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

  • Attended Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah); sang in the BYU Oratorio Choir
  • 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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