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bramblecrumble · Joined: Jan 05, 2006 Posts: 460 Location: Germany

Source: OS

"In response to questions from some members of the forum, I've assembled information about as many of the Tenors' alumni as I know about. This information has not necessarily been verified by the Tenors in question and may not be 100% current.

Craig Atkinson - is a vocal teacher in hot demand throughout South-East Queensland. Recently married.

Shannon Brown - has taken a holiday, has been writing music and still pursuing solo interests.

Roger Davy - Managing Director of Vavachi Classical Events, based on the Gold Coast, Queensland.

Scott Fields - living on the Gold Coast, undertaking further musical training. Intends to return to TTT as soon as possible.

George Forgan-Smith - Is a Doctor and lives in Northern New South Wales, when not jet setting about on holiday.

David Kidd - working as a freelance performer throughout Australia. Last seen wearing a sombrero and singing on the evening news this past weekend.

Matthew Hickey - remains Director of The Ten Tenors, graduated with a degree in Political Science and will be admitted as a solicitor in the next year. Married 3 kids.

Kim Kirkman - is a lecturer in music at the Mackay Conservatorium, where he also conducts amateur choral groups. Married with one child.

Nathan Kneen - is now a qualified teacher and is working in a school in South-East Queensland. Continues to make fine cameo vocal appearances from time to time.

Adam Lopez - lives in Brisbane. Holds Guinness World Record for highest note ever recorded by a male (he sang a semitone higher than the highest note on the piano). This is not a joke, by the way!!

Kent Maddock - is a freelance operatic tenor, having performed major roles with Opera Australia. He lives in Sydney with wife and children.

Liam McLachlan - living with his wife in Los Angeles, USA. Currently in negotiations for operatic roles.

Greg Moore - has styled himself as "Queensland's Favourite Tenor" performing all over Australia, often with "Scotland the Brave". Has released a solo album.

Adrian Phillips - living in Los Angeles, working in the IT industry.

Andrew Pryor - works as a freelence performer throughout South-East Queensland. Occasionally performs with David Kidd.

Jeff Teale - living in Brisbane, recently married, playing semi-professional Australian Football. Recently sustained chest injury which has him temporarily sidelined.

Jason Turnbull (Chopper) - is now working in the IT industry and singing on the side. Lives in Brisbane with his wife and daughter.

Tod Strike - currently in New York, working on a Broadway career. Very likely to make cameo appearances with TTT throughout 2008."

xrainy · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 10:16 am Post subject:

aww that was nice of TTT's OS team.
OK I understand most leaving but still stay in music, but IT Shocked

I wish them all well. Very Happy

bramblecrumble · Joined: Jan 05, 2006 Posts: 460 Location: Germany

Greg Moore looks forward to Christmas concert season

BRISBANE tenor Greg Moore fell in love with singing when he was picked for a solo rendition of Silver Bells for a Carols By Candlelight school performance as a five-year-old.

The 30-year-old has been hooked on Christmas carols ever since.

"I'd never sung in public before but after singing Silver Bells I loved it so much, and it felt so natural I knew then there was nothing else I wanted to do except sing," he says. "This is peak season for singers, I love this time of year, I can't get enough of Christmas carols."

This is just as well because Moore, who is part of the La Forza trio, is booked for about 20 concerts and events until Christmas Day.

The season starts tonight with the inaugural Christmas in Concert series at the Playhouse, QPAC.

While none of the three male soloists – tenors Moore and David Kidd, and baritone Jason Barry-Smith – has performed with star Rachel Beck, they are all long-time friends and are looking forward to reuniting on stage.

The three men are all former Queensland Conservatorium of Music graduates and Barry-Smith and Kidd have known each other for more than 20 years as fellow members of the Queensland Youth Choir.

"The QPAC concert will be really fun for many reasons especially with us three guys being good mates for years.

"It's always great to perform with friends," Barry-Smith says.

"It's great when you have a real sense of history with a person, you can trust them."

Kidd and Moore were in the Ten Tenors together until Moore left in 2000. Kidd is looking forward to enjoying the Christmas season at home after 10 years of constant touring with the Ten Tenors which included festive season stints in Germany and the US. He has been dreaming of mangoes, seafood and sunshine for this year's Queensland Christmas.

Source: Courier Mail

bramblecrumble · Joined: Jan 05, 2006 Posts: 460 Location: Germany

Play delights audience

Audiences left the Roundhouse Theatre last week feeling inspired and uplifted by the performance of an adaptation of composer and writer Jonathon Larson’s rock monologue tick, tick ... BOOM, says the plays lead.

The late Larson is best known for broadway hit Rent, but it is his earlier autobiographical work tick, tick ... BOOM that was taken on by four young Brisbane actors in what they billed as a Queensland premiere of the play.

It was produced and directed by McDowall’s Laura Meldon, who, at just 17 years old, was putting on her second play after founding her own theatre company, MESHpresents, before graduating from high school.

“The show centred on Jon, an aspiring musical theatre composer, as he approaches his 30th birthday and begins to question life, love and even himself,” Meldon said.

Playing the lead character was Stafford 24-year-old Bradley McCaw, whose resume includes touring the world with singing group Ten Tenors, supporting acts such as Pete Murray, Bernard Fanning and the late Rob Guest, and playing a lead role in the Queensland premiere of Larson’s Rent in 2006.

Other actors involved in the play included Kelvin Grove’s Summer Masuda, who had just moved to Australia from Arizona having trained under Broadway director Phillip Fazio, and Brisbane-based singer Ian Abadilla.

Source: North West News

bramblecrumble · Joined: Jan 05, 2006 Posts: 460 Location: Germany

See 2008 out in melodious style at the annual Queensland Pops Orchestra's New Year's Eve event - Two Tenors and a Baritone.

The show will feature the impressive combination of the multi-award-winning Virgilio Marino, Ten Tenors' David Kidd, Jason Barry-Smith and Bella Divas, who guarantee to raise the QPAC Playhouse roof with powerful tunes from Chess, Turandot, Les Miserables and all your New Year's Eve orchestral favourites.

Book your tickets now for the matinee or evening show for hours of New Year's Eve entertainment.

Phone QTIX on 136 246 for information.

Source: The Daily

bramblecrumble · Joined: Jan 05, 2006 Posts: 460 Location: Germany

They're five of the best!

GRANT Street Medical Centre has five new doctors who are experienced general practitioners with very different interests.

Dr Karen Jenkins has worked in Canberra as a GP, medical school educator and surgical assistant for the past eight years. She moved to Ballina in November 2008 with her husband David.

Karen has an interest in skin cancer and women's health and is studying a Masters of Skin Cancer Medicine through UQ.

Dr Taya Van Haren comes to Ballina after living most of her life on the Mid North Coast.

She is hoping to make the Northern Rivers her new home. Taya has an interest in rural health and family planning.

Dr George Forgan-Smith comes to Ballina after having worked in mental health in Brisbane.

His interest is general medicine with a focus on psychological well-being.
In a previous life, George excelled as a singer, being a member of the Ten Tenors, and was fortunate to have toured Europe and Australia with the group.

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Source: BallinaAdvocate.com.au

bramblecrumble · Joined: Jan 05, 2006 Posts: 460 Location: Germany

Musical glitter on stage

GLADSTONE seniors are in for a treat when Gladstone Entertainment Centre presents Morning Melodies on Tuesday March 3.

Gladstone Regional Council manager performing arts, Troy Everett, particularly encouraged mature audiences to attend the event, featuring Helen Donaldson in the Sound of Julie Andrews.

"Morning Melodies is an entertaining performance held once every two months specifically for seniors,” he said.

"We host a complimentary morning tea from 10am, with the show starting on the main stage from 11am.

"The March instalment is certain to entertain with melodies from My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Camelot, Mary Poppins and more.

"There will be music from showbiz greats such as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe and the Sherman Brothers, including much-loved hits like I Could have Danced All Night, I Loved You Once in Silence, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and The Rain in Spain all sung by Australia's own Helen Donaldson.”

Ms Donaldson is best known as the star of Essgee Melodies productions of The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, HMS Pinafore, The Merry Widow and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

In 2000 Helen moved to New York where her work ranged from singing contemporary opera in Russia's New Music Festival to winning the People's Choice Award at the 2003 Bidu Sayao International Singing Competition in Brazil and performing Nannetta in Falstaff for Opera Theatre of St. Louis.

Helen will be joined by seasoned performer David Kidd, direct from several world tours with The Ten Tenors.

In 2002 David was awarded a Centenary Medal for Outstanding Contribution to the Australian Music Industry, then in 2007 he won the the Queensland University of Technology Creative Industries Faculty Outstanding Alumni Award.

Mr Everett said Both Helen and David are outstanding performers in the own right and it will be a pleasure to have them on stage for the first Morning Melodies of 2009.

The Observer

bramblecrumble · Joined: Jan 05, 2006 Posts: 460 Location: Germany

Tenorissimo!

An exciting new act from the creative team behind The Ten Tenors...
After years touring the world with The Ten Tenors, some of the founding members of that group have put away their suitcases and reacquainted themselves with their families, settling in Brisbane full-time.

While they continue to direct, participate in and support the development of the outrageous successes of The Ten Tenors around the world, you just can’t keep great performers off the stage. Tenorissimo! was born as a way for these highly experienced, international performers to continue to tread the boards, while simultaneously developing talented new young singers who will eventually make their way into the ranks of The Ten Tenors themselves.

Featuring a handful of the finest voices (and dance moves!) The Ten Tenors’ audiences ever witnessed, Tenorissimo! reunites fans with familiar faces, singing familiar favourites.

“There’s no doubt it’ll be a scream”, says an excited David Kidd. “We know each other like brothers, and performing together has always been enormous fun. We’re looking forward to getting back to some of the old favourites too….”he says, referring to Tenor classics including Funiculi Funicula, Nessun Dorma, O Sole Mio as well as the brilliant classical takes on contemporary tunes that first shot The Ten Tenors to national and international acclaim nearly ten years ago.

Members:
David Kidd
Nathan Kneen
Andrew Prior
Jason Turnbull

Source: http://www.myspace.com/tenorissimoquartet

xrainy · Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:25 pm Post subject:

Lucky people of Brisbane, getting a mini TTT quartet Very Happy