Introducing the faculty of Harmony College, Holland Harmony 2018

Steve Tramack Steve Tramack is a 35-year member of the Barbershop Harmony Society, who proves the adage that barbershopping runs in the blood. Great-grandfather Frank Barker started a chapter in 1946; his father, Dave, was a 40+ year member, and his son, Joshua is a BHS member. His wife, Renee, is a 35+ year member of Harmony Inc. who directs New England Voices in Harmony (2014 champs). Their daughters, Christina and Samantha also sing with their mother in Taken 4 Granite, 2015 Harmony Inc. International Champions.

Steve is involved in several facets of barbershopping, including:

- Directing the Granite Statesmen to 10 District championships (1997 – 2007) - 1999 District quartet champ and Five-time International quartet competitor - Certified Music judge (2010), and Board of Review member - Judged BHS International three times, plus several affiliate contests (Harmony Inc, SNOBS, BNA, BHNZ, Holland Harmony, SABS) - Active arranger and coach - Faculty member of BHS Harmony University, District and Area schools, the BABS Directors College and Harmony College.

Steve was named Nashua chapter Barbershopper of the Year in 1999, and for the Northeastern District in 2012. Steve works for Hewlett Packard Enterprise as Director of Engineering.

Charlotte Murray Charlotte Murray is an 19 year high school music educator from , . Charlotte first discovered a love of barbershop after hearing visiting International Quartet Champions, , in her final years of high school. When she returned to her old high school Tawa College as a teacher in 1998, she took over the barbershop programme. Today she has 120 high school students involved in weekly barbershop chorus or quartet . Her past students include , the 2014 BHS International Quartet Champions. In her region Charlotte is heavily involved in organising and leading barbershop workshops and competitions for high school students. Charlotte is a BHS Master Director and the co-founder and co-director of International 6th placed chorus, Vocal FX. Charlotte is a Performance Judge for the Australasian Guild of Barbershop Judges and is a Performance Category Candidate Judge for the BHS. She has also been involved in delivering Director Training for Barbershop Harmony New Zealand since 2008. Adam Scott Adam Scott owns a private music studio in northern Utah. He holds a M.M. in choral conducting from Oklahoma State University and a B.A. in music composition from Utah State University. Previous to this he worked as music educator and editor of music publications for the Barbershop Harmony Society. He has collaborated with composers and arrangers including Dr. Kirby Shaw and Deke Sharon. Adam has sung every part in many different ensembles, and sings with Switch. Adam has written and/or arranged over five hundred pieces of music, including over a hundred barbershop arrangements for and choruses. His classical music is sung by many High Schools and colleges in North America. He is published by MusicSpoke, Music House Publications, and his own private studio. Adam lives in Pleasant Grove, UT with his wife Bethany and four (loud) boys.

After Hours After Hours began at Bradley University in Peoria, IL in 2007. Peoria natives Tim Beutel () and Dan Wessler (bass) sang in a quartet with two college friends, and proceeded to capture the 2010 ILL District Quartet Championship. Over the proceeding years, as they began to excel in the BHS International Quartet Contest, their membership changed, as they picked up Wisconsin native Bryan Ziegler () and Ohio native Drew Ochoa (lead). They have since placed in the top ten in the International Quartet Contest multiple times, most recently winning the 3rd Place Bronze Medal in the 2017 International Quartet Contest. After Hours has performed for a variety of barbershop an non-barbershop shows all across the , and strives to simply bring joy to all types of audiences through their music.

David McEachern David has been involved in for a few decades. He is a performer, Performance Judge and coach. He sings with the Toronto Northern Lights chorus and is involved in creating and coaching their contest performance packages as well as coaching many other choruses and quartets around the world. He speaks one language fluently… sort of.

David’s original musical background is in folk and bluegrass music where he played 5-string banjo in a Bluegrass band many moons ago. He also spends a great deal of time performing in theatrical productions and comedy shows in Toronto, , his most recent role as Lurch in The Addams Family.

Theresa Weatherbee Theresa Weatherbee is a Certified Performance Judge and Performance Category Director of Harmony, Inc. She is a 35-year member of HI and an Associate of the BHS. Theresa is also a BHS Performance Candidate Judge.

Theresa is a world class performance coach to all types of performers including public speakers, musical theatre performers, and professional musicians. Known for her "all-consuming passion" for the stage, Theresa’s main mission is to help the performer take their already existing performance skills to new heights and learn how to achieve believability through continued education and development.

Theresa brings all the elements of her theatre training and stage experience into her coaching sessions, believing that every performer possesses a unique personality and individual characteristics. She helps them to discover and develop their own stage personality while enriching their total performance experience.

Robert Mance Robert Mance is excited to be starting his eighth year as musical director of Central Standard, and has recently earned 2nd and 3rd place international medals with the chorus. Robert is also the founding artistic director of Vocal Standard, a new women's ensemble based in Kansas City.

Robert has completed the coursework for a doctoral degree in choral conducting at the University of Kansas, where he has been conductor of the Oread Consort, the Men's Glee, and the University Singers. In addition, he serves as Director of Music at Shawnee Presbyterian Church in Shawnee, Kansas where he also maintains a private voice studio. He spends the rest of his week as a full time coach of choruses and quartets.

Before starting his studies at KU, Robert most recently served as interim Director of Choral Activities and interim Voice Area Director at William Jewell College in Liberty, MO. Robert has also sung professionally with such groups as the Kansas City Chorale under Charles Bruffy and the Westminster Symphonic and Westminster Choir under Joe Miller.

He is an active clinician for high school vocal ensembles, maintains a recording studio, and serves as a Barbershop Harmony Society judge in the singing category, and formerly in the music category. Robert completed his undergraduate studies at McGill University in Montreal, QC in voice performance, and completed his graduate studies at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ in choral conducting and voice pedagogy.

Robert resides in Kansas City with his wife Kristin, an English teacher, and Chihuahua Willie.

Royce Ferguson Royce Ferguson is an acclaimed performer, director, and clinician. A San Diego, California native, Royce has been active in the Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS) for nearly 30 years. He is an International Quartet Champion on Tenor (, 1998) as well as an International gold medal chorus director (Westminster, 2007).

Royce completed two music degrees with honors from Southwestern College and continued his studies in performance and advanced choral conducting at San Diego State University. At SDSU, he also founded a cappella ensemble Royce’s Voices as a component of the SDSU community music school program.

His expertise in the convergence of music and technology has lead to work in recording studio production (StudioWest), as well as multimedia quality assurance engineering (Apple, Inc).

He has participated in numerous choral and educational events, including teaching advanced vocal and directing techniques classes at Harmony University (BHS).

Royce directs the Pacific Coast Harmony men’s chorus, based in La Jolla, CA. He is a certified trainer for the Chorus Director Workshop Intensive (CDWI) program in the US and Canada and is the chair for Chorus Director Development in the Far Western District (BHS). ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Royce is thrilled to participate at Holland Harmony College, 2018.

“What an exciting opportunity to join this amazing faculty and work closely with all of the wonderful barbershop harmony singers in Holland!

I’ll be assisting with quartet coaching as well as offering unique one hour class sessions – Performance Perfected, Train like a Champion, and Quartet ID. These classes will focus upon core vocal production principles, musical expression and performance skills in a fun and productive group setting.

Sign-up right away, I look forward to seeing you there!”

Andrew Rembecki Andrew Rembecki is a singing judge candidate, director, voice teacher, singer, and middle school choral teacher. He began singing barbershop in 2004, inspired by his high school music teacher. He continued to grow in his barbershop experience and joined Central Standard in 2008. He is currently the Assistant Director of Central Standard, who earned 2nd place in the 2016 International Chorus Competition. He is the tenor of the 2017 Central States District Champion Quartet, Vintage Stock.

Andrew graduated from Northwest Missouri State University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science in Music Education, and again from Northwest in 2013 with a Master of Science in Education. He has been a music educator since 2013 and currently teaches choral music at Antioch Middle School in the North Kansas City School District in Kansas City, Missouri. Andrew currently coaches groups within the Central States District and has been the clinician for Youth In Harmony events in the Midwest. Andrew resides in Kansas City, Missouri with his wife Chacey, who also sings barbershop and teaches elementary music.

Martin Ford Martin Ford is a vocal coach who specialises in singing and performance. He coaches at all levels from complete beginner to National and European Champion status.

Prior to joining barbershop, Martin was Head Chorister at Leeds Minster, where he attended daily from the age of 9 to 15, completing an estimated 2200 choral services. Yearly choir tours meant that Martin sang in some of the UK's most prestigious choral venues including St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Worcester Cathedral, and The Royal Albert Hall. He also played trombone in the Leeds City Senior Brass Band as well as jazz and swing groups whilst studying brass and voice at the Leeds College of Music.

Since joining barbershop in 1983, Martin has won 9 National quartet gold medals and has represented BABS at International Contest on 5 occasions in quartet and twice in chorus with The Cambridge Chord Company. He has also won 3 European Silver medals for quartet singing. Martin has been educating at Harmony Colleges since 1995, coaching for BABS, Holland Harmony, DABS, BinG!, and in Dubai.

Martin has coached 21 National Championship winning barbershop groups for BABS, DABS, LABBS, BinG!, and Holland Harmony, and has coached numerous groups to win Gold and Silver at the European conventions. He is excited to be working with Holland Harmony at this College.

Matthew Gifford Matthew, of New Zealand Māori and Cook Islands Māori descent, resides in the Kāpiti Coast of New Zealand and is a vocal performance and musicianship coach. Matthew is the bass singer of the 2014 International BHS Champion quartet Musical Island Boys, recognised as one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed and successful acapella music groups. Matthew is also a founding member and the Assistant Musical Director of Vocal FX, 2016 6th Place BHS Chorus, and nine-time New Zealand champion chorus.

Matthew recently appeared on New Zealand national television as one of three judges on the country’s first televised acapella show The Naked Choir, and last month was an adjudicator at the Big Sing Festival, New Zealand’s national high school choral contest. Matthew is a regular host of the international webcast of the Barbershop Harmony Society international contest.

Matthew is a certified singing judge in both the Australasian Guild of Barbershop Judges and the Barbershop Harmony Society, and is currently the Vice President of Barbershop Harmony NZ. Matthew Chairs the BHNZ Education Team and Co-Chairs the Contest & Judging Team.

Matthew works in his own policy and consultancy firm Gifford Reay Consultants, specialising in Māori language, Māori and Pacific education policy and cultural research and development. Marlous Luiten The last 6 years Marlous has completely focused on conducting . In that she found one of her greatest passions. The past 4 years she has also directed a barbershop chorus, with great joy: Route Sixteen. Her roots and her other passion lies in theatre. For 8 years she made a capella cabaret with 3 others singers in a group called Femmage. In total they created 4 full shows with which they toured all the big venues in Holland. She has worked together with great directors such as Martin van Waardenberg and Karel de Rooij (Mini & Maxi). She uses all these experiences of musical theatre when working with her own choirs. She is also often asked to work on staging with other choirs. Using all her theatrical knowledge goes way further than just interpretation and dance steps, it’s a total mindset. Musical theatre and barbershop are a perfect combination.

Stuart Sides Stuart is a singing teacher and vocal, performance and presentation coach. He is a chorus director and quartet singer with numerous national and international medals and championships and a regular faculty member at Harmony Colleges in Europe. Stuart also makes vocal learning materials for groups and has a mobile recording studio.

Stuart has had a varied vocal life since he first started singing in church choirs when he was 6. In 1978 (when he was 9) he started in barbershop but he has since then also sung in mixed voice a cappella groups and classical choirs but most notably he has sung in four UK National Champion barbershop quartets in 1993, 1994, 2004 & 2005 (bass, baritone, lead and baritone) going on to represent his country in the International Championships each time and since moving to Holland has sung in 3 Dutch Champion Quartets in 2008 (Xperience, baritone), 2011 (Trademark, baritone) and 2015 (Maelstrom, tenor). This last quartet puts Stuart in a very small group of people who have won quartet gold medals in all four parts! Stuart now sings lead in the mixed quartet ‘Angels and Demons’ and bass in a men’s quartet!

His directing career began in 1984 (at 15 years old) with a barbershop chorus. Again he achieved major success in 1998 and 2006 taking two choruses to National Championships. In the , Stuart took iSing to national chorus silver and bronze medals and in 2013 directed Sound Waves to National Gold AND European Silver Medals as well as other International invitational Gold medals in Ireland 2013 and Spain 2014.

Stuart is currently the director of No Borders Show Chorus, with the unique characteristic that it’s open across multiple countries and is currently 60 strong with members from The Netherlands and . At only 2,5 years old, they are Region 31 Quartet of Nations current AA Chorus champions and 3rd place overall. NBSC are very excited to be attending the SAI Convention is St Louis this year to compete in the Harmony Classics competition.