{{Short description|English contralto}} {{EngvarB|date=September 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = Caroline Trevor | image = | image_upright = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1958}} | birth_place = England | education = | occupation = Classical contralto | organization = {{plainlist| * The Tallis Scholars * Taverner Consort }} | awards = }}
'''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.<ref name="Hyperion" /> She has performed frequently with the singers and players of the Taverner Consort,<ref name="BC" /> conducted by Andrew Parrott.<ref name="BC" /> They recorded Bach cantatas such as ''Christ lag in Todes Banden'', BWV 4.<ref name="BC" />
Since March 1982 Trevor has been one of two regular singers in the alto section of the a cappella ensemble The Tallis Scholars.<ref name="BC" /> As of 3 November 2003, she had performed 800 concerts with the group, which had then given 1297 concerts; their 2000th concert was in September 2015.<ref name="What We Really"/><ref name="BBC"/> She is married to the ensemble's founder and director Peter Phillips.<ref name="Oestreich" /> The Tallis Scholars have focused on rarely performed music from the Renaissance to contemporary.<ref name="Hyperion" /> One example is their recording of three masses based on the same "Western Wind" secular tune, ''Western Wind Masses'', by Tudor composers John Taverner, Christopher Tye and John Sheppard.<ref name="Wynde" /> She has performed internationally with the ensemble, which has won prizes including Gramophone Awards during her tenure.<ref name="CAMA" /> The Tallis Scholars celebrated their 25th anniversary in 1998 with a tour that included concerts at New York's Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, singing music by English composers of the Tudor period (Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, and William Mundy, among others), and by continental composers such as Palestrina and Nicolas Gombert.<ref name="Oestreich" /> 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".<ref name="Oestreich" />
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''.<ref name="Wilson" /> She subsequently was the soloist with the Rose Consort of Viols and lutenist Jacob Heringman on a 1992 recording, ''John Dowland's Lachrimae''.<ref name="Lachrimae"/> 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,<ref name="Coghlan" /> breaking the tradition of male voices only which had been observed for nine centuries.<ref name="Phillips">{{cite news|last1=Phillips|first1=Peter|title=Rare voices|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/2010/11/rare-voices/|accessdate=23 April 2016|work=The Spectator|date=13 November 2010}}</ref><ref name="CTCC" />
== References ==
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<ref name="Coghlan">{{cite web | last = Coghlan | first = Alexandra | url = https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/music/classical/article3256946.ece | title = Girls aloud in the cathedral choir stalls | work = The Times | date = 14 December 2011 | access-date = 15 March 2016 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
<ref name="Oestreich">{{cite news | last = Oestreich | first = James R. | authorlink = James R. Oestreich | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/07/arts/music-review-celebrating-25-years-of-renaissance-music.html | title = Celebrating 25 Years of Renaissance Music | newspaper = The New York Times | date = 7 December 1998 | accessdate = 23 March 2016 }}</ref>
<ref name="Wilson">{{cite web | last = Wilson | first = Brian | url = http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2008/Dec08/Elizabethan_christmus_CDSAR46.htm | title = Elizabethan Christmas Anthems | publisher = musicweb-international.com | year = 2008 | accessdate = 23 March 2016 }}</ref>
<ref name="CTCC">{{cite web | url = http://www.ctcc.org.uk/nl201122.htm | title = Campaign for the Traditional Cathedral Choir | publisher = ctcc.org.uk | date = 22 April 2011 | accessdate = 23 March 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160423234210/http://www.ctcc.org.uk/nl201122.htm | archive-date = 23 April 2016 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
<ref name="BC">{{cite web | url = http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Trevor-Caroline.htm | title = Caroline Trevor (Contralto) | publisher = Bach-Cantatas | accessdate = 15 March 2016 }}</ref>
<ref name="CAMA">{{cite web |url=http://www.camasb.org/program_notes_2014-2015/2014_12_05_program_notes_cama.pdf |title=The Tallis Scholars |publisher=camasb.org |accessdate=23 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404130138/http://www.camasb.org/program_notes_2014-2015/2014_12_05_program_notes_cama.pdf |archive-date=4 April 2016 |df= }}</ref>
<ref name="Hyperion">{{cite web | url = http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/a.asp?a=A1319 | title = Caroline Trevor (alto) | publisher = Hyperion | accessdate = 15 March 2016 }}</ref>
<ref name="Wynde">{{cite web | url = http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDGIM027 | title = Sheppard, Taverner & Tye: Western Wynde Mass | publisher = Hyperion | accessdate = 29 March 2016 }}</ref>
<ref name="What We Really">{{cite book | title = What We Really Do: the Tallis Scholars | publisher = The Musical Times | year = 2003 | last = Phillips | first = Peter | pages = 247–248 }}</ref>
<ref name="BBC">{{cite web | url = http://www.classical-music.com/article/six-best-tallis-scholars-numbers | title = Six of the best – the Tallis Scholars in numbers | last = Pound | first = Jeremy | work = BBC Music Magazine | date = 15 September 2015 | accessdate = 10 April 2016 }}</ref>
<ref name="Lachrimae">{{cite web | url = http://search.library.brandeis.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=BRAND_ALMA51275064100001921&indx=2&recIds=BRAND_ALMA51275064100001921&recIdxs=1&elementId=1&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&frbrSourceidDisplay=BRAND_ALMA&frbrIssnDisplay=&dscnt=0&frbrRecordsSource=Primo+Local&mode=Basic&vid=BRAND&lastPag=&rfnGrp=frbr&tab=alma&frbrJtitleDisplay=&dstmp=1460323272630&frbg=37490500&lastPagIndx=1&frbrSrt=date&frbrEissnDisplay=&tb=t&fctV=37490500&cs=frb&srt=rank&fctN=facet_frbrgroupid&dum=true&vl(freeText0)=lachrimae%20dowland | title = John Dowland's Lachrimae | publisher = Brandeis Library | accessdate = 10 April 2016 }}</ref>
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