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Choirboys' album among Brit award nominations
David Hogg THE debut album by the world's first choirboy band could scoop the top prize at the Classical Brit awards next month.
The Choirboys album has been nominated alongside Aled Jones, former Emmerdale star Amy Nuttall, teenage sensation Hayley Westenra and last year's winner Katherine Jenkins in the Album of the Year category.
Chosen from nearly 1,000 hopefuls in 50 school choirs up and down the country, two of the Choirboys, Ben Inman, 13, and CJ Porter-Thaw, 11, are from Yorkshire. Ben is from Melmerby, near Ripon, and attends the Minster School, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, while CJ was born in Sheffield and is at King's School, Ely.
They were talent-spotted during auditions, together with the final band member – 12-year-old Patrick Aspbury – and landed a reputed 500,000 contract with record giant Universal Classics.
The boys will be joined at the Classical Brit award ceremony in the Royal Albert Hall by teenage violin virtuoso Nicola Benedetti .
Benedetti, 18, from West Kilbride, Ayrshire, in Scotland, is in the running for Album of the Year and Young British Classical Performer. She became the youngest person to lead an orchestra at the age of nine and won BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2004.
Composer and musician Karl Jenkins is up for the Contemporary Music Award and Album of the Year, while fellow Welshman Bryn Terfel is nominated for Album of the Year and Singer of the Year.
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