Press
Media Contacts
Jennifer Rice
Rice Public Relations LLC
Phone: 206.285.5175
Frank Stilwagner
Director of Marketing
319 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122-5504
Phone: 206.323.0750
Direct: 206.388.1408
Fax: 206.323.9425
Fact Sheet Overview
- Artistic Director: Dennis Coleman
- Executive Director: Stuart Rosenthal
- 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: Lori Surrency & Eric Lane Barnes - Board of Directors: President, Jim Bachand / Consists of 18 members elected to 3 year terms by the membership of the Chorus.
- Membership: 670+ ( SMC: 300+ singers, SWC: 250+ 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: Benaroya Hall, McCaw Hall, Paramount Theatre, Meany Theater
- 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
- Corporate Sponsors: (2009-2010 Performance Season) Alaska Airlines / Horizon Air, The Boeing Company, Carter Subaru, Holland America Line, Subaru of America, US Bancorp Foundation
- 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
