[ ClassicalX ] Ten Tenors bring voices to Sunrise for season's last show

To reproduce those multilayered harmonies in concert, it takes more than a few tenors.

How about 10?

A successful touring act — The Ten Tenors — will bring their musical talents and onstage antics to the Sunrise Theatre on Friday night.

It will be the final show of the season at the Sunrise.

“We joke about it now, but back in the day, The Ten Tenors was really just a fun way to earn a bit of extra beer money,” said Matthew Hickey, one of the original members, who now serves as the group’s producer. “It was all very informal and we could never understand why people would hire us to essentially fool around on stage.”

While the group’s focus is to give the audience a lighthearted performance, they also bring 10 rich tenor voices to the stage. Members of the group are Tod Strike, Jeff Teale, Boyd Owen, Steven Sowden, Benjamin Clark, Graham Foote, Stewart Morris, Luke Kennedy, Dominic Smith and Josh Piteman.

The group began performing in 1995 after they attended the Queensland Convervatorium of Music in Brisbane, Australia, and are now an international touring act.

In 2006, the group embarked on its most ambitious album project. Recorded in studios in Australia and the United States and at London’s famed Abbey Road Studios, “Here’s To The Heroes” is available in 27 countries. The group’s latest album, “Nostalgica,” was released in late 2008.

Source: TC Palm