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Nicholas Sillitoe

voc, *1971 GB
Composer of Electronic and Dance

British DJ, Jazz musician and composer, born September 1971 in London, UK. 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.

Genres

• Electronic
• Dance
• Classical
• R&B/Soul

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