Dennis Coleman is the Director Emeritus of the Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus where he served as conductor and artistic director for 35 years. He has also served that long with Bellevue First Congregation Church and continues to work with the choir there to this day.  

• Dennis’s love for choral singing began in the church and with hymn singing.
• He said he got good training as an accompanist and improvisation growing up in the church and in his high school.
• His father’s recordings of Sir Thomas Beecham’s Messiah was an early inspiration along with Robert Shaw’s Chorale. He developed an ear for choral music listening to these during his junior high years. He latter got to study in Robert Shaw’s summer program for choral conductors.
• His belief system meant that at the church level music was a means of reaching out and affecting people for evangelism and to move people.
• Dennis is confident that he has been led to be exactly where he needed to be.

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