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Frank Albinder, Music Director

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Frank Albinder came to Washington, DC in 1999 to become music director of the Washington Men's Camerata. In 2000, he became Music Director of the Woodley Ensemble, a professional chamber choir also based in Washington. He has been the conductor of the Virginia Glee Club, the 139-year-old men’s chorus at the University of Virginia, since 2003. Frank came to Washington from the internationally renowned male vocal ensemble Chanticleer, where he most recently served as the group’s Associate Conductor in addition to singing with the ensemble. During his 11-year tenure with Chanticleer, Frank performed in all 50 states and in 20 foreign countries. He appears on 20 of the ensemble’s recordings, including Wondrous Love, which was recorded under his direction, and the Grammy® Award-winning Colors of Love, for which he designed the concept. Other performance credits include the Boston Camerata, the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, the Washington Bach Consort, and the Concord Ensemble. He holds a B.A. in Vocal Performance from Pomona College in Claremont, California, and two M.M. degrees (Choral Conducting and Vocal Performance) from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Between 1984 and 1988, Frank was Director of Choral Activities at Davidson College in North Carolina. In addition to serving as the National Chair of Repertoire and Standards for Male Choruses for the American Choral Director's Association, he is also president of Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses, a board member of the National Collegiate Choral Organization and vice-president of ChoralNet.org, the Internet's principal portal for information and resources relating to the choral field. He sings as part of the professional music staff at St. John's Church, Lafayette Square, the Church of the Presidents.

C. Paul Heins, Accompanist
C. Paul Heins is visiting assistant professor of music at Georgetown, where he has taught since August 2002.  At Georgetown, Heins conducts the Concert Choir and has taught music theory, voice techniques and literature, class piano, and applied piano.  Heins also has served as music director for university productions of The Colored Museum, Assassins, Urinetown, A New Brain, Wisconsin Death Trip, Cabaret, Hydrogen Jukebox, Jekyll & Hyde, and Caroline or Change, and he has served as music advisor for The Winter’s Tale and Sordid Lives.  In addition to his work at GU, Heins has been the music director of the Lesbian & Gay Chorus of Washington, DC since 2002 and he frequently freelances as a pianist and flutist around the DC area.  Heins is a 1996 graduate (B.Mus.) of Bowling Green State University and a 2000 graduate (M.Mus.) of the University of Maryland.  His teachers have included Judith Bentley and William Montgomery (flute), Victoria Harris and Virginia Marks (piano), and Mark S. Kelly and Patrick Walders (conducting).
 
Administration of the WMC
  • Frank Albinder, Music Director
  • C. Paul Heins, Accompanist
  • Bob McKinless, Librarian
  • Richard Tappen, General Manager

 

Board of Directors

  • Nelson Smith, President
  • Rob Hennings, Vice President
  • Thomas Baldridge, Treasurer
  • Chris Yim, Secretary
  • Frank Albinder, ex officio
  • Bob Sinclair
  • Brad Spencer
  • John Terry 

 

Advisory Board
  • Phyllis Bryn-Julson
  • Richard Dirksen
  • Tom Hall
  • Rosa Lamoreaux
  • John Liepold
  • Mark Ohnmacht
  • Samuel Audiway Peal
  • David Petrou
  • Malcolm Rowat
  • Norman Scribner
  • Donald Sutherland

 

Members

 

First Tenors

Second Tenors

Baritones

Basses

 

 

 

 

Tim Cashin*

Tom Baldridge

Colin Agnew

 

Joseph Gordon

Chuck Baxter

Keith Davis

David Evans

Michael Greaney

Armin Bondoc

Matt Drummond

Dean Goeldner*

Rob Hennings

Howard Frost

David Glass

Gregg Grisa

Craig Lustig

Ned Goldberg

Doug Glidden

Oliver Lewis

Jim Nix

Robert Harris

Diego Hernandez

Kevin Locke

Jay Robertson

Rick Maurey*

A.J. Holliday

Jim Mastracco

Jeff Skeer

Gerald Parshall

David Hoover

Jake Mello

Scott Spencer

Kasi Patterson

Jonah Lampkin

Derek Minshew

 

Nick Schacht

Steve Lockwood

Ben Mizer

 

Paul Seligman

Martey Longmire

Craig Ruskin

 

G.A. Vick

Bob McKinless

Peter Scott

 

 

Peter Pfaffenroth

Jeff Sich

 

 

Chuck Sethness

David Small

 

 

Bob Sinclair*

Ted Smith

 

 

Nelson Smith

Brad Spencer

 

 

Kuo-Wei Wang

John Terry

 

 

Michael Waxer

Bob Wood

 

 

Christoph Wilhelm

Chris Yim

Last updated October 21, 2011        * denotes section coordinator

 

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