Alastair Thompson

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Alastair Thompson (* 1944 in Dorset ) is a British singer of the vocal range tenor .

Life

Alastair Thompson received his education at Westminster Abbey Choir School and Lancing College . He worked for a year as a teacher in India before moving to Cambridge and Oxford a teaching degree in history recorded. Nevertheless, he ultimately decided to pursue a career as a singer and studied lied singing in Stuttgart . Since then he has performed internationally as a soloist, especially in oratorio , but has also sung in many professional choirs and singing groups in London.

In 1968 he founded The King's Singers , named after this institute, with his five fellow students Martin Lane, Al Hume, Richard Salter , Simon Carrington and Brian Kay at King's College in Cambridge , which soon achieved great international fame. He remained a member of this ensemble for ten years and during this time he handled 800 concerts around the world as well as countless radio and television appearances. He can be heard on more than 20 long-playing records. Then he decided to pursue another career as a soloist and singing teacher. From 2002 to 2007 he worked at the University of Dortmund and the Catholic University for Church Music St. Gregorius in Aachen as a lecturer for singing and voice training.

As a singer he has a wide-ranging repertoire, as a vocal coach he now supports a cappella choirs.

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SURNAME Thompson, Alastair
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British tenor vocalist singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorset