Tim Waurick is a barbershop tenor singer and coach for various barbershop choruses and quartets. Waurick creates learning tracks – recordings in which one

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is dominant and the others are sung softly in the background – for the

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, and various other quartets and choruses around the world. His learning track company is named TimTracks. Waurick is one of the few barbershop enthusiasts who has managed to turn his hobby into a profession. He is known for his unusually wide vocal range and his ability to hold notes for long periods of time.

Barbershop

Waurick grew up in

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, where he began singing barbershop at about age 12. Since 2003, he performs with the quartet

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, who won gold medals in the collegiate Barbershop Quartet Contest in 2004 and the International Barbershop Quartet Contest in 2006. He graduated in 2007 from

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. In 2009, Waurick and other members of the

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chorus gave seven performances of ''

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'' at

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amphitheater in St. Louis. Waurick played tenor Jacey Squires in the show's featured quartet. Waurick serves as tenor section leader of the Ambassadors, who are five-time International Barbershop Chorus Champions. Waurick has released several solo multi-track albums. He describes various details of his early barbershop years and track recording, as well as some 2019 vocal surgery, in a 2020 "Let's Talk Barbershop" podcast.

Honors

Waurick was selected in 2008 to be tenor of a Fantasy Gold Quartet, together with bass Jeff Oxley, baritone Tony DeRosa, and lead Joe Connelly; then again in 2015 with lead Mike Slamka, bass Jim Henry, and baritone Tony DeRosa. In 2022, Waurick was inducted into the Barbershop Harmony Society's Hall of Fame, along with DeRosa and Connelly; Waurick's quartet, Vocal Spectrum, was inducted the following year.

Discography

References

External links

TimTracks.com

Vocal Spectrum Bio

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