Arrangers Workshops
This June, Harmony College Northwest is offering three (yes, 3!) different levels for arrangers to pick from. All three separate workshops are scheduled for June 12-13, 2025 (Thursday afternoon/evening and Friday morning). Along with the faculty in charge of each of the workshops, we will have Steve Armstrong, Dan Wessler, and other arrangers on the HCNW campus also teaching and available to offer advice and answer questions through the weekend.
Questions? Email ArrangerWorkshops@
Again, the workshops are running concurrently June 12-13th this summer.
AW101 – Janice Wheeler The Less Experienced & Beginner Group will focus on introducing/reviewing the basic principles of Music Theory & Barbershop Harmony and how they apply to arranging a song in the Barbershop Style — you may or may not have been to an arranging class before or worked on arranging a song/s.
AW201 – Zach Groeblinghoff The More Experienced Group will assume you already have a good general understanding of the basic principles of Music Theory and Barbershop Harmony and some experience in how they are generally applied to arranging a song in the Barbershop Style — you have completed song arrangements other than in a class setting that may or may not have been performed by Chorus/Quartet.
AW301 – Mike Menefee and Chuck Roegiers This level will focus on a cappella, four-part writing from a uniquely “barbershop” point of view, wrapped in a discussion of how the genre is evolving in our time. We will assume you are fluent in your understanding and application of the basic principles of Music Theory and Barbershop Harmony so that they have become almost second nature to you and that you have successfully arranged songs that have been performed by Chorus/Quartet and may have been published.
