Introducing the faculty of Harmony College, Holland Harmony 2018

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 Quartet 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 Wellington,
New Zealand. Charlotte first discovered a love of barbershop after hearing
visiting International Quartet Champions, Second Edition, 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
singing. Her past students include Musical Island Boys, 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 bass with Switch.
Adam has written and/or arranged over five hundred pieces of music,
including over a hundred barbershop arrangements for quartets 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 (tenor) 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 (baritone) 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 United States, and strives to simply bring
joy to all types of audiences through their music.

David McEachern
David has been involved in Barbershop music 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, Canada, 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 a cappella 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 Choir 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 vocal music 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 (Revival, 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 jazz 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).
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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 choirs. 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 Netherlands, 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 Germany.
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.