Carolyn Howe, soprano

Carolyn received her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Victoria and has long been an active member of Victoria’s music community. She frequently appears as a guest soloist at community concerts and with groups such as 'Out Of The Box Productions', Pacific Opera Victoria, and the Linden Singers. Carolyn teaches voice privately, and is the music teacher at South Park Elementary, where she also conducts two children’s choirs. She enjoys the opportunity her varied career gives her to share the joy and beauty of music in many different ways with many different people.

Arlene Overman, alto

Arlene received her BA in Music and English at TWU in Langley, B.C. and MMUS in Vocal Performance at WWU in Bellingham, WA.  She has enjoyed numerous performance and teaching appointments with a variety of ensembles in Europe and has been a featured soloist locally with the Vancouver Bach Choir, Victoria Civic Orchestra, and Victoria Operatic Society.  She has conducted the Children’s Choir at Central Baptist Church and enjoyed writing and directing the original Christmas productions they presented annually.  Arlene has a booming private home studio of voice and piano students and also home schools her own three children.

John Doughty, tenor

John is a native Victorian. He has studied and worked vocally with Catherine Young (Victoria Conservatory), Susan Young (UVic), and Michael Gormley (Christ Church Cathedral) and is currently a student in the studio of Arlene McIntyre. John has performed as a chorister and as a soloist with several island choirs and ensembles including Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Centennial United Church Choir, the Civic Orchestra, the North Island Choral Society, Capriccio Vocal Ensemble and Voces Intimae, but finds the past years with Hexaphone to be his most musically satisfying experience.

Michael Zastre, tenor

Michael studied computer science in his misspent youth, which included three days driving Formula Fords, and in the midst of said youth was introduced to choral music by singing in ensembles conducted by Diane Loomer (Amabilis, Chor Leone) and Elmer Iseler (National Youth Choir 1993). He is currently regular faculty in the Department of Computer Science at UVic where he makes heavy use of the University's collection of recordings and his department's espresso machine. He is still coping with the news that he is actually a tenor rather than an ersatz baritone.

Nicholas Fairbank, baritone

Nicholas grew up in Burnaby, and studied biology at UBC and French literature at the University of Paris before turning to music as a full-time career. Since 1994 he has lived and worked in Victoria and is presently on the Faculty of the Victoria Conservatory where he teaches piano, pipe organ, harpsichord & theory. In addition he keeps busy as a composer, and by freelancing in several other musical domains. He does indeed own the eponymously-named Fairbank Music.

Paul Boughen, bass

Paul has enjoyed ensemble singing since his youth. His interest follows from the Cellar Singers in his home province of Ontario, and the Mount Allison Choral Society. In Victoria he has sung as a chorister and soloist with Capriccio Vocal Ensemble, Voces Intimae and vox humana. He enjoys presenting solo recitals and has appeared as a vocal soloist with orchestra in Victoria, Duncan and Sooke.