Vocal Arts

The Bass Gang is an award-winning group of four bass vocalists that began collaborating virtually in 2021 from across the globe (USA, Czech Republic, and Egypt). Consisting of Bobby Bass, Peter Barber, Tomi P, and Marwan Ayman, The Bass Gang brings a unique approach to music, characterized by their deep bass voices, earth-shaking low notes, intricate harmonies, heavy vocal layering, and lately, augmenting their sound with world class musicians. Their rapid rise in popularity has given them the opportunity to collaborate with household names both in and outside the acapella world, such as: Tim Foust, Peter Hollens, Jonathan Young, Ekaterina Shelehova, Eric Hollaway, Lauren Paley, Colm McGuinness, Big Brev, and many more. Since their inception, The Bass Gang has gone on to release 5 EPs and numerous singles, garnering tens of millions of views/streams between Spotfiy, YouTube, and other streaming services.

This season, Jack Swanson makes his much-anticipated debut at the Metropolitan Opera in his signature-role of Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, will also make both a house and a role debut with the Staatsoper Hamburg as Ernesto in Don Pasquale and will return to the Houston Grand Opera as Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola.  In concert he will make his Boston Symphony Orchestra debut as the tenor soloist in Mozart's Requiem and his Minnesota Orchestra debut also in Mozart’s Requiem with Music Director Thomas Søndergård conducting.  Future projects include returns to the Metropolitan Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival, and debuts at the Opéra National de Paris and the Grand Théâtre de Genève.
 
Jack is also an entrepreneur and the founder of Vocalise, a science-backed vocal health supplement. Please welcome Jack Swanson.

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Top Music Attorney, Miss Krystle is an entertainment attorney, independent artist, musician and CEO of Delgado Entertainment Law. She hosts the Top Music Attorney Podcast on YouTube (184K+ subscribers) and has sold tens of millions of dollars in music catalogs. As leader of a class action lawsuit against A.I. generative companies Suno and Udio on behalf of independent artists, producers, and songwriters. She continues to champions creators’ rights while teaching artists how to think like major labels and build music careers on their own terms with methods like her “Sell Before You Stream” direct to fan model. Please welcome Miss Krystle.

Tim Welch is a Voice Teacher, Performer, and Music Producer who has worked with performers from broadway stars to Grammy winning artists. Over the course of Tim's 20 year private vocal instruction career, he has taught at least 20,000 voice lessons in virtually every style of singing.

Tim received his master of music degree in vocal performance from the University of Illinois. Shortly after receiving his degree, he worked professionally in opera and musical theatre both in the United States and abroad. Even though Tim has extensively studied classical voice, his experience is far from limited to the classical music world. Each week Tim works with: Singer/Songwriters, Electronic Musicians, Hip Hop/R&B performers, Church Musicians and Jazz singers wearing the hat of vocal instructor, music producer or musical mentor.

Tim is also a critically acclaimed performer, who is constantly honing his skills in singing Musical Theatre, Jazz, Classical and Contemporary Styles. He also actively pursues songwriting and composition. During the summer of 2012 Tim started Sojourn Society an 80's inspired electropop band here in NYC. In addition to "Sojourn Society" Tim launched a solo indie dance project in January 2015 called Volf Yunge which recently had tracks signed to Australian record label Hi-Tech Records.

Rachel Hardy is a Canadian composer, vocalist, and cover artist. As a composer, she recently co-composed the soundtrack for Clockwork Labs’ MMORPG BitCraft Online alongside Grammy-nominated and two-time BAFTA-winning composer Austin Wintory. She also worked as a music supervisor for Hidden Path Entertainment on the development of an unannounced AAA Dungeons & Dragons RPG.

 

She has lent vocals to a number of video games such as Eternal Strands, Absolum, and Last Epoch, and has amassed a dedicated audience on YouTube, where she creates covers of songs from video games, film, and television franchises. Please welcome Rachel Hardy.

Andi Deris is singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known through his work with German power metal band, Helloween.

Helloween is formed in 1984 in Hamburg by guitarist Michael Weikath, bassist Markus Grosskopf, drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg, and guitarist/vocalist Kai Hansen. The band’s early Keeper of the Seven Keys albums helped define the European power-metal sound with soaring melodies, dual guitar harmonies, and anthemic choruses. Over time, Helloween navigated personnel changes, stylistic shifts, internal tensions, and even tragedy with the loss of Schwichtenberg, yet they remained one of the most enduring and influential names in metal. In 2016, the group reunited its classic and modern lineups under the banner Pumpkins United, bringing together former vocalists Michael Kiske and Kai Hansen alongside the current members for a world tour and a self-titled album celebrating their decades-long legacy.

Andi Deris joined Helloween in 1994, following the departure of Michael Kiske. Before that, he co-founded the melodic metal band Pink Cream 69, earning recognition for his vocal power, range, and songwriting skill. Deris ushered Helloween into a new creative era with albums such as Master of the Rings, The Time of the Oath, Better Than Raw, The Dark Ride, and the modern Pumpkins United projects. His warm yet commanding vocal tone and dynamic stage presence helped stabilize the band through the shifting tides of the metal scene, and his compositional contributions have been central to Helloween’s continued evolution as one of the genre’s defining forces.

Mark Garrett is a professional vocal coach, voice teacher, singer, and songwriter, specializing in harsh vocal techniques, and teaching through his vocal program, Kardavox Academy. Mark has spent 15 years as a metal vocalist, fronting Kardashev on Metal Blade Records, releasing eight studio projects, and performing internationally. His methods for teaching blend real-world experience with vocal science, and has earned him a place as a research subject in a study on extreme vocals carried out by The Charismatic Voice and The University of Utah. Mark has helped thousands of singers remove strain and find their own sound. Please welcome Mark Garrett.

David Kahn is a bass singer, songwriter, and traveling musician, known widely throughout the bass and gospel communities for performing numerous double low Cs in live performance with The Stamps Quartet. David initially rose to notoriety through YouTube, where he showcased his unique vocal range, demonstrating down to F#1 in subharmonics all the way through tenor high C (C5) in chest voice. In addition to touring with The Stamps (and performing JD Sumner's double low Cs night after night), David has been independently touring internationally with his own music. He is connected with many of the great basses of this modern generation, including Bobby Bass, Big Brev, and numerous others from the professional acapella community. Please welcome David Kahn. 

Logan Alexandra is a professional singer, songwriter, and social media sensation, best known for her viral choir memes. She has over 650,000 subscribers on YouTube, and an entire discography of original music with accompanying music videos. Logan and Peter are both in the YouTube Creator Collective program in Arizona, along with creatives like Elizabeth Zharoff, Kardovox Academy, Pink Shirt Girl, Demibaby, and many more. Please welcome Logan Alexandra.

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American bass-baritone and social media influencer, Daniel Brevik, is praised for having "a massive, focused, rich, warm timbre." Boasting an impressive following of over 500,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and 488,000 followers on TikTok. Brevik's singing and teaching channel extends even further, with a staggering 930,000 followers on Instagram with over 60 million views which have amassed over 15 years of total stream time, effectively captivating audiences on a global scale.

A recipient of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis‘ Richard Gaddes Career Grant, and the Wendy Shattuck Presidential Scholarship from the New England Conservatory, Brevik was hailed by The Washington Post for having “an impressive, sonorous voice" while Opera Today claimed he could "rattle the rafters one moment and be lullingly conversational the next."

Brevik was featured on the cover of Opera News for creating the role of Ernest Hemingway in the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon's Twenty-Seven. The album recorded with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra is available on all major music platforms. Brevik later reprised his role with the orchestra of St. Luke’s in his New York debut at City Center Theatre, and then again at Intermountain Opera in Bozeman, Montana.

Notable venues Brevik has performed in include Boston’s Symphony Hall, St. Louis’ Powell Hall, Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Civic Opera House, Amarillo Texas’ Globe-News Center, Venice Italy’s St. Marks Cathedral, and the Vietnam Opera and ballet in Hanoi Vietnam.

In a recent collaboration with Bobby Bass, their cover of “Hoist The Colours” garnered over 13 billion streams on TikTok, 12 million streams on Spotify, and 7 million views on YouTube. In 2022, Brevik was showcased on stage in concert with Pentatonix legend Avi Kaplan in Boston, MA. Brev opened for Dustin Lynch in winter of 2024 to help fundraise for St. Jude's Children's Hospital for iHeart Radio's Unwrapped and Unplugged fundraiser. He looks forward to performing alongside his good friend Tim Foust at his “9th quasi annual birthday” bash at City Winery in Nashville this July.

As a teacher and vocal coach, he's guided vocalists of all ages in multiple styles to free up their voice and hone their unique instrument for over ten years. In 2024, Brev was one of three selected to judge at the VanderLaan competition through Opera Grand Rapids. Brev co-runs a world-wide online vocal studio, StudioBrev, with his lovely and musical wife and vocal coach: Jen.

Outside of singing, Brev loves weight lifting and spending time training his golden retriever, Wyatt.