We All Remember and Love the Former Members of
Red Harmony
The Six-Part Jazz/Pop Vocal Group
Sarah Shapiro, Alto
Native Angeleno Sarah Shapiro started taking piano lessons at age 7 following two years of fruitlessly begging her mother to let her. By age 18, she was an accomplished pianist and had also become interested in singing. Third grade through high school was a happy blur of singing and playing in musicals, choir, and jazz band, including serving as musical director for a student production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
After a two-year stint at UC San Diego where she sang with all-female a cappella group The DoTs, Sarah earned her Bachelor's degree in music education and her Master's degree in choral conducting from her hometown's UCLA. While there, she performed with the UCLA Chorale and Chamber Singers and went on tour with them to China. During her Master's program, she led three award-winning choirs at the nearby University High School.
UCLA also gave Sarah her future husband, whom she married in 2010. When not making music, she loves baking and cooking fine food, crocheting gifts for friends, and Israeli folk dancing. She is a member of Alpha Epsilon Phi, a Jewish Panhellenic sorority. She speaks Hebrew, Spanish, and Italian.
Anthony Starble, Tenor
2009-2010
Anthony Starble got his start in music playing classical piano and attended an arts magnet high school in Denver, where he fell in love with songwriting. He later went on to win the Berklee songwriting competition and received and honorable mention in the Searching for a Star Competition in 2004. Two years later, he headed to Southern California to study music at Cal Arts, where he graduated in May 2010. He has performed original songs in various bars and coffee shops around Los Angeles, and has recorded albums of his music.
Anthony was the second singer to join Red Harmony and soon influenced the group's light onstage character yet musically serious nature that it developed early on. His exceptional solo on "The Remedy" helped make that song the group's signature. He composed "You'll Never Know," the group's first original. Other solos of his included the Rockapella covers "I'll Hear Your Voice," "Have a Little Faith," and "This Christmas Day."
Sydne Sullivan, Alto
2009-2010
Sydne originally hails from Huntington Beach but currently lives in Idyllwild whenever she's not in college. She studied oboe performance at Cal Arts in Valencia, California under Allan Vogel, principal oboist for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. She graduated in May 2010 and headed off to grad school at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Back in elementary school, she got her start on the flute but later shifted her allegiance to the oboe, and it "stuck." She's been a member of virtually every type of instrumental group under the sun—everything from wind ensemble to marching band to orchestra. In 2008, Sydne had the opportunity to play the oboe with the professional orchestra for a Musical Theater Los Angeles production of Ragtime.
Sydne joined Red Harmony during its beginnings and filled out the inner parts of the group's signature sound. Her solos included "Suddenly I See," "You'll Never Know," and "Summertime." She brought an instrumentalist's rhythmic and technical precision to the group as well as a spunky wit onstage and off.