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Cora Voce Members
Judy Beatty
- PLU '72 BA Music Education; University Chorale, Choir of the West,
- Federal Way Chorale; Taught choral music and band as well as piano,
organ, voice; sang and directed church choirs and ensembles
Sue Brabham
- Northwest Christian College '74 (Eugene OR) BA Christian Education; NCU
Choir and Ambassador Choir; Arkansas State University '80 (Jonesboro, AR) BB
Accounting
- Tacoma Master Chorale, musical theater productions and musical revues as
a featured soloist, First Christian Church (Tacoma WA) choir, Queen Anne
Christian Church (Seattle), First Christian Church (Weiner AR)
Dick
Box
- Attended Washington State University'74; Concert Choir,
Symphony, Band
- Composer; Olympia Choral Society, Opera Pacifica, Saint John's
Compline Choir, Masterworks
LeeAnne Campos
- PLU '81 BM Vocal Performance; Choir of the West, regional
finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions and the San Francisco
Merola Opera Program Auditions
- Voice Instructor at PLU; cantor and music director at St.
Gabriel Catholic Church (Port Orchard, WA), founder
Lyrica (Ladies Choral Ensemble of Puget Sound), director
Bremerton Symphony Chorale; numerous professional operatic roles; guest soloist
with numerous orchestras and choirs
Karen Christensen
- Concordia College (Moorhead MN) ' 80 BA Music; Concordia Choir,
musical theater
- Master Chorale, Community theater (Lakewood Playhouse, Tacoma
Musical Playhouse, Gig Harbor, Ft Lewis)
Lindsay
Delmarter
- Whitworth College '05, BA in Vocal Performance; Whitworth
Choir, Opera Workshop, musical theater, co-lead the weekly worship service
- Seattle Performing Arts Fellowship; ManeStage Theatre; guest
soloist; church choir director
Kent
Edmonds
- Western Washington State College '67 BA English
- Bremerton Symphony Chorus, Tacoma Symphony Chorus, Summit Avenue
Presbyterian Church Choir; other community choirs and church choirs, founding member and soloist with New Whatcom Choral Society,
soloist with Olympic College 40th anniversary celebration
Claudia
Manning-Floyd
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Attended Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah); sang in the BYU Oratorio
Choir
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Won a nationally-sponsored country music competition and recorded a country
music album; numerous lead roles in community theater musicals; wrote and
helped produce radio jingles; conducted a city-wide Christmas choir (Chino
Valley, AZ); currently arranging and conducting sacred music and conducting
church choirs
Dale
Forrey
- PLU '77
BA Music Education, University Chorale, Choir of the West, Musical theater,
Children's theater, Opera workshop; Lewis and Clark College '78 MM Ed.
- Founder and director of the Tapestry Women's Choir, Co-Founder
Occasional Theater Group, Washington/Idaho Symphony Chorale, Oregon Repertory
Singers, Mid-Columbia Chorale, community theater and church choirs
Lynn
Forrey
- PLU '77 BM Organ Performance, University Chorale
- Church Musician, Handbell director, taught piano & organ,
accompanist, Tapestry Women's Choir, Washington/Idaho Symphony Chorale,
Occasional Theater Group & other community theater, Oregon Suzuki Institute
David
Foss
- PLU '84 BA Computing Science
- Messiah Lutheran Church Choir, Boeing Employees Choir
1999-2008, Choir Tours to New Zealand and Australia, Germany, Poland, Czech
Republic, Austria
Ivan Gorne
- PLU BA Music Education '70; Choir of the West, musical
theater, Ambassador Quartet, president of the choir and student manager of '70
European tour
- Southern Oregon University Repertory Singers; Seattle Bach
Choir
Marsha Gorne
- PLU '71, BA Education; Choir of the West, Madrigals, Mixed
Quartet, Opera Workshop, musicals
- Paid soloist at Little Church on the Prairie, Lakewood, WA;
various choral groups in Everett, WA, Seattle Bach Choir
Lisa Heltzel
- Marshfield High School (Coos Bay, OR) '90; Honor Choir and
Serenettes (women's select choir), studied voice with David Aakre and Paul
Skones
- play clarinet
Bev Hoback
- PLU '75 BA Education; PLU; University Chorale, Choir of the
West; Cornish College of the Arts '82 BM Composition, Cornish
Chamber Choir
- Folk Trio, "The Arrangement", semi-professional and
professional musical theater productions in the Puget Sound and in Coeur
d'Alene, ID, Kindred Gathering
(annual West Coast folk music festival), church choir; currently elementary
music teacher
Cathy Hornbaker
- PLU '73, BA
Education; Choir of the West, Orchestra,
Concert Band, Stage Band, Contemporary Ensemble
- High school choir director; church
choir director
Jim Howland
- PLU '77 BA Philosophy/Religion; Choir of the West, University
Chorale, Opera Workshop, Joyful Noise, Spiritborne, Opera Workshop, Concert
Band, Stage Band
- Composer; Glorianna, New
Sound Singers, Italy
Choir Tour, Tacoma
Symphony Chorus, Bremerton Symphony Chorale, Bremerton Symphony Opera, Kitsap
Opera, Cabernet R&B Horn Band, BlueStreet Voices Vocal Jazz Choir
(Seattle/Bellevue), church musician, worship team leader
Pat Howland
- PLU '79 with a BA Music Education, University Chorale, Choir
of the West - alto section leader, Opera Workshop
- Operations Manager,
Branch Manager, and Regional Vice President at J.W. Pepper of Tacoma; New Sound Singers, church choir
director, pianist and vocalist at South Tacoma Baptist Church, Italy Choir Tour,
Tacoma Symphony Chorale, Lyrica Ladies' Ensemble, pianist and vocalist at
Crossroads Neighborhood Church, Bremerton, WA
Diane Kinnunen
- PLU '75 BA Education, Choir of the West, Swing Choir, Joyful
Noise; PLU '82, BS Nursing
- Taught elementary school and music; civic groups, director
church choir, piano teacher
Bernie Kuehn
- PLU '70 BA Music Education; PLU '75 MM Conducting; Choir of
the West, conductor of Rainier House Male Chorus and Hong Women's Choir; church
choir director. PLU student congregation, Parkland Methodist, First Covenant,
and Christ Episcopal
- Retired high school choir director (Hillsboro OR); Director of
Ensembles at Pacific University (Forest Grove, OR); founding conductor of the
Oregon Chorale
Vickie Lackman
- PLU '79 BM Vocal Performance; Choir of the West, Opera
Workshop, Piano; Montana State University
BA Music Education; California State
University MA Organizational Development
- Former professional singer, K-12Music Education; currently
voice and piano teacher; Celtic harp player and singer
Kristine
Lange
- PLU '91 BA
Education; University Chorale, Choir of the West; Univ. of Portland '96 M Ed
- "Glory to the
Father", church choir and band
Duane Larson
- PLU '75 BA
Philosophy; Choir of the West, University Chorale, musical theater, opera
workshop, various "ad hoc" gigs
- San Diego County
Master Chorale, Gettysburg Bach Society, lots of ensemble play in folk and rock
bands
Aaron Mast
- PLU '04 BS
Computer Science, University Chorale, Choir of the West
Karen Moats
- Tacoma Community College '77 AA, TCC Chorus
and the Show Choir, attended Washington State University
- Handbell ringer and certified handbell director, church choir
director and singer
Steve Moon
- Augustana College (Rock Island IL) '87 BS Biology and
Environmental Studies, Choir,
Band, Jazz Band
- City Cantabile Choir (Seattle), Tacoma Master Chorale, Tacoma
Symphony Chorus, Bremerton Symphony Chorale
Elizabeth Zaloudek-Moore
- PLU '81 BA Music Education; continuing education at PLU and
UPS '83-'89
- Director of church choirs; Assistant Conductor Tacoma Master
Chorale, Glorianna Chamber Singers; Soloist
Jan Morgan
- PLU '73 BBA,
University Chorale, Choir of the West
- New Sound Singers
(Tacoma), Oregon Repertory Singers (Portland), church choirs at Lutheran
churches in Tacoma, Portland, OR, Gresham, OR, Kennewick and Kent, WA;
contemporary worship leader at Kent Lutheran Church; currently Chancel Choir at
First Presbyterian Church and select Vocal Ensemble (Bellevue)
Daisy Nau
- Whitworth College
'05, BA Vocal Performance; Whitworth Choir, Chamber Singers, Opera Workshop,
paid performance internship with Spokane Metropolitan Opera '03-'05
- Musical theatre:
Seattle Performing Arts Fellowship, ManeStage Theatre; guest soloist; teach
private voice and beginning piano
Lesley Niemi
- PLU '92 BM, University Chorale, Choir of the West, Vocal Jazz, 'SEEK' - vocalist
for Christian rock band on campus, Lesley College '00 M Ed
- Teach elementary music; direct church choirs; perform in community theatre
Caitlin
O'Brien
- Otterbein College '06 (Westerville, OH) BM in Vocal Performance, Concert Choir,
Opus One Vocal Jazz Ensemble, numerous roles in Opera Theatre
- Church choir and youth theatre director; currently Northwest Repertory Singers
and studying voice with Charles Robert Stephens
Katy
Olsen
- Willamette University '95 BA Chemistry, Women's Choir, Chamber Choir
- Festival Chorale Oregon (Salem, OR)
Paul Olsen
- PLU '67,
BA Math; PLU '74 MM; Choir of the West, Madrigals, musicals, Ambassador Quartet
- Fort Lewis
Soldier's Chorus; singing waiter at Steve's Gay 90's Restaurant in Tacoma;
Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, civic choirs; church choir director in Wyoming,
Florida, Oregon, Washington; currently choir director at Luther Memorial
Lutheran Church (Seattle, WA)
Danete
Oneal
- WWU '86
BM Piano Performance/Accompanying; attended PLU Summer Music Camp '78-'80
- Pianist/Organist/Bell Choir Director- First Presbyterian Church,
Bellingham, WA; freelance accompanist; currently Pianist/Organist, Normandy Park
United Congregational Church, Staff Accompanist Boeing Employees Choir including
3 concert tours to Europe, Australia and New Zealand
Tom
Oswald
- PLU '94
BBA, Choir of the West
- Tacoma
Opera Chorus, Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society, Dickens Carolers, South Sound
Classical Choir, Sonoro, Tacoma Symphony Chorus, Bremerton Symphony Chorale
Frank Payn
- PLU '75,
BA Music Education; Choir of the West, theater, musicals, operetta, barber shop
quartets, folk groups, and the infamous "Peter Pimple and the Zits"
- Retired
music educator: HS Choir, elementary & Jr. High; clinician and adjudicator;
Montana ACDA Repertoire and Standards chair for Vocal Jazz, director of
community choirs, church choirs and community & school musicals, co-founder and
director of Choral Fusion (Havre, MT)
Ruth Peterson
- Attended PLU '70-'72, piano,
Orchestra, University Chorale (currently finishing bachelor's degree)
- Bassoonist in
community band, Waldorf teacher, led 6-8 grade choir, directed a musical;
Trinity Lutheran Church Choir
Frances
Rankos
- Attended
PLU '68-'69, Choir of the West, Camerata Madrigal Singers
- UPS Civic
Chorus; PLU Choral Union; PLU Opera Workshop; Tacoma Opera Chorus, Celebration
in Song, Tacoma Symphony Chorus; various musicals and Gilbert & Sullivan
productions at Tacoma Little Theater, Chinook Theater, Freighthouse Theater,
Capitol Playhouse, Olympia Chorale, Abby Players and Lakewood Playhouse
Bev
Richardson
- PLU '72
BA Education; PLU '79 MM Composition; University Chorale, Choir of the West
- PLU
Choral Union; writer of elementary musicals and arranger for the Orff
Instrumentarium; direct Elementary Honor Choir, drum groups, and marimba band;
teach private piano lessons; currently music specialist at Brookdale Elementary
(Parkland, WA)
David Schinkel
- California State University, Sacramento, '85 BA Fine Arts, CSU Orchestra
- Guest
flutist with the Band of the West, Travis AFB, Gig Harbor Symphony
Jim Scott
- Central Washington University '66 BA Music, P.E. and
Elementary Education: Central Singers; Central University '73 MA Music
Performance
- Retired elementary school Vice-Principal; Bremerton Chorale;
Guest Conductor of Bellevue Music Festivals and community choirs; instructor of
overseas music programs at the University of Hawaii, Kwajalien, Marshall Islands
Walayn Sharples
- PLU '74 BA, Choir of the West, Jazz Choir
- Elementary and special education teacher, Seattle area stage
and musical theater actress and voiceover artist, theater teaching artist for
Driftwood, Village Theater, Centerstage, Second Story Repertory, Kirkland Choral
Society, Seattle Peace Chorus, Puget Sound Revels, church choirs
Paul Skones
- PLU '74 BA Education; Choir of the West
- Choral music teacher in Oregon, church choir director, community choirs
Steve
Smith
- PLU '81 BA Psychology; University Chorale; PLU '86 MA
Education/Counseling
- Church choirs
Kyle Spitzer
- PLU '10 BA Finance and Economics; University Men's Chorus
- WA All-State Choir, All-NW Choir, Willamette University Choir
Carnegie Hall
Laurie Spitzer
- PLU '72 BA Education, Choir of the West, University Orchestra;
Lesley College '87 MA Creative Arts; Orff Schulwerk Levels I-III '90 UC
(SantaCruz); SPU adjunct professor
- Retired choral music educator, church choirs, folk duo,
children's choirs
Randy Spitzer
- PLU '74 BA Music Education, Choir of the West, Ambassador
Quartet, Musical theater, Children's
theater, Opera workshop
- Currently artistic director of Cora Voce; past director high
schools and junior high schools and church choirs; adjudicator and clinician;
guest soloist with various choirs and orchestras; roles in opera and musical theater, folk duo; past
president EWMEA, past vice president WMEA
Jillian Duvall Guthrie-Stoneburner
- Attended Mt. Hood Community College (Gresham, OR) currently
attending Everest College (Bremerton) Choir of the West, Ambassador Quartet, Musical theater,
Children's theater, Opera workshop
- Toured Europe with the Oregon Ambassadors of Music as a
Flautist, Bremerton Symphony Concert Chorale, ward and stake choirs
Dena Tippets
- Attended the University of Montana '69-'70 (Missoula, MT); attended
'70-'71University of Saskatchewan (Regina, Saskatchewan, CA)
- Great Falls Symphonic Choir, church and community choirs, Choral Fusion (Havre,
MT), member of "Timely Trio" performing for conventions and other events.
Karen Van Lier
- Augustana College (Sioux Falls, SD) '63 BA Religion, English
and Theater; Chapel Choir, Women's Choir, accompanist for student voice lessons;
musical theater
- Church choirs in Sioux Falls, SD; Panama Canal Zone; San
Diego, CA; London, England and Stanwood, WA; community choirs in Marysville and
Everett; Methodist handbell choir in Stanwood; currently singing in Mirinesse
Women's Choir (Seattle), Seattle Bach Choir
Heidi
Walworth-Horn
- Pedro Nolasco Colon School of Music, Caracas, Venezuela,
'89-'90; University of Puget Sound '94 BA Spanish/Music, Adelphian Concert
Choir, Madrigal Singers; '95 MA Education University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA,
Private vocal student of Dr. Thomas Goleeke
- PLU Choral Union '96-'07, Harp Congress Choir '06
Christine
Watson
- Willamette University '02 BA Religious Studies: University Women's Choir,
attended Augsburg College, Riverside Singers; The Art Institute of Seattle '08
BFA Graphic Design
- Festival
Chorale Oregon (Salem, Oregon)
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