Carol Jarvis

Carol Jarvis
Born
Northampton, England
OccupationMusician
InstrumentTrombone
WebsiteOfficial website

Carol Jarvis is an English trombonist, keyboard player, arranger, educator, and voiceover artist.[1]

Early life

Jarvis was born in Northampton, England, and grew up in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire.[1] She attended Portfields School in Newport Pagnell and later studied at Ousedale School, Radcliffe School, and Stantonbury Campus in Milton Keynes.[1] She began her musical training at the Stantonbury Music Centre.[1]

Career

Jarvis has worked as a session musician on film soundtracks, commercials, jingles, and studio albums.[1] She has performed with orchestras including playing principal trombone with the likes of the London Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra and lead trombone with the Metropole Orkest.[1]

She has also worked with artists including Taylor Swift, Amy Winehouse, Bon Jovi, Rita Ora, Elbow, Ellie Goulding, Elbow, Ben Howard, Michael Bublé, Mumford and Sons, Queen, Harry Connick Jr., Rod Stewart, Muse, Sting, Michael Bolton, and Seal.[1][2]

Jarvis has written orchestral arrangements for Seal and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, and served as assistant orchestrator for critically acclaimed second and third albums by Corinne Bailey Rae.[1]

She became president of the International Trombone Association in 2023,[3] becoming the first woman to hold the role in the organisation's history.[4]

Jarvis is a professor of trombone at the Royal Northern College of Music and been a professor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance since 2006.[1][5] She has given masterclasses and recitals across the world, from Mexico to Peru and Norway to Los Angeles.

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.[6]

Awards

Discography

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Biography". Carol Jarvis Official Website. Retrieved 23 May 2026.
  2. ↑ "Reimagining the Creative Journey: Trombonists in the Post-COVID Multimodal Landscape", by José Leonardo Leon, International Journal of Music Entrepreneurship & Leadership 2023, 1(1), pp. 47-59
  3. ↑ "From the President" by Carol Jarvis, International Trombone Association Journal 2025, 53(1), p. 7
  4. ↑ "Leadership". International Trombone Association. Retrieved 23 May 2026.
  5. ↑ "FEMINISME I TROMBÓ: LA CONSTRUCCIÓ DE REFERENTS", by MERITXELL LANAU MAS, LaMa Editors, 20 Mar 2025
  6. ↑ Inspirational Speaker Website
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