GREENVILLE CHORALE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Conductor and Artistic Director
Bingham Vick, Jr. is in his forty third season as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Greenville Chorale. Since 1981 he has expanded the repertoire of the Chorale and excited the Chorale's ever-growing audience with highly acclaimed performances of great choral-orchestral literature. In 1997 he founded and continues to conduct the professional Herring Chamber Ensemble. Dr. Vick retired as Professor Emeritus from Furman University in May, 2010. He was Director of Furman Singers for forty years. A native of Charlotte, NC, he earned degrees from Stetson University and Northwestern University, where he was a student of Margaret Hillis and Assistant Conductor of the Chicago Symphony Chorus. He sang for several years in the Robert Shaw Festival Chorus, conducted by Robert Shaw.
Dr. Vick retired in 2003 as Musical Director at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Greenville after twenty-eight years of service. At Furman, in addition to his choral work, Vick taught voice, conducting, choral literature, and vocal-choral methods. He is a Life Member of the American Choral Directors Association (a past president of the thirteen-state Southern Division ACDA), and an active member of the Music Educator's National Conference, and the International Federation for Choral Music. Vick is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Pi Kappa Lambda, Omicron Delta Kappa, and The Quaternion Society of Furman University.
Over the past fifty years, Dr.Vick developed an outstanding reputation as a conductor and teacher. During his career, he has conducted many of the great choral-orchestral masterworks, including J.S.Bach's Mass in B-Minor, Handel's Messiah, the Berlioz Requiem, Johannes Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem, Haydn's The Creation, Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, the Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, the great Requiem settings of Verdi, Mozart, Duruflé, Fauré, Rutter, and Howells, and significant works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He commissioned new choral music by Mark Kilstofte, Daniel Gawthrop, Robert Powell, and Dan Forrest.
Job Titles:
- Marketing Specialist
- Social Media Manager
David Mark Rasbach, tenor, a native of Johnstown, PA, now resides in Greenville, SC, where he divides his time between teaching, directing Rushingbrook Children's Choir and composition. Mr. Rasbach studied with organist, Donald Wilkins at Carnegie-Mellon Conservatory of Music, and he is a graduate of Bob Jones University, from where he holds a bachelor's degree in organ and a master's degree in composition. He has studied composition with Dwight Gustafson and Joan Pinkston and is a fellow of Alice Parker's Melodious Accord. A published composer of sacred choral music, he is a winner of the John Ness Beck Foundation Award for his original setting of Abide With Me. Information about Mr. Rasbach's choral music and Rushingbrook choirs may be found at davidrasbach.com. This is David's first year in Chorale and the Herring Ensemble.
David Mark Rasbach, tenor, a native of Johnstown, PA, now resides in Greenville, SC, where he divides his time between teaching, directing Rushingbrook Children's Choir and composition. Mr. Rasbach studied with organist, Donald Wilkins at Carnegie-Mellon Conservatory of Music, and he is a graduate of Bob Jones University, from where he holds a bachelor's degree in organ and a master's degree in composition. He has studied composition with Dwight Gustafson and Joan Pinkston and is a fellow of Alice Parker's Melodious Accord. A published composer of sacred choral music, he is a winner of the John Ness Beck Foundation Award for his original setting of Abide With Me. Information about Mr. Rasbach's choral music and Rushingbrook choirs may be found at davidrasbach.com. This is David's first year in Chorale and the Herring Ensemble.
Keith has enjoyed a 28-year career as a professional opera and concert singer. He has been heard nationally at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, New York City Opera, The Santa Fe Opera, and many others. Internationally, he has performed with Opera di Firenze at the Maggio Musicale, the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, Opera di Roma; Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia; Spain; Massimo Theater, Palermo, Sicily; English National Opera in London; Royal Opera di Wallonie in Liege, Belgium; and at the Sejii Ozawa Matsumoto Festival in Japan. Mr. Jameson sang with Boston Baroque, in many performances of Handel's Messiah, and in Haydn's The Creation and Lord Nelson Mass, both commercially released on CD. He can be seen in Carmen and Falstaff, both on DVD with The Metropolitan Opera, and in the world premier of Mark Adamo's Becoming Santa Claus, on DVD with Dallas Opera. He is featured in Peter Ash's The Golden Ticket, recorded live with Atlanta Opera. Keith was the Founder and Director of the Greenwood Music Festival, and is the composer of the children's opera Petunia, based on the book by Roger Duvoisin, which received it's world premier in 2014. After 24 years in New York City, he relocated back to his hometown of Greenwood, SC in May, 2020. He is the Church Music Director at First Baptist Church of Greenwood. Keith is a graduate of Furman University and the Eastman School of Music. Keith is a new member of the Chorale and the Herring Ensemble.
Keith has enjoyed a 28-year career as a professional opera and concert singer. He has been heard nationally at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, New York City Opera, The Santa Fe Opera, and many others. Internationally, he has performed with Opera di Firenze at the Maggio Musicale, the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, Opera di Roma; Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia; Spain; Massimo Theater, Palermo, Sicily; English National Opera in London; Royal Opera di Wallonie in Liege, Belgium; and at the Sejii Ozawa Matsumoto Festival in Japan. Mr. Jameson sang with Boston Baroque, in many performances of Handel's Messiah, and in Haydn's The Creation and Lord Nelson Mass, both commercially released on CD. He can be seen in Carmen and Falstaff, both on DVD with The Metropolitan Opera, and in the world premier of Mark Adamo's Becoming Santa Claus, on DVD with Dallas Opera. He is featured in Peter Ash's The Golden Ticket, recorded live with Atlanta Opera. Keith was the Founder and Director of the Greenwood Music Festival, and is the composer of the children's opera Petunia, based on the book by Roger Duvoisin, which received it's world premier in 2014. After 24 years in New York City, he relocated back to his hometown of Greenwood, SC in May, 2020. He is the Church Music Director at First Baptist Church of Greenwood. Keith is a graduate of Furman University and the Eastman School of Music. Keith is a new member of the Chorale and the Herring Ensemble.
Kyle, a native of Greenville, SC, graduated Travelers Rest High and attended North Greenville College where he studied music. Kyle was a barber by profession before answering the call to full-time ministry. He has served as Minister of Music for churches in the upstate as well as North Carolina and Georgia. He is currently the Worship Pastor for Overbrook Baptist Church, Greenville, SC where he has served for over 13 years. In addition to being a member of the Herring Ensemble, Kyle as served as a soloist and as Chorale Manager for the Greenville Chorale. He joined the Chorale and Herring Ensemble in 2007.
Kyle, a native of Greenville, SC, graduated Travelers Rest High and attended North Greenville College where he studied music. Kyle was a barber by profession before answering the call to full-time ministry. He has served as Minister of Music for churches in the upstate as well as North Carolina and Georgia. He is currently the Worship Pastor for Overbrook Baptist Church, Greenville, SC where he has served for over 13 years. In addition to being a member of the Herring Ensemble, Kyle as served as a soloist and as Chorale Manager for the Greenville Chorale. He joined the Chorale and Herring Ensemble in 2007.
Randall Traynham, tenor, is a native of Greenville. Randall attended the SC Governor's School for the Arts and graduated from Furman University with a bachelor of arts in music where he was a member of Furman Singers, Furman Choir, and the Phi Mu Alpha Men's Chorus. He earned an MBA from Troy University and is employed by PaymentsFirst as director of education. Randall has also served since 1999 as organist / choir director for the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, Laurens, where he plays an early 1900's Hinners organ. Randy joined the Chorale and Herring Ensemble in 2015.
Randall Traynham, tenor, is a native of Greenville. Randall attended the SC Governor's School for the Arts and graduated from Furman University with a bachelor of arts in music where he was a member of Furman Singers, Furman Choir, and the Phi Mu Alpha Men's Chorus. He earned an MBA from Troy University and is employed by PaymentsFirst as director of education. Randall has also served since 1999 as organist / choir director for the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, Laurens, where he plays an early 1900's Hinners organ. Randy joined the Chorale and Herring Ensemble in 2015.
Dr. T. J. Turner, tenor, was recently named one of Memphis's Top 20 Under 35 and received the University of Memphis Graduate Document Award for his dissertation research. He has received positive reviews of his "solid performances" in his professional debut as The Doctor in The Handmaid's Tale with GLOW Lyric Theatre: Opera Wire described his "crystalline high tenor" as "delightful to listen to."
He also performed in Kristin Chenoweth's My Love Letter to Broadway; other notable roles include Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, William Barfée in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and the title roles in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and Bizet's Le docteur miracle.
Dr. Turner holds degrees from the University of Memphis, the University of South Carolina, and Furman University. He is currently Instructor of Voice at the Lawson Academy of the Arts at Converse University and continues to perform extensively throughout the southeast.
Dr. T. J. Turner, tenor, was recently named one of Memphis's Top 20 Under 35 and received the University of Memphis Graduate Document Award for his dissertation research. He has received positive reviews of his "solid performances" in his professional debut as The Doctor in The Handmaid's Tale with GLOW Lyric Theatre: Opera Wire described his "crystalline high tenor" as "delightful to listen to."