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DEREK BADO
Voice Part: Tenor/Baritone
Position: Assistant Music Director
About: Derek was born and raised in the middle of the woods in New Hampshire, now living the dream in Brooklyn! He graduated from Hofstra University with a degree in Vocal Performance and Business, and immediately fell in love with New York. Derek loves to work on theater productions, both on stage and behind the scenes, and by day is a Personal Assistant.
Musical Experience: Music Director and President of Sigma’cappella - Hofstra’s first coed group! Musicals, Operas, and many a jam session.
Favorite Keys Moment: Hot Tub Hot Seat at his first TLK Retreat!
Fun Fact: During the week, Derek works outside of the city on a farm with 8 adorable pygmy goats.
JENNY BAIK
Voice Part: Alto / Occasional Tenor
Position: Treasurer/Performance Director
About: Jenny tirelessly aspires to become a pop musicologist (with a concentration in Beyoncé, of course), but to pass the time, she manages planning and allocation for tommy.com and DJs all Lost Keys road trips.
Musical Experience: Mixed Company (Yale University), Whim 'n Rhythm (Yale University), Street Level Band (classic rock/soul group in Pittsburgh).
Favorite Keys Moment: Snow bunnies photo shoot during our last winter retreat in upstate NY!
Fun Fact: Way before the heyday of Glee, Jenny was the token dancing Asian in her high school's show choir.
MELISSA CATHCART
Voice Part: Alto
About: Melissa Cathcart is a graduate of Northern Kentucky University with a BFA in Musical Theatre. An arts advocate for the development of young artists, Melissa was a theatre teacher for the New York Edge program in Brooklyn, providing a supportive environment for creative expression coordinating set design, costume design, sound design and managing ticket sales, while producing theatrical productions from the ground up. Melissa is a member of NYC’s Upright Citizens Brigade, as well as an indoor vertical strawberry farmer at Oishii.
STEPHANIE CHAN
Voice Part: Soprano/Mezzo/Social Chair
About: Stephanie was born and raised in Los Angeles but has been living a bi-coastal life for the last decade or so. After graduating from Yale with a degree in psychology, she moved back to LA and began a career in market research and media before heading to Harvard Business School to get her MBA. She now works with media and entertainment companies at YouTube as a Strategic Partner Manager but hopes to fulfill her master plan to become a YouTube celebrity.
Musical Experience: Stephanie plays piano, guitar, and ukulele and is a singer at home with musical genres ranging from Baroque opera to modern pop. At Yale, she sang with Mixed Company, Whim ‘n Rhythm, Yale Baroque Opera Project, and Yale Schola Cantorum; in LA, she was part of the Grammy-nominated group The Silver Lake Chorus and Top Shelf Vocal; at HBS, she sang in the cover band Three Case Day and starred as Katniss in the musical parody "The HBS Games: Catching Alpha." She also once sang backup for Jared Leto’s band Thirty Seconds to Mars in a full-body white plastic hazmat suit.
Favorite Keys Moment: Bucket of nouns at the Pier 1 Peacock Palace in the Pokonos
Fun Fact: Stephanie has gone bungee jumping in New Zealand, hang gliding in Brazil, parasailing in Mexico, and paragliding in Nepal. She has yet to go skydiving but that is next on her list.
PATRICK DILLON
Voice Part: Bass/Webmaster
About: Patrick teaches elementary school music on Long Island and is diligently practicing ukelele.
Musical Experience: William and Mary DoubleTake, The Deaftones of Westminster Choir College, and numerous other musical endeavors and a cappella groups over the years.
Favorite Keys Moment: Auditioning for The Sing Off!
Fun Fact: Patrick was on Jeopardy! Twice!
NATHANIEL GRANOR
Voice Part: "Whoever is missing"
Position: Music Director
About: Nathaniel would have majored in a cappella in college but they made him pick something "more academic." So he majored in computer science and now helps high schools around the country start CS programs... and sings a cappella. For "fun," Nathaniel enjoys creating augmented reality party games.
Musical Experience: The Yale Spizzwinks(?), numerous choirs and musicals, years of piano, and - funny story - Nathaniel accidentally studied flute for 8 years because he was too embarrassed to admit that he had meant to ask for clarinet lessons.
Favorite Keys Moment: Game. Night.
Fun Fact: Nathaniel went to space camp. Twice.
VIKAS KUMAR
Voice Part: Vocal Percussion (and maybe Baritone)
About: Vikas was originally raised in Nashville, before going to college in Michigan, and then spending 6 years post-college in San Francisco, before finally moving to NYC. He graduated with a computer science degree, and makes a living by breaking computer programs and letting other people fix them. Outside of work, he primarily spends his time making musical posts on the internet, playing chess, and being bad at video games.
Musical Experience: He plays piano, guitar, and bass (and trombone-ish). He also has decent audio production/engineering experience and enjoys making eurobeat remixes of songs for no reason. He also likes reharmonizing songs with really stupidspicy jazzy chords for no reason.
Favorite Keys Moment: Performing with everyone about a week after landing in NYC without having gone to a single rehearsal.
Fun Fact: Vikas has played mental chess with more than 3 people at the same time. (Don't ask him to do this now though).
Juliette Reilly
Juliette Reilly, forever a musical theatre kid, recently moved back to NYC from Nashville. Armed with empowering lyrics and expertly produced anthems, she is an independent singer/songwriter. She attracted attention when “Battle Cry,” a moving song she wrote for a YouTube series, went viral. Her equally poignant EP “I Am” attracted the attention of both the Red Shoe Movement and Project Semicolon, as well as landing on the Billboard Heatseekers and iTunes charts.
Her songs have been featured in ads for Bed Bath & Beyond and Victoria’s Secret, as well as on shows like MTV’s Teen Mom and Netflix’s Love is Blind. After loving her a cappella group at Muhlenberg College, she joined The Lost Keys family upon moving to NYC and is so glad she did. :)
JAMIE SERKIN
Voice Part: Soprano
Position: President
About: Jamie currently works as Special Events Operations Manager for Friends of the High Line in New York. She graduated in 2010 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in music and management. Go Heels!
Musical Experience: Tar Heel Voices (UNC), UNC Pauper Players, solo on Voices Only 2011
Favorite Keys Moment: Performing "A Very Swayze Christmas" for Joel Hodgson of MST3K.
Fun Fact: Jamie once sat on the tasting table of The Chew! She got to eat desserts prepared by Clinton Kelly and Martha Stewart!
RACHEL WEINSTEIN
Voice Part: Soprano
Position: Assistant Music Director
About: Rachel currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she's been living for over a year after getting her BA in psychology and speech & hearing sciences from The George Washington University in D.C. She mostly grew up in central NJ, although she was born in NY and truly considers herself a New Yorker at heart. Rachel sings and plays guitar for children ages 0-6 as her "survival job" while pursuing a professional career as a singer/actor.
Musical Experience: A whole lot of choirs/ensembles throughout middle school, high school, and college. Rachel was very involved in the music department at GWU, as a recipient of a voice scholarship and a music minor. Additionally, she was a member and eventual co-music director of the GW Troubadours, a co-ed a cappella group that is directly responsible for her obsession with owls.
Favorite Keys Moment: Impromptu singing/dancing around a bonfire for a bachelor party next door to our lake house at retreat.
Fun Fact: Rachel has travelled to Brazil, South Africa, and Australia...but has never been to Europe.