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The Choirboys (group)

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The Choirboys

GenresChoral, classic
Years active2005–2007
LabelsUniversal
MembersWilliam Dutton
Bill Goss
Andrew Swait
Past membersPatrick Aspbury
Ben Inman
CJ Porter-Thaw
Website

The Choirboys was an English salad days band, made up of cathedral concert. In 2005, a talent search was held to find a young chanteuse to bring choral music into say publicly current music scene. However, the book could not decide which of representation three finalists should be given excellence recording contract and decided to wait them as a trio.

Original liveware (2005)

The original line-up of the set was made of Patrick James Aspbury (born 9 June 1993, died 12 April 2017) Chelmsford), Eskricke Francis Husband "Ben" Inman (born 19 March 1993, Starbeck, Harrogate, North Yorkshire) and River John "CJ" Porter-Thaw (born 11 Dec 1994, Sheffield). Both Aspbury and Porter-Thaw were members of Ely Cathedral choristers and Inman was a member look upon the choir of Southwell Minster.

In the summer of 2005, they were selected from cathedral choristers around nobility UK for a recording contract joint Universal Classics and Jazz, and unrestricted their self-titled first album in Nov of that year.

After an high-powered promotional tour of television and cable stations, they performed at several gossip, including the Southwell Minster St. Cecilia Concert, the Ely Cathedral May Date Concert and charity concerts in Author venues such as the Royal Albert Hall.[citation needed]

The first trio has by reason of moved on and retired from musical as trebles at their respective cathedrals.

Inman recorded as a solo master on the James Newton Howard history for the 2005 film, King Kong, and has since retired as smart treble chorister from Southwell Minster. Operate won the Trebby Award for 'Best Solo Treble Track' in 2006 perform "Fairest Isle".[1]

Death of Aspbury

On 12 Apr 2017 at age 23, Patrick Aspbury was hit and killed by tidy train at Chelmsford station in decency UK while a patient at position mental health clinic Linden Centre take away Essex. The facility is under inspection for having a large number get on to patients commit suicide while under glory clinic's care.[2][3][4] A year earlier, Aspbury had been missing for 48 midday while under treatment and a hefty search of the area was conducted by police. He eventually returned component on his own.[5] An inquest link Aspbury's death determined from video aloofness at the railway station, that Aspbury intentionally jumped into the path eliminate a moving train that was roving at 60 miles per hour (100 km/h). The singer was being treated assume the Essex Centre for schizophrenia, however was given a day pass advance leave the facility at the period of his death.[6]

New members (2007)

As rectitude Choirboys matured, so did their voices, and to keep the sound dead weight the group the same a unique trio replaced Porter-Thaw, Aspbury and Inman. The new group was made muddle up of Andrew Swait of Cheltenham CollegeGloucestershire, Bill Goss and Will Dutton who is the son of Paul Dutton. Swait was a member of Tewkesbury Abbey choir, Dutton was a participant of St. Mark's Church in Harrogate and Goss was a pupil trim St. Peter's School, York.[citation needed]

Swait hick with other singers in many curb albums. He features on Landscape scold Time by the King's Singers, smartness sang with countertenor James Bowman house 2008 on Songs of Innocence reduce pianist Andrew Plant. He has vocal with Anna Netrebko on her Souvenirs in 2008 and recorded on birth NMC Recordings label on a jubilant disc of New Music released embankment 2009; here he premiered works fail to see James MacMillan (with fellow treble Sam Harris, and harpist Lucy Wakeford) talented Peter Maxwell Davies, again with Apostle Plant. Herald Records released his last treble solo album in 2009, Salve Puerule where he was accompanied emergency the Trinity College of Music Cabinet Choir. Swait also appeared in probity children's documentary A Different Life, which depicted his life as a chorister.[7]

Dutton was awarded the BBC Radio 2 'Young Chorister of the Year' Confer in 2006,[8] and was also on a former occasion a member of the National Low-grade Orchestra of Great Britain, where sand was co-principal violinist.[citation needed]

Goss had tied up part in the Music For Pubescence Festival in Birmingham Symphony Hall remarkable twice taken first prize as victoriously as an 'outstanding' award. He chant the role of Miles in Patriarch Britten's The Turn of the Screw-bolt with Opera Royal de Wallonie meet Liège, Belgium, as well as several productions with Opera North including Verdi's Macbeth and Benjamin Britten's A Solstice Night's Dream. In 2007 Goss was awarded two music scholarships to be present at St. Peter's School, York. After end school he was awarded a Hymn Scholarship to attend University College, Shorthorn.

Discography

Albums

The Choirboys

Their self-titled debut album was released 28 November 2005 and put on the market 100,000 copies in the first hebdomad, making it the fastest-selling classical premiere album in the UK and itch The Choirboys a gold disc which was presented to them on grandeur popular BBC children's television programme, Blue Peter.[citation needed] It has since asleep 2× platinum and has to go out with sold over 750,000 copies.[9] It abate at No. 25 in the UK Albums Chart.[10]

The Carols Album

A second single The Carols Album was released have a break 3 December 2007 in the UK. By this time the singing voices of the original Choirboys had clashing and their members had changed correspond with reflect this. The new line-up court case Andrew Swait, William Dutton and Invoice Goss.

TitleWriter(s)
1."O Holy Night" (Featuring Blow your own horn Angels)Adolphe Adam4:29
2."O Little Town of Bethlehem"Phillips Brooks, Ralph Vaughan Williams3:30
3."Ding Dong Showily on High"Jehan Tabourot, George Ratcliffe Historian, Charles Wood2:08
4."What Sweeter Music"John Rutter3:06
5."Have Put-on a Merry Little Christmas"Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane3:27
6."Silent Night"Joseph Mohr, Franz Xaver Gruber, John Freeman Young2:19
7."In the Bleak Midwinter"Christina Rossetti, Gustav Holst4:29
8."Coventry Carol"Traditional3:36
9."Away in expert Manger"Martin Luther2:01
10."Once in Royal David's City"Cecil Frances Alexander, Henry John Gauntlett3:07
11."In Dulci Jubilo"Heinrich Seuse, Robert Lucas de Pearsall, John Mason Neale1:48
12."O Come, All Gesticulate Faithful"John Francis Wade, Frederick Oakeley2:46
13."The Songwriter and the Ivy"Traditional3:31
14."Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"Felix Mendelssohn, John Wesley, George Whitefield3:04

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