Max Q (quartet)

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Barbershop quartet

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nameMax Q
imageMaxqt.jpg
captionMax Q
backgroundgroup_or_band
genreBarbershop
years_active2002–present
current_membersGreg Clancy – tenor
Tony DeRosa – lead
Gary Lewis – baritone
Jeff Oxley – bass
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|name = Max Q |image = Maxqt.jpg |caption = Max Q |background = group_or_band |genre = Barbershop |years_active = 2002–present |current_members = Greg Clancy – tenor Tony DeRosa – lead Gary Lewis – baritone Jeff Oxley – bass Max Q is the barbershop quartet that won the gold medal Barbershop Harmony Society International Barbershop Quartet Contest at Denver's Pepsi Center July 7, 2007. The quartet's run for the title is featured in the 2009 feature documentary American Harmony.

Background

Max Q formed in 2002 and began competing in the International Barbershop Quartet Contest in 2004. In 2004, 2005, and 2006, Max Q finished in second place to Gotcha!, Realtime, and Vocal Spectrum in consecutive years. In 2007, Max Q won by a 286-point margin over second-place quartet OC Times.

Max Q is notable in that all four members have prior experience in championship-level quartets and choruses. With their 2007 win, DeRosa and Oxley joined Joe Connelly as the only singers with three first-place finishes. DeRosa and Connelly have since gone on to win a record fourth gold medal with Main Street and Old School, respectively. DeRosa won a fifth gold medal with Three and a Half Men in 2024.

Members

  • Greg Clancy – tenor; currently Musical Director of the Vocal Majority chorus, and has participated in all 13 Vocal Majority gold medal victories—eleven as a singer, and the most recent two as Musical Director.
  • Tony DeRosa – lead, former three-time gold medalist singing baritone with 1992 champions Keepsake, 2000 champions Platinum, and 2017 champions Main Street. He currently directs the Big Orange Chorus out of Jacksonville, Florida, as well as the Heralds of Harmony and Toast of Tampa Show Chorus women's chorus out of Tampa, Florida.
  • Gary Lewis – baritone, two-time former gold medalist singing tenor with Platinum and the Collegiate Quartet "The Real Deal". He was director of the Sweet Adelines Chorus "Pride of Toledo" and sang as replacement bass for 1992 champs Keepsake.
  • Jeff Oxley – bass, former two-time gold medalist with The Rapscallions in 1984 and Acoustix in 1990, former associate director and bass section leader of the Vocal Majority, participated in 6 Vocal Majority gold medal victories, and one gold medal as musical director of the Masters of Harmony chorus

In 2008, Oxley and DeRosa were elected to the Westminster Chorus Fantasy Gold Quartet as bass and baritone along with lead Joe Connelly (Old School 2011, Platinum 2000, Keepsake 1992, Interstate Rivals 1987) and tenor Tim Waurick (Vocal Spectrum 2006).

References

References

  1. [http://www.barbershop.org/web/groups/public/documents/pages/pub_id_106709.hcsp "Max Q wins international barbershop quartet contest"] {{Webarchive. link. (2008-05-15 (press release) Barbershop Harmony Society)
  2. Joe Leydon [https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117940873.html?categoryid=31&cs=1 "''American Harmony'' (Documentary)"] ''Variety''
  3. [http://www.maxquartet.com/bio_greg MaxQ [Bio: Greg Clancy]]
  4. [http://www.maxquartet.com/bio_tony MaxQ [Bio: Tony DeRosa]] {{webarchive. link. (2015-08-22)
  5. [http://www.bigorangechorus.com/OurDirectors.htm Big Orange Chorus [Bio: Tony DeRosa]]
  6. [http://heraldsofharmony.groupanizer.com/page/our-director Heralds of Harmony [Bio: Tony DeRosa]]. {{Webarchive. link. (2014-07-14)
  7. [http://www.toastoftampa.org/about/director.html Toast of Tampa [Bio: Tony DeRosa]] {{webarchive. link. (2014-07-14)
  8. "Bio: Gary Lewis". MaxQ Productions.
  9. Cornelius, Steven. (November 12, 2004). "Accolades are familiar refrain". Toledo Blade.
  10. McIntyre, Michael K.. (February 11, 2013). "Here Comes the Bride, Stat!". cleveland.com.
  11. [http://www.maxquartet.com/bio_jeff MaxQ [Bio: Jeff Oxley]]

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