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ArtistTravis Cottrell – David
Travis Cottrell has recorded at Abbey Road and Carnegie Hall. He is renowned for his artistry, voice, music, and service throughout the USA. He has recorded many successful albums, and is the winner of a Dove Award. Ring the Bells, All That is Within Me, and the Reason are just some of his critically acclaimed albums. He has recorded with Amy Grant, Max Lucado, and Mandisa, among other notables.
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ArtistKatie Peslis – Bathsheba
No newcomer to the musical arena, Katie is classically trained and got her professional start in 2014 when she was cast to sing the role of Anna in the world stage-premiere of the music from Disney’s “Frozen” with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
Her voice has been featured on songs at Disneyland California, Disney World Orlando, Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Tokyo. “Fantasmic” at Disneyland California is still running with her voice in it. Katie has been a SAG-AFTRA member since 2017, and she also sang as a touring vocalist with Sandi Patty for five years. In addition, her voice can be heard on video games Far Cry 5, Battlefield V, Fifa 2019, and as a background vocalist on Katy Perry’s 2018 holiday single “Cozy Little Christmas.”
Katie’s latest project, “We’ve Only Just Begun, A Tribute Karen Carpenter”, released February 7, 2020.
Katie graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Business and Live Performance from Dallas Baptist University and currently lives in Nashville with her husband Donnie, and their two dogs, Penny and Finn.
Links to her social media platforms are listed here.
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ArtistArmand Hutton – Goliath
Armand Hutton was a member of the acapella/vocal play sensation “Naturally 7” for nearly a decade. While with the group he performed with and befriended many artists including Quincy Jones, Coldplay, Ludacris, David Foster, and Jamie Foxx. They toured with Michael Bublé for over 6 years around the world and have been featured on four of his albums as well as numerous nationally syndicated television shows.
He has written and produced songs and arranged vocals for several recording artists. Including “Need You With Me” which landed on the top 10 smooth jazz Billboard charts, and his acapella arrangement of “Do You Hear What I Hear” was nominated in the 58th Grammy Awards in the “Best Arrangement, Instrumental or Acapella” category.
Aside from currently singing with NBC’s The Singoff runner-ups “Street Corner Symphony,” and facilitating a weekly songwriting class for 6th-8th graders on a volunteer basis, Armand runs his record label Hutton Records. With it, he seeks to establish a strong creative network within the label as well as a strong presence in the community.
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ArtistGalen Fott – Saul
Galen is a Nashville-based actor, singer, director, animator, and puppeteer. Originally from Clarksville, he received a BFA in Theatre Performance from the University of Memphis. Galen has worked with most of the major performing arts organizations in Nashville, including Nashville Shakespeare Festival, Nashville Rep, Nashville Children’s Theatre, Nashville Opera, Nashville Symphony, and Studio Tenn.
In other parts of the country, Galen has played the title roles in Cyrano, Phantom, and Jesus Christ Superstar; King Arthur in Camelot; and Matt Friedman in Talley’s Folly. In 1991, Galen originated the role of Gaston in the still-running Beauty and the Beast stage show at Walt Disney World. Other performing highlights include the national tour of Mame starring Juliet Prowse, singing at Carnegie Hall, and with Houston Grand Opera. For Music Theatre International’s official reference recordings, Galen is the voice of King Triton (The Little Mermaid), Frollo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), Pulitzer (Newsies), and Lumiere (Beauty and the Beast).
As a director and animator, Galen has adapted two dozen children’s books into award-winning films for Scholastic/Weston Woods. Other animation clients include Sesame Workshop, NPT, The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Kroger, and Dollywood. As a puppeteer, Galen has performed with the Jim Henson Company and Wishing Chair Productions. In a previous life, he co-authored eight books on computer graphics and was a contributing editor to PC Magazine. Galen lives in Nashville with his wife Laura and son Burton.
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ArtistPhil Nitz – Samuel
About Phil Nitz
Phil Nitz has worked in the Nashville music industry since 2013 as a professional singer, arranger, and orchestrator. His vocal résumé includes numerous choral, cinematic, and theatrical recordings and backing vocals for several gospel and country artists. As an arranger he is skilled in multiple styles, and he has worked with some of America’s finest choral clubs and a cappella ensembles. In 2017 he won a Dove Award for Musical/Choral Collection of the Year, and he has been nominated in the same category every year since. Phil also serves as Staff Arranger and Worship Leader at Christ Church Nashville, where he is honored to work with the world-renowned Christ Church Choir.
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ArtistJames Berrian – Uriah
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ArtistShelley Jennings – The Witch of Endor, Maidservant
As a Nashville studio vocalist, Shelley Jennings has logged thousands of recording hours and sung on projects ranging from children’s musicals to major theatrical works, country records to cruise ship productions. She has shared the stage and the studio with many prominent artists including Sandi Patty, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Chris Tomlin, Broadway legend Steven Schwartz, and country stars Alan Jackson, Lady Antebellum, & the iconic Brenda Lee. She has also traveled the country with Women of Faith and Passion Ministries.
Shelley lives in Franklin, TN, with a husband, a daughter, and a dog. Her solo music can be found on iTunes and her occasional blog on Facebook.
@shelleyjenningsunderachievingperfectionist
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ArtistCarlos Santiago – Soldier of David
Carlos is a Classical-Crossover artist and Worship Leader from Nashville. He graduated with a Bachelor’s in Music with a concentration in Vocal Performance from Southeastern University in Lakeland, FL. He has toured throughout the US, Canada, and Italy with the award winning group, Tenore, and recorded for Andrea Bocelli, Disney Parks, Yamaha, Hal Leonard, and others. Carlos serves as Worship Coordinator at Generation Changers Church in Nashville, TN.
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ArtistScott Lawrence – God
Born and raised in Madrid, Spain, Scott Lawrence currently calls Nashville, TN his home. With a background in opera, Scott holds a M.M in Vocal Performance and has served as an instructor at Alabama School of the Arts since 2016. Scott is also a founding member of the vocal group Veritas and has toured full-time with the 5-person recording group since 2012. Although his training and experience spans multiple styles, from opera, crossover, and pop, to even competing internationally in barbershop, his classical foundation always re-establishes itself as his first musical love. Memorable stage credits include: Balthazar in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, Simone in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Don Basilio in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Don Bartolo in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, The Secret Policeman in Menotti’s The Consul, the title role in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado, Jud Fry in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, and Grantaire in Les Miserables.
In 2018, Scott had the privilege of performing the role of God in the 25th Anniversary Production of Nelson & Farrell’s Saviour at Carnegie Hall in NYC. When not teaching or traveling with Veritas, you’ll most likely find Scott sharing a cup of craft coffee with his wife Ellie, also an accomplished violinist and vocalist, or practicing his best dad jokes on his daughter, Ivey. Scott is equally as passionate about the visual arts as he is about music and has worked professionally as a visual artist for more than a decade. When not singing, painting, designing, discussing philosophy of the arts and theology, or pursuing the perfect cup of coffee, he is most likely diving into the deep black hole that is Wikipedia.
Veritas website: www.veritasfive.com
Twitter: @javabass
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ArtistKirk Kirkland – Aide to Saul
Kirk is an ordained minister, a respected worship leader, a published songwriter, an in-demand studio singer, and a professional counselor. He was born and raised in Jacksonville, FL in the home of two educators. Early on Kirk’s father, Camp Kirkland, became the instrumental director at their home church, First Baptist, so Kirk was raised loving the church and the music of the church. He was trained in music education and has a Bachelor’s degree from Florida State University. He felt called to ministry while in college and has been in various forms of music ministry for over 25 years. Beginning in 1999 Kirk has traveled and sung with his best friend, Tim Henning, and their wives in a vocal group called Evidence. Their focus is to encourage and challenge the Body of Christ through music and testimony. Kirk felt called to more ministry training later in his career, so he completed a Master’s degree in Counseling at Trevecca Nazarene University in 2008. Since then he’s been the Minister of Music & Worship, and a Pastoral Counselor, at Judson Baptist Church in Nashville, TN, where he resides with his wife of 21 years, Julianne, and their 3 children, Campbell, Kate and Caleb.
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ArtistRic Flauding – Arranger & Orchestrator
Please Note:
Our dear friend, Ric Flauding, passed away suddenly in Arlington, Texas, not long after we wrapped the recording. We miss Ric: we were friends for thirty-seven years, and had done several projects together. Ric was an amazingly talented arranger and orchestrator. He was a genius at arranging. I imagine he is instructing the angels in heaven right now how to better their arrangements. Thank you for the beautiful arrangements and orchestrations. RIP, Ric!
Ric Flauding is a uniquely gifted artist and an award-winning arranger-orchestrator-composer-conductor. He has been called a “poet without words” because of the dramatic emotional content of his music.
Ric’s clients range from Dave Mustaine (Metallica/Megadeth) to the London Symphony. He has arranged-orchestrated and composed music that has been recorded by Nashville Recording Orchestra, the London Symphony, Prague Symphony Strings, Fort Worth Symphony as well as hundreds of projects for recording studio ensembles in LA and other locations.
Ric’s Artist recordings have charted commercial radio and have been used in television-film. Recent highlights have included four performances of his orchestral arrangement “O Sacred Head” at the Vatican.
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ArtistNashville Recording Orchestra
The Nashville Recording Orchestra brings an unparalleled wealth of experience and top-tier talent to recording sessions. NRO’s reputation is friendly and collaborative. We strive to achieve the highest musical standards, while respecting and fully delivering the originality of the artist’s message.
Violinist and Recording Contractor David Angell grew up in the 1960’s near Detroit, where his philosophy professor father encouraged him to explore a wide range of music. David began studying the violin at age five, and his classical training includes performance degrees from Indiana University and the Yale School of Music. In 1986, David moved to Nashville to become a first violinist for the Nashville Symphony. After a successful classical career, David branched out to pursue commercial endeavors. In addition to leading the Nashville Recording Orchestra, David is a member of Love Sponge Strings, an internationally renowned alternative strings group. With his violist wife, Monisa Angell, David is co-founder and writer for Twisted Wire Music, a library of diverse string-oriented music.
Concert Master David Davidson is a member of a rare group of musicians whose artistry crosses the traditional boundaries of musical styles, by combining the worlds of classical, pop, and commercial music with equal success. David is a consummate music session violinist, arranger, composer and orchestral concertmaster. His music combines equal amounts of joy, exquisite artistry and technical mastery. David Davidson’s list of string recording credits – over 20,0000 songs – is the best testimony to the outstanding success of his playing and arranging in the commercial music world. He often refers to Nashville as ”The Vienna of the 21st century”, and he lives that vision.
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