Marcus Schenck is a Boston-based baritone and is thrilled to be performing with West End Lyric and reprising the role of Schlendrian in this production of Bach’s Coffee Cantata. Recent performances include the title role in Marc Hoffeditz’s Mr. Twister and the Tale of Tornado Alley, Bottom in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Miami Music Festival, the Baritone Soloist in Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols the Bass Soloist in Mozart’s Krönungsmesse with the Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra, and Lore in The Maid of Orleans with Opera Company of Middlebury. Other notable performances include Opera on Tap Boston’s explorative and intimate ‘I Am What I Am’ concert performing pieces from Chris DeBlasio, Benjamin Britten, Gregory Spears’ Fellow Travelers, and William Finn’s A New Brain, Don Bartolo (The Marriage of Figaro) with Boston Opera Collaborative, The King (The Little Prince) with NEMPAC Opera Project, and Le Gouverneur (Le comte Ory) with Lowell House Opera. He is a strong advocate for making stories of underrepresented creators and characters accessible to audiences while performing and creating new works or inventing updated interpretations of classics for our time.