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Tenors from Northern Ireland (1 C, 4 P) Scottish tenors (1 C, 13 P) ... Pages in category "British tenors" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
A countertenor (also contra tenor) is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types, generally extending from around G 3 to D 5 or E 5, [1] although a sopranist (a specific kind of countertenor) may match the soprano's range of around C 4 to C 6. [2]
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.
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Also, in 2007, Burrows was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE). [ 2 ] He has also contributed to singers and charitable causes, launching an International Singing Competition and establishing an international voice award at Carmarthen's Trinity College, and is president of various charitable ...
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]
The low extreme for tenors is roughly A 2 (two octaves below middle C). At the highest extreme, some tenors can sing up to F one octave above middle C (F 5). [1] The term tenor was developed in relation to classical and operatic voices, where the classification is based not merely on the singer's vocal range but also on the tessitura and timbre ...
The contralto singing voice has a vocal range that lies between the F below "middle C" (F 3) to two Fs above middle C (F 5) and is the lowest type of female voice.In the lower and upper extremes, some contralto voices can sing from two Bs below middle C (B 2) [1] to two B ♭ s above middle C (B ♭ 5).