Aled Jones

treble boy soprano

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Aled Jones was born on December 29, 1970, in Llandegfan, Anglesey. At 9 years of age he was accepted as a chorister at Bangor Cathedral Choir. He won first prize in several singing  competitions for young people including the
Urdd Eisteddfod competition (under 12s) in 1982. It was at this time that he was taken by Hefina Orwig Evans to Sain records. His first album entitled Diolch  Chân (Song of Thanksgiving - later released as 'Where e're you walk) was a great success and led to Aled being chosen as a soloist in the BBC2 recording of Handel's oratorio 'Jephtha' at St. Davids Hall, Cardiff and thereafter in the BBC Wales project in The Holy land, the album of which established Aled Jones as a major recording artist.

Angela Pope, who was researching for a film about the treble voice, heard him on the radio.
Aled was immediately recruited to play the star role in this 3 part documentary about a choirboy who had risen to be a recording star. This award winning documentary focusing on Aled's private life as well as his singing enchanted his many fans and was to put him under the spotlights until his voice broke.

This did not happen for another 18 months when Aled was 16. During this time Aled made A Royal Gala Performance in front of the Queen, a solo in Andrew Lloyd Webbers's Requiem  and performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in front of 27,000 people at the Hollywood Bowl. During all this time he was recording almost continuously and has a discography larger than that of any other treble soloist. Out of all his recordings he will be remembered most for his hit single 'Walking in the Air' although it was not his version that appeared on the film's soundtrack.

Aled's Official Site

Download Video How Beautiful are the feet (29M)

DVD - VIDEOS

Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Carols for Christmas (released 1995 as video now available on DVD) Kultur International Films

The Royal College of Music Chamber Choir performs a collection of Christmas carols, while the viewer is taken on a tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Featured performers include the Farnby Brass Ensemble and boy soprano Aled Jones. Sir David Willcocks conducts.
The music is performed by The Royal College of Music Chamber Choir with the Farnaby Brass Ensemble at the St. Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk. Aled Jones sings  9 songs.

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 Aled Jones solos on seven tracks - click on back cover above for more details.

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Discography

Original releases on  Sain Records, 10 records and BBC labels. CD versions have been licensed to many companies including Virgin Classics, Pickwick and Telstar

Diolch Âchân

Voices From the Holy Land

Pie Jesu

All through the Night

Aled Jones / Sailing

Aled - Music From The TV Series

Aled Jones / An Album of Hymns

Aled Jones / Christmas

Faure - Requiem Bernstein - Chichester Psalms

The Very Best of Aled Jones (LP)

Memory - The Best of

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There have been many CD re-releases and compilation albums. One of the most recent from Sain records includes all his first recorded songs.

Hear My Prayer (2003)
Sain SCD 2426 

1. Hear My Prayer 
2. Laudate Dominum 
3. The Lord’s Prayer 
4. Silent Worship 
5. The children’s home 
6. Panis Angelicus 
7. Diolch â chân 
8. Llansteffan 
9. Y fwyalchen ddu bigfelen 
10. Sarah 
11. Caro Mio Ben 
12. Ddwyfol Iesu (Pie Jesu), 
13. Where e’re you walk 
14. How beautiful are the feet 
15. Rhosyn Coch (Heiden Roslein) 
16. Y Lili Ddwr (Schumann - Lotus Flower) 
17. The Little Road to Bethlehem 
18. Ave Maria 
19. Bridge over troubled water 
20. Too young to know 

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