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Artistic Staff

Dennis Coleman
Artistic Director
Rhonda Juliano
Conductor, Sensible Shoes
Assistant Conductor, Seattle Women's Chorus
Nancy Otness Bent
Principal Accompanist
Lori Surrency
Accompanist, Sensible Shoes
Debra Westwood
ASL Interpreter

photo: Nancy Otness Bent by Jay Koh © 2008
Nancy Otness Bent

Principal Accompanist
Member since 2002

Nancy Otness Bent has played solo and chamber recitals in the Midwest and New England, including performances at Dartmouth College in both the Vaughan Recital Series and the faculty Chamber Works Series. She has appeared as concerto soloist with the Fond du Lac Summer Festival Orchestra, played piano, celesta and cannon with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and toured and recorded with Robert DeCormier and Melinda O'Neal. In Washington, Nancy has been the accompanist for the Seattle Girl's Choir, the Issaquah Chorale and assistant accompanist for Seattle Men's Chorus. She is immediate past president of the Eastside chapter of the Washington State Music Teachers Association, an adjudicator for the Federation and National Guild piano festivals and maintains a private studio in Bellevue. She is delighted to be the founding accompanist of Seattle Women's Chorus.