Clay Hine

Clay Hine

Clay Hine (born 1963) is a barbershop musician and arranger.

He is a native Chicagoan, but has lived in the Atlanta Metro area now[when?] for 20 years since he graduated from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering. Before college he sang with The West Towns Chorus (Lombard, IL) winning 2 silver medals (1985, 1986). He started arranging when he was a teenager for fun, mostly tags and parts of songs. After college he began arranging for a newly chartered chorus in Marietta, GA (The Big Chicken Chorus) and his first post-college quartet Atlanta Forum (1987 Dixie District Champs). His early arrangements were for the purpose of helping out Atlanta-area and Dixie District quartets and choruses, but he soon had requests nationwide from internationally competing choruses and quartets. Clay has arranged music for: Keepsake, PLATINUM, FRED, Four Voices, Riptide, Backbeat, Marquis, Nightlife, BSQ, Max Q, Bank Street, State Line Grocery, Overture, Sound Standard, Svelte Brothers, and many other internationally renowned groups.

Although Clay had many years of piano as a child he is a self-taught arranger having little formal music education at the university level. Clay directed the Big Chicken Chorus from 1989 through 2004[1] and began directing the newly chartered Atlanta Metro (Atlanta Vocal Project) chapter in 2005.[2] In his 20 years of directing Clay has won 16 international chorus preliminary contests with the Big Chicken Chorus (1989–2004) and 5 with The Atlanta Vocal Project (2005–2008, 2011). He has arranged over 300 songs in various styles although most of those songs are in the barbershop style. He also spent 8 years as a Music judge for the Barbershop Harmony Society.

In 1999 Clay's quartet, FRED, won the international quartet competition in Anaheim, CA. He continues to be active with FRED, the Atlanta Vocal Project, and his current quartet A Mighty Wind and still arranges music for various groups.

Clay is married to Becki Hine. They have two children, Melody and Camden.

References

  1. ^ The Big Chicken Chorus, www.bigchickenchorus.org, undated (accessed 21 January 2007)
  2. ^ Atlanta vocal project, www.atlantavocalproject.com, date unknown, (accessed 21 January 2007)

External links



Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужен реферат?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • FRED (quartet) — Infobox musical artist Name = FRED Img capt = FRED Background = group or band URL = [http://www.fredquartet.com/ Official site] Current members = Jared Carlson Tenor Rick LaRosa Lead Clay Hine Baritone Joe Clay BassFRED is a comic barbershop… …   Wikipedia

  • Platinum (quartet) — Infobox musical artist Name = Platinum Img capt = Platinum Background = group or band URL = [http://www.ptplatinum.com/ Official site] Current members = Gary Lewis Tenor Joe Connelly Lead Tony DeRosa Baritone Kevin Miles BassPlatinum is a… …   Wikipedia

  • Barbershop arranging — is the art of creating arrangements of barbershop music. The Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS) has prescribed rules that dictate what is an acceptable arrangement, particularly with regard to singing in competition. This makes barbershop arranging …   Wikipedia

  • Decimation (comics) — Decimation Decimation event logo, as shown on the covers of tie in comics Publisher Marvel Comics Publication date January – August 2006 …   Wikipedia

  • Tiki — This article is about the large Polynesian carvings in humanoid form. For other uses, see Tiki (disambiguation). A Māori man retouches the painted tattoo on a carved wooden tiki at Whakarewarewa Model Village, New Zealand, 1905 …   Wikipedia

  • Ki'i — * For Kii, see Kii In Hawaiian mythology, Ki i is a creator god. In some other Polynesian languages, the name appears as Tiki. In Māori mythology, Tiki is the first man. In traditions from the East Coast of the North Island, the first human is a… …   Wikipedia

  • Tiki (mythology) — In Māori mythology, Tiki is the first man. In traditions from the East Coast of the North Island, the first human is a woman created by Tāne, god of forests. Usually her name is Hine ahu one. In other legends, Tāne makes the first man Tiki, then… …   Wikipedia

  • Organization of the U.S. Army Air Service in 1925 — The Organization of the U.S. Army Air Service in 1925 is a snapshot of that service from its final major organizational change in June 1924, when the 1st Wing (then a training establishment) was inactivated, to its name change in July 1926 to the …   Wikipedia

  • Liste der Persönlichkeiten aus London — London ist der Geburtsort zahlreicher prominenter Persönlichkeiten. Diese Liste zählt Personen auf, die im Großraum London geboren wurden. Es werden alle Gebiete berücksichtigt, die seit 1965 zum Verwaltungsgebiet Greater London gehören. Dazu… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • National Register of Historic Places listings in Greene County, Missouri — Map of all coordinates from Google Map of all coordinates from Bing …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”