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  Nicholas Sillitoe    (b. 5 September 1972) Boy Soprano Soloist 
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Nicholas Sillitoe Nicholas Sillitoe, at twelve, was a pupil at King's College School, Wimbledon, where he was encouraged to sing both as a chorister and a soloist in outside engagements. He has performed as soloist with the London Young Sinfonia in Haydn's Creation, the Brahms Requiem, the Poulenc Gloria and also the incidental music for A Midsummer Nights Dream with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Babrican Centre in London. He has recorded the Pie Jesu by Nadia Boulanger for Channel 4 television and broadcast on Radio 3.

As a boy singer Nicholas was much in demand at both London Opera Houses. With the English National Orchestra at the Coliseum he has sung First Spirit in The Magic Flute and Young Hermann in The Queen of Spades. Of his performance of Miles, the evil-possessed child in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw, the Guardian newspaper wrote:

In the 1990's, Nicholas began experimenting with other forms of music, later teaming up with Per Martensen to form the band Illumination. Their debut album won Norway's Album of the Year in 2000.
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Official Site: My Space Page
The site contains recordings of both boy treble and adult works.
Illumination
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Featured Recordings Compact | Full
Nicholas Sillitoe - On Wings of Song
On Wings of Song (EMI/Classics For Pleasure 414 475, LP) 1984
Featuring Nicholas Sillitoe  
  1.   On Wings of Song (Mendelssohn)  
  2.   An Sylvia D891 (Schubert)  
  3.   Wiegenlied Op49 No4 (Brahms)  
  4.   Ave Maria (Bach/arr Gounod)  
  5.   Standchen (Schubert)  
  6.   Pie Jesu [Requiem] (Faure)  
  7.   I know that my redeemer liveth (Handel)  
  8.   O for the Wings of a Dove (Mendelssohn)  
  9.   Heidenroslein D257 (Schubert)  
10.   Panis Angelicus (Franck)  
11.   Ave Maria (Schubert)  
12.   Maria Wiegenlied (Reger)  
13.   En Priere (Reger)  
14.   Wheree'er you walk (Handel)  
Films and Videos Compact | Full
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The Treble (BBC , Film/TV) June 1985
Featuring Aled Jones   Nicholas Sillitoe  
60 min. Aired 21 June 1985. Directed by Angela Pope. A music documentary from the Omnibus series about a young Welsh choral singer (Aled Jones) on the verge of puberty. The mystery of what will happen to the young treble's voice upon his journey from adolescence to adulthood is explored in this family-viewing special. Nicholas Sillitoe makes a brief singing appearance during an audition.
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