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Mike O'Neill Professional Bio
Updated: 3/6/2008 1:20:21 PM
Mike O’Neill Music Specialist Chorus Director Development
Mike O’Neill is a Music Specialist for the Barbershop Harmony Society. He oversees the Chorus Director Development program, serves as staff liaison for the Chorus Director Development Committee, and oversees the Directors College curriculum at Harmony University. O’Neill also travels throughout the country and abroad conducting workshops, clinics, lectures, and festivals. His goal is to enhance the experience of current Barbershoppers and expose music educators and students to the barbershop harmony art form. A member of the Barbershop Harmony Society since 1995, O’Neill started singing barbershop in the Society’s Sunshine District with the Winter Park Sunshine Jubilee Chorus. He was immediately hooked on the style. Soon after joining Winter Park Chapter, he formed a quartet with three of his buddies from the University of Florida. That quartet, Station 59, went on to win the 1999 MBNA America Collegiate Barbershop Quartet Contest. Since then, he has sung as an international quarterfinalist quartet with Vantage Point. He is a past COTS instructor and served on the Society’s Young Men in Harmony Committee for five years. O’Neill was the front-line director for the Melbourne (Florida) Harbor City Harmonizers and during his tenure the chorus earned the district’s “Most Improved Chorus” award. Currently, O’Neill is the Musical Director of the Nashville Music City Chorus. O’Neill has a bachelor of music degree in music education with a vocal emphasis from the University of Florida and a master of music degree in choral conducting from the University of North Texas. Throughout his studies, he has had the privilege to learn from masters such as Anton Armstrong, Simon Carrington, Jerry McCoy, James Morrow, and Alice Parker. Prior to his appointment as music specialist in May 2006, O’Neill taught public high school choir. O’Neill and his wife, Jenny, live in Hendersonville Tenn. and have two daughters: Katelyn and Kylie. Mike can be reached at moneill@barbershop.org or by phone at 800.876.7464, extension 4126.
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