Trevor_Knight_(Irish_musician)

Trevor Knight (Irish musician)

Trevor Knight (Irish musician)

Irish musician, composer, sound designer and director

For the Australian musician, see Trevor Knight (singer).

Trevor Knight (born 1954) is an Irish musician, composer, theatre sound designer and director.[1] Born in England, he moved to Northern Ireland as a child where he took an interest in the piano. He briefly attended college in Dublin, at Bolton Street College and it was here where he formed his first group, Naima.[2]

Whilst living in the Netherlands, he founded the new wave group, Auto Da Fé, along with Gay Woods.[3] When the group split up in 1986, Trevor moved into music composition and theatre sound design.[4]

He was elected to Aosdána in 2007.[1]

Discography

With Auto Da Fé

  • 5 Singles and 1 Smoked Cod (1984) Stoic (compilation of singles tracks)
  • Tatitum (1985) Spartan
  • Songs for Echo (2001) Hux (live 1983 recordings)[5]

With others

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Trevor Knight". Contemporary Music Centre. 20 September 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  2. [2]
    "Music: Trevor Knight". Aosdána. Aosdána. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  3. [3]
    O'Regan, John (2000). "An Irish Original". Irish Music. 5 (9). Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  4. [4]
    "Five Kinds of Silence programme" (PDF). Calypso Productions. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 November 2007. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  5. [5]
    "Auto Da Fe Biography". irishmusicdb.com. Retrieved 3 February 2008.


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