| ABOUT ME! |
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| Hi,
I'm Benjamin Trollip, but my friends call me
Benjy, |
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if you're reading this you must either be very
bored |
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have an unhealthy obsession with me…EW!!! |
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of a bio: I've sung barbershop since I |
| was 13 (1997 - work
out my age) in school. My |
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chorus, "The Pocket Edition," won the |
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national Young Men in Harmony in 2000. |
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successfully retained this title in 2001. |
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school-level I sang in "Silken Sounds" and
placed |
| 7th at Auckland
Regional quartet level in 2000. In |
| 2001
I sang in "Three Men and a Lady" (as a
tenor!) |
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we placed 5th at the same level. In
the same |
| year I sang bass (my
proper voice-part) in |
| "97.5
TKFM," the Auckland Regional Champions. We |
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5th nationally. |
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Open level I sing in the Auckland "City of
Sails" |
| Chorus,
current New Zealand Champions, where I |
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been Bass Section Leader since
2001. In 2001 I |
My first open quartet,
the "Russell Crowes." Placed
4th in New Zealand |
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in the quartet pictured above. In 2002
I sang in |
and 14th at Pan-Pacific
level in 2001. I'm the handsome guy,
centre-back. |
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quartet below. |
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Others
are; left, baritone Richard Lewis, right, tenor Sean Willmot and |
| Hope
to see you at International some day! :) |
in mid-air, lead Brian
Lee. |
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Left,
my 'second' open quartet, "Four."
In orange, Sean |
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Willmot
(Tenor), blue, Brian Lee (Lead), white, me (Bass - yes, |
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my hair went Joe
Connelly) and in grey, Brent Redwood |
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(Baritone). We placed 4th in New Zealand in 2002. |
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NEWSFLASH: "Four" won our first medal in the
2004 NZABS |
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Contest, scoring an
average of 67.8% to take the Bronze medal. |
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We now sing with Eddie
Tuigamala as our baritone. I will |
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have a picture up here
very soon. |
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Check out my chorus in
the 2005 contest! We had a blast |
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in Salt Lake City and
can't wait to come back again. :-) |
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January
2007 update: I've been very slack
keeping this file update. Sorry about
that. Most of that is to do with
directing the City of Sails chorus and studying for my actuarial exams. Many thanks to Bob Sutton for giving me
the "hurry up." |
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In 2006
Brian and I sang in the quartet "Overdrive" with Andrew Grieve and
David Merriman (both from Christchurch.
We won silver in the NZ contest.
The City of Sails won silver too, my first contest as director. |
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