Carol Jarvis is a

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, keyboard player, arranger, professor, voiceover artist, presenter and inspirational speaker.

Early life

Jarvis was born in

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, and grew up in

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, 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

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. Her early introductions to music were at the Stantonbury Music Centre, which was later renamed the Milton Keynes Music Centre.

Career

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

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, Hallé Orchestra and

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, to working with Taylor Swift, Amy Winehouse,

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, Rita Ora, Elbow, Ellie Goulding, Ben Howard, Michael Bublé,

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, Harry Connick Jr, Rod Stewart, and

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and touring and recording with the likes of

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and six years on trombone, keys and backing vocals with

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. Her writing credits include orchestral arrangements for Seal, orchestral arrangements for the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and she was assistant orchestrator for

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's second and third critically acclaimed albums. Jarvis is the current president (and first female president in its 51-year history) of the

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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.

Health

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.Inspirational Speaker Website
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Awards

- ITA Award 2022 (presented every year to an individual who has greatly influenced the field of trombone)
British Trombone Society
- Sheila Tracy Award 2021 *

- President's Award 2013 * Brass Herald - Brass Personality of the Year 2004 * Royal Over-Seas League Competition (Bones Apart Trombone Quartet) 2001 * Rio Tino Prize and Miller Trophy (Bones Apart Trombone Quartet) 2001 * Agnes D Bell Scholarship 2000 * Dorothy Lily Pope Scholarship 2000 * British Trombone Society/Jiggs Whigham Scholarship to study in America 1999 * Goronwy Evans Brass Prize (RNCM) 1998 * Sema Group Jazz Improvisation Award 1998 *

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County Music Scholarship 1990

Discography

* In My Veins (2023) * Smile (2011) (proceeds go to

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)

References

ITA Award 2022EP ReviewPodcast ShowFresh on the NetClassic FM judgeITA PresidentOfficial Facebook PageOfficial YouTube ChannelMilton Keynes Citizen Newspaper article
* ttp://www.trombone-usa.com/jarvis_carol_bio.htm Trombone Page of the World

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jarvis, Carol British trombonists 1977 births Living people Alumni of the Royal Northern College of Music Musicians from Northampton 21st-century trombonists Women trombonists