Nigel Rogers

Nigel David Rogers was born on 21 March 1935 in Wellington, Shropshire, England. Rogers is an English tenor, conductor and teacher. He studied at King's College, Cambridge (he was a choral scholar) from 1953–1956, in Rome in 1957 and in Milan from 1958–1959, and with Gerhard Hüsch at the Munich Hochschule für Musik (1959–1961). From 1978 he was a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London. In 1979 he founded the vocal ensemble Chiaroscuro for the performance of Italian music.