Carolyn Watkinson [SEP] voice type
Carolyn Watkinson
The English mezzo-soprano Carolyn Watkinson (born 19 March 1949) is a well-known singer of baroque music. Her voice is alternately characterized as mezzo-soprano and contralto.
Watkinson was born in Preston and studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music and in The Hague. In 1978 she sang Rameau's Phèdre ("Hippolyte et Aricie") at the English Bach Festival at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 1979 she appeared as Monteverdi's Nero ("L'incoronazione di Poppea
piano
- James Kendrick Pyne, organ
- Simon Speelman, violin
Notable alumni.
- Harrison Birtwistle, composer
- Arthur Butterworth, composer
- Pamela Bowden, contralto and voice teacher
- Louis Cohen, violinist and conductor
- Peter Maxwell Davies, composer
- Alexander Goehr, composer
- Jeffrey Lawton, tenor
- John Ogdon, piano
- Alan Rawsthorne, composer
- Barbara Robotham, opera singer and voice teacher
- Carolyn Watkinson, opera singer
- John Ramsden Williamson