UC Men's Chorale

Members

William Ganz, Director

Part: Conductor
Year With MC: ?
Bill is very active in the Bay Area choral arena, and has directed the San Francisco Cable Car Chorus and the Golden Gate Men's Chorus since 1991. He is director of two of the nine extracurricular choruses of the UC Choral Ensembles. Bill earned a Master's degree in conducting from San Francisco State University, studying with Byron MacGilvray, Laslo Varga, and Karla Lemon. He has also studied with Rodney Eichenberger and Dr. Greg Lyne.

Sean Battle Barry, Manager

Part: Second Tenor
Year With MC: 3

Brady Blasco, UCCE President

Part: Bass
Year With MC: 3
I enjoy singing and building sandcastles, sometimes simultaneously. I also like long walks on the beach and monkeys, sometimes long walks on the beach with monkeys. I sleep a lot and thoroughly enjoy getting up to sing with Men's Chorale, and then going back home and sleeping.

Raymundus Butarbutar, First Tenor Section Leader

Part: First Tenor
Year With MC: 1

Marcus Caimi

Part: Baritone
Year With MC: 2
I have been singing for about 7 years and I love it! I like to play volleyball, listen to music, and parrrrrty. Wanna know more? Stalk me on facebook...

Kevin Canini

Part: Baritone
Year With MC: 1
When not rehearsing with Men's Chorale, I can usually be found: walking around campus listening to my iPod, playing guitar in Ohlone Park, attending concerts in San Francisco, sailing in the Bay, or playing disc golf. I recently started an acoustic gypsy folk rock band with a couple friends, and I'm looking to improve my singing ability.

Elton Chan

Part: Second Tenor
Year With MC: 1
My vocal career has its humble beginnings in a place often called "The Showers," (which has very nice acoustics) where I had, after learning about physics, played with resonances. Then I would often entertain myself with hums of classical selections. Later I tried and then began loving operas, and I started with the Toreador '(Bizet) and Queen of Night Aria of the Magic Flute. It was only last year that I upgraded my venues to the empty halls of LSA basement. So yea, no vocal experiences before, but I've been in orchestras during my HS years and this isn't the first time I'm in a section called "seconds." But I love eating and do enjoy having "seconds." I like music with canons or different parts '(Bethoveen's 9th, mvt 1, minute 6 of 12 is my favorite). Oh, and I like some Simon and Garfunkel music, so if anyone wants to try some duo with me... ;)

I'm from the Bay Area, a 2nd year MCB, BMB-I major. I love biochemistry and sciences '(I can be as nerd about it as you want me to be :)). In my free time, in addition to listening to music '(or playing it poorly), I also love to garden and play computer games '(WC3, SC anyone?). I'm excited about this year and hope y'all have a great time!

Dustin Chase-Woods, Baritone Section Leader

Part: Baritone
Year With MC: 1
Dustin enjoys watching Sesame Street and counting to ten. He has ten fingers, and also ten toes.

Po-Chiun (Anthony) Chen

Part: First Tenor
Year With MC: 1
Anthony is new to UCMC this semester. He's also new to singing, but he's loving it. Probably more than he should. He's a second year at Cal but wishes he joined UCMC first year. He likes to write bios of himself in third person.

Geoff Chu

Part: First Tenor
Year With MC: 2

Philip Combiths

Part: Second Tenor
Year With MC: 3
I really like to sing, and I really like Men's Chorale. You should too. If there's anything else you want to know, I suggest you stalk me on facebook, or perhaps myspace.

Scott Crawford

Part: Baritone, Second Tenor
Year With MC: 3
Mostly singing tenor/2nd tenor but also some baritone, Scott first seriously began singing 2 years ago when he joined his church's choir (as a bass). The next year was met by a flurry of vocal activity when he joined his school's Chamber Choir (as the tenor section leader), Men's Ensemble, and Jazz Choir. He was paid to join another church's sparse tenor section during their Christmas Eve masses and even snagged a lead role for his school's spring musical. His experience in the musical, though frequently stressful and a huge time committment, was a great experience overall. To finish off his senior year, Scott formed a whole new group to perform a parody of the Oompa Loompa song (for which he also wrote the lyrics and generated a real score of music using a coputer program) inspired by none other than the UC Men's Octet's version bashing Stanfurd, and performed at his baccalaureate and graduation (the culmination of his 2nd semester during which he was simultaneously a part of 7 vocal groups). And now...he's a soloist in the UC Men's Chorale and loving every minute of MC life at Cal! MC for life! Go Bears!!

Patrick Ho

Part: Bass
Year With MC: 1
Patrick Ho enjoys playing tennis.

Danny Kim

Part: Bass
Year With MC: 1
Hello i'm junior transfer at Cal and i'm rhetoric major. I like snowboarding, driving, eating good food, movies, playing guitar and piano, and cafe strada.

Robert Lawson

Part: Baritone, Second Tenor, First Tenor
Year With MC: 5
This is my eighth semester in Men's Chorale—I was manager for six—and it's bound to be the best so far. MC has always been a unique and wonderful group, and I'm glad to be a part of it. I'm originally from Maryland, in the DC Area, and this is my ninth and final semester here at Cal. I love to sing, of course, and I also love music composition, filmmaking, and screenwriting. If you check out my website (strobeflier.com), you'll find out way more about me than you ever wanted to know and will probably be mad at me for making a suggestion that utterly wasted X minutes of your life. Seriously though, go there anyway.

Alex McLeod

Part: Second Tenor
Year With MC: 2
As a child, Alex McLeod was raised by a baboon. When he entered human society at the age of 6, he was unable to cope and was declared legally insane. He only has the ability to talk in high pitched screams and cries when he hears the word "Fudge". He also enjoys hugs, so if you see him, hug him. It makes him feel important.

Sean Mullin, Bass Section Leader

Part: Bass
Year With MC: 1
Hi! I'm Sean! I'm a Microbial Bio major who just happens to have a thing for the arts as well. I enjoy cookies, italian food, good novels, pina coladas and singing in the rain. I'm Canadian, Irish, and I know a fair amount of German. I'm a bass...cause basses get it done. Toodles.

Christoph Neyer

Part: Second Tenor
Year With MC: 1
Christoph has been singing since the dawn of time, which happens to be the beginning of his senior year. He enjoys making music and giving people hugs.

William Pe

Part: Bass
Year With MC: 2
Until recently, I have only enjoyed limited participation in an actual choir; I was a bass singer/section leader in Mark Keppel High School's beginner's choir in 2005-2006, and performed with the advanced choir during the summer of 2006, but that was as far as my singing "career" got due to my academic commitments. Nevertheless, singing has always remained my passion and form of catharsis. Despite being confined to generally performing the bass parts of Classical pieces during his high school singing career, I nonetheless developed my vocal style and voice by "vocalizing" with singers ranging from Seal and Tony Bennett to Cyndi Lauper and Annie Lennox. Not wanting to make the same mistake I made in high school by not participating fully in advanced choir, I joined the UC Men's Chorale in Spring 2007 with the hopes of being able to contribute to and enjoy the experience of live performance.

Robert Perez, Jr

Part: First Tenor
Year With MC: 3

Jordan Rose

Part: Bass
Year With MC: 1

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Chris Seymour

Part: Second Tenor
Year With MC: 2
Chris likes to play video games and Ha-Do-Ken people.

Nick Trengove

Part: Baritone
Year With MC: 2

Anthony Trinidad

Part: Second Tenor
Year With MC: 1
I'm from SoCal in a town called Corona, yes like the beer, but have no beer factory or any association with it. Anyways, I was in choir for 2 years in high school and I'm happy to be in UCMC during my first year. I hope that the year goes well and to have a great time.

Raul Valle, Webmaster & Second Tenor Section Leader

Part: Second Tenor
Year With MC: 2
I'm a 3rd Year Film Studies Major, planning to Double Major in Theater and Minor in Creative Writing. Anyway, I come from Maywood, CA, a small town just south of East LA. I've been a performer since the 3rd grade, playing violin in elementary school, handbells in middle school and some acting in high school. There's a long story as to how I came to join the Men's Chorale but I'll leave that for a different day.

I enjoy many different things, including Video Games (GUITAR HERO! YEAH!), Bowling, Cartoons (both American and Japanese), Comics/Manga and Writing. As you can see, I'm kind of a nerd. Sometimes you'll find me listening to music, other times you'll find me working on a story (sometimes both). Anyway, feel free to say hi. I won't bite...much.

Kevin Xue

Part: Bass
Year With MC: 1
Kevin is a music enthusiast of 8 years. He has been playing the alto saxophone since middle school, but only recently delved into vocal music. Kevin enjoys sleeping in, and not studying chemistry.

Spencer Yeh

Part: Bass
Year With MC: 1
Spencer likes to sing. His voice has a nice ring. Right now, I can't think of anything.

Neville Yeung

Part:
Year With MC: 2