Chris de Souza has worked in the media as a Theatre Director and Radio Music Producer and Presenter. A Graduate in Music from Bristol University, he was Director of Music at a Comprehensive School there from 1966 to 1970. He is also a Graduate of the Directors’ Course of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and went on to become a Producer with Sadlers Wells/English National Opera. He has worked with many childrens’ theatre groups. He enjoyed a long career with the BBC, working with both music and drama departments, being appointed the BBC’s first Proms Producer in 1987. He is a busy music teacher and, as a composer, his music has been widely broadcast and performed, with recent commissions from the BBC, Southern Sinfonia, West Berkshire Maestros and the Lymington Choral Society (for May 2011).

The Boys 

Tristan de Souza:

Tristan has toured the UK with the National Youth Music Theatre and joined the National Youth Theatre in 2006. He won a top music-scholarship to Sherborne School as a cellist, pianist and singer. Tristan left Sherborne in 2006 after having taken lead roles in The July Plot playing Von Stauffenberg and in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol as Ebenezer Scrooge.

After leaving Sherborne, Tristan attended Bristol University where he read Spanish and was president of the Spotlight Society – as president, he made it his objective to put new and groundbreaking drama at the centre of the society’s  programme, he succeeded with the commission of a number of new works that then went on to receive critical acclaim at the Edinburgh festival. Tristan also took roles in a number plays produced by both Spotlight and the Drama Society – his last role was The Narrator in Bertolt Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle.

Sebastian de Souza:

Sebastian began his career in the theatre at the age of 11 after deciding to dramatize William Horwood’s adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s novel The Wind In The Willows, The Willows at Christmas, and perform it at home, in the barn with his classmates.

At 13, Sebastian won a music award at St Edward’s Oxford in 2006 as a pianist, clarinetist and singer where he has also taken lead roles in productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream playing Puck, Great Expectations as Pip, Good as Maurice and - most recently - Henry V as Henry. He was invited to join the National Youth Theatre in 2009. Sebastian has just finished filming the Channel 4 TV Drama series Skins.