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The Ten Tenors (also known as TTT) are an Australian musical ensemble, with a strong live touring profile in Europe, Canada and the United States and a burgeoning recording career. The group performs a diverse repertoire in concert and on their albums; performing Queen standards, including "Bicycle Race", "Bohemian Rhapsody", and "Who Wants to Live Forever", a Bee Gees medley, and ABBA's "Dancing Queen", and switch gears mid-set performing opera tunes and native Australian tunes (including Men at Work). Their most recent album Here's To The Heroes is heavily influenced by the music of John Barry.
The Ten Tenors’ innovation was to demonstrate a radically new form for the operatic tenor voice in ways that overcame a deep-seated resistance to cultural shifts inherent within this form. One of the ways this was achieved was through the innovative use of recording technology and digital signal processing as a composing and arranging tool. Thus some pieces of music were entirely originally composed, some were improvised-based utilising audio capture and cutup techniques (such as Sundance), and some were reinterpreted (such as Water/ Va Pensiero).
The Ten Tenors double CD (one live and one studio recorded) “Larger Than Life” CD was recorded in Australia and Germany and released in 2004 Europe and USA, with some of these tracks being released in Australia under the title “Tenology (The Best So Far)”. Andy Arthurs and Richard Vella were the recording co-producers. Some of these tracks drew on traditional opera repertoire, but many were reinvented for a broader non-opera going audience.
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Current members
- Benjamin (Ben) Clark
- Graham Foote
- Luke Kennedy
- Stewart "Sancho" Morris
- Boyd Owen
- Josh (JP) Piterman
- Dominic "Panda" Smith
- Steven Sowden
- Todd Strike
- Jeff Teale
Alternates
- Shannon Brown
- Drew "Creamy" Graham
- Craig Hendry
Former members
Liam McLachlan, Shannon Brown, Dion Molinas, Scott Fields, Jason Short, David "Billy the" Kidd, Adrian "Gary" Phillips, Geoffrey Ashenden, Craig "Burce" Atkinson, Bradley McCaw, Matthew Hickey, Jason "Chopper" Turnbull, Nathan "Merten" Kneen, Andrew "Fetchin' Days" Pryor, Dr. George Forgan-Smith, Rosario La Spina, Kim Kirkman, Kent Maddock, Gordon Harris, Bernard Wheaton
Discography
CD
- 1998 - Tenorissimo!
- 1999 - Colours
- 2000 - Untied (also known as One Is Not Enough in Europe)
- 2001 - A Not So Silent Night
- 2004 - Larger Than Life
- 2005 - Tenology (The Best Of So Far...)
- 2005 - A Not So Silent Night (remastered and remixed with new tracks, available at concerts in Germany and as bonus CD with Tenology Limited Christmas Edition in the USA)
- 2006 - Here's To The Heroes
- 2008 - Nostalgica
VHS/DVD
- 2000 - Colours - VHS (Australia & New Zealand only)
- 2002 - One Is Not Enough - DVD (Europe only)
- 2004 - Larger Than Life - DVD (USA, Canada & Australia only)
- 2006 - Here's To The Heroes - DVD
Touring Schedule
The Ten Tenors have a rigorous touring schedule, conducting small tours throughout Australia, predominantly headlining the famous 'A Day On The Green' winery spectaculars, in Queensland, New South Wales and Perth. However they tour extensively in in the USA, Germany and New Zealand on an annual basis. TTT have also recently (2007) conducted their premiere tours of South Africa and France.
The Ten Tenors have toured Scandinavia, Korea and Russia and an extensive Spanish leg for the first time, in 2008. They have also premiered a new show "Nostalgica - A journey of Musical Memories" on their most recent Australian Tour. They are currently touring their Nostalgica tour in the United States.
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