Malissa Vazquez joined Florida’s Singing Sons Boychoir as an Administrative Assistant in January of 2000, providing assistance to General and Business Management, our Music Director, Music Assistants, Bookkeeper and FSSB parents. In addition, she managed concert advertising and ticket sales.

Now under the position of Choir Manager, Malissa also organizes and attends camps and assists Mr. Denison in a production capacity at concerts, and additionally manages and attends tours with the Boychoir.

Malissa grew up in the South and North Central areas of Florida, and received her Associate of Arts Degree in Drama in 1999. Since then, she continues to study her craft and pursues her love of performance whenever she can by auditioning and performing within the South Florida Theatre, Film and Voice-Over communities.

Since joining the Singing Sons team in 2007 Mr Steynor, in consultation with Mr Denison, has undertaken the responsibility of revamping the upper Levels of the Theory program. He has taught full-time at an elementary school and also assists at the High School department of New World School of the Arts in downtown Miami, where he lives. He commutes to Oakland Park on Thursday where he has the privilege of working with the Concert Choir, as well as on Monday evening when he plays for the rehearsals of the South Florida Master Chorale, the area’s premier choral ensemble.

He grew up in the British Cathedral tradition, singing daily services as a boy at Guildford Cathedral, where he was chorister and, in his final year there, Head Chorister. He started piano lessons at six years old and at age 13 scored the UK’s highest mark in the exam period for Grade 7 piano. On leaving the cathedral choir he kept singing through his voice change at a local church, and began organ lessons.

Matthew Steynor moved to South Florida in 2004 and is now one of the most prominent church musicians in the area. He is the Director of Music at Trinity Cathedral in Miami, where he directs and accompanies the Cathedral Choir, as well the Anglican Chorale of Southeast Florida, a group which he co-founded. The formation of this new Chorale has garnered local interest, being featured in the Miami Herald and on WLRN during 2009.

Mr Steynor moved to South Florida from The Bahamas, where he lived for two years, enjoying a reputation as the nation’s foremost organist. He still enjoys performing solo recitals, most recently performing a transcription of Holst’s Planets Suite to a large audience. In 2007 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists; he is the only organist south of Tampa to have achieved this standard.

Singing Sons know that Mr Steynor is an advocate for using all resources, especially the internet, to further one’s education. To find out more about Matthew Steynor and listen to his recordings, visit google.com, iTunes or amazon.com. Mr Steynor’s professional recordings are mostly from his days as a student at Cambridge University in England, which are still in circulation and have been heard on classical radio stations around the world.

“To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.”

Daniel Copher has been a resident of Fort Lauderdale for twelve years, moving to escape the harsh winters of Minneapolis. He has been Organist/Choirmaster at All Saints Episcopal Church in downtown Fort Lauderdale for ten years. Additionally, he is in his eighth season as Music Associate/Accompanist for the Florida Singing Sons Boychoir. His tours with Singing Sons include San Francisco, the Czech Republic, the upper Midwest, Italy and the Northeast US and Canada. Daniel is a PhD candidate in Comparative Studies: Applied and Performing Arts at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL. His dissertation topic is Authenticity of Space: 21st Century Convergence of Sacred Music and Sacred Architecture. Daniel completed his undergraduate work at the University of Oklahoma in music and architecture studying with renowned organ professor, Mildred Andrews Boggess. His graduate work includes choral studies with Dennis Shrock, liturgical studies, and an MBA. In Minnesota he was partner in an architectural firm and served as Chapel Organist for fifteen years at the Catholic University of St. Thomas. As accompanist for the St. Thomas Liturgical Choir, he played for numerous European and Middle Eastern tours including the Vatican Christmas Midnight Mass in 1988 and 1998.