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Artistic Director & Conductor
The son of a choral conductor, at the age of twelve Randy was given his first
opportunity to conduct the school orchestra at his six grade graduation
ceremony. Randy accepted his first paid conducting position in 1972 as a
church choir director in nearby Puyallup, Washington while still a student at
PLU. Since that time, Mr. Spitzer has remained an active church musician,
serving as soloist, liturgist and choir director for a number of congregations
in the Pacific Northwest.
From 1974 to 1983 Randy taught public school choral music in Federal Way, Colville and Spokane, Washington. While doing so, he served as President of Eastern Washington Music Educators Association and Vice President of Washington Music Educators Association. For more than thirty years, Mr. Spitzer has also been a featured baritone soloist with various choirs (including Cora Voce), orchestras, opera companies and musical theater groups. He served as the chairman of the board of directors of Cora Voce from 2003 until 2006. In the fall of 2006 he was named the artistic director. Randy Spitzer is President of Responsibility Cultures and Senior Fellow at LCI. He was a curriculum development consultant and trainer with Anheuser Busch Inc., wrote and helped implement leadership development programs for Pepsi-Cola and TCI (now Comcast) and earned the Certified Financial Planner designation while he was the chairman of Century Financial Services of Western Washington. Mr. Spitzer is a prolific author and lecturer. His most recent book is Take Responsibility – how the best organizations in the world survive in a down economy and thrive when times are good (Select Books, NY.) He is also a regular contributor to Leadership Excellence and Quality Participation magazines.
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