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Concert a homecoming for Joey Niceforo

Joey Niceforo will return home Dec. 3 for a concert featuring a variety of music from his debut solo CD release, “Live Like Horses.” The concert takes place starting at 7:30 p.m. at Laurentian University's Fraser Auditorium.
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Check out Sudbury boy Joey Niceforo in concert at Laurentian University's Fraser Auditorium Dec. 3. Supplied photo.

Joey Niceforo will return home Dec. 3 for a concert featuring a variety of music from his debut solo CD release, “Live Like Horses.”


The concert takes place starting at 7:30 p.m. at Laurentian University's Fraser Auditorium. Niceforo sings a mix of both original songs and classics from his catalogue of jazz, pop, opera and art songs. In keeping with the Christmas season, a number of traditional Christmas carols will also be performed.

Joining Niceforo for this hometown concert are Ukrainian violinist Nadia Kodakovska, pianist Richard Evans and bass player Russ Boswell.


Following a busy musical career over the past two decades as an ensemble performer, recording artist and vocal coach, Niceforo is pursuing a solo career, managed by Sam Reid, member of five time Juno Award winning and Grammy nominated Canadian group Glass Tiger.


Growing up in Sudbury, in a French-Italian household, Joey Niceforo showed an early love for music. He was schooled in French and later studied vocal music and Italian in Siena, Italy. 


In Canada, he studied at The Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music and graduated from the University of Toronto’s Opera Division. 


The tenor also made his debut at Carnegie Hall and performed a lead role as an opera singer in an ABC movie A Brave New Girl, produced by Britney Spears. Niceforo was also the first student to receive the Italia Nel Mondo Award in 2001.


He was an original member of The Canadian Tenors and then created his own critically acclaimed classical crossover, popera group Destino. The group received international exposure, performing at the 2008
Beijing Olympics and the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, the Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas, and a Disney World concert where Niceforo shared the stage with Marie Osmond.

 
In 2009, Destino was invited to be the opening act for a national 18 city tour with the Rankin Family. Now as a solo artist, the tenor is developing a range of repertoire that has already taken him to perform solo concerts in Newmarket, Belleville and Toronto, with more performance dates to come.


Tickets to the concert cost $33, and are available at the Sudbury Theatre Centre Box office. Phone 705-674-8381 or visit www.sudburytheatre.ca.
 


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