Rogers Henry Lewis Covey-Crump was born on 1944 and is an English tenor noted for his performances in both early music and contemporary classical music.
31 Facts About Rogers Covey-Crump
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Rogers Covey-Crump has sometimes been identified as an haute-contre tenor.
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Rogers Covey-Crump has performed for over 50 years in choirs and ensembles such as the Hilliard Ensemble, and as a soloist.
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Rogers Covey-Crump has been especially in demand for the part of the Evangelist in Bach's St Matthew Passion and St John Passion.
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Rogers Covey-Crump's father Lewis Charles Leslie Covey-Crump was a musician, and his mother Joyce was a violinist.
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Rogers Covey-Crump was born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, in 1944.
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Rogers Covey-Crump was a boy chorister in the chapel choir of New College, Oxford.
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Rogers Covey-Crump graduated from London University as a Bachelor of Music, gaining prizes and diplomas in organ-playing.
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Rogers Covey-Crump has the natural range of a tenor but has had to develop a high-lying tessitura to accommodate the requirements of certain early music pieces.
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Rogers Covey-Crump is a tenor haute-contre, a natural voice in a high range without falsetto, while still retaining the characteristic ring of a true tenor.
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Rogers Covey-Crump's accurate pitch and ability to adapt to different temperaments is a major factor in his outstanding career.
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George Pratt writes, "[Rogers Covey-Crump] has made a major contribution in reinstating the high tenor voice in music often thought accessible only to falsettists, notably in the recordings for Hyperion of the complete odes and church music of Purcell".
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Rogers Covey-Crump was one of the singers in David Munrow's Early Music Consort of London and over the years joined many other vocal ensembles, mainly but not always specialising in early music.
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When Gregory Rose's group Singcircle premiered and recorded the 1977 version of Stockhausen's Stimmung, Rogers Covey-Crump was part of that ensemble.
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Rogers Covey-Crump has taken part in ensembles as a continuo player, and has given master classes for choral scholars at Merton College, Oxford.
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Rogers Covey-Crump had a long association with the Hilliard Ensemble, although he was not a founder member.
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Besides normal concert performances, in 2008 Rogers Covey-Crump took part in the Edinburgh Festival performance of I Went to the House But Did Not Enter in collaboration with experimental composer Heiner Goebbels, and in the subsequent performances in Europe, US and Korea.
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Rogers Covey-Crump took part in the ensemble's "annual schedule of up to one hundred concerts", its Festival in Cambridge, and its Summer School which moved to Germany in 2000.
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Rogers Covey-Crump collaborated with Arvo Part, and took part in the group's Hilliard Live recordings of concerts.
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The ensemble which, besides Rogers Covey-Crump, included David James, Gordon Jones and Steven Harrold, retired in December 2014 after a forty-one-year run, during which Rogers Covey-Crump had been a member for the group's last thirty years.
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Rogers Covey-Crump has worked extensively and worldwide as a soloist, in the US, Canada, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Germany, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
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Rogers Covey-Crump has performed as "an accomplished" Evangelist in the Bach Passions, for which he has been in demand, in the Good Friday performances at St George, Hanover Square.
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Rogers Covey-Crump has performed Bach's Passions at the BBC Proms where he was a soloist in a Purcell concert with the King's Consort in 1995.
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Rogers Covey-Crump has performed the works of Bach at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham, King's College, Cambridge, and Eton College, the Christmas Oratorio with the Amsterdam Bach Soloists in the Netherlands, and the St John Passion at the Three Choirs Festival at Hereford Cathedral, besides the cantatas alongside the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, with whom he performed in Haydn's The Creation.
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Rogers Covey-Crump has performed the works of Henry Purcell many times, being in demand for his high tenor voice, including at the BBC Proms, where he has performed works of Monteverdi.
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Rogers Covey-Crump performed in the Messiah at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
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Rogers Covey-Crump has performed at the Gloucester Three Choirs Festival.
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Rogers Covey-Crump took part in St Albans International Organ Festival in 1975, and again in 1977 when he assumed 17th-century costume and performed in a cabaret entitled Pepys Night.
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On 3 March 1979, Rogers Covey-Crump was soloist with the Tilford Bach Choir and Orchestra in a performance of Bach's St John Passion at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
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Rogers Covey-Crump has performed solo at premieres of some contemporary works, and has recorded compositions by Geoffrey Burgon.
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In connection with vocal tuning, Rogers Covey-Crump has run choral workshops for amateurs and professionals, and has given lectures.