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Sunday Afternoon, March 25, 2018, at 2:00

Celebrating DCINY’s 10th Anniversary Season! Iris Derke, Co-Founder and General Director Jonathan Griffith, Co-Founder and Artistic Director

presents TOTAL VOCAL with Deke Sharon , Guest Conductor, Arranger, & Creative Director Shelley Regner , Guest Soloist Matthew Sallee , Guest Soloist VoicePlay , Special Guests Shemesh Quartet (Mexico) , Special Guests Distinguished Concerts Singers International

All by Deke Sharon unless otherwise noted

TOBIAS BOSHELL I’ve Got The Music in Me (from The Sing-Off ) Distinguished Concerts International Soloists: LYDIA BROWELL, GABRIELLA DERKE, ALEXIS DILUCIA, KAT HAMMOCK, MARY LASTER, CHLOE MESOGITIS, SARA PARKER, ALEXANDRA PRODANUK, CARSON RICHMOND, HANNAH SALLEY

BOBBY TROUP Route 66 (from Groove 66 )

CATHY DENNIS, HENRIK JONBACK, PONTUS WINNBERG, CHRISTIAN KARLSSON Toxic (from 3 )

JESSE HARRIS, Don’t Know Why ROOM 100, PETERS TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL, Featured Ensemble

JOHN FOGERTY Proud Mary

TONY VELONA Lollipops And Roses

ITTAI MAZOR, BRUNO CISNEROS, SARA GONZALES, RUBÉN BLADES, GILBERTO SANTA ROSA Latin Medley SHEMESH QUARTET, Featured Ensemble

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RANDY NEWMAN When She Loved Me (from D Cappella )

DUFFY, STEVE BOOKER Mercy EVOLVE, CHESAPEAKE HIGH SCHOOL, Featured Ensemble

LOUIS PRIMA Sing, Sing, Sing

LIONEL RICHIE All Night Long (from The Sing-Off ) MATTHEW SALLEE, Guest Soloist

Intermission

CALEB FOLLOWILL, JARED FOLLOWILL, MATTHEW FOLLOWILL, NATHAN FOLLOWILL (from The Sing-Off ) Distinguished Concerts International Soloists: AMANDA GOMMA ALLAN, CLARE CLAY, JENNA DEARNESS-DARK, SARAH JACKSON, GWENDOLEN JAMES, MADELEINE JAMES, ABIGAIL MOORE, DANIEL PEET, DENNIS SEIFERT, PENELOPE SIMPKINS, ANYA SMALL, EMILY SUMMERLING, JAIMIE VOLKAERTS

KRISTEN ANDERSON-LOPEZ, RUSS KAPLAN, SARA WORDSWORTH, JAMES-ALLEN FORD Deep Beneath The City / Not There Yet (from In Transit )

BENJ PASEK, , arr. Layne Stein Waving Through a Window (from ) VOICEPLAY, Special Guests

JOHAN CARLSSON, ROSS GOLAN, MAX MARTIN (from Vocalosity )

LORDE, Royals PSYCHO-CHOR DER FSU JENA, Featured Ensemble

LILY ALLEN F You (from Pitch Perfect ) CANDICE HELFAND-ROGERS, Featured Soloist

A. P. CARTER, LUISA GERSTEIN Cups NO TREBLE, Featured Ensemble

KIMBERLEY REW Walkin’ on Sunshine (from Groove 66 ) SHELLEY REGNER, Guest Soloist

RICHARD RODGERS, OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN If I Loved You (for the SF Gay Men’s Chorus)

GEORGE GERSHWIN Summertime

BONO, , , LARRY MULLEN JR. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (from The Sing-Off ) VOICEPLAY, SHELLEY REGNER, & MATTHEW SALLEE, Guest Soloists 03-25 DCINY.qxp_GP 3/15/18 4:15 PM Page 3

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Notes on the Program a song that’s as captivating as it was when Nat King Cole sang it half a century ago. —Deke Sharon I’ve Got The Music in Me (from The Sing-Off ) (4 min) Toxic (from ) (3 min) TOBIAS BOSHELL , HENRIK JONBACK, PONTUS WINNBERG, and CHRISTIAN This song appears to have been written for a KARLSSON cappella, and even though Tobias Boshell did not realize it at the time, once this aired on Some of my favorite memories making the NBC he emailed me letting him know that he Pitch Perfect movies are of our initial cre - felt this captured his ultimate ative meetings, sitting around a table with vision for the song, “when I was writing it, an early copy of the script, spitballing vari - stomping around the streets of London at ous songs to suit the big movie moments. approximately 112-ish beats a minute.” From the second I heard “Toxic” sug - —Deke Sharon gested for the big Fat Amy yacht scene, I knew it was the one, as it has been crying Route 66 (from Groove 66 ) (3 min) out for a full James Bond makeover ever BOBBY TROUP since Britney first sang it. —Deke Sharon When Disney’s California Adventure opened in 2001, they wanted an group Don’t Know Why (3 min) to greet people as they entered, so I cre - and NORAH JONES ated Groove 66, which performed in the park seven days a week for four years, Deke Sharon’s rendition of “Don’t Know then afterward became Vybration (which Why” by Norah Jones was the first song you can still see performing around Southern we learned as Room 100. This song ties all California). This became their signature tune, of us together in a way, for it’s also the 03-25 DCINY.qxp_GP 3/15/18 4:15 PM Page 4

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song that secured our spot in the top eight series of combined Latin rhythms that are showcase at the 2016 Kettering Acafest in juxtaposed against popular songs and two Ohio. We choose to sing this today in original Shemesh Quartet compositions. hopes of sharing the passion created by “Amor de millones” is a Cuban song com - the beautiful dissonance we found within posed by Sara Gonzales and arranged into this song with all of you. Thank you. a salsa style by Gilberto Santa—later bari - —Manasvini Ayyalasomayajula tone Ittai Mazor created an adaptation of (Group member) the piece for a cappella quartet. “Cuerpo Pintado” is a samba/salsa written by Ittai Proud Mary (4 min) Mazor, which is about youthful unrequited JOHN FOGERTY love. “Adios” is a song written by tenor Bruno Cisneros, compiled of different trop - Few songs become timeless classics in ical rhythms with text reflecting the senti - two very styles, but few tunes are this well ment of a farewell to love. “Dime” is an constructed. The grinding swamp rock of intellectual salsa composed by Ruben the Creedence Clearwater Revival track Blades and Willie Colon (arranged by Ittai and the supersonic soul of the Ike and Tina Mazor) that showcases the rhythms of record are both worthy of continued air - salsa and cumbia. play, and remind us that no matter how it —Shemesh Quartet is presented, a great song is a great song. —Deke Sharon When She Loved Me (from D Cappella ) (3 min) Lollipops And Roses (4 min) RANDY NEWMAN TONY VELONA Stuck in Manhattan during a blizzard while recording the In Transit cast , I found #MeToo has been long overdue, forcing us myself at a table with a couple of Disney to reexamine relationships and cultural Music executives who during a pause in mores once again. This song must have the conversation offered “we’ve long con - seemed charming and quaint when it was sidered creating a Disney a cappella first written, now landing somewhere group.” Say no more! D Cappella has been between naïve and clumsily ignorant. born, and will launch its first tour and Nonetheless, we shouldn’t turn away from album this fall. The group is seven singers songs like this, but instead listen with new in front of a 20-foot high definition screen ears to help remind us of the way things that wraps the stage, but for this number were, and the way things now should be. four singers will step forward, the screens —Deke Sharon will shut off, and Randy Newman’s impos - sibly haunting song will take center stage. Latin Medley (5 min) —Deke Sharon ITTAI MAZOR, BRUNO CISNEROS, SARA GONZALES, RUBÉN BLADES, and Mercy GILBERTO SANTA ROSA DUFFY and STEVE BOOKER (3 min)

“Latin Medley” for a cappella ensemble was Released in 2008 to immense international composed in February 2018 to be sung for success and easily Duffy’s most success - the Total Vocal performance at Lincoln ful song to date, “Mercy” is an absolute Center in celebration of DCINY’s tenth blast to perform. With a solid bit of funk anniversary season.This work contains a backed by 12-bar form, “Mercy” tells 03-25 DCINY.qxp_GP 3/15/18 4:15 PM Page 5

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the story of someone feeling an immense staging, and performances all coming attraction to someone and desperately together perfectly to create a powerful wanting to rid themselves of said feeling. moment, one that resonates perhaps even Evolve’s performance of “Mercy” sticks more completely than the original record - true to this message with a strong focus ing. Some songs just work perfectly when on the sass and independence that Duffy sung a cappella. portrays so well. We’ve added a bit of —Deke Sharon movement to spice up the performance and attitude even more! Feel free to dance Deep Beneath The City/Not There Yet and sing along in your chair to our ener - (from In Transit ) (4 min) gized performance of “Mercy” by Duffy! KRISTEN ANDERSON-LOPEZ, RUSS —Evolve, Chesapeake High School KAPLAN, SARA WORDSWORTH , and JAMES-ALLEN FORD Sing, Sing, Sing (3 min) LOUIS PRIMA Last year’s Total Vocal concert featured the cast of In Transit the show’s open - Is there irony in the fact that a song called ing number then racing back to Circle in “Sing Sing Sing” is best known by its the Square theater for their matinee perfor - instrumental versions? I’ve done my best mance. Alas, the show has closed, but the to set the record straight by turning the legend of the first a cappella musical on voices into an orchestra of sorts, not imi tat - Broadway lives on, via sheet music, a cast ing instruments so much as creating a wide album, and many beloved fans. Update: range of vocal colors worthy of the Benny the rights to perform the musical will be Goodman and Louis Prima recordings. available very soon, so that schools and —Deke Sharon theater companies around the world can bring it to life on their own stage. All Night Long (from The Sing-Off ) (4 min) —Deke Sharon Waving Through a Window (from Dear Originally performed as an opening num - Evan Hansen ) (4 min) ber during season three of The Sing-Off , BENJ PASEK and JUSTIN PAUL, arranged one of the groups was a quintet that met by Layne Stein the night before auditions and has now become a household name: . The music from the Tony Award –winning Now the newest member of PTX, Matt musical Dear Evan Hansen is nothing if not Sallee, will get a chance to sing it himself, powerful and profound, and when we first backed up by a choir of 250. heard the song “Waving Through a Window” —Deke Sharon it struck us as a piece that was begging to be arranged for a cappella. As we’ve been per - Use Somebody (from The Sing-Off ) (3 min) forming this song more and more in our live CALEB FOLLOWILL, JARED shows, it’s really found a home with our audi - FOLLOWILL, MATTHEW FOLLOWILL , ences. It’s kind of like our way of saying to and NATHAN FOLLOWILL anyone who’s had the experience of being an outsider, “Hey! We hear you and see you! One of my favorite Sing-Off performances Just like us, you’re going to be OK!” ever, it was a case of the lyric, harmonies, —VoicePlay 03-25 DCINY.qxp_GP 3/15/18 4:15 PM Page 6

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Dangerous Women (from Vocalosity ) the movie. We’re extremely thrilled to be (3 min) given the chance to feature as a solo act, MAX MARTIN, JOHAN CARLSSON , and and we’re going to do our best. ROSS GOLAN —No Treble

For the past couple of years Vocalosity has Walkin’ on Sunshine (from Groove 66 ) toured the nation, selling out major per - (4 min) forming arts centers with their powerful, KIMBERLEY REW charismatic sound. This song is their most recent video, featuring each of the female When I first saw Shelley Regner’s face and members in turn on ’s great - heard her voice, it was a casting video as est recording. we were looking for a local student to —Deke Sharon become the tenth Barden Bella. Three Pitch Perfect movies and two Carnegie Royals (3 min) Hall performances together later, there’s and JOEL LITTLE no one I’d rather share the stage with, as she is sunshine personified. Next up on Although dubbed an anthem for the her dance card: you’ll see her as a member Millennial generation, it was in fact one of of D Cappella! our proud choir dads who inspired us to —Deke Sharon perform “Royals” by Lorde. He said its spirit and sound always reminded him of If I Loved You (for the SF Gay Men’s the Psycho-Chor when listening to it on the Chorus) (2 min) radio. We embraced the compliment and RICHARD RODGERS and OSCAR swiftly brought the song to the stage. HAMMERSTEIN —Psycho-Chor der FSU Jena A timeless melody and evergreen lyric, this F You (from Pitch Perfect ) (4 min) Rodgers and Hammerstein classic from LILY ALLEN 1945’s Carousel has proven its worth, hav - ing been recorded by countless artists I wish there were a real life sock puppet a including Frank Sinatra, , cappella group called Sockapellas, but alas Dinah Washington, Julie Andrews, and Art they only exist in our minds, and in a brief Garfunkel, to name a few. scene in Pitch Perfect . Perhaps one day in —Deke Sharon my spare time I’ll start one. Until then this song will have to suffice. Summertime (4 min) —Deke Sharon GEORGE GERSHWIN

Cups (2min) Speaking of timeless classics, “Summer - A. P. CARTER and LUISA GERSTEIN time” will be sung centuries from now, per - haps drifting into “folk song” status where in “Cups” is a song made popular by the most people forget the songwriter(s)— movie Pitch Perfect , the movie which George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward— inspired us to start doing a cappella as a but remember the simple haunting melody group. So we thought it would be a nice lit - the way we now remember “Greensleeves” tle tribute of sorts to show our love for the 500 years later. movie, and the a cappella arrangements in —Deke Sharon 03-25 DCINY.qxp_GP 3/15/18 4:15 PM Page 7

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I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking yearning. U2 captured this feeling per - For (from The Sing-Off ) (3 min) fectly, and instead of turning it into a song , THE EDGE, ADAM CLAYTON, of pity or frustration, they found solace and and LARRY MULLEN JR. even celebration in this journey with its elusive destination. It’s a revelation we all There’s something deep in the heart of all benefit from hearing from time to time. rock and roll that is unsettled, unsatisfied, —Deke Sharon

Meet the Artists Sharon shared the stage with countless music legends, including , , Crosby Stills and Nash, Run DMC, The Temptations, LL Cool J, and the Four Tops, and performed for luminaries Deke Sharon , including President . He has pro - Guest Conductor, duced dozens of award-winning a cappella Arranger, & (including Straight No Chaser , Creative Director , , Street Corner Symphony , Tufts , Pitch Perfect , and In Heralded as “The Father of Contemporary Transit) , created a cappella groups for A Cappella” ( ), Deke and Disneyworld, and fre - Sharon is responsible for the current sound quently tours the world teaching students of modern a cappella, having created the and professional singers. His voice can be dense vocal-instrumental sound in college, heard in commercials and video games, subsequently spreading it around the including Just Dance Kids 2. He is one of world. Mr. Sharon produced The Sing-Off only 20 honorary members of the Barbershop worldwide (USA, Netherlands, China, Harmony Society since 1938, as well as an South Africa) and served as arranger, on- honorary member of BYU Vocal Point, and site music director, and vocal producer for received CASA’s achievement Universal’s Pitch Perfect 1, 2, and 3 star - award in 2016 and the Tufts Barnum award ring and . Mr. for excellence in education in 2017. You Sharon founded the Contemporary A can see him on television on Lifetime’s Cappella Society while in college, and is Pitch Slapped and his newest show for the responsible for many seminal a cappella BBC: Pitch Battle . Tonight’s performance programs. He is also contemporary a cap - makes Mr. Sharon’s fourth appearance pella’s most prolific arranger, having arranged with DCINY. more than 2,000 songs, with many of them in print worldwide with Hal Leonard/ Contemporary A Cappella Publishing. He has written five books: Acappella Arranging (2012), A Cappella (2015), The Heart of Vocal Harmony (2016), A Cappella Warmups Shelley Regner , for Pop and Choir (2017), and So You Guest Soloist Want To Sing A Cappella (2017). As the founder, director, and arranger for the Shelley Regner is honored to be invited back House Jacks for 24 years, the original by Deke Sharon and DCINY as a soloist for “Rock Band Without Instruments,” Mr. Total Vocal. She performed as a soloist for 03-25 DCINY.qxp_GP 3/15/18 4:15 PM Page 8

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the very first Total Vocal concert presented Music where he soared to new heights. by DCINY at Carnegie Hall in 2015. He became actively involved with Pitch Slapped, one of the country’s best colle - Ms. Regner is most notably known for her giate a capellla groups, with whom he role as Bella member Ashley in the Pitch would go on to tour China and be featured Perfect franchise films. A native of Baton on America’s Got Talent . Success, as they Rouge, Louisiana, Ms. Regner received say, is when preparation meets opportu - her B.A. in theater performance from nity. While staying in Boston in mid-2017 Louisiana State University. No stranger to following his graduation from Berklee, Mr. the stage, she has performed in numerous Sallee received a call to audition for a theater productions over the years and is national touring but unnamed a cappella currently starring as the title character in group. He only found out later that he had, Jennifer’s Body: The Unauthorized Musical in fact, been auditioning to join Pentatonix in . Tours: Spank! Harder on their upcoming tour. Mr. Sallee moved national tour (Tasha Woode). Regional: to L.A. in just ten days. He then made his Cruel Intentions Musical (original L.A. live and onscreen debuts as the newest cast); Tick, Tick, Boom! ; I Love You member of Pentatonix just in time for Because… ; Company ; Bare: A Rock Opera Christmas, appearing alongside Oscar and (L.A. revival); American Idiot ; and Bronies! Grammy Award –winning superstar Jennifer Film and television: Pitch Perfect 1, 2, and Hudson and on two tracks on the group’s 3 (Universal); What Happened Last Night 2017 Christmas album, A Pentatonix (Sony); New Dogs, Old Tricks (Gemelli Christmas Deluxe . Following the Christmas Films); and others. Ms. Regner can be tour in December, he was soon announced seen next in Disney’s first a cappella as the official new member of the group in group, D Cappella, as an original cast mem - Febuary of 2018. As crazy as things have ber touring nationally this fall 2018. Many been, he’s showing no signs of slowing thanks to Deke, DCINY, Nick, and family. down. “I want to stick my toe in all differ - Social: @shelleyregner ent areas,” he says. “I love musical the - ater, I love acting, dancing, singing…I always wanted to be a quadruple threat.”

Matthew Sallee , Guest Soloist

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Matt Sallee has been a performer all his life. From humble beginnings singing in a church choir under the direction of his father, the VoicePlay , Special Guests music pastor, he continued developing his As seen on season four of NBC’s The Sing- gift throughout his schooling years, taking Off . Original. Imaginative. Ridiculous. A part in choral performances and joining cappella. Based in Orlando, Florida, VoicePlay high school productions of Suessical the performs their own unique brand of enter - Musical, Dracula, Children of Eden, Alice in tainment across the country and around Wonderland, Moon over Buffalo, West the world. What began quite literally as a Side Story, and Grease . In 2012 Mr. Sallee street corner barbershop act has now was accepted into Berklee College of evolved into an internationally acclaimed 03-25 DCINY.qxp_GP 3/15/18 4:15 PM Page 9

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touring sensation. VoicePlay is unlike any have been integrated, the group has theatrical experience available today, recre - received praise from audiences and high ating the orchestrated sound of an entire accolades from the music industry, who musical production with nothing but the see a promising future for a cappella cham - human voice. The cast of VoicePlay has ber music. The group has performed at taken the timeless sound of vocal music some of the most esteemed festivals and and turned it completely on its head. Re- venues in Mexico, including the Palacio de imagined as a full stage show, amazing, Bellas Artes. Shemesh Quartet seeks to humorous, and vertigo-inducing harmonies spread the best of Mexican choral music and pepper VoicePlay’s music-without-music intend to make this musical style even more sound. Their performance ping-pongs be - accessible while most importantly, touching tween eras and styles, channeling the the hearts of audiences everywhere. breadth of the musical landscape, and lacing it with inventive and often hilarious on-stage theatrics. Fit for all ages, VoicePlay’s record - ings and concerts are an impossible to miss hit which have to be heard to be believed.

Room 100, Peters Township High School , Featured Ensemble Room 100 is an electrifying contemporary a cappella mixed group based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. All members of the group attend Peters Township High School in McMurray, Pennsylvania, and are currently Shemesh Quartet , Special Guests enrolled in Rowdy Rhythm. They have been The four members of Shemesh Quartet featured on the Friday Night Showcase at are active students pursuing degrees in the Kettering A Cappella Festival, and have opera at the National Conservatory of most recently performed at the BHS Music in Mexico City. Throughout their Johnny Appleseed District Concert as a two years of study, they have taken featured group. They are honored to be courses with important choral conductors performing as a solo group at Total Vocal such as María Felicia Pérez, Horacio this year! Franco, Werner Pfaff, María Guinand, Jonathan Griffith, and José Rivera, among others. In addition they have ventured into composition, writing choral arrangements that have made the quartet a group with original repertoire. Shemesh Quartet is a vocal ensemble that performs choral a cap - pella music with eclectic repertoire, cover - ing different genres from Renaissance to Latin folk music. In the short time that they 03-25 DCINY.qxp_GP 3/15/18 4:15 PM Page 10

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Psycho-Chor der FSU Jena , Featured Ensemble The Psycho-Chor der FSU Jena is a choir of about 70 young people that was founded Evolve, Chesapeake High School , in April 2011 at the institute for psychology Featured Ensemble at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. Every Evolve is a coed, contemporary a cappella semester the choir rehearses a new pro - group at Chesapeake High School in gram of a cappella-pop that is presented at Pasadena, Maryland, under the direction of several concerts, which bring together more Michael Brisentine. Michael joined the than 1,000 enthusiastic concertgoers. Since staff at Chesapeake, his alma mater, in the beginning the choir has been sup - 2016. He envisioned bringing contempo - ported by students of Weimar’s Hochschule rary a cappella to his students along the für Musik Franz Liszt in voice training and lines of his award-winning collegiate group sectional rehearsals. In January 2015 the at the University of Maryland, Faux Paz. Psycho-Chor produced its first CD. In With that in mind, the group began the October 2017 the choir went to Amiens “evolution” of the school’s traditional style (France) and will go to Krakow (Poland) in show choir/vocal ensemble into Evolve. October 2018. Since their debut in fall 2016, Evolve has hosted and participated in three a cappella festivals featuring workshops and master classes; with Deke Sharon, and the award- winning The Vocal Company. Evolve released their first professional video in November 2017 ( Send My Love , opb ) and sin - gle in February 2018 ( Free Fallin’ , opb Tom No Treble , Featured Ensemble Petty). Evolve has performed at numerous No Treble is a Bangalore-based a cappella events and earned superior ratings at com - group who sing various genres that range petitions and assessments within Maryland from Western to Indian (mostly Bollywood). and at Festival Disney in Orlando. They are Each member brings their own musical honored to be participating in Total Vocal style to the group incorporating influences with Deke Sharon. of Coldplay to A. R. Rahman. The five of them met in college when they auditioned for the college music team and have been singing together since. No Treble formed in February 2016 and started competing in college festivals soon after, winning eight- nine competitions. No Treble has performed in various venues across the country over the last months. The group gained notoriety after posting a video on Youtube 03-25 DCINY.qxp_GP 3/15/18 4:15 PM Page 11

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attracting producers from Colors TV who the city’s preeminent producer of choral asked them to perform for the reality tele - and orchestral concerts in New York’s vision show India Banega Manch . In addi - most prestigious concert venues. DCSI is tion they have done a brand endorsement comprised of singers and chorus members video for Kadence. Apart from all of the from around the world. Between 30 –40 above performances, No Treble has been percent of the singers are alumni of DCSI invited to New York to perform at the pres - and have sung in two or more of the tigious Lincoln Center along with other tal - DCINY concert series over the years. DCSI ented a cappella musicians from around has drawn members from 44 countries the world, No Treble being the only ones and six continents. While the majority of invited from India. Their unique style of singers are dedicated amateur musicians, combining multiple genres and language many professional and semi-professional (including multiple languages) sets them ensembles, as well as individual professional apart from other groups and fosters a pos - singers, have also participated in the DCSI. itive message that music brings us together. All singers and/or ensembles go through an audition process reviewed by the Distinguished Concerts Singers DCINY Artistic team in order to receive an International invitation to appear on the DCINY concert Distinguished Concerts Singers International series. The DCSI can vary in size from (DCSI) forms the backbone of Distinguished between 100 to 500 singers, depending Concerts International New York (DCINY), upon the repertoire.

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Evolve, Chesapeake High School (MD), Michael Brisentine, Director Lions Gate Chorus (Canada), Sandy Marron, Director My Pop Choir (Canada), Jacqueline Curtis, Director No Treble (India), Samarth U Mamadapur, Director Northlake Academy of Music Advanced Choir (LA), Katie Shields, Director NUS Resonance (Singapore) Psycho-Chor der FSU Jena (Germany), Maximilian Lörzer, Director Rock Vox Choir (UK), Clare Clay, Director *Rowdy Rhythm; Peters Township High School (PA), Ryan Perrotte, Director *Shemesh Quartet (Mexico) Solihull Pop Chorus (UK), Anya Small, Director Syncapella & Raised In Song (UK), Abi Moore, Director Them A Cappella (LA), Cole Hamilton, Director *Vocal Academy @ St. James (CA), Anne Marie Oldham, Director Vocal Confluence (PA), Ryan Perrotte, Director Voice to Voice (UK), Lisa Tulk, Director Voices of Gotham (NY), BJ Hillinck and Nick Gordon, Directors Wells High School Select A Cappella Chorus (ME), Bailey Smith, Director Westchester Chordsmen Chorus (NY), Keith Harris, Director YVR POP CHOIR (Canada), Rebecca Lam, Director And individual singers from around the globe

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Colin Abt Phil Cheasebro Susan Dumas Kat Hammock Haley Abt Elizabeth Cheung Anna Dunn Elizabeth Harding Ryan Accetta Callie Cheveallier Lucas Dunst Kate Hardy Denise Aguanno Chandra Chisholm Vivien Durham Madison Harrigan Rachel Ainsworth Radiant Min Hui Chua Elizabeth Dylke Keith Harris Amanda Gomma Allan Bev Church Lisa Ebel Aileen Harrison Kyle Althof Sydney Cicchini Gillian Edkins Sian Harrison Carolin Altmann Ron Cinnella Sally Ann Edwards Rafi Hasib Angela Anderton Clare Clay Timothy Edwards Jill Hasle Alexis Andrew Camryn Cleary Josh Ehrlich Louise Haughton Zoe Angelakis Valerie Clements Antonia Eisele Marion Hawkhead Louisa Asfour Jon Clunies Elisabeth Engelmeyer Steve Hawkins Jane Austin Yvonne Cohen Jennifer Englert Miranda Hawthorne Julie Aylmer Carollyne Conlinn Jill Evans Paula Hayes Brad Babiack Juhli Conlinn Kristina Farkasova Julie Healey Leah Baclig Alexa Cooper Al Fennell Friederike Heidrich Delaney Bailey Helen Cooper Lynn Ferguson Olivia Henderson Stephen Banker Michelle Cooper Anita File James Henry Susanna Banks Natalia Cortese Patricia Finney Michelle Hensel Stephen Bartell Suzanne Coxon Laura Fisk Mason Herndon Erin Bean Zoe Coxon Irv Flamer BJ Hillinck Jill Beard Roseanne Crossey Amanda Fleet Nick Hodnett Lisa Beier Samantha Crowe Hannah Fleet Mareike Holler Kylie Belanger Adam Csatadi Jon Fosdick Jenny Howard Derby Belser Dennis Cuddy Beverley Fox Laureen Howe Carina Bergmann Jacqueline Curtis Lesley Francis Samantha Hum Michael Berkson Jenni Cussell Friedemann Jakob Sally Humble Kevin Berry Kate Cusworth Freiherr von April Hwang Santosh Bharadwaj Agata Cwalina Campenhausen Lily Iannillo Michaela Bieda Jake Dabkowski David Friedman Emmett Ingram Joanna Bignall Sheila Dalman Diane Fuller Tina Ireland Brenda Birch Gail Davies Ford Fuller Patricia Isinger Emily Blackburn Sallie Davies Cecilia Fulton Sarah Jackson Lisa Blackmore Elizabeth Davis Jacqueline Gardner Gwendolen James Erik Blicker Josh Davis Geraldine Garner Madeleine James Christian Bloszies Mia Dayo Rachel Garratt Bethan Jeacock Eric Blum Gary De Guzman Lynn Garrison Jenny Jeffreys Jamie Jing Yi Boey Jenna Dearness-Dark Lisa Geary Helen Johnson Jake Brannon Doug Deckert Thu Huong Ghazanfari Alan Jones Carter Brock Helen Del Val Josh Gongaware Samantha Jones Lydia Browell Steve Delehanty Raven Goodell Susan Joss Doug Brown Joe Dempsey Sunny Gosal Georgina Joyce Michelle Brown Andy Denler Stacey Graham Nikki Kanagala Nathallia Brown Gabriella Derke Fiona Gray Edward Kane Ryan Brown Lea Deubner Rebecca Green Lyn Kaufman Katie Browning Anthony DiBattista Karen Jane Gregory Isabel Kay Michael Brueggman Alexis DiLucia Richard Greif Diane Kaye Loraine Bryan Joe DiSalvo Aaron Greller Andrew Kelly Annelise Bunch Pauline Dobson Gwendoline Guguin Lindsay Kelly Avery Burgoyne Linda Done Elizabeth Gullins Patricia Kelly Emmalie Burrall Abbey Donina Priyanka Gupta Samantha Kempers Janet Burrows Kristin Dorey Isabell Hachmöller Matt Kercheff Iris Cai Bernadette Dornan Pedro Hadek Guy Kern-Martin Valerie Casey Lynda Doughty Heather Hagen-Breland Clare Kewney Samantha Caulkins Renee Dover Jane Hall Anne Kim Lisa CeeDee Mason Dowd Susan Halsey-Brandt Dean Kirtley Adam Chaplin Larissa Drabent Cole Hamilton Tanysha Klassen Karl Chapple Lucas Clemens Drubel Markus Renee Klein Jennifer Chatham Karl Friedrich Drummer Hammerschmidt Nancy Knaggs 03-25 DCINY.qxp_GP 3/15/18 4:15 PM Page 13

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Sharon Knight Delaney McDonnell Clara Pönicke Bailey Smith Zachary Koerbel Jacky McDouall Cath Poole Christopher Smith Silvio König Cole McGlumphy Richard Portune Deborah Smith Irina Kosoric Anne McMeekin Ella Poulin Alan Smithee David Krackhardt Liz McMillan Warwick Powell Emily Songy Anne Kraemer Michael Meades Anthony Procino Jillian Spernak Lea Krieger Hilary Meredith Alexandra Prodanuk Marina Stamboulieh Bill Kruse Lukas Mergner Elizabeth Racunas Mitch Stein Scott Kruse Chloë Mesogitis Neda Rafighi Milton Steinberg Paul Kulwik Rishij Mewada Arianna Ranallo Alan Steiner Stephanie Kurze Charlot Meyer-Jantzen Vivien Randall Rick Stephens Rebecca Lam Abby Michalski Brandon Rauch Rich Stevens Jo Lambert Mackenzie Miller Marilyn Read Lisa Stierling Tamsin Langford Penny Miller Kurtis Reichert Michael Stinson Garrett Langley Katey Mills Katie Reidy Iona Stockton David Lary Therese Molyneaux Dan Rendich Jessica Stotts Mary Laster Carol Mooney Adam Reneer Sarah Suchko Bonnie Lavallee Abigail Moore Donna Rhodes Emily Sumerling Mags Lavelle Claire Moore Carson Richmond Janet Sutherland James Lawther Sarah Moore Devon Riegel Stephanie Taur Caroline Lee Moushumi Moran Janine Roberts Caera Taylor Linda Lee Zachary Moran Rick Roberts Jim Taylor Mimi Lee Margaret Morden Nick Rodgers Marty Taylor Nancy Lee Ann Morris Grace Romano Nolan Taylor Marlene Lees Alyssa Morrow Cynthia Roobottom Ian Tellis Elisa-Felicia Lehmann Leila Msadek Evelyn Rooney Jonathan Hua-Yi Teo Alexis Lemansky Walter Müller Thom Rosati Vivienne Yan Hong Jascha Lenz Sarah Munro Dana Röttig Teoh Juliet Lin Alison Murray Bryan Sachs My Linh Thibodeau DeVon Lineman Asami Nagato Hannah Salley Evan Thomas Louise Little Koichi Nakamura Adam Samtur Jude Thomas Bob Lohaus Tara Newell Erik Sänger Katie Thomas Catherine Lord Sharon Newport Clara Savinsky Sue Thomas Maximilian Lörzer Joseph Novelly Jonathan Heng Jie Saw Judie Thompson Vanessa Ludwig Jennifer Oakley Donna Sayer Helen Kay Tierney Dylan Lupo Katy O'Brien Abbey Scannell Phil Tieu Marcus Luxemburg Hannah O'Dwyer Emma Scarton Julie Toussaint Braden Lynk Lori O'Grady Marc Schechter Kim Towne Yilin Linda Ma Victoria Onions Rob Scholl Richard Townsend Joe Macaluso Alina Oschwald Allie Schroth Janet Tracey Christopher Mackay Noah Owczarzak Elizabeth Schwartz Nicholas Traficante Cherry MacKinlay Emily Oxborrow Steve Schwartz Anna Traumuller Donald MacKinlay Robert Palm Amber Paige Tremblay Nicky Makepeace Sarah Palma Natalie Hui Ling See Nikki Tugui Mackenzie Mallich Barb Panturescu Tong John Tupper Samarth Mamadapur Ben Parker Dennis Seifert Hannes Ullmann Trudie Mann Chris Parker Bob Serrano Daiva Urbonite John Manning Sara Parker Steve Severinghaus Elaine Vallevand Patrick Manning Vivian Partridge Geoffrey Seymour Kevin Vandermer June Mantle Julianna Paul Abigail Shakan Linda Vogel Phillippa Mapes Daniel Peet Joewin Shamalina Jaimie Volkaerts William Markel Heather Edmonds Anushree Shankar Maggie Waigand Anita Markmiller Penstone Dyanne Sharp Mary Waigand Sarah Marsh Sarah Pepall Bill Shen Caroline Walker Negel Martel Kate Perry Gary Sheridan Michael Walker Chester Martin Rebecca Pflug Lucy Shields Maria Walletz Loida Martinez Kay Phipps Sanjana Shivakumar Brian Wasser Annemarie Maßalsky Nicolson Pierre Olivia Shofstahl David Melville Weaver Dominik Matthes Richard Pinto Cole Shortall Anna Weber Delaney Mavica Emmy Ploskina Kristi Silk Rob Weber Anna McAlister Ruth Pluska Penelope Simpkins Kathryn Webster Kaylyn McCarthy Pamela Podmoroff Bonnie Simpson Alissa Weeks Cassidy McCormick Ryann Poe Paige Skelton Tom Wegerich Ellie McCullough Sue Poirrette Anya Small Diane Weinrath Sydney McDermott Scott Pollak Jacqueline Small Olivia Welch 03-25 DCINY.qxp_GP 3/15/18 4:15 PM Page 14

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Renee Welch Paul Wilkinson Hilary Woodman Julie Yeates Katherine Wellburn Joel Willett Laura Woods Maria Young Sue West Elizabeth Williamson Elizabeth Woodus Romi Zäske Jaydon Whisker Cameron Wolfe Jillian Woolerton Jessica Zeglinski Vickie White Ella Wolgamott Regina Woydt Johanna Zemmelink Karen Wickham Rachel Wong Lyn Wright Silvana Zetzmann Leo Wiggins Ian Wood Vicki Wright Sönke Ziemer Spencer Wight Ruth Wood Steve Wyszomierski

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DCINY 2018 Concert Series

Monday Evening, April 2, 2018, at 8:00 Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall Anniversaries Warren Lee,

Sunday Afternoon, April 8, 2018, at 1:00 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall The Music of Eric Whitacre Eric Whitacre, Composer/Conductor Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Sunday Evening, April 8, 2018, at 8:00 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall Wind Songs Don Trott, Director The University of Mississippi Concert Singers (MS) Duane Otani & Zachary Christy, Directors Rancho Bernardo High School (CA) Jonathan Richard Grantham, Director Amador Valley High School Wind Ensemble (CA)

Sunday Afternoon, April 15, 2018, at 2:00 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall Dreamweaver The Music of Ola Gjeilo Forrest: Jubilate Deo James M. Meaders, DCINY Conductor Ola Gjeilo, Composer-in-Residence and Piano Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International The Music of Evans, Taylor, Beckham, and Meštrovi c Miran Vaupot icˇ, Guest Conductor ´ Distinguished Concerts Orchestra

Sunday Evening, April 15, 2018, at 8:00 , Lincoln Center The Music of Eric Whitacre Eric Whitacre, Composer/Conductor Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Sunday Evening, April 22, 2018, at 8:30 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall The King’s Singers: 50th Anniversary Celebration Bob Chilcott, Guest Conductor Simon Carrington, Guest Conductor The King’s Singers, Special Guests Distinguished Concerts Singers International 03-25 DCINY.qxp_GP 3/15/18 4:15 PM Page 16

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Friday Evening, May 25, 2018, at 7:00 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall Vocal Colors The Music of Reese Norris and Others Reese Norris, Composer/Conductor Barnum: A Thousand Red Birds Eric Barnum, Composer/Conductor Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Monday Evening, May 28, 2018, at 7:00 David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center The Sacred and Profane: Carmina Burana Rosephanye Powell: Gospel Trinity (New York Premiere) William Powell, Guest Conductor Rosephanye Powell, Composer-in-Residence, Soloist, and Narrator Orff: Carmina Burana Jonathan Griffith, DCINY Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Sunday Evening, June 17, 2018, at 8:30 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall Spirit Journey Choplin: Our Father: A Journey through the Lord’s Prayer Pepper Choplin, Composer/Conductor Hayes: Spirit Suite I, II, & other works Kevin McBeth, Guest Conductor Andy Waggoner, Guest Conductor Mark Hayes , Composer-in-Residence Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

Sunday Afternoon, June 24, 2018, at 2:00 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall The Music of Grases & Núñez Núñez: Liminality (World Premiere: Courtesy of the DCINY Premiere Project) Francisco J. Núñez, Composer/Conductor Grases: La Cigarra y La Hormiga (World Premiere: Courtesy of the DCINY Premiere Project) Cristian Grases, Composer/Conductor Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International Hanrich Claassen, Director Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra (FL)

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