Our Music Director
 Eric
Ruthenberg has conducted the Concord Coachmen since 1994. He received
his Bachelor's Degree in Music Education from Boston University in
1993. In 1993, he moved to New Hampshire, where Eric served
as the choral director at Newport Middle High School until 2006. Since
then, Eric has served as chairman of the barbershop society's Young Men
in Harmony committee, and has coordinated the New Hampshire High School
Barberhsop Festival. Ruthenberg was honored by the chorus as
"Barbershopper of the Year" in 1996, and was awarded the "Volunteer of
the Year" in 1999 by Harmony Foundation. He has taught sight reading at
Harmony College Northeast, and at the Montreal HEP School. In March
2005, he was guest conductor at an international choral festival in
Indonesia. He is a member of the 2000 Northeastern District Champion
quartet, Overdrive. The quartet frequently performed in schools and at
festivals promoting singing, barbershop harmony, and general goofiness. |
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Eric with the lead in his next quartet; his son, Peter
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