Press
Media Contacts
Jennifer Rice
Rice Public Relations LLC
Phone: 206.285.5175
Matthew Arnold
Marketing Manager
319 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122-5504
Phone: 206.323.0750 x212
Fax: 206.323.9425
Fact Sheet Overview
- Artistic Director: Dennis Coleman
- Executive Director: Frank Stilwagner
- Assistant Artistic Director: Eric Lane Barnes
- Assistant Conductor, Seattle Women’s Chorus: Rhonda Juliano
- Small Ensembles: Seattle Men’s Chorus: Captain Smartypants
Seattle Women’s Chorus: Sensible Shoes - Small Ensemble Directors:
Captain Smartypants: Eric Lane Barnes
Sensible Shoes: Dennis Coleman - Board of Directors: President, Constance Wilkinson
Consists of 18 members elected to 3 year terms by the membership of the Chorus. - Membership: 670+ ( SMC: 300+ singers, SWC: 300+ singers, 120 volunteers)
- Annual Budget: $2,700,000+ (48% earned, 52% contributed)
- Repertoire: classical, jazz, gospel, traditional, Broadway, contemporary and popular
- Annual Concert Series: 5 concerts ( SMC: 3, SWC: 2 ) / 20+ total performances
- Annual Concert Attendance: 30,000
- Seattle Performance Venues, 2011-12 Season: Benaroya Hall, McCaw Hall, Town Hall
- Regional Performance Venues: Bremerton’s Admiral Theatre, Everett’s Civic Auditorium, Mount Vernon’s McIntyre Hall, Tacoma’s Pantages Theatre, Olympia’s Washington Center for the Arts
- Outreach Performances and Special Events: Approximately 30 per year
- Estimated Cumulative Live Audiences: 2.7 million
- Compact Discs Released: 15 commercial CDs released since 1991
- Founded: Seattle Men’s Chorus: September 1979, Seattle Women’s Chorus: 2002
- Member: Founding member of GALA Choruses; Member of Chorus America, Member of GSBA, Member of Seattle’s Convention and Visitor’s Bureau
- Non-profit status: Section 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization
