List of Barbershop Harmony Society quartet champions
This article lists the Barbershop Harmony Society's international quartet champions by the year in which they won. Quartets can win only once, though up to two members may appear together in another quartet and compete again. In this manner individual singers may win multiple gold medals. Twenty men have won two or more gold medals. Five men have won three or more. One man, Joe Connelly, has won four, and another, Tony DeRosa, has won five.
Connelly sang with champion quartets Interstate Rivals (1987), Keepsake (1992), PLATINUM (2000), and Old School (2011); and DeRosa with Keepsake (1992), PLATINUM (2000), Max Q (2007), Main Street (2017), and Three And A Half Men (2024). Connelly was the first to achieve both the 3- and 4-time International Quartet Champion milestone, and DeRosa followed by doing so in multiple voice parts. Gary Lewis has won three times on three different parts with PLATINUM (2000, tenor), Max Q (2007, baritone), and Quorum (2022, bass).
Though the competition is international, only two quartets from outside North America have so far won the gold medal: Ringmasters from Sweden in 2012 and Musical Island Boys from New Zealand in 2014. The Town and Country Four were the first quartet to win internationally as the contest was held in Canada for the first time in 1963. Disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in cancellation of the 2020 and 2021 international contests, the only years in the society's 86-year history without one.
- 2024 – Three and a Half Men
- 2023 – Midtown
- 2022 – Quorum
- 2021 – No champion due to the COVID-19 pandemic
- 2020 – No champion due to the COVID-19 pandemic
- 2019 – Signature
- 2018 – After Hours
- 2017 – Main Street
- 2016 – Forefront
- 2015 – Instant Classic
- 2014 – Musical Island Boys
- 2013 – Masterpiece
- 2012 – Ringmasters
- 2011 – Old School
- 2010 – Storm Front
- 2009 – Crossroads
- 2008 – OC Times
- 2007 – Max Q
- 2006 – Vocal Spectrum
- 2005 – Realtime
- 2004 – Gotcha!
- 2003 – Power Play
- 2002 – Four Voices
- 2001 – Michigan Jake
- 2000 – PLATINUM
- 1999 – FRED
- 1998 – Revival
- 1997 – Yesteryear
- 1996 – Nightlife
- 1995 – Marquis
- 1994 – Joker's Wild
- 1993 – Gas House Gang
- 1992 – Keepsake
- 1991 – The Ritz
- 1990 – Acoustix
- 1989 – Second Edition
- 1988 – Chiefs of Staff
- 1987 – Interstate Rivals
- 1986 – Rural Route 4
- 1985 – The New Tradition
- 1984 – The Rapscallions
- 1983 – Side Street Ramblers
- 1982 – Classic Collection
- 1981 – Chicago News
- 1980 – Boston Common
- 1979 – Grandma's Boys
- 1978 – Bluegrass Student Union
- 1977 – Most Happy Fellows
- 1976 – Innsiders
- 1975 – Happiness Emporium
- 1974 – Regents
- 1973 – Dealer's Choice
- 1972 – Golden Staters
- 1971 – Gentlemen's Agreement
- 1970 – Oriole Four
- 1969 – Mark IV
- 1968 – Western Continentals
- 1967 – Four Statesmen
- 1966 – Auto Towners
- 1965 – Four Renegades
- 1964 – Sidewinders
- 1963 – Town and Country Four
- 1962 – Gala Lads
- 1961 – The Suntones
- 1960 – Evans Quartet
- 1959 – Four Pitchikers
- 1958 – Gay Notes
- 1957 – Lads of Enchantment
- 1956 – Confederates
- 1955 – Four Hearsemen
- 1954 – Orphans
- 1953 – The Vikings
- 1952 – Four Teens
- 1951 – Schmitt Brothers
- 1950 – Buffalo Bills
- 1949 – Mid States Four
- 1948 – Pittsburghers
- 1947 – Doctors of Harmony
- 1946 – Garden State Quartet
- 1945 – Misfits
- 1944 – Harmony Halls
- 1943 – Four Harmonizers
- 1942 – Elastic Four
- 1941 – Chord Busters
- 1940 – Flat Foot Four
- 1939 – Bartlesville Barflies
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]- Official list from the Barbershop Harmony Society
- Official list of Sweet Adelines International quartet champions