| 词条 | CN Lester |
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|name=CN Lester |nationality=British |occupation=Singer |website={{URL|cnlester.com}} |birth_date={{Birth year and age|1984}} }}CN Lester (born 1984) is a British classical and alternative singer-songwriter, as well as an LGBT and transgender rights activist.[1] They were rated 41st on The Independent on Sunday's 2013 Pink List, which acknowledged their co-founding of the Queer Youth Network and their founding the UK's first gay–straight alliance, as well as their fundraising for queer causes and writing for publications such as New Statesman and So So Gay.[2][3][4][5] CareerLester is a mezzo-soprano who specializes in castrati and travesti opera, as well as early and classical music and works by female composers. Classic FM has showcased their work and research on travesti roles, while BBC Radio 4's Front Row has included their work with Silent Opera.[6] They have cited Lou Reed and Tchaikovsky as amongst their earliest influences, aged 3–4. As a child, Lester began learning to play the piano at age 6, and received vocal coaching from age 13. They went on to obtain a Bachelor of Music from King's College London and a Master of Music from Goldsmiths.[8] For their two most recent albums, Dark Angels and Aether, Lester paid for the recording and production using crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. The albums raised US$3414 and £4575 respectively.[9][10] In addition to performing live and recording music, Lester works as a teacher and an author. Their debut opera, The Lion-Faced Man, appeared at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival in August 2015, including a libretto by Hel Gurney and sung by Alison Wells.[12][13] Their first book, Trans Like Me: A Journey For All Of Us is scheduled to be published by Virago Press in May 2017.[14][15]{{update after|2017|5|31|reason=Lester's book was, at time of writing, scheduled to be published in November 2016; after November 2016 this information will be out of date.}} Discography{{Discography list| Type = EP | Name = Resurrection Men[16][17] | Other info = | from Album = | Released = 2009 | Format = MP3 | Label = Southbank | Writer = | Producer = | Director = | Chart position= | Sales = | Certification = | Tracks = "Playback", "Brackets", "Wayfaring Stranger" | Bonus tracks = | Singles = }}{{Discography list | Type = Studio | Name = Ashes[16][19] | Other info = | from Album = | Released = 2012 | Format = MP3 and CD | Label = | Writer = CN Lester | Producer = | Director = | Chart position= | Sales = | Certification = | Tracks = "Ashes", "Tongue", "Shiver", "Fractals", "Fever", "Disappear", "Lullaby", "Joan of Arc" | Bonus tracks = | Singles = }}{{Discography list | Type = Studio | Name = Dark Angels[16][22] | Other info = with Toby Carr | from Album = | Released = 2012/2013 | Format = MP3 and CD | Label = | Writers = Benjamin Britten, Peter Maxwell Davies, Jonathan Kulp, Philip Lawton[9][25] | Producer = | Director = | Chart position= | Sales = | Certification = | Tracks = "Songs from the Chinese, Op. 58: II. The Old Lute", "Songs from the Chinese, Op. 58: III. The Autumn Wind", "Songs from the Chinese, Op. 58: IV. The Herd-Boy", "Songs from the Chinese, Op. 58: V. Depression", "Farewell to Stromness", "Dark Angels, Op. 50: The Drowning Brothers", "Dark Angels, Op. 50: II. Dark Angels", "Dark Angels, Op. 50: III. Dead Fires", "Five Lullabies: Lullaby II", "Five Lullabies: Lullaby IV", "Five Poems of Emily Dickinson: II. I Had Been Hungry", "Five Poems of Emily Dickinson: III. I'm Nobody", "Five Poems of Emily Dickinson: IV. I Had a Guinea", "Nocturnal After John Dowland, Op. 70" | Bonus tracks = | Singles = }}{{Discography list | Type = Studio | Name = Aether[16][27][28] | Other info = | from Album = | Released = 2014 | Format = MP3 and CD | Label = | Writer = CN Lester | Producer = | Director = | Chart position= | Sales = | Certification = | Tracks = "Lockdown", "Sparks", "Codine Blues", "Anonymous", "You", "Your Hands", "Low", "Aether" | Bonus tracks = | Singles = }} AwardsLester was ranked 41st on The Independent on Sunday's 2013 Pink List of the most influential LGBT people, and 92nd in the renamed 2014 Rainbow List.[2][28] IdentityLester is out as genderqueer, and has been hailed as a role model for combining their identity and their public career.[32] They have spoken about having difficulties finding work because of their gender identity and expression: {{quote|Classical music, now, is very conservative. I can't get chorus work because I wouldn't be willing to wear female clothes or be a member of a women's chorus. ... They didn't see that they were in the wrong – they thought I was wrong for daring to apply. So it was very much "We don't want people like that associated with us" and they were happy to put it down in writing.[33]}}To preserve their singing voice, Lester has not used testosterone treatments, although they have since spoken about their own research showing losing a singing voice is not always a result of such therapy.[34][35] See also{{Portal bar|LGBT|Transgender|Alternative music|Opera|Classical music|Biography}}References1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.newstatesman.com/voices/2013/01/trans-role-models-janet-mock-paris-lees-cn-lester-and-luke-anderson |title=Trans role models: Janet Mock, Paris Lees, CN Lester and Luke Anderson |last=Reuben |first=Matthew |date=17 January 2013 |website=New Statesman |access-date=2016-03-22}} [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]2. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aether-CN-Lester/dp/B00J0RWIBI/|title=Aether|website=Amazon.co.uk|accessdate=22 March 2014}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ashes/dp/B0088T23XC|title=Ashes|website=Amazon.co.uk|accessdate=23 October 2013}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Angels/dp/B00B66EERM|title=Dark Angels|website=Amazon.co.uk|accessdate=23 October 2013}} 5. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Resurrection-Men/dp/B002XLWKES|title=Resurrection Men|website=Amazon.co.uk|accessdate=23 October 2013}} 6. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/virago-publish-agenda-setting-trans-me-318752|title=Virago to publish 'agenda-setting' Trans Like Me|first=Katherine|last=Cowdrey|date=18 December 2015|accessdate=18 December 2015|website=The Bookseller}} 7. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|url=http://www.cnlester.com/?page_id=281|title=Discography|work=CN Lester|accessdate=26 April 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426201923/http://www.cnlester.com/?page_id=281|archivedate=26 April 2014}} 8. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/cnlestermusic/photos/a.207931029242394.47404.110572575644907/1117753341593487|date=7 September 2016|accessdate=7 September 2016|last=Lester|first=CN|website=Facebook|title=Incredibly proud - and a bit amazed - to be able to share the cover of my first book ...}} 9. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.electric-banana.co.uk/new-music/cn-lester/|title=CN Lester|date=11 October 2011|last=Brightman|first=James|accessdate=14 May 2014|work=Electric Banana}} 10. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2010/06/love_sacred_and|title=Love: Sacred and Profane|last=Welsh|first=Katie|date=18 June 2010|work=The F-Word|accessdate=26 April 2014}} 11. ^1 {{cite AV media|title=My Genderation: CN|type=video|date=8 October 2013|publisher=My Genderation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb-L8uLuJd0|}} 12. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://hiddenperspectives.org/events/festival-2013/participants/cn-lester/|accessdate=28 October 2013|title=CN Lester|work=Hidden Perspectives}} 13. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aether--3|title=Aether|accessdate=14 May 2014|website=Indiegogo|first=CN|last=Lester}} 14. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dark-angels-the-album|title=Dark Angels - the album|accessdate=14 May 2014|website=Indiegogo|first=CN|last=Lester}} 15. ^1 2 {{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-independent-on-sundays-pink-list-2013-8876183.html|accessdate=15 October 2013|date=13 October 2013|title=The Independent on Sunday's Pink List 2013|newspaper=The Independent on Sunday}} 16. ^1 2 {{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/therainbowlist/rainbow-list-2014-1-to-100-9848457.html|title=Rainbow List 2014, 1 to 101|accessdate=9 April 2015|date=9 November 2014|newspaper=The Independent on Sunday}} 17. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://jonathankulp.org/|accessdate=14 May 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103122320/http://jonathankulp.org/|archivedate=3 January 2014|deadurl=no|last=Kulp|first=Jonathan|title=Home|website=Jonathan Kulp}} 18. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/voices/2013/03/dont-mean-girls-table-check-out-rest-room-0|title=Don't like the Mean Girls' table? Check out the rest of the room|last=Lester|first=CN|date=22 March 2013|accessdate=23 October 2013|newspaper=New Statesman}} 19. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/voices/2013/01/trans-role-models-janet-mock-paris-lees-cn-lester-and-luke-anderson|title=Trans role models: Janet Mock, Paris Lees, CN Lester and Luke Anderson|last=Reuben|first=Matthew|date=17 January 2013|work=New Statesman|accessdate=28 October 2013}} 20. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/03/11/interview-genderqueer-performer-cn-lester/|title=Interview: Genderqueer performer CN Lester|last=Lees|first=Paris|authorlink=Paris Lees|work=Pink News|date=11 March 2011|accessdate=28 October 2013}} 21. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://sabotagereviews.com/2015/08/18/the-lion-faced-man-by-cn-lester-and-hel-gurney-tete-a-tete-opera-festival/|title=The Lion-Faced Man by CN Lester and Hel Gurney – Tête à Tête Opera Festival|first=Sasha|last=Garwood|website=Sabotage Reviews|date=18 August 2015|accessdate=18 December 2015}} 22. ^1 {{cite magazine|title=The Julie Burchill transphobia scandal: CN Lester writes for So So Gay|work=So So Gay|url=http://sosogay.co.uk/2013/the-julie-burchill-transphobia-scandal-cn-lester-writes-for-so-so-gay/|accessdate=23 October 2013|last=Lester|first=CN|date=13 January 2013}} 23. ^1 {{cite magazine|url=http://sosogay.co.uk/2012/interview-cn-lester-part-2/|title=Interview: CN Lester (Part 2)|last=Williscroft-Ferris|first=Lee|work=So So Gay|date=23 March 2012|accessdate=9 April 2015}} 24. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/the-lion-faced-man/|title=The Lion-Faced Man|website=Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival|accessdate=18 December 2015}} }} External links
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