Barbershop Harmony Society
Dean Rice has extensive experience in both music and engineering. As a singer with the Nevada Placer Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society since March 1991, Dean Rice served as president for three consecutive years. From September 1994 to June 2015, Dean Rice was a singer and the first president of Placer Pops Chorale, playing a key role in its establishment as an independent organization. Prior to their musical endeavors, Dean Rice worked as an Engineer Scientist at Hewlett Packard Co. from 1973 to 2000 and as an Engineer at Terminal Data Corp. in the early 1970s, focusing on test equipment design and microfiche camera testing. Dean Rice studied at Moorpark College and completed education at National University in Sacramento, CA.
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Barbershop Harmony Society
The Barbershop Harmony Society is the world leader in close-harmony a cappella singing, with approximately 14,000 members across North America. Founded in 1938 as the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, the Society welcomes all people of all ages to sing in more than 1200 quartets and nearly 700 choruses that range in size from a dozen to 150 singers. Allied organizations in more than a dozen countries bring the total number of active barbershop singers to more than 70,000 worldwide. Through active programs in music education, publishing, performance and outreach, the Society preserves and extends the reach of a uniquely American close harmony musical art form whose roots lie in African-American communities of the South in the late 1800s. Today, the Society now expends nearly $1 million annually in support of community and school programs that bring the fellowship, fulfillment and excitement of vocal music to a new generation of singers.