Swedish baritone Markus Norrman was born in 1977 into a musical home and he started singing in choirs at an early age. In Sweden he studied singing with Arne Lundmark and Ingrid Haking Raaby. He subsequently moved on to London and Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he obtained a Bachelor of Music (Honours) in 2003 studying with Ian Kennedy. Continuing the line in the UK, Markus moved up to Scotland and Glasgow and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where he first studied with Allan Watt at the Post Graduate Diploma course. He is at present at the Alexander Gibson Opera School at the RSAMD where he is completing his Master of Opera together with teacher George Gordon. Markus has during the years proven to be a keen lieder-fanatic resulting in numerous recitals of mainly lieder and Swedish songs, Romanser, in London, Cambridge and Glasgow as well all around Sweden. He has sung the solo-parts in Bach´s Matthäus Passion and Weihnachts Oratorio, Duruflé Requiem, Fauré Requiem, Haydn´s The Seasons (which incidentally also was the premiere performance of the new English Novello translation/edition by Michael Pilkerton), The Messiah, Mozart Requiem as well as Steiner’s Crucifixion. His operatic roles include Kapellmeister Machinist Hoppkins, (Queen Elizabeth Hall 2002), Laertes Night Square (GSMD world premiere 2003) as well as exerts from The old made and the thief  Bob, Il Conte, Nick Shadow, Don Giovanni, Guglielmo, Eugen Onegin, Tarquinnius, Le Directeur Les Mammelles de Teresias and Ping in Turandot. In masterclass, Markus has sung with Graham Johnson, Leslie Howard, David Doland, Ian Burnside, Sara Walker, Richard Jackson, Håkan Hagegård, Malcom Martineau, Ann Murray and Ian Storey. Future plans include Ramiro in Ravel’s L’heure Espagnol and Marco in Gianni Schicchi in a collaboration between RSAMD and Scottich Opera at Theatre Royal in Glasgow and Edinburgh Festival Theatre (Jan 2007), Vicar in Albert Herring at the RSAMD (May 2007), the part of Peer Gynt with RSNO (Apr 2007) and the role of the old poet in the world premiere of Björn Linnman’s änNU 2007.