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Sound of the
Rockies
V.I.P.s
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Darin Drown
Director of Sound of the
Rockies.
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Darin Drown
arrived in Denver in 1998 from Missouri where he taught vocal music
at St. Joseph Central High school for five years. Currently he is in
his second year as the vocal music director at Overland High School
in the Cherry Creek School District.
Darin is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is
quite busy as a clinician for high school festivals throughout the Midwest, and does a great deal of coaching for barbershoppers and
Sweet Adelines all along the front range.
Darin has been involved in the barbershop hobby since the age of
ten, when he started singing with the Sugar Valley Singers in
Scottsbluff, NE. He has competed in several quartets including The
Four Hoarsemen, who finished second in the first International
Collegiate Quartet contest, Freefall, the 1995 Central States
District Champions, and Crazy Rhythm, the 1999 Rocky Mountain
District (RMD) Champions and currently sings baritone with Storm
Front, the 2002 RMD District Champions. Darin was the associate director at St. Joseph for the
American Barberboys, and was serving as an assistant director and vocal coach
for Denver Tech previous to the merging of the the two choruses.
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Jim Clark
Asst. Director & Choreographer of Sound of the
Rockies.
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A lifelong Barbershopper, Jim Clark was drawn into the hoppy in
similar fashion to brother-in-law Darin Drown. Watching his
father, Dan Clark, sing with the quartet, Chordial Celebration, Jim
fell under the Barbershopping spell and joined the Scottsbluff,
Nebraska Sugar Valley Singers while still in Elementary School.
In his college years, while earning a BA and MA in English, Jim
got his first directing experience, serving as an Asst. Director for
the Lincoln Continentals in Lincoln, NE, as well as a Choreographer
for the American Barberboys in St. Joseph, MO. He also
discovered the Joys of quarteting, singing with the 1995 CSD
champion quartet, Freefall, and the 1999 International Collegiate
Bronze Medallist quartet, Millennium.
After moving to Colorado, Jim served two years as Director of the
Valentine City Chorus in Loveland, CO, while also taking on the
responsibilities of Asst. Director/Choreographer for the Sound
of the Rockies. Additionally, he makes time to sing tenor in the
octet, the Denver A Cappella Project and lead in the Quartet, Storm
Front (the 2002 International Semi-Finalist and 2002 RMD
Champions). He is blessed to make his home in Aurora, CO with
his family.
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