I joined Northwest Harmony Chorus in 2015. I was born and raised here in the Pacific Northwest and music features in most of my earliest memories. I remember having a heated argument with my dad when I was pretty young.

He claimed there was theater that had no music, no singing. I knew with absolute certainty he was wrong.  Why would anyone write a play and not include music? He argued, ‘all of Shakespeare has no music!’ I sang the Hamlet soliloquy from Gillian’s Island to him.  Singing is the stuff of life.