When I was little, I took piano lessons.<\/p>\n
When I was slightly bigger, I took cello lessons, and went on to participate in Junior High and High School orchestras, as well as an All State orchestra. My high school orchestra travelled to Canada for some sort of music festival.<\/p>\n
I also sang in the choirs at church and in High School. During summer of 1993 I participated in a two week tour of Europe with an agglomerative choir, orchestra, and band from All State participants up and down the East Coast.<\/p>\n
When I got to the University of Michigan<\/a> in the Fall of 1993, I joined the Men’s Glee Club<\/a> under the direction of Jerry Blackstone. I sang with the group for four years, serving as Business Manager for the last two. We travelled a lot, including a month long trip to South America. That was quite a ride. I met my wife at a combined Men’s \/ Women’s Glee Club party.<\/p>\n In January of 1995 I helped to start The Gentlemen<\/a> an all male a cappella group. I sang with them for a term.<\/p>\n In the spring of 1995 I joined Amazin Blue<\/a>, a co-ed a cappella group. I sang with them for three years. During that time the group recorded songs and presented major concerts every term, appeared on three Best of College A Cappella (BOCA) CDs, gave workshops, clinics, gigs, concerts, travelled to hell and back, and made it to the 1998 finals of the National Championship of College A Cappella held at Carnegie Hall in New York. In 1998 I left the group.<\/p>\n In January of 1999 I joined the newly formed Dicks and Janes<\/a>, a co-ed group and spent a very joyful year and a half with them. I was musical director of the group for the 1999 – 2000 season, and they have since gone on to appear on BOCA twice in a row.<\/p>\n In 2000, I was briefly the bass\/percussionist for a five man vocal band called Descant. We only learned three songs, and we disbanded after the end of the term, but we rocked.<\/p>\n