Our musicians include Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Catholics, Baptists, Egyptian Coptics, Mormons, Orthodox, and Episcopalians. We are ecumenical.

The 2013 inaugural choir

Grace Pedersen, piano, Joe Pedersen, trumpet, Michael Coates, trombone, Karen Wenzel, Viola, Kim Edwards, clarinet, Fiona Knight, violin

Marie Iwersen, Carole Hansen, and Grace Pedersen, accompanists, and Jean Dewitt, conductor

Percussionists Larry Westbrook and Randy Pedersen with Carole Hansen

The instrumentalists and the choir

The director, Jean DeWitt has a BA in Secondary Choral Education from Pacific Lutheran University. While there she was a member of Choir of the West, University Orchestra, and a scholarship recipient of Mu Phi Epsilon. Mrs. DeWitt taught music in public and private schools for 18+ years before getting married and enjoying being a mom. As time allowed, she was an interim choir director at several churches, including Laurelhurst Presbyterian, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in SeaTac, and Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church in Maple Valley. A singer at Prince of Peace Lutheran commented about her interim directorship by saying, “We have a good one”.
Mrs. DeWitt has been involved in many choirs and orchestras over the years, including Beaverton Chamber Symphony, where she was concertmistress and featured vocal soloist, Lutheran Choral Association of Portland, Novum Cantorum, Rainier Symphony, Rainier Chorale, Cascade Symphony, and (briefly) Everett Chorale. She was the interim conductor of the Music Hall Orchestra which became the Evergreen Community Orchestra, where she is now concertmistress. It is her love of singing and fond memories of summer fellowship at the Lutheran Choral Association of Portland that has spurred her on to found the Lutheran Choral Association of Snohomish County summer choir.