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Hunter Buckworth
Operations Manager

  • Hometown: Newark, DE
  • Year: 2012
  • Vocal Part: Baritone
  • Member Since: Autumn, 2008
  • Superpower: The innate ability to coordinate
  • Favorite Syllable: Ah
  • Interests: Short walks, preferably not on the beach.
    Shallow conversation. Being alone. Wearing clothes for weeks at a time. Alienating others. Sarcasm, and puppies.

  • Favorite RN memory:  All of spring tour. Basically, spending all my time with all my favorite people. *Cheesy, but true*



 



Kim Bullock

 

  • Hometown: St. Paul, MN
  • Year: 2013
  • Vocal Part: Alto
  • Member Since: 2009
  • Superpower: With just a little bit of pixie dust and some happy thoughts, I can fly!
  • Interests: music, filmmaking, scrapbooking, and Harry Potter!



     





 

 

Matt Chan
President

  • Hometown: East Brunswick, NJ
  • Alias: Ghetto pitch pipe
  • Year: 2011
  • Vocal Part: Bass
  • Member Since: Autumn, 2007
  • Superpower: I'm a ninja.
  • Interested In/Interests: Ninja things. And manatees.
  • Favorite Syllable: Mama's mamas
  • Favorite RN memory: Getting serenaded after auditions.





 


 



Lauren Fish


  • Hometown: Springfield, OH
  • Alias: Fish
  • Year: 2012
  • Vocal Part: Soprano
  • Member Since: 2009
  • Superpower: Ability to infiltrate secure locations through very small openings/I'm pretty short.
  • Interested In/Interests: Singing, crew, Harry Potter, Shakespeare, and photography.



 







 




Emily Graber


  • Hometown: Bay Village, OH
  • Alias: E-Grabes
  • Year: 2011
  • Vocal Part: Alto
  • Member Since: Autumn, 2007
  • Superpower: Lethal use of feminine wiles
  • Interested In/Interests: People, music, peanut butter, and why the world goes round (I'm pretty sure peanut butter has something do to with that, actually).
  • Favorite Syllable: Na. (Emily introduced Zha into the RN syllabic canon)
  • Favorite RN memory: Our amazing Christmas-dinner-like potluck, and also discovering the after-concert tradition.








 






Merry Herbst

Assistant Music Director


  • Hometown: Tempe, AZ
  • Alias:
  • Year: 2012
  • Vocal Part: Soprano
  • Member Since: Autumn, 2008
  • Superpower: I can read minds.
  • Interested In/Interests: Biology, theatre, music, psychology, ice cream
  • Favorite Syllable: I'm fairly nonchalant aout syllables, but my favorite word is "facetious."
  • Favorite RN memory: Yet to be established, but I'm sure there will be many.



 




Amanda Jacobson


  • Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
  • Year: 2012
  • Vocal Part: Alto
  • Member Since: Autumn, 2008
  • Superpower: Making chocolate-chip cookies that are quite tasty.
  • Interested In/Interests: Soccer, musical theatre, the Pittsburgh Penguins
  • Favorite Syllable: WAH
  • Favorite RN memory:


 



Lauren
Makholm
Music Director


  • Hometown: Boston, MA
  • Year: 2010
  • Vocal Part: Soprano
  • Member Since: Autumn, 2006
  • Superpower: invisibilitiness
  • Interested In/Interests: Singing, Dancing, Movies, Russian, Spanish, The Office (thats what she said)
  • Favorite Syllable: wa/oo
  • Favorite RN memory: Dressing up for the RN Halloween Concert and Ransom Notes at my house in Boston!

 





Ramona Martinez

Marketing


  • Hometown: Fairfax, VA
  • Alias: Mona, Monie, Moanster, OHP
  • Year: 2011
  • Vocal Part: Alto
  • Member Since: Autumn, 2008
  • Superpower: Super Speed
  • Interested In/Interests: hot apple cider, yoga, garden gnomes, knitting, baseball, historical tourism, the American Revolution, Spider Man, taking 5 hour naps, Bach's Cello Suites, bluegrass, vintage country, and the United States Constitution.
  • Favorite Syllable: Yo
  • Favorite RN memory: Improvising an acapella wunderfezt during 2nd callbacks.





 



 




Saoirse McSherry


  • Hometown: New York, NY
  • Alias: Saoirse Fierce
  • Year: 2011
  • Vocal Part: Soprano
  • Member Since: Autumn, 2008
  • Superpower: Turning red...
  • Interested In/Interests: Ransom notes, pumpkin muffins,taekwondo, llamas, driving, chili hot chocolate, crossword puzzkes, and more!
  • Favorite Syllable: Bahhh
  • Favorite RN Memory: car of angels running up during "walkin in memphis" in lagrange over tour 2009

 

 

 


Jeremy Southgate

  • Hometown: Sudbury, Mass.
  • Year: 2013
  • Vocal Part: Tenor
  • Member Since: 2009
  • Superpower: Like Gandalf's
  • Interests: Music, Dave Matthew's music, Coffee, Politics, German Food, Monty Python, and Peole.
  • Favorite RN memory:  Listening to The Ransom Notes sing while a cat was chasing a laser pointer across the room--up and down the walls.

 


 




Ian Morrow

Webmaster


  • Hometown: Elyria, OH
  • Alias: THE FURY
  • Year: 2011
  • Vocal Part: Baritone
  • Member Since: Autumn, 2007
  • Superpower: PHOTO LINKS TO GIANT CUTE KITTEN
  • Interested In/Interests: Theatre, French/Romance languages, creative writing, vocal performance, literature, poetry, scotch, mahogany.
  • Favorite Syllable: Zigga-Zigga
  • Favorite RN memory: Watching the epic reunion of the CAR OF ANGELS with the rest of the group in LaGrange, GA/ Cursing out Jenny the GiPpiS, the Coffeeville hounds (three-point turns will never be the same again)



 

 

 

 


Sam Scarrow


  • Hometown: Ambler, PA
  • Alias: This website is under construction. Please check back later. (AKA idontknowyet)
  • Year: 2013
  • Vocal Part: Baritone
  • Member Since: Autumn, 2009
  • Superpower: The ability to make a "that's what she said" out of anything
  • Interested In/Interests: Musical Theater. Political Science. Nutella. Irony. But not Sarcasm.
  • Favorite Syllable: The U-umlaut.
  • Favorite RN memory: When I realized the third sightreading piece was "Duel of the Fates" from Star Wars Episode 1.
     



 


Samir Warty

  • Hometown: Freehold, NJ
  • Alias: No Comment...
  • Year: 2013 (PhD)
  • Vocal Part: Bass
  • Member Since: 2009
  • Superpower: Inverting singular matrices (uniquely!)
  • Interested In/Interests: Vocal music, Elmo the pug(see img!), statistics, charcuterie
  • Favorite Syllable: Doom ba da cheeba wahyah







 

 

 

 


Ali Yesilkanal


  • Hometown: Aydin, Turkey
  • Year: 2012
  • Vocal Part: Tenor
  • Member Since: Autumn, 2008
  • Superpower: The high A! (Also, Turkish cuisine)
  • Interests: Singing, drawing, molecular biology, and pokemon
  • Favorite Syllable: oh
  • Favorite RN memory: It was at the after-party while we were singing a song I don't even know.  I got the B flat for the first time in my career!





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