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Caroline Trevor
Born1958 (age 65–66)
England
OccupationClassical contralto
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Caroline Trevor (born 1958) is an English contralto, focused on early music and Baroque music in historically informed performance. She has been one of two alto voices in the award-winning ensemble The Tallis Scholars since 1982.

Career

Trevor's first musical experience was singing in a church choir led by her father.

Taverner Consort,[2] conducted by Andrew Parrott.[2] They recorded Bach cantatas such as Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4.[2]

Since March 1982 Trevor has been one of two regular singers in the alto section of the

Palestrina and Nicolas Gombert.[5] James R. Oestreich of The New York Times noted that the group's "characteristic sound, bright, clear and balanced, has become a model for many other choirs".[5]

Trevor appeared as a soloist on a 1989 recording, Elizabethan Christmas Anthems, with the ensembles Red Byrd and the Rose Consort of Viols, singing William Byrd's Lullaby.[8] She subsequently was the soloist with the Rose Consort of Viols and lutenist Jacob Heringman on a 1992 recording, John Dowland's Lachrimae.[9] In 2011, she was the first woman to be engaged by St Paul's Cathedral in London for a singing position in the traditionally male cathedral choir,[10] breaking the tradition of male voices only which had been observed for nine centuries.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ a b "Caroline Trevor (alto)". Hyperion. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d "Caroline Trevor (Contralto)". Bach-Cantatas. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  3. ^ Phillips, Peter (2003). What We Really Do: the Tallis Scholars. The Musical Times. pp. 247–248.
  4. ^ Pound, Jeremy (15 September 2015). "Six of the best – the Tallis Scholars in numbers". BBC Music Magazine. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  5. ^ a b c Oestreich, James R. (7 December 1998). "Celebrating 25 Years of Renaissance Music". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  6. ^ "Sheppard, Taverner & Tye: Western Wynde Mass". Hyperion. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  7. ^ "The Tallis Scholars" (PDF). camasb.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  8. ^ Wilson, Brian (2008). "Elizabethan Christmas Anthems". musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  9. ^ "John Dowland's Lachrimae". Brandeis Library. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  10. ^ Coghlan, Alexandra (14 December 2011). "Girls aloud in the cathedral choir stalls". The Times. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  11. ^ Phillips, Peter (13 November 2010). "Rare voices". The Spectator. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  12. ^ "Campaign for the Traditional Cathedral Choir". ctcc.org.uk. 22 April 2011. Archived from the original on 23 April 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2016.

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