N A S H V I L L E S I N G E R S
MIKE CASPER (Lead I)
From an early age, Mike Casper has enjoyed some form of music. He picked up a guitar at a young age and hasn’t stopped playing since. While growing up in Louisiana, he sang in various church choirs. He played the trombone, trumpet and percussion in his high school marching band and jazz band. While in high school, he performed with the Gospel Echoes, and later, sang Lead Tenor with Fellowship. After he married, he became active in a men’s mission group that sang their way to Bangladesh and back. He led the praise and worship team at his church in Mississippi. He has directed youth choirs in various churches in Mississippi and Middle Tennessee. He and his family moved to Murfreesboro in 1996, and now calls Smyrna, Tennessee home. Currently, Mike is the Worship Leader at Walter Hill Baptist Church in Murfreesboro. He has been married for almost 28 years to Pam, and has 5 children ranging in ages from 25 down to 8. When he can squeeze it in, he likes to be out on the water or racing cars on the X-Box with his son. Mike joined Nashville Singers in June of 2009 and was responsible for securing the very first public performance for the chorus.
BRUCE COKEROFT (Tenor I)
LENNY FARMER (Baritone I)
Lenny and Elaine were married in November of 1999 and live in Smyrna, Tennessee. Together they have four children, Jill, Joy, Joshua and Jordan. They also have 3 grandchildren, who just happen to be the apple of their eyes. He was born in North Carolina in 1952. His education consisted of many elementary schools living in a military home, and he attended high school in Indianapolis, Indiana. Lenny holds an Associate degree from Anderson University, Anderson, SC; a Bachelor degree from Erskine College, Due West, SC; a Master of Church Music degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY; a Master of Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ft. Worth, TX; and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Wake Forest, NC. Lenny is a bi-vocational minister at LifePoint Church in Smyrna, where he serves as the Minister to Senior Adults. His duties involve caring for and ministering to senior adults above 55 years of age. He also preaches the Sunday Evening “traditional” worship service. He works full-time as a Certified Pre-Arranging Consultant selling insurance underwritten funeral policies at Jennings and Ayers Funeral Home in Murfreesboro, TN.
ED LUKE (Baritone I)
Ed grew up in Colorado and moved to Tennessee to attend college. Music has been part of his life since the early years, singing in church and talent shows with his sister. He sang in the choir and the select chorus in high school and in several select choral groups during college. He got hooked on barbershop in the early eighties and sang with the Music City Chorus in Nashville, then moved to Louisiana and sang with several quartets before moving back to Nashville in 1998. He and his wife, Tracey, work for Caterpillar Financial and live in Joelton with their daughter, Katie. They have two other children, Brian a military policeman in the Army, and Anna, a student at Austin Peay State University. They enjoy camping and boating on most weekends. Ed won the prestigious Member of the Year award in 2011.
Doug grew up in rural
Growing up in the Upper Cumberland region of Middle Tennessee, a cappella harmonies are some of Paul’s earliest memories. Going to a “Singing” always elicited excitement and anticipation of the sounds and fellowship associated with such gatherings. Singing was a staple on a social level and in worship, thus harmonies were practiced and polished. On Sunday afternoon family gatherings, invariably one of the cousins would begin a melody. The others would join in, each singing a complimentary harmony. Traveling song ministers would visit the local churches to teach sight reading by a method known as “shape notes”. The faithful would eagerly congregate for these workshops to learn the method and sing a cappella gospel songs well into the night. This emphasis on a cappella music and the joy that comes from singing has always been one of Paul’s singular pleasures. Paul sang tenor several seasons with the Music City Community Chorus, directed by the renowned Renee Grant-Williams. He enjoys coaching his sons’ baseball teams, reading, vegetable gardening and of course singing.
TIM MULLICAN (Lead II)
Tim started singing in front of the mirror in has parents bedroom at the age of three. He would sing churchhymns and imitate the song leader where his family attended worship. He began leading singing in church at the age of 16. Tim was a member of the McGavock High School Band playing French horn in the Wind Ensemble and the marching band. He also played in the Jazz Rock Ensemble and the Nashville Youth Symphony. He sang in the chorus two years and was a member of the Tennessee All-State Band and All-State chorus his senior year. Tim was selected to the Who’s Who Among American High School Students in 1976. After attending Middle Tennessee State University in 1977 where he sang in the Concert Choir, Tim enlisted in the USAF where he began training as an air traffic controller. After separating from the Air Force, he was hired by the FAA as an air traffic controller. Tim worked in Atlanta, Georgia and moved back home to Nashville in 1990 so he and his wife Amy could be close to their families. Tim and Amy have been married 24 years and have two sons, Zachary and Parker.
BRYAN PATRICK (Lead II)
Although he concentrated on drumming starting at age 4, Bryan came into the vocal music world in his teen years, singing in a local youth church choir which just happened to also be directed by the local barbershop chorus director. He invited Bryan to come and check out the chapter one night and see what barbershop singing was all about. That was 16 years ago, and the rest, as they say, is history. The moment he heard the chords of “The Old Songs” ring at the opening of that first visit, he knew he had found his home. Since then, he has performed all over the United States and in Europe in various quartets, choruses, chorales, and groups of differing styles and genres. Favorite venues he has performed in include Carnegie Hall and the Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral in France. Currently, Bryan is the musical director for the Men of Harmony Barbershop Chorus in Goodlettsville, TN, and sings tenor is the Society-registered quartet,Ragtag. Other current musical affiliations include: the Barbershop Harmony Society, the Al Menah Shrine Chanters, the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Valley of Nashville Choir, Brothershop (a Masonic barbershop quartet), and QFX (a non-barbershop quartet). Bryan is a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Master Mason, Shriner of the Al Menah Temple, as well as a Knight of St. Andrew, and is a passionate Nashville Predators hockey fan. He received the Rookie of the Year Award for 2010.
BILL REPSEL (Tenor II)
Bill grew up in the small town of Tampico, Illinois where former President Ronald Regan was born. Bill’s love of music started at the age of 4 years old with a curious desire of how to play the piano and sing. Bill sang in grade school and high school and pursued music as a minor in college. He also sang in the traveling dance show choir at Southern Illinois University and studied under one of Broadway’s conductors and professor, the late Dr. Robert Kingsbury. Bill has sung with various choirs, ensembles, quartets and did a short stint with “Heirline”, a southern gospel recording trio. In addition to singing, Bill has a love for live stage acting and has sung and acted in musicals such as “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”,” Oklahoma,” and “Godspell.” Bill’ first passion is to serve as a worship pastor in Southern Baptist churches where he has had the privilege of piloting many children’s choirs as well as leading high school and adult choirs, praise teams and praise bands. Bill’s love of music is shared with his wife of 22 years, Martha who is an accomplished pianist and hails from Nashville, having earned her degree from Belmont University in Education. They have one son, Matthew, age 13, who is a lover of the great outdoors.
HARLAN WILSON (Baritone II)
Harlan is an entertainer, ensemble singer, soloist, choral director and vocal coach. He has vast experience in producing and directing live concert performances, as well as performing over two thousand a cappella singing concerts with the Suntones, the Barbershop Harmony Society's 1961 International Quartet Champion. Harlan served for many years as a faculty member of various Harmony Education Programs all over North America, as well as seven yeas on the faculty at Harmony College. His choral directing resume includes 20 years as Musical Director of the Coastmen Chorus, based in Palm Beach County, Florida. Under his leadership, the group won the Florida State Championships six times. They also competed 10 times at the International level, earning Bronze Medal Award. Harlan is the member of a select group of men who have earned International Medals as a quartet singer and as a Chorus Director. He served as Director of Music for the Royal Palm Show Chorus, also of South Florida. This group also competed at the International level. Harlan founded and directed The Vocal Gentry Ensemble Singers in South Florida and was associated with the Music Men of Greater Asheville, North Carolina. He and his wife, Sandy relocated to Nashville in April of 2008. Harlan and his son, Todd, were the first father/son International Quartet Champions in the history of the Barbershop Harmony Society. In 1986, Harlan was inducted into the Sunshine District Hall Fame. In 2005, the Suntones were inducted into the Barbershop Harmony Society's Hall of Fame. He received the Executive Director award from Nashville Singers in 2011 for his three years of service to the board of directors.
TAYLOR WILSON (Tenor II)
TODD WILSON (Bass II)Todd moved to Nashville in 2007 when the Barbershop Harmony Society relocated its headquarters operations to downtown Nashville. Todd served as Director of Marketing for the largest all-male singing organization in the world for almost five years. He currently works as a marketing, public relations, and organizational management consultant in the non-profit sector. During his 38 years of membership with the Barbershop Harmony Society, Todd has competed at the international level sixteen times, earning six International Chorus Championships with the Vocal Majority and one International Quartet Championship singing tenor with ACOUSTIX. Todd was the first second-generation International Quartet Champion in the history of barbershop singing. His father’s quartet, the Suntones won the gold in 1961. Since 1999, he has also been singing bass with the Suntones. Over the last 30 years, Todd has served as a Musical Director for five different mixed, male or female choral ensembles, including two “Top 10” finishes in international competition with the 90-voice Houston Tidelanders. He has served as a performance coach to countless quartets and choruses in the USA, Canada and Australia. For two decades, Todd’s quartet ACOUSTIX has been electrifying audiences in 11 countries around the world. He is a member of the Hall of Fame of the Barbershop Harmony Society’s Southwestern District. Todd served on the Society’s Board of Directors for almost three years before joining the professional staff. He has over 25 years of experience in the fields of sales, marketing and advertising. Todd is a member of the American Society of Association Executives, National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, the Gospel Music Association, Chorus America, and the Contemporary A Cappella Society of America. Todd has been married to his wife Jennifer since 1989. They have two sons, Taylor and Travis. He received the Member of the Year Award for 2009.
