Fretless made its debut in June of 1999 at the First Parish Unitarian Church in Bedford, MA. In 2004, we competed at the Eastern Regional Harmony Sweepstakes at Tufts University's Cohen Auditorium, winning third place. In 2005, we produced our first CD entitled "All the Things We Are". Purchase your copy today!

     
   
     
 

Vicki is our soprano. She grew up in Los Angeles and never saw rain until moving north to study music at Oregon State University. After graduating with a degree in Vocal Performance, she lived in Oregon for over 20 years, performing throughout the Pacific Northwest with her original comedy-cabaret duo, Double Image, which was the proud recipient of an NEA grant during the Jesse Helms era. Vicki has traveled the world with various choirs, performing behind the Iron and Bamboo Curtains as a teenager, and later landing summer gigs at the Aspen Music Festival and Oregon Bach Festival, including an appearance at the Hollywood Bowl in honor of Bach's 300th birthday. Vicki is a versatile and dynamic actress, having performed over thirty roles in plays and musical theatre, and is a nationally produced playwright. She also sings with the Master Singers of Lexington. Vicki lives in Woburn, MA with her software-developing/figure-skating/Jeopardy!-champion husband, and Cindy, the world's sweetest - and shyest - cat.

     
     
 


Sue sings alto. She was born and raised in Wales, but has lived in the Boston area for the last twenty years. She has performed as a soloist in jazz and cabaret settings and in musical theater, most recently in a production of "Chicago" in the U.K. where her godchildren got to see "Auntie Sue" in fishnet stockings and garters! Other highlights include several concerts with the Berkshire Choral Festival and Springfield Symphony, a cappella concerts in Paris with New England Close Harmony Ensemble, and an Italian tour in the Venice area in 1998 with the West London Vocal Ensemble, a chamber choir. Sue currently also sings with Boston Jazz Voices. "Singing has brought me wonderful friendships, the thrill of working with really talented people, and the opportunity to travel to fascinating places. Music brings immeasurable joy to my life (the contributions of husband Frank and cat Katie are duly acknowledged)".
     
     
 

David is our tenor. His musical background is extensive, beginning with rhythmic chants while rocking in his crib. David grew up in Tucson and toured nationally and internationally for five years with the Tucson Boys' Chorus; he can still twirl a rope with elan.  He was a founding member, and director in his senior year, of the Mendicants, the first a cappella group at Stanford University. Locally, David also sings with the Master Singers, a classical chamber chorus, and with Boston Jazz Voices, a mixed a cappella chorus. He was a founding member of the Shawsheen River Rats, a male a cappella quintet that existed for 18 years starting in 1980.  The Rats, including both David and Charlie, won the New England Regional Harmony Sweepstakes in 1993, and went on to place third in the National Harmony Sweepstakes.  With the retirement of the Rats, David started Fretless in 1998.  David is a Division Scientist at BBN Technologies in Cambridge, where he conducts medical imaging research.  David and his wife, Sarah (an award winning poet and fiction writer), live in Bedford and have one perfect grandchild.
     
     
 


Matt sings baritone. A native of Schenectady, New York, his singing 'career' began unexpectedly when some friends coaxed him into joining the high school theatre program; he ended up playing the Cowardly Lion in "The Wiz." At Worcester Polytechnic Institute, he sang in the men's Glee Club and Simple Harmonic Motion with tours to Montreal, England, Wales, and Italy.  Since then he has directed the Boston University Choral Society, performed with the New England Conservatory Camerata, and has been cantor at various churches in the Worcester-Boston area.  These days he directs the eclectic a cappella group None of the Above, seeks out the perfect pint of IPA or stout, roots for his New York Yankees (!), and dreams of his annual 'pilgrimage' to the races at Saratoga.  He lives in Framingham, MA with his partner Dana, and the cutest Jack Russell terrier in the world, Sparky.  
     
     
     
 

Charlie is our bass. He grew up in Holliston, MA and currently lives in Dorchester.  He has been active for many years in community theater performing roles such as Juan Peron in "Evita", Thomas Jefferson in "1776", Ralph Rackstraw in "HMS Pinafore", and Mackheath in "Three Penny Opera". He was also a member of the Sounds of Concord Barbershop chorus for 5 years, a member of the Boston Gay Men's Chorus for 3 years, and was a member of the Patterson Chorale, a gospel ensemble, for 5 years.  He currently sings tenor (yes, tenor!) with Boston Jazz Voices, an 18-member mixed a cappella chorus. He is pleased to be singing in Fretless with other members of Boston Jazz Voices; Charlie sang for 11 years with David in the Shawsheen River Rats, an all-male a cappella quintet. Charlie is an ICP applications specialist with a company that manufactures analytical instrumentation and measures elemental metals.  He also loves hunting for that perfect antique.
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