About Us
The Jubil-Aires rehearse Wednesdays 7-9 pm at King of Kings Lutheran Church, Fairfax, VA. Guests are welcome.
The Fairfax Jubil-Aires are proud to have Richard R. Lewellen as their Director of Music and Performance. Richard is well known in the Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS) as an accomplished a cappella vocalist (see below), chorus director (see below), barbershop harmony coach and former Singing Category judge. He started his career in barbershop as a teenager and has over 45 years of experience, and he has served as a faculty member for the Society’s annual Harmony College/Director’s College, the premier educational event for the BHS. He has also produced professional recordings, contributing as a vocalist and managing a significant portion of the post-production process. Richard has a master’s degree in Music Therapy from Shenandoah University’s Conservatory in Winchester, VA.
Richard began singing barbershop harmony in his first year of high school at Beverly Hills HS in 1978. “During my first year of High School, I met a guy who became my best friend,” he recalls. “He had just started barbershopping and his Dad had started a few months earlier. I’ve enjoyed being a part of the Barbershop Harmony Society ever since.”
