College
He spent his college years in Boston, graduating cum laude from Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music where he studied with Ran Blake, Dominique Eade and Alan Fletcher (composer). In college, he directed the collegiate a cappella group the Tufts Beelzebubs, transforming the group's sound to reflect modern rock, complete with vocal percussion. The 1990–91 Bubs album Foster Street that he music directed, co-produced and largely arranged is credited with giving birth to the contemporary a cappella sound.
In his dorm room, he founded The Contemporary A Cappella Society and The Ultimate A Cappella Arranging Service (which became TotalVocal), as well as brought the Harmony Sweepstakes to the East Coast, producing the first Boston regional with the Beelzebubs. It was in college that he decided to make a career of contemporary a cappella.
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