One busy Choirboy.

From Trinity School's Headmaster:

"In contrast, last weekend Stefan Leadbeater (1L) starred as the treble soloist in a live performance of the soundtrack to ‘Lord of the Rings: Return of the King’ in front of a sold out audience of 5000 people at the Krakow International Film Festival in Poland. The critically acclaimed composer of the music for all three Lord of the Rings films, Howard Shore, was in attendance, and was very pleased with Stefan’s solo role.

The film was projected onto a giant screen, and the soundtrack was synchronised and performed live by a huge symphony orchestra and massed choir. Stefan was given a fantastic ovation by the audience as he was beckoned to the podium by both the conductor and the composer at the end of the film."

He is a Music Scholar at Trinity School, Croydon, and a senior member of Trinity Boys Choir. He has appeared in Tosca at the Royal Opera House and covered the Boy Soprano role in George Crumb’s Ancient Voices of Children for the BBCSO in last year’s Barbican concert. Stefan is also a principal soloist for the Christian boys choir ‘Libera’ and appears in their latest release Deep Peace. Stefan studies singing with Timothy Penrose and the trumpet with Colin Craft.

From Paracletelux of the AV Groups

I found a short (bootleg) clip of Stefan's performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyeSmJ3tAuc

and a couple better quality (though still audience-captured) clips containing some of his segments:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OylHxDR-kXk
(starts ~0:32) 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcI9grAhH0g
(starts ~2:10

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