Tenor
Samantha Swanson (19) has been singing barbershop since the age of 10, and was a founding member of Harmony Inc. chorus New England Voices in Harmony. She is currently singing with St. Louis Harmony Chorus, with Sweet Adelines International. From Nashua, NH, she is a sophomore at Washington University in St. Louis, working towards a Bachelor of Music in Music Theory. Samantha is a member of the university's Concert Choir, a staff singer in the choir of the Church of St. Michael and St. George, and sings in Ficta, a voice/lute duet that performs music of the Renaissance. Outside of barbershop, her passion is early music (music of the medieval and Renaissance periods), and she plans to get a masters degree in early music vocal performance.
Ask anyone in Ringtones!...Sam is VERY blonde, never stops singing to herself, and has a habit of spazzing about beautiful chords!
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Lead
Jennifer Wheaton (23) is from St. Hubert, Quebec. Jen grew up in the barbershop world, and has been a member of Montreal City Voices since April of 1998. She is the assistant director of the chorus, and has competed with them on both the Area and International Stages. Besides Ringtones!, Jen has competed with two other quartets, Under the Wire (2002) and 4 The Fun Of It (2004-2005). Jen loves singing in quartets. So much so that she also has a long-distance Young Women In Harmony (SAI) quartet, The Brats.
Jen is very passionate about music and language. She is currently a Linguistics major at Concordia University, in Montreal. She plans to do a Masters in Speech and Language Pathology, but not sure, yet, where.
One of Jen’s other passions is nature. She is an amateur nature photographer, and has had a couple of her photos published. (Visit http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jensnature to view some of her photography)
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Lindsay Chartier, 32, from Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Baritone
Julia Borsari, 20, sang her first note in a barbershop chord at the age of 4, while watching the Mitch Miller PBS special featuring the Acoutix. She sang the baritone note, and has been singing baritone ever since!
Julia was raised around barbershop. Her grandfather, Jim Dodge, her aunt, Wendy McCoole, and her mom, Debbie Borsari, have been actively involved in the hobby for Julia's entire life. She joined New England Voices in Harmony, based in Nashua, NH, when she was only 11 and was also a member of her middle school chorus, her high school chorus, the Select Chorus, and was selected to participate in the New England Music Festival while in high school. Julia is thrilled to be singing in her very first quartet, Ringtones!
Julia is currently a junior at Kent State University in Ohio studying Fashion Merchandising. She is a member of the Kent Women's Chorus and the Kent Community Chorus, and is hoping to become involved in barbershop singing at the school. Her home is in Peterborough, NH where she lives (when not at school) with her mom, dad, and 16-year-old brother, Joe.
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