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Cortes

Official sites: www.cortes.is
www.myspace.com/officialcortes In 1999, Cortes won the lead role of Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, in The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre in London's West End. It was in this role that he discovered his ability to sing high notes. "I'd been having a bad evening and I was miserable, felt I wasn't even good enough to be in the chorus. Then in my next scene I went up to the C sharp and it just stayed there.

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Natasha Marsh

Natasha Marsh is an opera soprano from the United Kingdom. She was brought up in an intensely creative household where music was rarely off the agenda; she grew up listening to anything from Steeleye Span to Bach and Mozart via Shirley Bassey and Whitney Houston and, from an early age, decided she’d follow in Julie Andrews’ sainted footsteps into musical theatre. An early and passionate devotee of music on stage and screen, Natasha sang in dozens of school productions, spent four years with the National Youth Music Theatre and at 17...

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Emma Johnson

Emma Johnson is a clarinetist from UK. Having won the 1984 BBC Young Musician of the Year competition she studied Music at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Her repertoire includes mostly classical and some popular and jazz music. Emma Johnson has appeared with many leading orchestras including the London Symphony, The Philharmonia, the Royal Philharmonic, the English Chamber Orchestra, the London Mozart Players, the Hallé, the Polish Chamber Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Phoenix Symphony and the Netherlands Philharmonic in repertoire, which includes over forty different concertos.

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The Canadian Tenors

The Canadian Tenors’ music is an eclectic blend of classical and contemporary pop that is thrilling audiences of all ages. The Tenors are the incredibly powerful voices of four gifted young men with diverse vocal styles, undeniable charm, international solo success and are one of Canada’s most sought-after exports. This vocal sensation’s debut album has gone gold in Canada and is being released around the world by Universal Music and its affiliates.

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Alarm Will Sound

Alarm Will Sound is a U.S. twenty-member contemporary-music chamber orchestra. Members of the ensemble began playing together while studying at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and have diverse experience in composition, improvisation, jazz, popular styles, early music, and various traditional musics from around the world. Alarm Will Sound's repertoire ranges from European to American works, from the arch-modernist to the pop-influenced.

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Craig.Owen

Craig was born in Guisborough, a market town in North Yorkshire, England. He started playing violin and piano at the age of six, following in the footsteps of his mother and grandfather - both professional musicians. From an early age Craig enjoyed performing live music, and he would organise family concerts along with his sister. Throughout his school years his interest in all types of music continued to develop, and he was performing to wider audiences, both as a soloist, as leader of the Junior Northern Sinfonia Orchestra, and as a chorister in the Northern Cathedral Singers.

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Laura Wright

At the tender age of 15 Laura Wright won the BBC Radio 2 Chorister of the Year. This resulted in performances around the country which included the Soloist in John Rutter’s Requiem at St. Paul’s Cathedral….this was just the beginning. Laura has performed continuously at numerous prestigious venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Wembley Arena, Twickenham, Old Trafford, 02 Arena, Royal Festival Hall and has performed for HM The Queen, The Prime Minister and many others.

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