The 60-member Tacoma Symphony Chorus is comprised of talented volunteer singers from throughout the community who are chosen by audition. Founded in 1998, the TSO Chorus performs in concert with the TSO and as a solo ensemble annually. Chorus Director Geoffrey Paul Boers is Director of Choral Activities at the University of Washington and teaches choral conducting and pedagogy. The Chorus appears with the TSO during its annual Sounds of the Season and Handel's Messiah performances and presents solo and a capella concerts throughout the region.
During the past decade
Geoffrey Paul Boers has emerged as one of this region’s leading choral
conductors and teachers. His choirs have performed at national and regional
conventions of choral conductors and music educators, earning high praise for
their expressiveness and technical mastery. Boers is in constant demand as a
conductor, clinician, and workshop leader, both nationally and internationally.
Boers is Director of Choral
Activities at the University of Washington in Seattle,
where he conducts the UW Chamber Singers, a choir of graduate and advanced
singers. He also teaches graduate choral conducting and choral pedagogy, and
serves as faculty advisor to over twenty active graduate students. He is the
recipient of the University of Washington’s prestigious Royalty Research Foundation
Grant, which allowed him to travel to the Baltic region this past summer to
begin the development of a UW Baltic Choral Music Library, the first of its
kind in the United States.
In addition to his position
at the UW, Boers is the chorus director of the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra and sings
professionally as a tenor and as a countertenor, as a featured soloist with
many groups around the United
States.
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SOPRANO
Renee Bagley
Alek Boers
Amy Boers
Laurie Burns
Samantha Casne
Deirdre Grandy
Dinah Helgeson
Karen Irwin
Stephanie Johnson
Christa Jones
Linda Kammerer
Jennifer Kinney
Denise Lees
Melissa McMillan
Mary Ovrebo
Karen Patjens
Julie Richard
Jessica Ronk
Jeanine Stephan
Jill Westwood
Julie Whalen
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TENOR
Aaron Andersen
Andy Clare
Ryan Doherty
Ale Doiron
Tupu Doiron
Peter Fruge
Deryl Harter
Clifford Hewitt
Ben Keller
Kyle Laird
Daniel Lea
Richard Luther
Steve Moon
Craig Neumiller
David Olson
Tom Oswald
Chris Trujillo
Paul Walk
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ALTO
Sibyl Adams
Rebecca Anderson
LeeAnne Campos
Anne Chappell
Wendy Cushner
Katie Elshire
Claudia Finseth
Jennifer Guadnola
Chelsea
Hills
Alison Hirst
Rachel Johnson
Coni Liljengren
Amanda Mackey
Michele Maurer
Treva Reichert
Aimee Schiesz
Diane Schiesz
Kerstin Shaffer
Jane Stillman
Sharon Stritzel
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BASS - BARITONE
Scott Donaldson
Kent Edmonds
Scott Fikse
Andy Fraser
Matt Griffis
Jared Grimes
Frank Hiden
Kevin Hovey
Jim Howland
Josh Johnson
Eric Kuester
Erich Killingsworth
Dale Kraus
Evin Lambert
Don Meberg
Kent Moffitt
Richard Nace
Brent Olsen
Thomas Reeder
Kenneth Schwartz
Paul Snider
Skip Stephan
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