Press
Media Contacts
Jennifer Rice
Rice Public Relations LLC
Phone: 206.285.5175
Frank Stilwagner
Director of Marketing
319 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122-5504
Phone: 206.323.0750
Direct: 206.388.1408
Fax: 206.323.9425
Fact Sheet Overview
- Artistic Director: Dennis Coleman
- Interim Executive Director: Carol Mastenbrook
- President, Board of Directors: Bob Cook
- Membership: 660 ( SMC: 300+ singers, SWC: 200+ singers, 120 volunteers)
- Annual Budget: $3,200,000+ (48% earned, 52% contributed)
- Repertoire: classical, jazz, gospel, traditional, contemporary and popular
- Annual Concert Series: 5 concerts ( SMC: 3, SWC: 2 ) / 20+ total performances
- Annual Concert Attendance: 40,000 (94% capacity)
- Performance Venues: Admiral Theatre, Benaroya Hall, Civic Auditorium, McCaw Hall, McIntyre Hall, Meany Theater, Rialto Theatre
- Outreach Performances and Special Events: Approximately 20 per year
- Estimated Cumulative Live Audiences: 2.5 million
- Compact Discs Released: 15 commercial CDs released since 1991
- Corporate Sponsors: Alaska Airlines / Horizon Air, American Airlines, American Express, The Boeing Company, Carter Subaru, Flying Fish, Holland America Line, Subaru of America, Target and US Bancorp Foundation
- Founded: Seattle Men's Chorus: September 1979, Seattle Women's Chorus: 2002
- Member: Founding member of GALA Choruses; Member of Chorus America, GSBA, PONCHO
- Non-profit status: Section 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization
