Trevor Alexander

Trevor Alexander has enjoyed singing since he was very young. He trained and worked as a graphic artist, in the days when it was all done by hand. Aged seventeen he started taking singing lessons with Phyllis Pescod and, later, Soo Bee Lee. He gained a place to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and thinks the best thing about his studies there was the work he did with the renowned English song scholar: Michael Pilkington. Since graduating Trevor has had an interesting and varied career, touring in opera, musicals, concert and oratorio, and even singing all of the male parts in Tom Lehrer’s: Tomfoolery (but not at the same time!). He has sung with: the Royal Opera, English National Opera, D’Oyly Carte and the Royal Shakespeare Company and toured all over the Middle and Far East. He created the roles of George Bateson in Promised Land and Agnes Leadbetter in Kentish Tales (a role written especially for him) for the Canterbury Festival and went on to another role written especially for him – Hughes in Sorbet! Sorbet! at WEM07 Festival in Provence. He furthered his studies with Gerald Wragg, Jeff Talbot and Peter Gellhorn and feels privileged that he was asked to be a soloist in many of Peter’s oratorio performances. English song has been one of the mainstays of his career and he is thrilled to pass on his knowledge and experience to his students at The City Literary Institute.