Trevor Harvey (conductor)
Trevor Harvey was an English conductor.Biography
Trevor Harvey was born in 1911 in Freshwater, Isle of Wight.
He was a conductor, critic, and broadcaster. From 1935 to 1942 he worked as assistant chorus master at the BBC. From 1946 he was a free‐lance conductor. From 1951 to 1973 he was the conductor of Sir Robert Mayer children's concerts. From 1960 to 1972 he was with the British Youth Symphony Orchestra.
He shared an apartment with Peter Pears and Basil Douglas in the 1930s and is responsible for some important broadcast performances of Benjamin Britten, including The Company of Heaven and The World of the Spirit, both composed under suggestion of Harvey, and the first performance in England of Diversions, Op. 21 in 1950.
He died in 1989 in London.
