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Lori Tennenhouse Biography

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Lori Tenenhouse formed the Grand Rapids Women's Chorus in 1996 and has been the artistic director since it's inception. A member of the American Choral Directors's Association, the Sister Singer Network and a 2006 YWCA Tribute Awards honoree for performing arts, Lori is an advocate for women's choral music.

Lori studied jazz improvisation at the University of Michigan and performed in various rock and jazz bands in Ann Arbor and later in the Boston area. Lori was a string bassist with the New England Women's Symphony under the direction of Kay Gardner, and had the incredible experience of performing under the direction of Antonia Brico in 1979. During the early 1990's in Grand Rapids, she collaborated with local musicians and friends to form The Carla Tee Band and later the jazz band, Women at Play, which played exclusively original and improvisational music . Renewing her high school love of choral singing, Lori sang with the Grand Rapids

Symphony Chorus and with the Shir Shalom Choir at Temple Emmanuel.

Currently, Lori is a member of the American Choral Directors Association's commissioning consortium and through her expertise the GRWC has acquired and performed seven commissioned works by women composers to date. As an arranger, Lori has published Iraqi Peace Song, a traditional Iraqi lullaby written by Knut Reiersrud and premiered by the GRWC in 2007, and would like to continue to write and arrange choral music that is moving and meaningful.

Lori has worked as a Television Broadcast Engineer since 1983, and has one daughter.