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Media Contacts

Jennifer Rice
PR Manager
Rice Public Relations LLC
Phone: 206.285.5175
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Chelsea Sadler
Director of Marketing
319 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122-5504
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• Artistic Director: Paul Caldwell
• Executive Director: Steven F. Smith
• Board of Directors: President, Lora Davis
  Consists of 18 members elected to 3 year terms by the membership of the Chorus.
• Membership: 600+ ( SMC: approx 365 singers, SWC: approx 240 singers)
• Annual Budget: $3,100,000+ (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, Saint Mark's Cathedral
• 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 Performing Arts, Renton's IKEA Performing Arts Center
• Outreach Performances and Special Events: Approximately 30 per year
• Estimated Cumulative Live Audiences: 2.7 million
• 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 Greater Seattle Choral Consortium
• Non-profit status: Section 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization