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Clockwork might be "new", but it's member singers are experienced and accomplished each in the own right.

Angie Doctor

is the soprano in Clockwork.

A studio singer and live performer who began her career in Chicago doing commercials and voice-overs, Angie is also a songwriter and arranger. Her vocal work can be heard on a number of recordings including her own original songs, as a guest artist on Richard Bob Greene’s solo album “Low? Bottom? Me?” and on the soundtrack for Spy Kids, a feature film by Dimension Films/Miramax. Angie is a founding member of the Grammy-nominated PM Singers. She has brought her extensive experience in solo and small-group harmony singing to workshops and festivals as a judge and clinician over the past twelve years.

Angie and Dave appear on an instructional video with Ward Swingle, (produced by John Neal and directed by Richard “Bob” Greene), demonstrating rehearsal and vocal techniques for a cappella singing.

Juliet Green

is the alto in Clockwork.

Originally from Maui, Hawaii, Juliet’s earliest jazz influence came from listening to her father, Pat Green, play jazz piano and sing in many of the island’s restaurants and hotels. He even let her sit in occasionally. In 1991, Juliet moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she began teaching music in the Portola Valley School District. She began singing in various college vocal jazz ensembles, including Foothill’s Fanfairs and De Anza’s Vocal Flight. It was at De Anza that she met Dave Duran and Paul Cingolani, and with them founded the award-winning a cappella group +4db. In 2001, Juliet continued to sing with Cingolani and Duran under the name Vocalese Inc., and began exploring the art of vocalese, becoming an accomplished lyricist. Her debut CD, “Simple”, featuring many of her original lyrics, was released in late 2003 and is available on CD Baby.

In addition to Clockwork, Juliet continues her work as an educator at the Jazzschool in Berkeley, and at Corte Madera School in Portola Valley, with the big band A Touch of Brass under the direction of Ed Morrison, and as a solo artist.

Visit www.julietgreen.com for more information.

John Paddock

is the tenor with Clockwork.

A San Francisco bay area native, John began his singing career as a boy soprano. As a founding member of the PM Singers, John received a Grammy nomination for his work on the album “Night in the City”, for which he served as both singer and recording engineer. Notable performances include appearances at the Monterey Jazz Festival, the IAJE national convention and Birdland. John has performed live with Bobby McFerrin, The HiLos! members Gene Puerling, Don Shelton and Clark Burroughs, The Singers Unlimited’s Bonnie Herman and with Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass.

John holds degrees in both music and architecture and is experienced in acoustic and audiovisual systems design, using his talents in the design and construction of recording studios. He has also taught courses in audio engineering and studio production. John has produced and engineered shows or recordings for Bobby McFerrin, Take 6, the HiLo's, Richie Cole, Stan Getz and Mark Murphy among others.

In addition to Clockwork, John and Angie sing with the Pacific Mozart Ensemble, and have performed with Sufjan Stevens, Dave Brubeck, at Carnegie Hall with Meredith Monk and are featured soloists on the 2005 Grammy nominated performance of Leonard Bernstein's “Mass”, recorded in Berlin, Germany with Kent Nagano and the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester.

Dave Duran

is the baritone in Clockwork.

As a founding member of two award-winning groups, +4db and Moodswing, Dave is now bringing his singing, arranging and producing experience to Clockwork.

Dave has been a performer since the tender age of 6 and attended Chula Vista’s School for the Creative and Performing Arts in San Diego. He went on to study jazz vocal music at De Anza College with Roger Letson, where he met Juliet. Both were key vocalists in the acclaimed college group Vocal Flight. Dave has a degree in computer science and music from UC Santa Cruz and is as creative in business as he is in music. In 2001 he co-founded an internet software business and then successfully sold it in 2006.

Dave and Juliet were Regional Champions in the A Cappella Harmony Sweepstakes, twice with +4db and once with Moodswing, placed in the National Finals all three times, and were voted Audience Favorite and awarded Best Arrangement each time they appeared in the contest. With these ensembles, Dave and Juliet had the opportunity to tour and perform in Seattle, Washington DC, Boston, France, Germany, and Japan.

Richard Greene

is the guest artist bass in Clockwork.

When he is available, Richard is lending his talents to Clockwork in their “mostly” a cappella shows! Richard “Bob” Greene is an award-winning composer, arranger, singer, writer, engineer/producer and educator. As the co-founder and creator of the nu-wave a cappella super group The Bobs, Greene “fractured and reconstructed the rules For vocal music,” and is one of the foremost pioneers of contemporary a cappella.

Richard was nominated for a Grammy for his and Gunnar Madsen's a cappella arrangement of the Beatles "Helter Skelter". His Bobs songs and arrangements are considered standards, sung by hundreds of groups around the world. He is the recipient of multiple songwriters’ awards from ASCAP and the CARAs (the contemporary a cappella recording awards.) As a composer and librettist, Greene has received commissions from Lincoln Center, The Los Angeles Theater Center, the Minnesota Opera, the Goethe Institute, Oberlin Dance Collective, ISO Dance Theater, National Public Radio and many others. He has written music for the feature films "Breaking the Rules" "For Better or Worse" and "Man in the Moon" (the Andy Kaufman bio-pic) He was a vocal arranger for the 1995 Emmy Awards starring Jason Alexander. His compositions have appeared on network television, PBS, comedy central and HBO. He has been a regular musical commentator for NPR’s “Morning Edition” His work with ISO and the Bobs is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution.

Richard has produced CDs for many other vocal and instrumental groups including Clockwork's "Tesseract", Throat Culture, Toxic Audio and two for Da Vinci's Notebook.

Richard was the founder of the Recording Arts Program at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg and has taught or conducted workshops at the prestigious Omega Institute, Jazz Camp West, the Salt Lake A Cappella Workshop, and Harvard University, among others. He is the producer/director for a series of instructional videos for the A Cappella Foundation.