Person Open DS/UK/10511 Allister; Jean Maria (26 February 1932-11 July 2012); Northern Irish contralto singer and teacher Allister Jean Maria 26 February 1932-11 July 2012 Northern Irish contralto singer and teacher Female (cisgender) Ballymoney, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland

Northern Irish Musician; Singer, contralto White No known disability No known religious affiliation Heterosexual Jean Maria Allister was a British contralto singer and teacher. She studied singing in London under Norman Allin at the Royal Academy of Music. Allister was as much at home on the concert platform as on the operatic stage, and in modern music as much as the classics. She sang at the Proms, and at Glyndebourne. Versatile and adaptable, in 1963 she sang Gilbert and Sullivan at the Royal Albert Hall; a medieval music drama, as Mary Magdalene in Visitatio Sepulchri, in the then new Coventry Cathedral; and Verdi's Requiem, in memory of President Kennedy, conducted by Dorati in the Royal Festival Hall. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jean-allister-versatile-contralto-and-proms-veteran-8113935.html (2020) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHdroberts 12/19/2013 RAHAKirkbride 10/4/2022 1110243d-bb7d-46ea-81fb-dc53de12e576