Please do check out the related links listed below.

In episode two, we chat about when I performed on Chorister of the Year (October 2021) and Britain's Got Talent (January 2022, it aired May 2022) and what it was like recording new songs with Dominic Ferris and Simon Hanhart. We have linked all these different events back to the changing stage that my voice was at, at the time I did them.

Again, I'm joined by my mum, Alison, who still keeps me right on the order of things and she helps explain what it was like from a grown - up's perspective too.

Professor Martin Ashley, a renowned voice change expert and author of many books on the subject of voice change and Matthew Todd, professional tenor and music educator, join me too.

Getting to do all these things as a very young singer has given me a lot of experience in a very short time for a young boy singer and at the end of last year I realised just what a good position that put me in to try and help other young boys to keep singing when their voices change too.

I'm 15 now, my voice is through the most difficult part of it changing and I'm very fortunate to still be singing. I hope episode two continues to spark your interest in my podcast.

If you have any connection to young boys who you think would benefit from listening to this please share it with them too.

We also thought it would be helpful to define CAMBIATA

"Whilst a boy goes through puberty, his comfortable modal singing range fits none of the conventional SATB choral parts. Cambiata are specific part ranges based on the principle that "the music must fit the voice, not the voice the music".

The cambiata 1 part for boys in early puberty ranges from A3 - A4 and shares some but not all notes with treble. The cambiata 2 part, for boys in later puberty ranges from E3 - E4 and shares some but not all notes with tenor."

This is all explained rather well by boys of the National Youth Choir in the film Populating the Parts, available at here: Populating the Parts | Martin Ashley (martin-ashley.com)

Cormac Thompson - Homepage

Cormac's SECOND album 'A Borrowed Gift' - Cormac Thompson https://a.co/d/0odkjsH

Cormac's first album 'Hear My Voice' https://amzn.eu/d/fLpngxJ

Links to songs mentioned during the podcast

'Arms of An Angel' https://youtu.be/1qIgDDK3J2o?si=LNeeOXvDKhDGpsjw (recorded May 2022)

'May it Be' https://youtu.be/7QI7ExXBRHs?si=DmzlxiKWqILBeK4D

(recorded August 2021)

October 2021 https://youtu.be/U9QFxrnNWS8?si=1eozoiIvNyPkh_hC

Cormac performing 'Ave Maria' in the semi - final on BBC1's Songs of Praise, Chorister of the Year singing competition

All the different times Cormac sang Snow Patrol's 'Run'

Recorded August 2020 (aged 11yrs 5 months) https://youtu.be/KpjcSK0C_ZE?si=oWH_YLaUXJXnM0NA

released as the lead single from the Decca album 'Hear my Voice'

January 2022 (aged 12 years 10 months) https://youtu.be/OzWjG6dvi4k?si=aTeE7Xf-Bf0HkcGx

Cormac singing Snow Patrol's 'Run' live on 'Britain's Got Talent'

May 2022 (aged 13 years 2 months)...