Publishing – Music Group


	Stephen Anderson
	Denny Crockett Dennis (Denny) Crockett is a nationally published composer, arranger, vocalist, and keyboardist as well as a respected musical producer of both record, radio, and television entertainment. He served as the musical director of the famous Osmond Family from 1978-1984. For 10 years he served as the musical director for the Children's Miracle Network Telethon (CMN). He is a Pearl Award nominated composer. He has written several popular LDS songs many of which have been used by the Seminary & Institute Department and other Church related projects. Brother Crockett served as the President of the Texas Fort Worth Mission where he and Sister Crockett presided from 2004-2007. He has also served in a variety of Church positions including twice as bishop and as a counselor in stake presidency. He served his first mission to New Zealand in 1971. He and Sister Crockett Co-chaired the Draper/Oquirrh Mountain Temple Youth Celebration staged at the Conference Center in May 2009. They also served as administrative coordinators in the Church Music department helping to organize visiting choirs participating in General Conference and General Auxiliary meetings from 2009-2016. They served a mission to the Philippines Area from 2016-2017 and have recently accepted a call to serve as Directors of Nauvoo Productions where they will oversee the Youth Performing Missionaries assigned to Historic Nauvoo. Following his time in the entertainment business, he co-founded Broadcast International, Inc., a communications firm specializing in the delivery of business to business information via satellite, FM wireless, internet and cable television technologies, and real-time business related news and financial market information. This later enterprise gave birth to the popular financial internet website Marketwatch.com. Although now semi-retired, he still maintains an active role in private business investment and consulting. He and Sister Crockett have 5 children and 16 grandchildren.
	Mckay Crockett McKay Crockett is an award-winning producer, director, arranger, and performance coach from Salt Lake City, UT. As one of the most sought after creative minds in Utah, his style and innovative approach to music has influenced millions of people across the world. Crockett's clients have appeared on every major television network in the U.S., and have toured stages on nearly every continent. While being well-versed in various styles and music genres, Crockett is world-renowned for his work in vocal music. In 2017 he won an Emmy award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Rocky Mountain Chapter for his role as Music Director of the Christmas Under the Stars television program. Crockett has worked with and arranged for artists including Kristin Chenoweth, Gladys Knight, David Archuleta, Peter Hollens, Lexi Walker and many more. In 2011, Crockett appeared on NBC's The Sing-Off with the internationally acclaimed group Vocal Point, sharing the stage with artists Sara Bareilles, Ben Folds, and Shawn Stockman (Boyz II Men). As an a cappella producer, Crockett's albums have reached #1 on both Billboard charts, and iTunes charts. He has also won several Contemporary A Capella Recording Awards (CARA), including Best Religious Album, Best Male Collegiate Album, Best Classical Song, and been nominated for many others. The CARA are comparable to the Grammy Awards of A cappella music. At the age of 24, Crockett joined the music faculty at Brigham Young University, where he is now the artistic mastermind behind the studio albums, music videos, and concert touring of Vocal Point. Crockett's arrangements and songs can be heard on radio, television, and film, and are distributed around the world by dozens of labels including Sony/Epic Records. Crockett has a Bachelor's Degree in Media Music Studies from BYU and he continues to write, arrange, and produce music for artists around the world.
	Christopher Downard
	Keith McKay Evans A 5-year veteran of BYU Vocal Point, Keith Evans has been arranging for choral and pop a cappella ensembles for over a decade. A sought-after studio recording artist, he also performs regularly at Hale Centre Theatre. He is currently the choir director at West Jordan High School in the Salt Lake Valley. Keith and his wife Adrianne live in Bluffdale, Utah with their son, Link.
	Jason D. Findlay Thanks to his music teacher father, Jason Findlay was exposed to great music at an early age. He began his musical career learning to play the violin. His performing career includes concerts in the United States and Europe with ensembles such as the Mormon Youth Symphony, Nachtmusik, and the American Festival Orchestra. Interest in composing and arranging emerged at the age of thirteen where be began writing violin sonatas and piano/vocal songs. Later that interest blossomed into larger compositions for choir and small instrumental ensembles with his first original work premiering in 1995. While studying music at Snow College with Judy Morgan and Dr. Mark Ammons and staying busy with nearly every musical performing group at the college he still managed to complete several hymn arrangements for various vocal settings as well as some independent keyboard works. His later education brought him to Brigham Young University where he studied violin and education. While there, he worked closely with Dr. Ron Staheli from whom he learned some of the finer nuances of choral performing and arranging. During his time at BYU he composed several original instrumental works as well as more choral arrangements which have been performed all across the country. He went on to teach choir and orchestra for several years in public schools ranging from elementary through high school. Currently Jason and his wife live in Orem, Utah and are actively engaged in raising their eight children.
	Kari Francis Dubbed “the next generation of a cappella specialist” by Pitch Perfect vocal producer Deke Sharon, Kari Francis is an avid vocalist, arranger, and choral music educator. She has shared the stage with Taylor Swift, Imogen Heap, and competed on Season 3 of NBC’s The Sing-Off with Kinfolk 9. Recent publications include the chapter “Vocal Percussion for Everyone” in So You Want to Sing A Cappella: A Guide for Performers published by the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). She is an active lecturer and clinician, leading workshops on musicianship, arranging, and vocal percussion at music festivals and vocal camps across the States.
	Marvin K. Gardner Marvin Kent Gardner (born 1952) is a Latter-day Saint hymnwriter and editor. Gardner served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Columbia. He then studied at Brigham Young University. After that he served as an editor of the Ensign. Gardner also was an editor of the New Era and the Friend and Liahona. He served as assistant or managing editor at one or more of these publications from 1978 to 2005. Among the hymns written by Gardner is "Press Forward, Saints." He was a member of the Hymnbook Executive Committee which compiled the 1985 LDS English Language Hymnbook. Gardner is currently a member of the BYU faculty where he is an associate teaching professor of English language and linguistics. Gardner has also taught religion classes at BYU. The Baby Softly Stills Music of Christmas Songbook
	Jordan Hale Jordan Hale was a member of BYU Vocal Point for 2 years before graduating from BYU. Jordan sang the lead on a number of beautiful music videos put out during his time with the group (Homeward Bound, When She Loved Me, One Single Bell). He now works in real estate and arranges for BYU Vocal Point when the mood strikes him.
	Kevin Jenson
	Trevor Johnson Trevor grew up in Iowa, served an LDS mission in Ecuador, and graduated from BYU in 2015 with a degree in Business Management. From 2012 to 2014 he was a member of BYU Vocal Point, during which time he arranged “Noyana / Come, Come, Ye Saints” and co-arranged “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”. Trevor is a featured soloist on these two songs as well as other songs on the Lead Thou Me On, He is Born, and Spectrum albums. During his time at BYU, Trevor also directed Beyond Measure, an a capella group made up of BYU students. He currently lives in Salt Lake City, UT and works full-time as a Human Resources Manager.
	Steve Koplin Steve is a Utah native with dreams of the Big Apple! Ever since he was a child Steve was out to entertain. He grew up loving the arts - singing, dancing, and acting. He was in many stage plays and musicals growing up and was a founding member of a boy band called Frequency back in 2000-2003. It was that experience that has driven him to continually find professional performing outlets. Since then, Steve and his good friend from Frequency, Mckay Crockett started an a cappella summer camp for kids called ReMix Vocal Academy. ReMix was a huge success it's first year and has since become an official summer camp at BYU while continuously growing each year. After the initial success of ReMix, Steve had an intense desire to start his own a cappella group at UVU. He found out that there was another student on campus that had the same desire. Steve met Josh Olsen and together they talked about what their ideas for a group on campus would be. The two shared the same vision and hopes for a group and they decided to team up together to create VoiceLine. With the help of Faculty Advisor and Vocal Director, Connie Jensen, the rest is, as they say, history. Steve is passionate about all things artistic and entertaining. He's currently attending UVU studying Commercial Music. Steve is a freelance audio / video professional and has done work all over Utah. One of his favorite jobs was working on the red carpets of the Sundance Film Festival a couple years ago. Steve is incredibly proud to be a member and director of VoiceLine and is excited to see what the future has in store for the group!
	Buck Mangum
	Scott Shattuck Scott Shattuck is the owner of Scott Shattuck Media where he arranges and edits a cappella recordings. He became interested in these recordings while a teenager. At Brigham Young University, he was part of Vocal Point from 2012 to 2015 and has done recording, mixing, arranging, and editing for the group. He has also done work for a cappella groups such as UVU Voiceline, Ball in The House, BYU Noteworthy, Beyond Measure, Duly Noted, UPenn Dischord, and ReMix A Cappella. He has also done work for Peter Hollens, Ben Bram of Pentatonix, Dallyn Bayles, McKay Crockett, and others. Scott and his wife Ryceejo have a YouTube channel Scott & Ryceejo where they post videos of clean, family friendly songs including Disney mash-ups, live streams, and show behind-the-scenes. Their subscriber list is growing and they have almost three million views.
	James L. Stevens
	Vanja Y. Watkins Vanja Yorgason Watkins is a B.A. and M.A. graduate of Brigham Young University. As a music educator she has taught in the Ogden City Schools, the Salt Lake City Schools, and in the BYU School of Music, and has presented music workshops throughout the state of Utah. Now, sort of retired, she teaches private piano. She served on the Primary General Board and on the General Music Committee of the Church and is the composer of two hymns in the current LDS hymnbook as well as many songs in The Children’s Songbook. She was a regular presenter at the BYU Workshop on Church Music, and has conducted four choirs at General Conference. Sister Watkins is a former stake Primary president and stake and ward Relief Society president. She has served in varied musical callings in the Church and is currently ward choir director and Primary activity day leader in the Ensign Peak Ward in Salt Lake City. She is the mother of five children, grandmother of thirteen, and the wife of the late Dr. Jack B. Watkins.
	Amy Lynn Whitcomb Amy Whitcomb has been in love with music since she began piano lessons at the young age of 3. After studying Commercial Music at Brigham Young University, Amy released two EPs with her rock band, The Whits. She appeared on NBC’s The Sing-Off with the a cappella groups Noteworthy & Delilah, with whom she has toured internationally in both Asia and Europe. In 2013, Amy was on NBC’s The Voice, she released her first solo single and toured with other artists from the top 32. Soon after, Amy was cast as the vengeful “Florence” in an original rock opera, Deep Love. The show tours each year in the fall. Amy released her debut solo EP in early 2015, has since been involved in various recording and performing projects, and was co-host of the TV show Backstage Avenue. After touring with Deke Sharon’s Vocalosity from 2015-2017, Amy found herself back in Utah with her love for a cappella rekindled. She is now the Artistic Director of BYU Noteworthy, fronts Toned Entertainment’s party band Synergy, is involved in a variety of studio & stage projects as well as teaching voice, piano, and musical theatre.
	Catherine Papworth Williams

Stephen Anderson

Denny Crockett

Dennis (Denny) Crockett is a nationally published composer, arranger, vocalist, and keyboardist as well as a respected musical producer of both record, radio, and television entertainment. He served as the musical director of the famous Osmond Family from 1978-1984. For 10 years he served as the musical director for the Children's Miracle Network Telethon (CMN). He is a Pearl Award nominated composer. He has written several popular LDS songs many of which have been used by the Seminary & Institute Department and other Church related projects.

Brother Crockett served as the President of the Texas Fort Worth Mission where he and Sister Crockett presided from 2004-2007. He has also served in a variety of Church positions including twice as bishop and as a counselor in stake presidency. He served his first mission to New Zealand in 1971. He and Sister Crockett Co-chaired the Draper/Oquirrh Mountain Temple Youth Celebration staged at the Conference Center in May 2009. They also served as administrative coordinators in the Church Music department helping to organize visiting choirs participating in General Conference and General Auxiliary meetings from 2009-2016. They served a mission to the Philippines Area from 2016-2017 and have recently accepted a call to serve as Directors of Nauvoo Productions where they will oversee the Youth Performing Missionaries assigned to Historic Nauvoo.

Following his time in the entertainment business, he co-founded Broadcast International, Inc., a communications firm specializing in the delivery of business to business information via satellite, FM wireless, internet and cable television technologies, and real-time business related news and financial market information. This later enterprise gave birth to the popular financial internet website Marketwatch.com. Although now semi-retired, he still maintains an active role in private business investment and consulting. He and Sister Crockett have 5 children and 16 grandchildren.

Mckay Crockett

McKay Crockett is an award-winning producer, director, arranger, and performance coach from Salt Lake City, UT. As one of the most sought after creative minds in Utah, his style and innovative approach to music has influenced millions of people across the world. Crockett's clients have appeared on every major television network in the U.S., and have toured stages on nearly every continent.

While being well-versed in various styles and music genres, Crockett is world-renowned for his work in vocal music. In 2017 he won an Emmy award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Rocky Mountain Chapter for his role as Music Director of the Christmas Under the Stars television program.

Crockett has worked with and arranged for artists including Kristin Chenoweth, Gladys Knight, David Archuleta, Peter Hollens, Lexi Walker and many more. In 2011, Crockett appeared on NBC's The Sing-Off with the internationally acclaimed group Vocal Point, sharing the stage with artists Sara Bareilles, Ben Folds, and Shawn Stockman (Boyz II Men).

As an a cappella producer, Crockett's albums have reached #1 on both Billboard charts, and iTunes charts. He has also won several Contemporary A Capella Recording Awards (CARA), including Best Religious Album, Best Male Collegiate Album, Best Classical Song, and been nominated for many others. The CARA are comparable to the Grammy Awards of A cappella music. At the age of 24, Crockett joined the music faculty at Brigham Young University, where he is now the artistic mastermind behind the studio albums, music videos, and concert touring of Vocal Point.

Crockett's arrangements and songs can be heard on radio, television, and film, and are distributed around the world by dozens of labels including Sony/Epic Records. Crockett has a Bachelor's Degree in Media Music Studies from BYU and he continues to write, arrange, and produce music for artists around the world.

Christopher Downard

Keith McKay Evans

A 5-year veteran of BYU Vocal Point, Keith Evans has been arranging for choral and pop a cappella ensembles for over a decade. A sought-after studio recording artist, he also performs regularly at Hale Centre Theatre. He is currently the choir director at West Jordan High School in the Salt Lake Valley.

Keith and his wife Adrianne live in Bluffdale, Utah with their son, Link.

Jason D. Findlay

Thanks to his music teacher father, Jason Findlay was exposed to great music at an early age. He began his musical career learning to play the violin. His performing career includes concerts in the United States and Europe with ensembles such as the Mormon Youth Symphony, Nachtmusik, and the American Festival Orchestra. Interest in composing and arranging emerged at the age of thirteen where be began writing violin sonatas and piano/vocal songs. Later that interest blossomed into larger compositions for choir and small instrumental ensembles with his first original work premiering in 1995.

While studying music at Snow College with Judy Morgan and Dr. Mark Ammons and staying busy with nearly every musical performing group at the college he still managed to complete several hymn arrangements for various vocal settings as well as some independent keyboard works.

His later education brought him to Brigham Young University where he studied violin and education. While there, he worked closely with Dr. Ron Staheli from whom he learned some of the finer nuances of choral performing and arranging. During his time at BYU he composed several original instrumental works as well as more choral arrangements which have been performed all across the country. He went on to teach choir and orchestra for several years in public schools ranging from elementary through high school. Currently Jason and his wife live in Orem, Utah and are actively engaged in raising their eight children.

Kari Francis

Dubbed “the next generation of a cappella specialist” by Pitch Perfect vocal producer Deke Sharon, Kari Francis is an avid vocalist, arranger, and choral music educator. She has shared the stage with Taylor Swift, Imogen Heap, and competed on Season 3 of NBC’s The Sing-Off with Kinfolk 9. Recent publications include the chapter “Vocal Percussion for Everyone” in So You Want to Sing A Cappella: A Guide for Performers published by the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). She is an active lecturer and clinician, leading workshops on musicianship, arranging, and vocal percussion at music festivals and vocal camps across the States.

Marvin K. Gardner

Marvin Kent Gardner (born 1952) is a Latter-day Saint hymnwriter and editor.

Gardner served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Columbia. He then studied at Brigham Young University. After that he served as an editor of the Ensign. Gardner also was an editor of the New Era and the Friend and Liahona. He served as assistant or managing editor at one or more of these publications from 1978 to 2005.

Among the hymns written by Gardner is "Press Forward, Saints." He was a member of the Hymnbook Executive Committee which compiled the 1985 LDS English Language Hymnbook.

Gardner is currently a member of the BYU faculty where he is an associate teaching professor of English language and linguistics. Gardner has also taught religion classes at BYU.

The Baby Softly Stills

Music of Christmas Songbook

Jordan Hale

Jordan Hale was a member of BYU Vocal Point for 2 years before graduating from BYU. Jordan sang the lead on a number of beautiful music videos put out during his time with the group (Homeward Bound, When She Loved Me, One Single Bell). He now works in real estate and arranges for BYU Vocal Point when the mood strikes him.

Kevin Jenson

Trevor Johnson

Trevor grew up in Iowa, served an LDS mission in Ecuador, and graduated from BYU in 2015 with a degree in Business Management. From 2012 to 2014 he was a member of BYU Vocal Point, during which time he arranged “Noyana / Come, Come, Ye Saints” and co-arranged “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”. Trevor is a featured soloist on these two songs as well as other songs on the Lead Thou Me On, He is Born, and Spectrum albums. During his time at BYU, Trevor also directed Beyond Measure, an a capella group made up of BYU students. He currently lives in Salt Lake City, UT and works full-time as a Human Resources Manager.

Steve Koplin

Steve is a Utah native with dreams of the Big Apple! Ever since he was a child Steve was out to entertain. He grew up loving the arts - singing, dancing, and acting. He was in many stage plays and musicals growing up and was a founding member of a boy band called Frequency back in 2000-2003. It was that experience that has driven him to continually find professional performing outlets.

Since then, Steve and his good friend from Frequency, Mckay Crockett started an a cappella summer camp for kids called ReMix Vocal Academy. ReMix was a huge success it's first year and has since become an official summer camp at BYU while continuously growing each year.

After the initial success of ReMix, Steve had an intense desire to start his own a cappella group at UVU. He found out that there was another student on campus that had the same desire. Steve met Josh Olsen and together they talked about what their ideas for a group on campus would be. The two shared the same vision and hopes for a group and they decided to team up together to create VoiceLine. With the help of Faculty Advisor and Vocal Director, Connie Jensen, the rest is, as they say, history.

Steve is passionate about all things artistic and entertaining. He's currently attending UVU studying Commercial Music. Steve is a freelance audio / video professional and has done work all over Utah. One of his favorite jobs was working on the red carpets of the Sundance Film Festival a couple years ago.

Steve is incredibly proud to be a member and director of VoiceLine and is excited to see what the future has in store for the group!

Buck Mangum

Scott Shattuck

Scott Shattuck is the owner of Scott Shattuck Media where he arranges and edits a cappella recordings. He became interested in these recordings while a teenager. At Brigham Young University, he was part of Vocal Point from 2012 to 2015 and has done recording, mixing, arranging, and editing for the group. He has also done work for a cappella groups such as UVU Voiceline, Ball in The House, BYU Noteworthy, Beyond Measure, Duly Noted, UPenn Dischord, and ReMix A Cappella. He has also done work for Peter Hollens, Ben Bram of Pentatonix, Dallyn Bayles, McKay Crockett, and others.

Scott and his wife Ryceejo have a YouTube channel Scott & Ryceejo where they post videos of clean, family friendly songs including Disney mash-ups, live streams, and show behind-the-scenes. Their subscriber list is growing and they have almost three million views.

James L. Stevens

Vanja Y. Watkins

Vanja Yorgason Watkins is a B.A. and M.A. graduate of Brigham Young University. As a music educator she has taught in the Ogden City Schools, the Salt Lake City Schools, and in the BYU School of Music, and has presented music workshops throughout the state of Utah.

Now, sort of retired, she teaches private piano. She served on the Primary General Board and on the General Music Committee of the Church and is the composer of two hymns in the current LDS hymnbook as well as many songs in The Children’s Songbook.

She was a regular presenter at the BYU Workshop on Church Music, and has conducted four choirs at General Conference. Sister Watkins is a former stake Primary president and stake and ward Relief Society president. She has served in varied musical callings in the Church and is currently ward choir director and Primary activity day leader in the Ensign Peak Ward in Salt Lake City.

She is the mother of five children, grandmother of thirteen, and the wife of the late Dr. Jack B. Watkins.

Amy Lynn Whitcomb

Amy Whitcomb has been in love with music since she began piano lessons at the young age of 3. After studying Commercial Music at Brigham Young University, Amy released two EPs with her rock band, The Whits. She appeared on NBC’s The Sing-Off with the a cappella groups Noteworthy & Delilah, with whom she has toured internationally in both Asia and Europe. In 2013, Amy was on NBC’s The Voice, she released her first solo single and toured with other artists from the top 32. Soon after, Amy was cast as the vengeful “Florence” in an original rock opera, Deep Love. The show tours each year in the fall. Amy released her debut solo EP in early 2015, has since been involved in various recording and performing projects, and was co-host of the TV show Backstage Avenue. After touring with Deke Sharon’s Vocalosity from 2015-2017, Amy found herself back in Utah with her love for a cappella rekindled. She is now the Artistic Director of BYU Noteworthy, fronts Toned Entertainment’s party band Synergy, is involved in a variety of studio & stage projects as well as teaching voice, piano, and musical theatre.

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