Paul W. Schultz is a native of Richmond, Michigan as has accrued a distinguished career as a teacher and conductor throughout the United States. He received both Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts degrees from Central Michigan University, a Ph.D. in music education from Michigan State University, and has studied conducting with Helmuth Rilling at the Internationale Bachakademie in Stuttgart, Germany. His choral ensembles consistently receive the highest acclaim for their standards in repertoire, interpretation and musicianship. They have appeared at the state, regional, and national conventions of both the Music Educators National Conference and the American Choral Directors Association.

Dr. Schultz taught in the public schools in Michigan for 20 years and has served on the faculties of Michigan State University, the University of Puget Sound, and Tacoma School of the Arts. Dr. Schultz prepared and conducted the major choral presentations for the Third World Harp Congress Convention in 1996. He also served as artistic conductor with Tacoma City Ballet and was the founder and first conductor of the Tacoma Symphony Chorus. He officially retired in September, 2006, after 44 years of teaching.

Dr. Schultz founded the Northwest Repertory Singers in the fall of 2001 and the ensemble has fast become one of the finest choirs in the Puget Sound region. They are a very select group of distinguished Puget Sound musicians dedicated to performing a wide variety of quality choral music at a high artistic level. Northwest Repertory Singers sponsored the Tacoma presentation of the Rolling Requiem on September 11, 2002. This performance of Mozart's Requiem, to commemorate the victims of September 11, 2001, was presented at 8:46 a.m. to an overflow audience at Mason United Methodist Church in Tacoma. They received critical acclaim for their 2006 performances of Mozart's Requiem with Northwest Sinfonietta and will renew the collaboration for three performances of Beethoven's Symphony #9 in April, 2008. Their recent June, 2007 performance in Seattle's Town Hall at the American Music Masterpieces Choral Festival was described as "brilliant" by noted composer Morten Lauridsen.

Dr. Schultz is a life member of the American Choral Directors Association and a member of Chorus America. He has twice received the Distinguished Service Award given by the Washington American Choral Directors Association and was the recipient of the prestigious American Choral Directors Association Northwestern Division Lifetime Achievement and Leadership Award in 2004. Since retiring from teaching he served on the national ACDA Convention Committee for the Miami Convention in March, 2007 and is very active as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator. He resides in Gig Harbor with his wife, composer Donna Gartman Schultz. Their son, David, is a graduate student at Michigan State University pursuing a doctorate in orchestral conducting.

Marjorie Skreen-Dickerson, accompanist, received a BM from the University of Puget Sound and an MM from the University of Washington. She is a member of the Tacoma Chapter of the Music Teachers Association, where her students have been chosen as convention representatives. Ms. Skreen served on the music faculty of Pierce College. She currently accompanies the Northwest Repertory Singers and serves as organist at Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church in Gig Harbor. She has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, appeared a vocal soloist with the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, and is a featured artist with the Orpheus Chorus. She has accompanied NWRS since their founding in 2001.