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A tireless advocate for effortless singing at all stages of evolution, baritone Mark Daboll enjoys a dynamic and diverse career as a voice teacher and performer. His 21st-century solution-based, structural approach to singing successfully serves the building of all voices, garnering him a reputation as a master vocal technician. He is sought after as a reliable voicerenovator to professional opera and music theatre singers in all stages of their careers, equipped with immediate solutions to reaffirm individual, authentic vocal identity, and maximize vocal and artistic capability at the highest level of performance. A dedicated cohort of soloists, actor-singers, choral singers/conductors, and music educators count among his manystudents from across North America.

An Instructor of Applied Voice at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto for the past thirteen years, Mr. Daboll’s students have won or placed in national and international competitions and have been accepted into several professional development programs, including the International Lyric Academy Summer Program in Vicenza Italy, and Charlotte North Carolina, where he has also taught. He is also the vocal coach for the Canadian Opera Company’s Summer Opera Intensive, which caters to ten emerging singer-artists selected from across Canada each year. One of his principal mentors is W. Stephen Smith, author of The NakedVoice, and teacher of many of the world’s elite singers. He has also served as a vocal coach and master class teacher for the Ontario Youth Choir, the COC’s Summer Youth Intensive program, and for the Marigold Music Program – founded by his students to bridge the gap between marginalized youth and music education.

Although originally classically trained, Mark is uniquely qualified to teach a myriad of vocal styles including Music Theatre (legit to contemporary, including Broadway belting), and sub-genres of Pop, Rock, Jazz, and R&B, to name a few. Mr. Daboll has performed in Canada, the US, UK, Italy, and Germany in opera, oratorio, concert, and recital. In September 2024 he performed a recital with pianist Steven Philcox featuring Francis Poulenc’s Calligrammes song cycle, and songs of Hugo Wolf, Erich Korngold, Samuel Barber, and Jerome Kern at Toronto’s Heliconian Hall. He reprised this program with pianist Sarah Westbrook at the DOMS Recital Series in Ottawa in May 2025. Academic accolades include a B.Mus. in voice performance from Westminster Choir College (Princeton, New Jersey),
an Opera Diploma from Wilfrid Laurier University, and an M.Mus. in vocal pedagogy and performance from the University of Toronto.