News
October 2011
The boys enjoy contrasting experiences in film studios this month. Twenty boys spend a day in St Augustine's Church, Kilburn, recording the music video for Florence + The Machine's new single 'No Light, no light', which is due for release on 31st October.
Another group of Trinity boys record 'Silent Night' with Michael Buble at Elstree Studios. This will form the finale of ITV's 'Michael Buble's Christmas Special', which will be broadcast on 18th December and repeated on either Christmas Day or Boxing Day.
September 2011
Trinity Boys Choir is delighted to be invited to give two concerts in Poland as part of a new festival - Music in the Old Abbey. On 2nd November the boys will perform Faure's Requiem and unaccompanied Renaissance polyphony in the Old Cistercian Abbey, Wachock, for All Souls' Day. The programme will be repeated two days later in Piotrkow Trybunalski.
August 2011
Trinity Boys Choir is proud to perform once again at the world's biggest music festival, the BBC Proms. The reviews of Britten's 'Spring Symphony' were generous in their praise of the boys' work:
Fortunately the Trinity Boys Choir retained vocally some of their tougher personas from ENO's recent 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', bringing just the right amount of chesty personality and attitude to The Driving Boy. While we've had some outstanding work from children's choirs at the Proms this year, Trinity once again proved their professional quality. The Arts Desk
Trinity Boys Choir were on particularly good form. Music OMH
July 2011
It promises to be a busy summer for the boys. In addition to the BBC Proms Concert, three boys are performing the challenging role of Miles in Britten's 'Turn of the Screw'.
Leopold Benedict will be in Mexico: http://www.chilango.com/musica/concierto/2011/08/13/opera-otra-vuelta-de-tuerca-the-turn-of-the-screw
Stefan Leadbeater will be in Vienna: http://www.theater-wien.at/index.php/de/spielplan/production/72109
And Luke Saint is at the Grimeborn 2011 Opera festival in London: http://offwestend.com/index.php/plays/view/6247
Meanwhile, Alexander Lee, Dominic O'Donnell and Christopher Sharrock will be in Switzerland, performing in Mozart's 'Die Zauberflote' at the world famous Lucerne Festival.
May 2011
Almost ninety Trinity boys are performing in five different opera productions this term: 'The Damnation of Faust' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' for English National Opera, 'Werther' and 'Tosca' for The Royal Opera House, and 'The Magic Flute' for Garsington Opera. 'Damnation' is being filmed by BBC4 for the autumn schedule and 'Tosca' is being filmed for a 3D DVD.
April 2011
Trinity Boys Choir is proud to be invited to perform in the world's most famous music festival, the BBC Proms. The concert is on 14 August and the programme includes Britten's 'Spring Symphony'.
December 2010
Trinity Boys Choir is engaged by Simon Cowell's company, Syco, to make five TV appearances as the backing choir to Susan Boyle. These include 'The Pride of Britain Awards', BBC's 'Children in Need' and, perhaps most notably, 'The Royal Variety Show' where a total of sixty choristers appear on the stage of the London Palladium. Between TV appearances the boys also appear alongside West End favourite Maria Friedman in a charity concert for Maggie's Cancer Caring Homes, proudly raising £27,000. Finally, as an alternative to Christmas carols, Alexander Lee can be heard on BBC Radio 3 on Christmas Day, singing the role of the 'Shepherd Boy' in Wagner's 'Tannhauser' from the Royal Opera House.
November 2010
10 year old Alexander Lee has been offered the role of ‘Shepherd Boy’ in the Royal Opera’s forthcoming production of Wagner’s ‘Tannhauser’. Senior trebles Leopold Benedict and James Dugan have been invited to sing in the broadcast world premiere of Robert Zuidam’s ‘Suster Bertken’ at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw on 4 December.
September 2010
Trinity Boys Choir is invited to perform in the Poznan Boys Choir Festival in Poland. The boys will sing Mozart’s Mass in C minor with a massed choir from various countries and will present two concerts of their own repertoire, featuring in particular some of David de Warrenne’s brilliant arrangements.
August 2010
A highly successful summer of operas comes to an end with a performance of Glyndebourne’s production of Hänsel und Gretel at the BBC Proms. Starting in May, Trinity Boys Choir appeared in Billy Budd and Hänsel und Gretel at Glyndebourne, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Garsington, and in Carmen at The Royal Opera House. Carmen was filmed in 3D and in the autumn will be released as the first ever 3D DVD of an opera. Billy Budd was also filmed and will be released in spring 2011. All three of these operas were shown on big screens in London over the summer.
The boys were mentioned in a number of reviews, including:
- "The stars of the show are a band of combined cadet force imps from Trinity Boys Choir, making devilish mischief amid the bedsteads and singing like angels."
The Sunday Times, A Midsummer Night's Dream - "...the immaculately drilled Trinity Boys Choir, sixteen choristers whose small-soldier shenanigans pepper the evening and who deservedly get top billing at the curtain call."
The Stage, A Midsummer Night's Dream - "...special mention must be made of the children who threw themselves into their first scene choruses with scene stealing panache."
Classical Source
May 2010
Star treble Stefan Leadbeater sings at The Krakow International Film Festival in Poland. Stefan is the treble soloist in a performance of Howard Shore’s soundtrack for ‘Lord of the Rings’ with the composer in attendance.
