Composer, arranger, producer, singer Roger Treece has spent the past several years developing a new kind of choral music, combining traditional classical elements with jazz, funk, gospel, and the vocal innovations of his frequent collaborator, Bobby McFerrin.

Roger has been commissioned by the Danish Radio Symphony and Choir for the Hans Christian Anderson Bicentenary, by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, arranging and producing their annual Latin Christmas show CELEBRAR! and for their gala opening Los Angeles Music Center's Disney Hall in 2004, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Ravinia Festival, the Chicago Children's Choir for the 2006 Martin Luther King Celebration, and many others around the world.

As a producer and arranger, Roger has to his credit over 30 albums and hundreds of commissions for Bobby McFerrin, the Manhattan Transfer, the New York Voices, Mark Murphy, Janis Siegel, radio comedy personality and creator of TWISTED TUNES, Bob Rivers, and others; as well as music for film and television in The US and Europe (Discovery Channel, Disney World, Microsoft, McDonalds, ABC Comedy Network, The United Way) earning him two Grammy Nominations, fourteen downbeat awards, and industry accolades (including a First Place at the Hollywood Film Festival) for his music education projects for children (also visit SIGN2ME.COM).

Roger tours worldwide as a vocal soloist and a member of Bobby McFerrin's 12-piece vocal ensemble, "Voicestra". In addition, he travels throughout the United States and Europe as a clinician and guest teacher, covering a wide range of topics, including improvisation and creativity, harmony and arranging, rhythm and groove, and solo-vocal technique. In the spring of 2006, Roger toured Europe giving solo clinics in Denmark, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland.

He has also taught vocal workshops with Bobby McFerrin at the renowned Omega Institute and in June 2006, led his own 5-day master class entitled "Circlesongs: The Technique and Philosophy of Bobby McFerrin".

In November 2006 Roger was commissioned by the Danish Arts Council to compose, produce and conduct a concert to feature 80 of Jutland, Denmark's top young singers. His 48-minute composition, THE FOUR LOVES (based on the C.S. Lewis bestseller) is an "interactive" choral work, integrating the techniques of improvisatory and traditionally composed music. The debut performance took place November 12 in Herning, DK, to a packed house at the Trykkerihallen.

In 2007, Roger will tour world-wide with Bobby McFerrin and "Voicestra", conduct his own solo clinics and master classes in the US and Europe, and will finish his work (as producer/arranger, co-writer, singer) on the upcoming Bobby McFerrin choral album, the ambitious brainchild of manager/producer Linda Goldstein.

This project has, to date, recorded over 800 hours of 40 of the world's most intriguing musicians, such as the ROLLING STONES' Lisa Fischer and Bernard Fowler, THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER's Janis Siegel, the NEW YORK VOICES, Rhiannon, Luciana Souza, Theo Bleckman, members of VOICESTRA, EARTH, WIND, AND FIRE's David Whitworth, and many of New York's top session singers. Also involved are world-renowned percussionist Alex Acuna, Steve Wolf (drum programmer for artists such as Chaka Khan and STEELY DAN), SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE's Alex Foster, and Hollywood's exotic wind man, Pedro Eustache.

Roger's compositions and arrangements for choir, orchestra, jazz band, jazz choir and combos are published through UNC JAZZ PRESS and LINDALAMAMA MUSIC.

Roger also has hundreds of arrangements that aren't published: please write him for a complete listing.

Roger makes his home in Greenwich Village in New York City.