mr. Marking moved to the Coulee area, where he is making his professional home at Studio di Canto, founded in 1995 by long-time friend and colleague, Dean Witz.

Mr. Marking may be reached at (608) 799-0118
for questions or scheduling

Mr. Marking is the Vocal Music Coordinator
at
Our Savior's Lutheran Church
612 Division Street
La Crosse, WI, 54601

 

"...For Thou hast been my help, and in the shadow of Thy wings I sing for joy."
Psalm 65. vs.7