Trevor was born and raised in Sussex. His love for singing developed at a very early age and he sang in his local church choir and took part in various school productions and concerts. Whilst training and working as a Graphic Artist in Brighton, he studied singing with Soo Bee Lee and, under her guidence, won many prizes in local festivals. At this time he joined the Brighton Theatre Group and performed Lun Tha (The King and I), Mordred (Camelot), Motel (Fiddler on the Roof) and Barnaby (Hello Dolly) for them at the Brighton Theatre Royal. He gained a place at the Gulidhall School of Music and Drama and continued his vocal studies with David Pollard. Whilst at college he sang with the Dumas Trio and was a member of the Stuart Headlam Players (roles included: The Vicar in Alan Ayckbourn’s Gosforth’s Fate and Adrian in The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Societies Production of Macbeth). At the Guildhall he won the Lieder Prize and was awarded a bursary to continue his studies there on the Opera Course. He did his first commercial pantomime as The Emperor of China in Aladdin at The Harlequin Theatre, Redhill and, on graduating from the Guildhall, toured the country in Ivor Novello’s Kings Rhapsody as a Serenader. He also toured in Ken Hill’s Happy as a Sandbag for the Arc Theatre Company, was in Beauty and the Beast at The Players' Theatre, and played Alderman Fitzwarren and The Sultan in Dick Whittington at The Plowright Theatre, Scunthorpe. He toured in the RSC and Opera North's award winning production of Show Boat culminating in a season at The London Palladium.