MADISON TOWNSHIP — Crestview teacher Trevor Garrabrant, the Fun Center Chordsmen front line director, was selected the Johnny Appleseed Director of the Year on Saturday during a special ceremony of the Barbershop Harmony Society spring convention in Columbus.
The Johnny Appleseed District encompasses all chapter choruses in the northern part of Kentucky, West Virginia, Oho and the western half of Pennsylvania.
Garrabrant is the Music Director at Crestview school system. He and his wife Megan and sons Keton and Sawyer live in Madison Township.
Garrabrant is a graduate of Bowling Green State University with a degree in Vocal Music Education. He joined the chapter in 2007 and is one of the youngest front line directors in the Johnny Appleseed District. He sings lead in the 2008 Novice Champion Quartet Bravada and was the recipient of the chapter’s Barbershopper of the Year in 2009.
He was inducted into the 2015 class of the Chordsmen Hall of Fame. Garrabrant has been an Assistant Director, Co-Director and in April 2015, became the front line Director of the Fun Center Chordsmen. He has completed the Chorus Development Workshop Intensive (CDWI) and has attended Harmony University Director’s College for the past five years.
He has completed all necessary work to earn the coveted title of “Certified Director. Of the 1,000 directors in the Barbershop Harmony Society, only 60 or six percent of barbershop chorus directors have earned the coveted title of “Certified Director.”
