Simon Woolf

Biography

Simon Woolf was born in August 1954 into a musical family. He sang from
early childhood and learnt to play recorders, piano and cello. Only
after a Royal Festival Hall appearance with Joan Sutherland and a
successful BBC audition the following day did he take singing lessons,
with Grayston Burgess, the director of the Purcell Consort of Voices.
These studies enabled Simon to develop an unique repertoire of songs
about childhood, never previously sung by children. Throughout two
packed years until his voice broke he was in constant demand for the
concert platform and operatic stage, radio and television, whilst
continuing his general education at St. Dunstan's College, London.

Simon Woolf's recordings include medieval motets, Purcell and Handel,
Mendelssohn's Elijah and recent songs by living composers. No other boy
singer has ever recorded music of such variety. "Records and Recording" 
has written of Simon Woolf; "This is a boy artist of exceptional maturity".
Steuart Bedford was at the time of recording a member of the music
staff of The English Opera Group and a professor at the Royal Academy
of Music. Well known as a conductor, organ recitalist and pianist, he
was Simon Woolf's partner for his first recital record of songs by
Russian composers.

Simon Woolf's recital recordings with Steuart Bedford on the website of Musical Pointers.

Musical Pointers (Editor
Peter Grahame Woolf) is a wide ranging website journal, reviewing live
events and recordings from worldwide, especially of "niche musics"* likely to be overlooked by the print media, and with a lively Articles section.