Personnel

Kyle Haugen, Artistic Director

Kyle S. Haugen is a versatile musician with experience spanning Baroque organ to musical theater. A native of Tacoma, he majored in music at the University of Puget Sound before earning the Master of Sacred Music degree from Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn., in conjunction with St. Olaf College. He was named the second Artistic Director of Northwest Repertory Singers in 2018 after serving as Assistant Director of the ensemble for ten seasons.

Kyle is the full-time Cantor (director of music) at Queen Anne Lutheran Church in Seattle, serving as organist, director of parish ensembles, and coordinator of concerts and arts outreach. In 2017, Kyle served as Artistic Director for Northwest Reformation 500, conducting a massed choir of 250 singers to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. For nearly a decade, Kyle directed the high school Men’s Choir and co-directed the mixed Chorale for Tacoma Youth Chorus and led a performance tour of England and Ireland. As a freelance choral singer Kyle has performed locally with the Byrd Ensemble, The Compline Choir, Schola Stella Maris, the St.James Cathedral Choir, and the St. James Cantorei; in recent years he has toured Europe with Boston’s Canto Armonico and with St. James Cathedral. In the early 2000’s Kyle served as organist, choir director, and professional singer at churches in Boston, Mass. During this time he was the tenor soloist for the premiere of Daniel Pinkham’s Missa Brevis and contributed to two landmark recordings of Renaissance choral works with the historic Choir of the Church of the Advent.

Kyle is a published composer with Augsburg Fortress and Pavane Publishing, earning recognition on regional and national American Choral Directors Association lists and as “Editor’s Choice” by one of the leading national music retailers in the United States. Since 2000 his music has been performed, recorded, and broadcast on radio and television across the United States. Contact Kyle at conductor@nwrs.org.

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Marjorie Skreen-Dickerson, Collaborative Pianist

Marjorie Skreen received the Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Puget Sound and the Master of Music from the University of Washington.  Ms. Skreen currently serves as organist and choir director at Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, Gig Harbor, Washington. She has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and has appeared as a vocal soloist with the Tacoma Symphony, as a featured artist with the Orpheus Chorus, as a featured piano soloist for the University of Puget Sound Centennial Celebration, and as a vocal soloist for the university’s Jacobsen Series featuring music of women composers.  She is a member of the Tacoma Chapter Music Teachers Association, where her students have been chosen as convention representatives. Ms. Skreen has served Northwest Repertory Singers since its founding in 2001.


Board of Directors for 2023-2024

Jeffrey Johnson, President

Patti Hermoso, Vice President

Bonnie Matterand, Secretary

Francis Reynolds, Treasurer

Ellen Barber-Walworth, Director

Erin Hundtofte, Director

Karen Short, Director

Kathy Weymiller, Director

Stephen Wightman, Director

Ex-Officio: Kyle Haugen