Simon Carrington

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Simon Carrington

Simon Carrington (* 1942 in Wiltshire ) is a choir director , concert singer and double bass player with a British and American one- two . He was a founding member and for 25 years a member of the Grammy Award winning a cappella vocal ensemble King's Singers .

Life

Carrington studied English and music at King's College , Cambridge. He received a choir school scholarship for his active participation and excellent vocal performance with the college choir . At the age of 23, he completed his master's degree there in 1965. He then obtained a professional qualification as a teacher at New College in Oxford.

From 1968 to 1993 he was a member (2nd baritone ) and arranger of the professionally highly successful King's Singers, which emerged from the college choir. At the same time he was a freelance double bass player, performing frequently with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and John Eliot Gardiner's Monteverdi Orchestra.

After leaving the King's Singers, Carrington moved to the United States, where he taught first at the University of Kansas and later at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston . At the Yale School of Music of Yale University , he was in 2003 professor of choral beings and founded the 24-member vocal ensemble Yale Schola Cantorum , which he led for six years.

In 2009 he retired . Since then he has only occasionally taken on concert engagements, workshops and master classes and lives mainly in Europe again. Once a year he brings his own ensemble, the Simon Carrington Chamber Singers, together for concerts and recordings. At the International A Cappella Competition Leipzig 2015, Carrington chairs the four-person jury.

Carrington now lives with his wife Hilary alternately in London and south-west France. He speaks passable French and German. And he is the father of the music cabaret artist and cellist Rebecca Carrington, who has lived in Berlin since 2009, and of the singer-songwriter James Carrington in Los Angeles.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ S. Carrington's Curriculum Vitae
  2. ↑ Yale Schola Cantorum , founded in 2003 by Simon Carrington ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.juilliard.edu
  3. ↑ for example: Sarteano Chamber Choir Festival and Choral Workshop
  4. ↑ Biography Simon Carrington (English)
  5. ↑ Simon Carrington Chamber Singers: Juxtapositions Album (David Lang Music, 2012)
  6. ^ Jurors of the A Cappella Competition Leipzig
personal data
SURNAME Carrington, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-British choir director, concert singer and double bass player
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiltshire