Talk:Emma Kirkby

Birth
Born February 26 1949. According to this site, she was born in "Canbridge"

http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Kirkby-Emma.htm

According to this site she was born in Camberley

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0456581/

According to this site she was born in Cambridge

http://www.avroklassiek.nl/luisterkamer/klassiekkalender/050226.asp

Fusspot 18:33, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I have just received an email from Emma Kirkby herself, via Graeme Williams (administrator of "unofficial" Emma Kirkby website). She writes: ""Birthplace is Camberley; at some point this got tarted up to Cambridge, I think possibly by some German promoter to whom Camberley meant nothing. Taverner: I wish I could remember! I was a founder member, that's for sure, so I suggest the good Wiki folk use the date from Taverner's own website." --RichardVeryard 22:32, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

According to Grove Music Online:

Kirkby, (Carolyn) Emma

(b Camberley, Surrey, 26 Feb 1949). English soprano. She studied classics at Oxford and singing with Jessica Cash. Her uncommonly pure, crystalline voice, deployed with minimal vibrato, her natural declamation, agile coloratura and her sensitivity to words have been widely admired by interpreters of early and Baroque music and have served as a model for many specialists in this repertory. She made her operatic début as Mother Nature in Locke and Christopher Gibbons’s Cupid and Death at Bruges in 1983 and her first American appearances as Dorinda in Handel’s Orlando in a 1989 tour. Kirkby has sung frequently under the direction of Andrew Parrott, Anthony Rooley and Christopher Hogwood in a repertory ranging from 14th-century Italian songs to arias by Haydn and Mozart, and has been a regular member of Rooley’s Consort of Musicke. In 1989 she sang Venus in Daniel Purcell’s, Weldon’s and Eccles’s settings of The Judgment of Paris at the BBC Promenade Concerts. Her many recordings include Dido and Aeneas, Venus and Adonis, Orlando, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Hasse’s Cleofide, discs of Handel cantatas and arias, and a wide range of Italian cantatas and madrigals, English songs and Baroque and Classical choral works. In 2001 Kirkby made the world première recording of the newly identified Handel Gloria.

NICHOLAS ANDERSON

© Oxford University Press 2007 --Traveler273 06:23, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Copyvio?
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/artist_page.asp?name=kirkby

Taverner Choir
According to Wikipedia, the Taverner Consort and Players was founded in 1978. According to the Taverner.org website, the 30th anniversary took place in 2003. So how could Ms Kirkby have joined the choir in 1971? --RichardVeryard 12:37, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Grove Music Online:

Taverner Choir.

English choir, founded by andrew Parrott. Since its début at the Bath Festival in 1973 the Taverner Choir together with the Taverner Consort (a solo ensemble) and the Taverner Players, have established an international reputation for animated music-making informed by Parrott's imaginative and often provocative scholarship. The Taverner Choir and Consort's many recordings include Renaissance and Baroque repertory from Monteverdi and Marenzio to Handel and Bach, and several modern works. Their broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 have included some challenging juxtapositions of early and contemporary music.

GEORGE PRATT

© Oxford University Press 2007--Traveler273 06:30, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Just one more comment - since the debut was in 1973, the choir existed prior to tha time. Only a comment, speedy and eager to delete without notice editors of Wikipedia.--Traveler273 07:13, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

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