John Mark Ainsley is a British tenor. Born July 9, 1963 in Cheshire, he was educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester and Magdalen College, Oxford. Whilst at Oxford he studied music under Anthony Rolfe Johnson, and has subsequently performed all around the world. He has made numerous recordings, one of which won a Grammy in 1995 for best operatic performance (for a recording of Don Giovanni). He regularly appears on radio and in the BBC Proms. Amongst other operatic performances and recorings are Rameau's Dardanus and Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (he is generally regarded as the world authority on this character's role). In music, a tenor is a male singer with a high voice (although not as high as a countertenor). ... July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 175 days remaining. ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the English county. ... The Royal Grammar School Worcester (RGS Worcester) is a British independent Public School founded before 1291. ... Magdalen College (pronounced ) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music MusicNovatory: the science of music encyclopedia Science of Music... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national publicly funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... A Promenade concert in the Royal Albert Hall, 2004. ... Jean-Philippe Rameau (September 25, 1683 - September 12, 1764) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. ... French opera by Rameau written in 1739 and performed at the Paris Opera. ... For the composer see Claudio Monteverdi For the Swiss automobile brand created by Peter Monteverdi, see Monteverdi (car) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Orfeo (LOrfeo, favola in musica) is one of the earliest works recognized as an opera, composed by Claudio Monteverdi with text by Alessandro Striggio for the annual carnival of Mantua. ...

He specialises particularly in Handel's music and has recorded over ten of his Oratorios including Jephtha, La Resurrezione, Messiah, Joshua and Saul. More modern music he specialises in are German Leider (by Schumann and Beethoven) and English Folk and French songs (Vaughan Williams, Peter Warlock and Faure). Messiah (1741) is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel. ... Robert Alexander Schumann (1810 - 1856), German composer (husband of Clara) Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896), German pianist and composer, (wife of Robert Alexander) Robert Schumann, youngest person to go to the north/south pole Georg Schumann (1866 - 1952), German composer and director This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which... Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770 – March 26, 1827) was a German composer of Classical music, the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. ... Ralph Vaughan Williams (October 12, 1872 – August 26, 1958) was an influential British composer. ... Peter Warlock was a pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine (October 30, 1894 - December 17, 1930), an English composer and music critic. ... Gabriel Urbain Fauré (May 12, 1845 – November 4, 1924) was a French composer. ...