A TALENTED schoolboy with the voice of an angel said he was ‘proud’, ‘excited’ and ‘a little bit nervous’ as he sang his heart out in front of the Queen during a service to celebrate her Jubilee.
As millions of people watched on live television across the world, Thomas Fesmer, of Townfield Lane, Frodsham, joined 40 other schoolchildren as they raised their voices and proudly sang a specially penned anthem during a thanksgiving service at St Paul’s Cathedral on Tuesday.
And with the Queen sitting on the front row and more than 2,000 dignitaries, politicians and celebrities filling the pews, the 11-year-old Frodsham CE Primary School Pupil, said he was excited but worried he would slip up, despite never putting a note wrong during the hour-long service.
Thomas, who is known as Tom to his friends and has been a chorister at Chester Cathedral for the past two years, blew away judges at auditions at Manchester Cathedral, seeing off competition from more than 400 choristers to gain a place in the Diamond Choir.
And as Tom, who often sings at St Laurence’s Church in Frodsham, and the other children started singing the Call of Wisdom in front of members of the royal family, his mum Andrea who was watching proudly from the pews said she was so proud that she cried.
“I was crying and I wasn’t the only one,” said Andrea, who said the choir had been the highlight of the service and the celebrations as a whole.
“It was an very emotional occasion, a lot of the children hadn’t really done anything like that before, luckily Tom has had a lot of experience singing in the cathedral, but he had never sung in front of so many people let along royalty before.”
Andrea said the entire family, including Tom’s dad Tim and younger brother Matthew, travelled to London on Saturday morning so he could take part in two days of practice with 40 other children who he had never met before.
Speaking on the train back from London yesterday, Tom, whose angelic voice was only discovered a few years ago when he played Tiny Tim during the school’s Christmas play two years ago, said: “I really enjoyed myself.
“I was a bit nervous, but we had practiced it a lot, so I didn’t do that badly. I would love to do it again.”
Tom’s brother Matthew, nine, who also sings at Chester Cathedral as a chorister, had tried to watch his brother on the big screen in Trafalgar Square but missed it walking for hours after getting lost trying to find the toy shop with his dad.
But the proud family, who spent the rest of the day lapping up the festive atmosphere in the capital and enjoyed a bus top tour with the rest of the choir before visiting Platform 9¾, watched the service on the TV when they returned to the hotel.
