Clay Hine
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Clay Hine is a barbershop music
ian and arranger.
He is a native Chicagoan, but has lived in the Atlanta Metro area now 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 and began directing the newly chartered Atlanta Metro (Atlanta Vocal Project) chapter in 2005. 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.
Barbershop music
Barbershop vocal harmony, as codified during the barbershop revival era , is a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture...
ian and arranger.
He is a native Chicagoan, but has lived in the Atlanta Metro area now for 20 years since he graduated from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
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
Keepsake
Keepsake was an American barbershop quartet from Florida that won the 1992 SPEBSQSA International Barbershop Competition. Members of the quartet areJoe Connelly , Tony Derosa , Don Barnick , and Roger Ross .-Discography:...
, PLATINUM
Platinum (quartet)
Platinum is a barbershop quartet, created in 1998 and the 2000 SPEBSQSA international quartet champions. They are famous for their long posts , particularly in their adaptation of the song Be Our Guest and in Clay Hine's arrangement of Auld Lang Syne, which is on Platinum's CD of the same...
, FRED
FRED (quartet)
FRED is a comic barbershop quartet formed in 1990 by members of the Marietta Big Chicken Chorus.Despite their focus on comedy, FRED produces a very refined sound...
, Four Voices
Four Voices
Four Voices is a barbershop quartet based in Tennessee. After winning the SPEBSQSA Collegiate Barbershop Quartet Championship in 1996, Four Voices went on to become international champions in 2002....
, 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 and began directing the newly chartered Atlanta Metro (Atlanta Vocal Project) chapter in 2005. 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
FRED (quartet)
FRED is a comic barbershop quartet formed in 1990 by members of the Marietta Big Chicken Chorus.Despite their focus on comedy, FRED produces a very refined sound...
, 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.