About Us

Dan, a bass, loves playing in the snow at Brown since it never snows at his home in Tennessee. His parents named him after their high school math teacher, Daniel Burden, who then became Dan's high school math teacher. He is training to become the world's first mathemagician, a person who knows so much math that he can perform magical feats just by thinking. As a mathemagician-in-training, he believes that elevation of the soul is achieved through the study of math, video games, and music (particularly a cappella and video game music). He has memorized two hours' worth of Nintendo sheet music for the piano.

Emily, aka EMBO is thrilled to be jazzy/sexy/classy with The Higher Keys. As an avid musical theater performer, she has sky-high ambitions of waiting on the finest tables in NYC, living in a shoebox, playing gigs for minimal amounts of moolah. She has performed in various musicals here at Brown and throughout her childhood, where she learned the invaluable skills of singing, snapping, and jazz hands. Basically she loves to teach the Keys how to move it move it. Give us some moreo of that Choreo!!

Nick is a bass from Syosset, New York. He is so totally thrilled to be singing with the Keys that he occasionally explodes, after which his friends piece him back together using sticky tack and rubber bands. Nick also enjoys lots of sports, video games, and playing his tuba in the Brown Band. He's like, really really sexy.

Alex Bachorik is a soprano from Bethesda, Maryland who can confirm that Chevy Chase is, in fact, a real place. She plans to major in nothing of any practical use, except maybe saving the world, because she's pretty sure that Brown has a department for that. She enjoys all things French, red peacoats, and the Washington Metro system. Joining the group midyear and measuring up to an impressive five foot nothing, Alex is the definition of Baby Key.

Emma is a soprano from Urbana, Illinois, now living in Phoenix, Arizona. She is obsessed with all things green, old buildings, cherries, penguins, and the Higher Keys! The bane of her existence is squishy cheese. She wishes that her life was an ongoing Disney musical.

Josh hails from the peaceful city of Basking Ridge, NJ. An avid fan of music, playing sports, going to sleep late (and nonparallel sentence structure), he always gives 110% in whatever he does, particularly when he's doing nothing at all. He sports naturally puffy (or spiky) hair that has fascinated countless people, and perhaps it will you too. You may find it easier to call him by such nicknames as joshchu (one word), chu-chu, and joshu----a-chu! (bless you!)

Dominic Jebediah Wu, better known as DJ Wu or The Masked Marauder, is a bari/T2 hailing from the Great Frozen North (Canada) by way of Hong Kong. Having a voracious thirst, no bottle of half and half is safe from him. He also is a veritable wizard behind both the keyboard and the skillet, cooking up amazing graphic design and equally stunning salmon fillets. Part of the Higher Keys' Team Disney, Dom has begun a campaign to have no less than one song from every Disney musical in the Keys repertoire. Dom is also a PLME which means he will be at Brown FOREVER but we’re jealous ‘cause that means more time spent with Emma.