Alex: A Passion For Life | Alex Stobbs

UK | Thursday October 8th '09 | 9pm | Channel 4

Alex Stobbs became an overnight phenomenon and shot to international prominence following transmission of 2008s critically acclaimed, award-winning documentary, A Boy Called Alex. It told of his extraordinary story as a Eton music scholar and cystic fibrosis sufferer. Immediately after transmission, offers of professional work flooded in, as did marriage proposals. Now aged 19, a choral scholar at King's College, Cambridge, and a member of its world-famous choir, this new film follows Alex's dramatic and event-filled transition from boy to man.

Determined to live as normal a student life as possible, complete with girlfriends, late nights and major socialising, Alex is also set on fulfilling his lifelong ambition: to conduct Bach's three hour masterpiece, the St Matthew Passion, with a major orchestra and some of the country's top soloists. But by pushing himself to the limit, Alex risks getting an infection that could be his last.

For more information see http://walkergeorgefilms.co.uk

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Alex Stobbs
• Walker George FIlms
• Channel 4
• A Boy Called Alex
• documentary
• Cystic Fibrosis
• CF
• Matthew Passion
• Bach
• musical prodigy
• choral music

[walkergeorgefilms]

Watch the whole documentary - sequel to the award-winning A Boy Called Alex - this week:

** UK | Thursday October 8th '09 | 9pm | Channel 4 **

For more details, go to the Walker George Films website.

[dorisboy52]

Glad to see Alex is still hanging in there...He is such an amazing person...

[paperandtea]

he is one of the most amazing charecters i have ever ever seen in my life

[wis7dom]

I can't wait to see this! It's going to be on next week where I live. Alex is just brilliant and such an inspiration. I am awestruck when I hear him play the piano or organ and then to see him conducting blows my mind. AMAZING young man. He is truly a blessing.

[hughin1]

i´m so happy that here are good comments from him, i have seen a video where all the comments were horrible, alex seems great, i dont know him of course hahha i dont speak english neighter, but he seems a lovely kid.