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Carol Jarvis | |
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| Born | Northampton, England |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument | Trombone |
| Website | Official website |
Carol Jarvis is a trombonist, keyboard player, arranger, professor, voiceover artist, presenter and inspirational speaker.
Jarvis was born in Northampton, England, and grew up in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire. She has an older brother. Jarvis attended Portfields School in Newport Pagnell, and secondary schools Ousedale in Newport Pagnell, Radcliffe in Wolverton, and Stantonbury Campus in Milton Keynes. Her early introductions to music were at the Stantonbury Music Centre, which was later renamed the Milton Keynes Music Centre.
She does a lot of session work and her playing features for soundtracks and films, commercials, jingles, and albums. Performances include freelance work with the likes of the London Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra, to working with Taylor Swift, Amy Winehouse, Bon Jovi, Rita Ora, Elbow, Ellie Goulding, Ben Howard, Michael Bublé, Queen, Harry Connick Jr, Rod Stewart, and MUSE and touring and recording with the likes of Sting, Michael Bolton and six years on trombone, keys and backing vocals with Seal.
Her writing credits include orchestral arrangements for Seal, orchestral arrangements for the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and she was assistant orchestrator for Corinne Bailey Rae's second and third critically acclaimed albums.
Jarvis is the current president (and first female president in its 51-year history) of the International Trombone Association and President of the International Trombone Festival. She has been a professor of trombone at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music in London since 2006 and has given many masterclasses and recitals across the world, from Mexico to Peru and Austria to Norway.
In October 2004 Jarvis was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. She gives talks across the globe about her fight with cancer, from Boston to Singapore, Brazil to Croatia and Denmark to Mexico. She has been in remission since 2011. [1]
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, neoromantic style. She has been called "one of America's most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers." She was a 1994 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Zwilich has served as the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor at Florida State University.
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