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Biography
Andrew Thomas Geist was born January, 31st 1986, to Stan and Nikki Geist in Sacramento CA. He is the oldest of five; he grew up surrounded by music, through his father and his father’s side of the family. While most of the music they performed was contemporary pop Christian and Southern gospel it was a learning and discovery time in his life musically.
Andrew started singing with his father and brother in his church. He sang mostly higher harmonies and melody. He was home-schooled through high-school graduation. After several moves to Midwestern & Pacific Coast states, his family settled in Fresno in 1991. At 15 he joined the Young Continentals, a group that gives mainly home-school students the opportunity to sing and tour the United States. He was able to tour along the East Coast and was able to see a lot of major cities and landmarks.
While attending West McKinley Church in Fresno, he joined the contemporary youth choir, and was able to go and compete in the Assembly of God’s Fine Arts competition. He competed in solo vocal and in solo human video performance and songwriting; he went three consecutive years to the national competition. In his second national competition he place seventh in the nation for solo human video performance in Washington, D.C.
He started singing classical choral music in his freshman year of high school for CHEFA (Christian Home Educators of the Fresno Area) Concert Choir, and then was asked by the conductor to join the CHEFA Chamber Singers. In his junior year he and some friends from choir decided to put together a barbershop quartet, Namesake. He went in 2003, to a SPEBSQSA (Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America) high school barbershop quartet camp, and also a regional competition in Reno, Nevada, and placed third.
He graduated in 2004 from Koinonia Christian high school, and began attending Fresno City College with the goal of attaining his AA in Music Business. He learned about Fresno Pacific University through a friend who was attending in 2005 and through a booth that was at Fresno City College. He was asked to audition for Concert Choir at Fresno Pacific University.
While still a student at Fresno City College, he accepted an invitation from Dr. Roy Klassen to join the Fresno Pacific University Concert Choir. And then began his studies at Fresno Pacific University in the fall of 2006. He started as a vocal performance major, but then, through prayer and God-inspired compositions in theory classes he shifted his major to Composition, because he believed it would round himself out as a musician.
Through his college career he took on several roles vocally. He was able to sing in the last Unconcert performance put on by the Concert Choir in Spring 2005. He would then sing in another variety show with Vocal Performance Workshop in 2008, singing roles in the Music Man, Rent and many more. Then in Vocal Performance Workshop he would star as one of the three kings, King Kaspar, in Amahl and the Night Visitors, singing the ever famous “This is my box” aria. He was also the Russian tenor in “Fiddler on the roof” in his first major musical role.
He has graduated from Fresno Pacific University in May 2010, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music with an emphasis in music composition. He is currently this year involved in the Fresno County Youth Choir as the Tenor section leader.
He plans to work as a professional musician in the music industry, looking at jobs in New York, Tennessee, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. He is looking at graduate school at USC, honing his skills as a composer in the area of Motion Pictures and Television. He continues to trust God in what he needs.
Andrew Thomas mission is to allow creativity and life to flow through his performances and music.
Andrew started singing with his father and brother in his church. He sang mostly higher harmonies and melody. He was home-schooled through high-school graduation. After several moves to Midwestern & Pacific Coast states, his family settled in Fresno in 1991. At 15 he joined the Young Continentals, a group that gives mainly home-school students the opportunity to sing and tour the United States. He was able to tour along the East Coast and was able to see a lot of major cities and landmarks.
While attending West McKinley Church in Fresno, he joined the contemporary youth choir, and was able to go and compete in the Assembly of God’s Fine Arts competition. He competed in solo vocal and in solo human video performance and songwriting; he went three consecutive years to the national competition. In his second national competition he place seventh in the nation for solo human video performance in Washington, D.C.
He started singing classical choral music in his freshman year of high school for CHEFA (Christian Home Educators of the Fresno Area) Concert Choir, and then was asked by the conductor to join the CHEFA Chamber Singers. In his junior year he and some friends from choir decided to put together a barbershop quartet, Namesake. He went in 2003, to a SPEBSQSA (Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America) high school barbershop quartet camp, and also a regional competition in Reno, Nevada, and placed third.
He graduated in 2004 from Koinonia Christian high school, and began attending Fresno City College with the goal of attaining his AA in Music Business. He learned about Fresno Pacific University through a friend who was attending in 2005 and through a booth that was at Fresno City College. He was asked to audition for Concert Choir at Fresno Pacific University.
While still a student at Fresno City College, he accepted an invitation from Dr. Roy Klassen to join the Fresno Pacific University Concert Choir. And then began his studies at Fresno Pacific University in the fall of 2006. He started as a vocal performance major, but then, through prayer and God-inspired compositions in theory classes he shifted his major to Composition, because he believed it would round himself out as a musician.
Through his college career he took on several roles vocally. He was able to sing in the last Unconcert performance put on by the Concert Choir in Spring 2005. He would then sing in another variety show with Vocal Performance Workshop in 2008, singing roles in the Music Man, Rent and many more. Then in Vocal Performance Workshop he would star as one of the three kings, King Kaspar, in Amahl and the Night Visitors, singing the ever famous “This is my box” aria. He was also the Russian tenor in “Fiddler on the roof” in his first major musical role.
He has graduated from Fresno Pacific University in May 2010, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music with an emphasis in music composition. He is currently this year involved in the Fresno County Youth Choir as the Tenor section leader.
He plans to work as a professional musician in the music industry, looking at jobs in New York, Tennessee, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. He is looking at graduate school at USC, honing his skills as a composer in the area of Motion Pictures and Television. He continues to trust God in what he needs.
Andrew Thomas mission is to allow creativity and life to flow through his performances and music.
