User:Robin Doveton

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Contributor since: 2005-10-17

Number of scores on CPDL: 1

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Doveton Music website

Background

Robin Doveton began his musical education at Tonbridge School when he was thirteen, learning piano and violin and singing in several choirs. In 1964 he won a Choral Scholarship to sing in the Chapel choir of King's College, Cambridge under David Willcocks and took a degree in Music, specializing in Composition under Alan Ridout.

After University he began singing in professional vocal ensembles and became a founder member of The Scholars (latterly known in the USA as The Scholars of London and The Voices of London). Robin's folksong arrangements are an indispensable part of The Scholars' concert and recorded repertoire, and his compositions are sung by them and by English Cathedral choirs. He has helped build up The Scholars' broad and stimulating repertoire, setting standard works in the context of lesser-known works and genres (e.g. English Classical Glees). He established Doveton Music in 1998 to publish his folksong and carol arrangements and editions of other pieces which have stimulated his enthusiasm.

Robin Doveton can be heard as tenor soloist on The Scholars Baroque Ensemble's NAXOS recordings in arias by Monteverdi, Purcell and Handel, and as Evangelist in Bach's St John Passion. He lives near Frankfurt, Germany and in 1993 founded the chamber choir Vocalis, Frankfurt, which has been described by the press as a "Paragon of the highest Choral Art".