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.

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

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

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

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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