Seattle Choral Company Board of Directors

Jason Brittsan - President

Jason Brittsan has been involved with the Seattle music community since moving to Seattle in 1999. An avid singer, he has worked professionally as a liturgical soloist and choir section leader. He has been a singing member of the Seattle Choral Company since 1999 and served as their webmaster and technology consultant since 2003.

Jason earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and Music from Millikin University and a Master of Science degree in Information Technology (Systems Design & Programming) from Capella University.

In addition to his musical interests, Jason enjoys helping people and organizations make the most of technology. He makes his living as a Program Manager at Microsoft.

Carrie McManis - Treasurer

New to the Seattle Choral Company in 2009, Carrie McManis has been involved in the performing arts since a very young age. She has studied voice and guitar, performing both as a soloist and with a variety of groups from classical to folk rock. Carrie is a longtime resident of the Seattle area, growing up in Olympia, Washington.

Currently, Carrie is the VP of Tax for Eddie Bauer and before that worked for Russell Investments. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology at University of Louisville, Law degree from University of San Francisco, and Masters of Law in Taxation from University of Washington.

Over the years, Carrie has helped a variety of non-profit organizations with their financial, tax and legal needs. She enjoys helping non-profits create, track and achieve their financial and charitable goals. She strongly believes in the importance of developing and sustaining the arts and environment in our local community.

Ron Anderson - Secretary

Ron has been singing in choirs since he was 5 years old. Wherever he has lived he has sought out a choir in which to sing. Notably, Ron was a member of the 7th Army Soldier’s Chorus in Heidelberg, Germany singing in over 200 concerts in 1½ years. He also sang in The Minnesota Chorale, which sang symphonic choral works with the Minnesota and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestras. And he was a singing and board member of the Twin Cities Men’s Chorus when they hosted GALA Choruses for a week-long series of concerts at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis in the 1980s.

In Minnesota, Ron worked at the former West Publishing division of Thomson Reuters where his J.D degree and a love of photography, video production and technical toys were synthesized. As an eLearning developer Ron found himself producing video documentaries on legal research and dipping his mind into such strange things as Flash animation and SQL.

Ron retired in 2008 and moved to Seattle where he found his new musical family in the Seattle Choral Company. Ron is most thankful that he lives in an area where Lutefisk is abundant.

Matthew Pawlikowski - Company Manager

Matthew has been singing with Seattle Choral Company since fall 2001. Matthew has been the Baritone Section Leader for three years and he took on the Company Manager role starting in the 2010-11 season. He has also been involved with SCC’s Concert Production team, helping with transportation and logistics. Before moving out to Seattle, he sang 5 years with Buffalo Choral Arts Society.

Matthew graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Chemistry from Daemen College (Amherst, NY) and earned a Master of Arts in Biology from Buffalo State College (Buffalo, NY). Since moving out to Seattle, Matthew has been employed at Seattle Cancer Cancer Alliance as a Clinical Laboratory Technologist in the Pharmacokinetics Laboratory.

Timothy Chapin

The Seattle Choral Company has been part of Tim’s life since 1998. During that time he has been a season ticket holder, staff member, Auction Chair, Baritone, and two-term Board Member.

In his professional life Tim is Director of 501(c)3 Events, a national charity auction consulting company focused on providing charity event stress relief. He currently assists in producing and organizing over 30 auctions per year across the country ranging from public school auctions raising between $15,000 and $20,000 to guild and museum auctions that raise over $5 million. He is familiar with several of the auction software products on the market today, and his auction master classes are routinely attended by staff and volunteers of many organizations wanting to understand the charity auction process.

Tim is very excited to be re-joining the Board after taking the last year off. During this tenure on the Board he will endeavor to help the auction and other development events and projects to run even more successfully with a large base of volunteer and membership assistance.

Kathleen Demaree

Kathy Demaree has been a singer with the Seattle Choral Company since the fall of 2000. She served as Membership President from 2003-2006, and was also a member of the Board at that time.

A Program Manager with a strong background in training, support, and customer advocacy, she drove the effort to move many of the SCC’s communications to electronic formats to help save the organization money and time. She moved to the Seattle area in 1997 from New Jersey to work for Microsoft, and has worked with or for Microsoft for 11 out of the last 13 years.

Kathy’s husband, Phil, is a jazz bassist who has worked with the SCC often, and has written the show for the auction for the last 6 years.

Peter Hendry

Peter Hendry is currently President of the Seattle Choral Company Board of Directors. His other volunteer efforts have included:

• Special Olympics Coach/Volunteer
• Leader and leadership Trainer for the Boy Scouts of America
• Volunteer Firefighter for the City of Mountlake Terrace
• Treasurer and Vice-President for the Mountlake Terrace Firefighters Association
• Red Cross CPR instructor
• United Way Day of Caring Leader
• Health Room Volunteer for the Lake Washington School District

Peter Hendry is a long time resident of the Seattle area, growing up in south Snohomish County. After High School he joined the military and spent 4 years in the Air Force and 17 years as a reservist in the Washington Air National Guard. He earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Washington.

Joyce Carolyn Kling

Joyce has been a singing member of the Seattle Choral Company since 1989. She has been an active volunteer with SCC for most of that time, including previous service as a member of the board for six years and four years as board president. She is also a past president of the board of Child Care Resources.

Joyce is an alumna of Mount Holyoke College, has a J.D from Georgetown University and a Master of Laws from George Washington University. Most of her professional career has been in government administration. She has held positions with a number of City of Seattle agencies, including City Council staff, and is now employed by the Seattle Department of Transportation. She has also taught a number of courses in land use and zoning regulations.

Cheryl Lotz

Cheryl Lotz is a Seattle native and has sung with the Seattle Choral Company since 1983. She is recently retired from her position of Managing Director for First Service PGP Valuation, a national commercial appraisal firm. She is a graduate of the University of Washington majoring in English Literature.

Pamella Miller

Lisa Reitzes

Lisa Reitzes has been a singing member of the Seattle Choral Company since the Fall of 2001 – in fact, joining the SCC was one of the first things on the list when she and her partner Jill moved here from San Antonio. Since 2008, she has served as Alto I section leader, and she joined the Board of Directors in January 2009. Previously, she sang with the Hampshire Choral Society in Northampton, MA, and the San Antonio Choral Society.

Educated at the University of California - Berkeley, University of Oregon, and the University of Delaware, Lisa was for over 20 years a professor of art and architectural history, and still loves to look at buildings and sculpture wherever she and Jill travel. In a career change that was partly by design and partly by circumstance, for the last 8 years Lisa has been honored to work at Seattle Children’s Hospital, first in Hospital Administration and now as a Facilities Project Manager.

Lisa’s other oxygen-demanding passions are master’s rowing and biking; more sedentary pleasures include Food Network shows and crossword puzzles. She and Jill are members of Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation in West Seattle.