Alisa Manning - soprano

"Canticorum Jubilo!" Alisa Knodle Manning moved to the big city in 1998. As a freshman, she joined the Boston University Choral Society, the only non-auditioned choral group on the BU Campus. She also sang in the Chamber Choir, an auditioned sub-group of the Choral Society. During her sophomore year, she was elected president of the group and, along with the rest of the e-board and Matt Ettore, planned a Spring Break singing tour to Montreal, Canada.The Choral Society had its best performance of the year inside the walls of Concordia University with an audience numbering about 20. Alisa gracefully retired from the e-board and remained a member of the Choral Society until she graduated. As luck would have it, she was hired at Boston University at the same time that the Choral Society was looking for a faculty or staff advisor. Alisa became their advisor until her job took her to the Medical Campus and away from the group. Before 'None of the Above,' Alisa joined the Cambridge Community Chorus for their annual Messiah concert and sang with the Marsh Chapel Choir for a concert cycle. For now though, she is ready to go where ever her voice will take her! Follow that voice!

Elena (Krasnovsky) Rabinowitz - soprano

Growing up in California, Elena Rabinowitz landed her musical start singing in the San Francisco Girls Chorus, during which she performed in operas with the San Francisco Opera Company. Once entrenched in the musical scene, Elena joined a variety of musical ensembles including her high school jazz choir and the local community college jazz ensemble. Pursuing her passion, musical theater productions and formal voice training followed. Majoring in Music at the University of California at Berkeley, Elena discovered a cappella and joined an offbeat group called DeCadence, where she wrote her first arrangement (Madonna's Like A Prayer). Other musical endeavors included the UC Berkeley University Chorus, as well as the Sorbonne Chorus, which she joined while studying abroad in Paris. After graduating, Elena, along with 3 DeCadence alums, founded a semi-professional a cappella group, BOHiCA. Elena's contribution as Soprano, business manager, music arranger, and website designer defined BOHiCA as they embarked on their 4-year journey of entertaining, competing, and recording in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since moving to Boston to pursue a graduate degree, Elena dreamed of joining a local ensemble and is thrilled to be a member of None of the Above.

Deb Abberton - alto

From fronting a GB band to singing baritone in a barbershop quartet to playing a brother in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Deb is always looking for voices with whom she can harmonize. After performing with the University of New Hampshire's NH Notables she was hooked on a cappella, loving all aspects of it, the ringing chords, the ability to sing anywhere the pitch pipe can go, and the never-ending quest for locations with great natural reverb (bathrooms, stairwells, underground subway stops).

Elyssa Miller - alto

Elyssa is thrilled to be singing with None of the Above! Many, many moons ago, while an undergraduate at Boston University, she sang in the B.U. Choral Society and the Chamber Choir She also sang briefly with In Choro Novo and the a cappella group Allegrettos. In recent years, she has taught herself to play guitar, sang with a choir of engineers in Brazil (don't ask), and has sung loudly in the car in the hopes of being discovered by someone in the next lane. No luck yet, but you never know.

Charlie Hodges - tenor

Charlie began singing in earnest after college, performing in numerous musical roles in community theater productions.  A role as the tenor in the quartet in “The Music Man” (and a second stint as the quartet lead later) led to a 5-year run with the Sounds of Concord barbershop chorus.  He also sang in several quartets as well.  This created the desire to sing more complex a cappella harmonies, leading him into the first tenor slot in the Shawsheen River Rats, an all-male quintet that placed third nationally in Harmony Sweepstakes in 1993.  Charlie was a member of this group for 11 years.  Charlie also sang first tenor with the Boston Gay Mens Chorus for 3 years, sang alto for 5 years with the Patterson Chorale gospel ensemble (including tours in both France and Armenia), sang as a tenor-member of Boston Jazz Voices (an 18-voice a cappella group best known for singing the incomparable arrangements of the great Gene Puerling) and was the bass in Fretless (a mixed a cappella quintet) with Matt Ettore.  It is a great pleasure for Charlie to be a member of NOTA where he can explore the new challenges of singing in a mixed octet format with 7 other very talented singers.

Tony Vuolo - tenor

Tony started piano at the age of four and has at one point played almost every contemporary wind, percussion and fretted string instrument.   While at Yale University, he sang with, directed and arranged for the mixed a cappella group Out of the Blue.  As a senior, he sang tenor in the all-male Yale Whiffenpoofs of 1995 during which time he re-enacted “MTA Charlie” on the Tokyo subway (they wouldn’t let him off the train) and was mistaken for Paul McCartney in Katmandu (and subsequently heckled by an audience of five thousand through two 40-minute sets… yes – the group was contractually obligated to go back out to sing the second set… and yes – the audience stayed through intermission to heckle through the second set).   After college, he served at numerous churches as choir director / guitarist / pianist / organist.  He and his wife, Rachel, currently lead the folk music service at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Worcester.  Returning to close harmony singing has been his goal for many years – and NOTA was a great chance to do just that. 

Jeff Auerbach - bass

Jeff has been singing in choral groups all the way back to the second grade. While at UMASS Lowell, as a voice major in the Bachelor of Music: Music Business program, he sang in the Chamber Singers, Jazz Swing Choir, and the madrigal group Consortium Artis Musicae. Additionally, while at UMASS-Lowell and after graduating in 1993 he also sang barbershop with the Lowell Gentlemen Songsters Chorus for five years. Moving away from Lowell led to other vocal opportunities, both in full size choruses, such as the Neoponset Choral Society, and Cambridge Madrigal Singers, as well as smaller groups, like Stark Raving Madrigals, and barbershop quartets. His last quartet, called Nobody's Business, finished up just before he auditioned for None of the Above. After singing so many different styles separately over the years, joining NOTA's mixed style seemed like the perfect fit!