Members
Chris Bernard | 2012
Chris left his home in Winchester, MA in 2008 and trekked across ELEVEN T stops just to make it to his on campus apartment at BU. His freshmen year in the Grettos was a confusing one for Chris and his fellow members because he was so often mistaken as a senior that he started to believe it himself. Especially when it was put in his Gretto Profile that he was in fact apart of the class of 2010. Things cleared up the year after all the 2010 members had graduated and Chris still found himself in College. When Chris is not trying his hardest to belt the low notes for the Grettos he can be found stomping on little kids sandcastles, competing with Andrew Lowe for the title of kindest person in the group, or hunting gingers. But mostly locked in Various Engineering Laboratories til odd hours of night (or to be more exact mornings). He one day aspires to be 300 pounds.
John Canver | 2015
Forged in the heart of Mount Doom, John spent the first 9 years of his life as a singing jester for regal infant circumcisions. However, he eventually grew tired of the political hierarchy (that is, singing for/about babies’ genitalia) and headed out on his own to journey across Africa’s tundra. Inspired by the Backstreet Boys’ Millenium album, he started a one-member boy band and performed in various war-torn villages. But again, he became weary, feeling unused and purposeless, so he ventured to Boston in search of something new. There, he found the Allegrettos and his mind has rested peacefully ever since.
Brian Hause | 2012
Brian is from the suburbs of northern New Jersey, which, surprisingly, are not as dirty as the rest of the country seems to think they are. Currently, he is a Philosophy and History major in the College of Arts and Sciences, and yes, he realizes that is perhaps the most useless combination of majors possible. He likes to sing baritone, but a little bass and tenor work keeps him on his toes. When not reading about several books at a time for school, he likes to sleep, listen to music and generally space way out. Organized to a fault, he plans everything within his schedule, including blocks of unplanned activity. Like George Washington, he’ll save children, but not the British children.
Julia Horne | 2012
At a enormous 4 foot 11 inches, Julia is the group’s shortest member. When she wears heels sometimes she comes close to being as tall as Dillon, but just almost. She is a Junior in the College of Communications and is so happy to be finished with Crayons, Glue, and Scissors (CGS). She is an alto in the group and loves everyone in the group to the moon and back!!
Tala Khalaf | 2015
Tala was born and raised in the O.C, California. No, she did not go to Orange County High School, because, NO, that doesn’t exist. Tala is a freshman studying voice in the College of F(ailed)ine A(spirations)rts, Class of 2015. She loves Harry Potter, singing, cheese, popcorn, and chocolate covered strawberries. She also wishes she were a disney character, preferably Hercules or Simba, maybe Ariel. When she’s not singing she’s eating and when she’s not eating she’s probably sleeping. She’s super stoked to be a part of the Grettos this year!
Dillon Le | 2012
Emerging from the womb as a skilled ninja, Dillon Le sought out to be the most awesomest friend to every last organism with legs on Earth. Trained in the arts of cuddling and spelunking, the young Asian has embarked on a voyage, yearning to metamorphose from an acorn to an oak. In the near future, Dillon and the Grettos will indubitably become a group as organized and awe-inspiring as the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers—except they would sing and stuff. And they would be the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, not the lame Time Force Power Rangers or Power Rangers in Space.
Andrew Lowe | 2012
You can usually see Andrew in the back row, unnecessarily distorting his face to hit low notes. He was voted cheapest man from Greenwich, Connecticut in high school; not much has changed since moving to Boston. People commonly describe him as “sarcastic,” or more likely “mean,” but those people are stupid. He honestly loves singing a cappella, and even though his song proposals are usually laughed out of the running he is hopeful that one day a song with a bass solo will make it through.
Ben Marcus | 2015
As the Allegrettos’ very own “Andy Bernard,” Ben Marcus’s penchant for Birkenstocks and Polo shirts is overshadowed not only by his pitiful neuroticism, but also his bizarre fixation with all things Tom Jones. Ask him about the first concert he ever attended; he’ll tell you it was a wonderfully cordial evening at Symphony Hall with his mother, watching Yo-yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. Ben loves it when he comes back to his dorm after a long day of classes to discover that no one is there, so he can take off his pants and sing “Lady in Red” by Chris de Burgh. With all this said, he’s actually a pretty down to earth guy…kind of. His mother still does his laundry.
Olivia Oberndorf | 2013
Olivia Oberndorf is a newbie member of the Grettos this year, and is so excited to finally sing syllables in front of an audience for once. She is a sophomore archaeology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and is oddly obsessed with Egyptology. Besides her fixation with mummies and pyramids, she also loves to chill in her hippie den of a room listening to classic records from the ’60s and sometimes secretly watching ghost hunters. When she isn?t singing and studying she works as a professional sleeper, but cannot seem to get paid for it. She loves being a part of the Gretto family and cannot wait for the next two and half years of a cappella lovin.
Victoria Peri | 2014
Victoria, while another representative from CT in the group, fails to succeed at any of the things people from her state are supposed to do. In fact, she is dismal at golf, tennis, sailing, and polo-wearing. She can, however, be spotted wearing pearl studs approximately 364 days of the year – whether or not they are appropriate for the occasion. A sophomore in CAS, Victoria has not yet decided on an academic pursuit, but knows her passions & strengths lie in caffeine-consumption, the color yellow, & anything that tastes like chocolate (there’s a major for that, right?). Though she may not know exactly where she’s headed, she couldn’t be happier to have stumbled upon the Grettos along the way!
Kirsten Taggart | 2012
When Kirsten was a child she was told many fictitious stories about the world. As her life progresses, she is slowly learning that these things are, in fact, not true. For example, hard alcohol really does have calories and that movie directors use child actors for flashbacks scenes – they don’t film it years in advance and then finish the other scenes when the actors grow up. Luckily, this flaw doesn’t affect her musical ability, which is why she is the group’s musical director. If she’s not in rehearsal, arranging songs, or eating pizza/pizza rolls/pizza bagels, she’s probably shooting or editing stories for her broadcast journalism classes. Also, if you say gullible really slowly it sounds exactly like oranges.
Eden White | 2013
Eden may or may not be the only white Indian that says ya’ll. Having grown up overseas as a ‘diplo-brat’ she has acquired what many have called, a “where the *&@^# are you from?” accent. She grew up singing and was forced to join an a cappella group when her suitemates couldn’t stand her high C’s any longer. She’s a magazine journalism major in COM and will graduate in 2013.
