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"Lending a Helping
Hand with Music"
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Advisory Board
Jim Adams
Jim Adams is a retired
sales and marketing senior executive with an extensive career in the
women's apparel trade.
He was recognized as a distinguished
business leader by the Who's Who Business Registry in 1994/1995.
Jim is a founding member of
Marathon Education Partners, and currently serves as a Board
Trustee.
He also serves as co-chair of Holy
Family Parish Pastoral Council, and is a recent appointee to the
parish's Board of Directors.
He is on the advisory board of Vivace
Voices, a local for profit entertainment company.
Jim and his wife
Vicki have 3 adult children and 5 grandchildren, and currently make
their home in Vancouver,
WA.
Vicki Adams
Vicki Adams is a retired
sales and marketing executive. Her impressive resume includes a
number of years as a buyer of women's apparel for a major retail
department store corporation. Her career includes several years in
residential real estate sales prior to owning and operating a
successful upscale women's apparel store in Ridgefield, CT . She
relocated to the Portland/Vancouver area with her husband, and
retired in 2004 after working several years as a regional sales
representative for a major soft toy manufacturer.
John DeHaas
 John
DeHaas has been with
Vivace Voices Ltd.
and
The Fireside Carolers
since the beginning. John wears
many hats for the company. He is the Production Coordinator, as
well as handling a lot of the sales, promotion and advertising
duties. One of our more important jobs during the Holiday Season and
perhaps Mr. DeHaas' favorite job is that of Santa Claus. John is
available to clients as Santa alone or with the carolers in our
Santa Package. As a member of the Board of Directors, John has been
and continues to be the go to guy. Mr. DeHaas holds a BS in
Psychology and a Minor in Criminal Justice. As a former Deputy
Sheriff, he currently works for and manages a Security Company in
the Gresham area. In John's spare time he is a Minister who performs
wedding ceremonies, so if nuptials are in the air, you may contact
him through Vivace Voices, Ltd. By the way, Santa is also willing to
marry you if you want to get married in November or December.
www.myNWwedding.com
P. Griffith
Lindell, C.B.C.
(Certified Business Communicator)
For more than
25 years, Mr. Lindell (Griff) has served as a senior level marketing
strategist and leader to established, reorganizing and emerging
companies. He has developed a unique
process to assist the executive team in articulating their purpose,
goals, core values and strategy. The results are an energized,
cohesive team that can clearly communicate where the firm is going
and how each person plays a role in implementing strategy.
His
senior-level management experiences has lead to insights he
developed for his published materials,
Pocket Guide to Customer-centric Thinking, Pocket Guide to
Overcoming Your Impediments to Success; Pocket Guide to Behavioral
Diversity in the Workplace: A New Perspective;
and a blog
Thoughts on Leadership.
Griff continues
to facilitate workshops focused on
Customer-centric Thinking helping
companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 launch new products
and position and message them for successful differentiation.
Griff
Lindell
- Semi-retired Management Consulting;
Speaker; business Coach, Author and Trainer.
Chrisse Roccaro
(Actress, Musician & Director)
Ms. Roccaro will be seen in Portland Center Stage upcoming
production of Guys and Dolls.
Chrisse has
recently returned from Geva Theatre
Center in Rochester, NY,
where she appeared as 'Fr. Schneider' in Cabaret.
Prior to that, she sang with The Fireside Carolers and
directed Vivace Voice's Where In the World Is Santa?
She has performed as Alto
Soloist with the Cannon Beach Chorus in Haydn's Paukenmesse
and Vivaldi's Gloria.
Chrisse's career as a singer,
character actress and radio, television and film actor (SAG, AFTRA,
AEA) has spanned more than 30 years in Portland
and New York.
Other recent credits include 'Saulina/Sally' in Old Money
at Profile Theatre Co.; 'Monica Murray' in By the Bog of Cats
at CoHo Productions; and as 'Mother' in Da at Lakewood
Theatre. She was
presented with a 2003 Drammy Award for 'Outstanding Achievement by
an Actress in a Supporting Role' for her performance as 'Madame Arcati' in Lakewood Theatre Co.'s
production of Blithe Spirit.
Other recent appearances have included
'Judy/Ginger' in
Ruthless at Astoria's River Theatre;
'Louise' in Promise, a new chamber opera; 'Hannah' in
Spitfire Grill; and Narrator for the Oregon Symphony's Youth
Concert series. She is a
noted cabaret artist, interpreting such composers as Gershwin,
Sondheim, Coward, Porter and Weill in shows at New York's 'Don't Tell Mama' Cabaret Club and Portland's
Old
Church.
A Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Performance from
Marylhurst College was followed by study in
Salzburg,
Austria and New York. Chrisse adds
private vocal instruction, directing, musical directing, conducting,
arranging, and 10 years of teaching and performing improvisation to
her list of credits. She has directed for The Portland Civic Theatre
Guild; The Coaster Theatre in Cannon Beach, OR; The River Theatre in
Astoria, OR; and The Opera Workshop at Lewis & Clark College.
She was musical director for the St. Mary's Academy Theater
Department from 1994 - 2000 and 2004; and has musical directed for
Key Productions (premier of "Can't Say I Do"; Portland
Community College, Clackamas Community College, Central Catholic
High School, Clackamas Community Theatre, Five Oaks Middle School
and Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon.
She conducted
Lewis & Clark College's
women's chorus, Vox Angelis, in 2002. Chrisse is the
President of The Portland Civic Theatre Guild; The Portland Local of
AFTRA; and has been a volunteer facilitator at The Dougy Center For
Grieving Children since 1997. Full bio at
www.roccaro.info.
Our Mission
Our mission is to enrich and enthrall audiences of
all ages providing professional entertainment using outstanding
Northwest talent. We are a company that offers diverse musical
"Entertainment with Class".
Vivace Voices, LTD. believes strongly in giving back to the community. To that
end, a percentage of the proceeds from most of our musical
productions and concerts are sent to designated non-profit agencies.
In 2007, among our recipients are
Loaves and
Fishes
the
"Meals on Wheels" people, and the
Community Music Center,
and the
Marathon
Education Partners.
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