Personnel
Kyle Haugen
Artistic Director
Kyle Haugen is a versatile musician with experience spanning Baroque organ to musical theater. A native of Tacoma, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music at the University of Puget Sound, followed by a Master of Sacred Music from Luther Seminary, St. Olaf College, St. Paul, Minnesota. 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 Queen Anne Lutheran Church Fine Arts events. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and a contributor to the 2026 and 2027 editions of Sundays and Seasons, the worship planning resource of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. 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.
He is a freelance choral tenor, and has performed locally with the Byrd Ensemble, The Compline Choir, the choir of Epiphany Parish, Seattle, and with the St. James Cathedral Choir and 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, Massachusetts. During this time, he performed as 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.
A published composer of choral and keyboard music, Kyle has earned 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.
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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 has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and has appeared as a vocal soloist with the Symphony Tacoma, as a featured artist with the Orpheus Chorus, as a featured piano soloist for the University of Puget Sound’s 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
(2025-2026)
Executive Board:
Patti Hermoso, President
Karin Bean, Vice President
Kathy Weymiller, Secretary
Francis Reynolds, Treasurer
Ex-Officio:
Paul Hoffman, Advisory Council
Scott Smith, Advisory Council
Kyle Haugen, Artistic Director
Directors:
Chris Hall, Director
Brittany Holloway, Director / Social Media
Jeffrey V. Johnson, Director / Technology
Bonnie Matterand, Director / Marketing
Karen Short, Director
Stephen Wightman, Director