Trevor David Pinnock CBE (born 16 December 1946) is an English conductor and harpsichordist. He is best known for directing the period-performance orchestra The English Concert from the harpsichord for over 30 years in baroque and early classical music.
Trevor Pinnock was born in Canterbury, where his grandfather had run a Salvation Army band. His father was Kenneth Alfred Thomas Pinnock, a publisher, his mother, Joyce Edith, née Muggleton, was a...
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Trevor David Pinnock CBE (born 16 December 1946) is an English conductor and harpsichordist. He is best known for directing the period-performance orchestra The English Concert from the harpsichord for over 30 years in baroque and early classical music.
Trevor Pinnock was born in Canterbury, where his grandfather had run a Salvation Army band. His father was Kenneth Alfred Thomas Pinnock, a publisher, his mother, Joyce Edith, née Muggleton, was an amateur singer. He is left-handed. He became a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral when he was 7, attending the choir school from 1956 to 1961 and later Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys. After receiving instruction in piano and organ, he served as a church organist; by the time he was 15, he had begun to play the harpsichord. At age 19, he entered the Royal College of Music, on a Foundation Scholarship for organ and later studied harpsichord, winning the major prizes for performance on both instruments. His teachers were Ralph Downes and...
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