About us

Deke Sharon first sang a cappella in choirs at the age of five, and by age nine he was touring the U.S. as the youngest member ever admitted to the San Francisco Boys Chorus' Concert Ensemble.

By the age of 23 he had graduated cum laude with a BA from Tufts University and a BM from the New England Conservatory of Music, directed numerous a cappella ensembles and produced two award-winning a cappella albums, founded the Contemporary A Cappella Society, and arranged hundreds of songs for a cappella groups around the world.

To date, he continues to serve as Chairman and President of CASA, run the Ultimate A Cappella Arranging Service, co-produce the Best of College A Cappella CD series, arrange and publish a variety of songbooks, co-write instructional booklets for a cappella groups, and produce and co-produce a number of a cappella albums.

He also music directs and performs with his own professional ensemble, The House Jacks.

Projects Founded/Co-Founded:

Contemporary A Cappella Society
Contemporary A Cappella News
Ultimate A Cappella Arranging Service
A Cappella Summit
The House Jacks
National Championship of College A Cappella
Harmony High
Street Dreams - A Cappella Musical
Urban Harmony Movement
A Cappella Radio International
Spring Thing

Albums Produced/Co-Produced:

Fourteen - Tufts Beelzebubs
Foster Street - Tufts Beelzebubs
Classics - Tufts Beelzebubs
Sing Naked - House Jacks
Naked Noise - House Jacks
Funkwich - House Jacks
A Cappella All-Stars: the 1997 CARAs
BOCA (Best Of College A Cappella) Volume 1
BOCA Volume 2
BOCA Volume 3
BOCA 1998
BOCA Humor
Harmony Sweepstakes 1996
Harmony Sweepstakes 1997
Voices Only: A Cappella Originals
Urban Harmony Movement R&B Compilation
Harmony High

Sheet Music Arranged/Co-Arranged:

Contemporary A Cappella Songbook & Octavo Series (See tabs above to browse titles.)
The Bobs Songbook
More than 700 individual sheets for professional and collegiate groups (See the UNC Jazz Press catalog listing of his arrangements that are available for purchase)

Other honors:

Strathmore's Who's Who of '98-'99 National Business Leaders
Gold Record of Achievement
International Directory of Distinguished Leaders
Numerous "Best Arrangement" awards from the Harmony Sweepstakes

Email Deke Sharon @ deke@capublish.com

Anne Raugh works as a full-time programmer in the Astronomy Department of the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. She's also enrolled part-time as an undergraduate majoring in Music Theory. She's a long-time fan of the King's Singers, with a mild interest in modern a cappella until relatively recently, when Anne was serendipitously exposed to the generics, Rockapella, Take 6, and several other modern a cappella groups within a few months time. In fact, she started the music degree (c. 1990) specifically to learn to arrange music.

Anne co-founded a 12-voice mixed ensemble in 1993 which performs an eclectic mix of modern and standard a cappella tunes. She does all the in-house arranging and until recently, the musical direction. Outside of that Anne has been music director or orchestra conductor for a number of community theater productions of musicals ranging from "Little Shop of Horrors" to "City of Angels"; she's played sax, flute and clarinet in more orchestra pits than she cares to enumerate and with a local big band jazz ensemble; she sings with bands when they'll let me put the damn saxophone down long enough; and has directed a number of informal choruses and choirs.

Email Anne Raugh @ anne@capublish.com