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James Thomas Bowman CBE (6 November 1941 – 27 March 2023) was an English countertenor.His career spanned opera, oratorio, contemporary music and solo recitals. Arguably, he was, after Alfred Deller, the most important countertenor in the 20th century revival of the voice part.
Peter Giles (born 1939) is a British countertenor and writer of scientific books about countertenors. Giles began his career as a boy chorister in a traditional all-male choir in London . In the years from 1961 to 1966 his teacher was the celebrated countertenor John Whitworth . [ 1 ]
Andrew Watts was born in Hammersmith, Middlesex.He moved to Iver in Berkshire with his family in his early years and was educated at Slough Grammar school. He studied clarinet, piano and voice and at 16 he started studying both voice and clarinet at the Royal Academy of Music's junior school.
also: Music: Genres: Opera: Singers: By voice type: Countertenors The main article for this category is Countertenor . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Countertenor vocalists .
British operatic tenors (4 C, 1 P) Pages in category "British tenors" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
British singer United Kingdom: 1955-09-16 Q7025214: Gérard Lesne: French opera singer France: 1956-07-15 Montmorency: Q176713: Derek Lee Ragin: American counter-tenor. United States of America: 1958-06-17 Q3023749: Erik Kurmangaliev: Russian actor and opera singer (1959–2007) Russia Kazakhstan Soviet Union: 1959-01-02 2007-11-13 Kulsary ...
Alfred Deller's grave at All Saints' Church, Boughton Aluph. Alfred George Deller, CBE (31 May 1912 – 16 July 1979), was an English singer and one of the main figures in popularising the return of the countertenor voice in Renaissance and Baroque music during the 20th century.
David Hurley (born August 1962) [2] is a British countertenor who sang with The King's Singers [3] from 1990 to 2016. Hurley was a chorister at Winchester Cathedral, and a choral scholar at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. [4] He became a mainstay in the British countertenor scene shortly after becoming a King's Singer. [citation needed]