The 70-member Symphony Tacoma Voices has a long and proud history as part of the Symphony Tacoma organization. The choir consists of professional singers, music educators, as well as amateur singers from all walks of life across the South Puget Sound region. The “Voices” meet once per week throughout the season, preparing collaborations with Symphony Tacoma, including their annual Messiah performance and spring choral concert.
In 2019, members of the Voices traveled to Carnegie Hall to sing with Dr. Geoffrey Boers in a performance of Lauridsen’s “Lux Aeterna” and to Europe to participate in Laulupidu, the Estonian National Song Celebration. There they joined a choir of 30,000 singers and sang for an audience of over 100,000. In addition to this once-in-a-lifetime musical opportunity, the Voices performed numerous concerts across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Dr. Geoffrey Boers has been conductor of the Symphony Tacoma Voices since 2002. He is also the Ruth Sutton Waters Endowed Professor of Music at the University of Washington in Seattle. There he leads the choral studies program which consists of three faculty, a cohort of fourteen in-residence graduate conductors and seven choirs. He conducts the UW Chamber Singers who have collaborated with local and nationally renown artists to present concerts of distinction.
Dr. Boers travels extensively for conducting and teaching engagements. He has written a ground-breaking literacy rubric which is being adopted by ACDA and NAfME, the national choral and music education organizations in the United States, as well as in Canada, where it will be appearing in a newly written French edition.
Amy Boers is well known fo her work as a pianist, accompanist, singer and conductor, giving her keen insights as a collaborative artist. She was named Principal Pianist for Symphony Tacoma in 2018 and has been a collaborative artist with the Symphony Tacoma Voices for many years. She also works with Pacific Lutheran University where she coaches and performs with both vocalists and instrumentalists.
SopranoSibyl Adams |
AltoKatie Adams |
TenorAndy Clare |
BassBen Birmingham |