Meet our Artists

Dr. GABRIELLE GAUDREAULT, alto

Dr. Gabrielle Gaudreault is the Artistic Director of the Saint-Lambert Choral Society and the Ottawa Choral Society. She has directed ensembles and taught musicianship and conducting at reputed universities such as McGill University and Indiana University. A sought-after conductor, pedagogue and collaborative pianist, Dr. Gaudreault has previously served as Assistant Conductor to Maestro Kent Nagano at the Staatsoper Hamburg, Associate Conductor of the National Children’s Chorus in Washington, D.C., Artistic Director of the South Shore Children’s Chorus in Saint-Lambert, QC, Music Director of the St-Augustine’s Church Choir in St-Bruno, QC, and Apprentice Conductor of the National Youth Choir of Canada. In 2020, she co-founded CG Music Academy in Arlington, VA with her husband Chris. Gabrielle completed her Doctorate in Choral Conducting at McGill University in Spring 2020 and holds an MA in Music Theory and Choral Conducting from Indiana University. Her research focuses on pedagogical approaches to the choral rehearsal and late-20th-century choral works by Québécois composers.

MADELINE APPLE HEALEY, soprano

Known for her interpretation of Handel heroines, soprano Madeline Apple Healey is lauded for her “gorgeous singing” (Washington Post) and “fetching combination of vocal radiance and dramatic awareness” (Cleveland Plain Dealer). This season brings an exciting mix of repertoire, including Paola Prestini’s opera “Silent Light” at National Sawdust, Handel’s “Messiah” conducted by Dame Jane Glover, a 17th c pastiche — “Ariadne Unbound” — with TENET Vocal Artists, and concerts of 15th&16th century repertoire with her chamber ensemble AMPERSAND. Specializing primarily in early and contemporary repertoire, Madeline is passionate about polyphony and loves working on music that challenges the construct of beautiful sound.

Recent engagements include appearances at Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, Carnegie Hall, the Barbican, Aldeburgh Festival/Snape Proms, the Kennedy Center, LA Opera, premieres at National Sawdust, Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Ad Astra Festival, and PROTOTYPE Festival, as well as collaborations with Alkemie, Amor Artis, the Academy of Sacred Drama, Bang on a Can All-Stars, ChamberQUEER, Clarion Music Society, Makaris, New Chamber Ballet, The New Consort, Pegasus Early Music, Res Facta, TENET, and Variant 6.

Operatic credits include La Musica & Eurydice (L’Orfeo), Hébé (Les Indes galantes), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Soprano 1 (Book of Mountains and Seas), Olympia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Despina (Cosi fan tutte), and Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro). She is a full-time member of the GRAMMY-Nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street, co-founder of the vocal chamber ensemble AMPERSAND, and performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician.

Madeline holds degrees in voice from Westminster Choir College and Baldwin Wallace University. Beyond performing, Madeline is an outdoorswoman and environmental advocate. Originally from Cleveland, OH, she now resides in New York where, whether in the city or the Adirondacks, she can often be found cooking, plotting her next climb, eating french fries, and spending time with her husband Teddy and their dog Bodhi.

TIM PARSONS, countertenor

Timothy Parsons (he/they) is a versatile performer, conductor, and educator. Their singing has garnered acclaim and accolades across three continents, including a GRAMMY® nomination in 2022. He has appeared as guest conductor with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and the Clarion Choir, a clinician for the Artefact Scholars High School Choral Intensive, and has created bespoke concert programs for TENET Vocal Artists and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street. He is a core member of Ekmeles, a vocal ensemble “dedicated to the performance of new and rarely-heard works, and gems of the historical avant garde.” Timothy’s 2024-2025 season includes performances with Res Facta ensemble, Ekmeles, the Asheville Symphony, Music Worcester, and Music at Trinity Wall Street. He is a co-director of Ampersand, a vocal chamber ensemble specializing in music of the 16th century. Timothy resides in Vermont with his partner and their cat, and enjoys hiking, paddling, birding, and becoming increasingly less novice on the clawhammer banjo.

SARAH BOWE, soprano

Sarah Bowe, soprano, is a versatile ensemble artist and conductor newly based in Philadelphia. Along with frequent liturgical work and various choral projects, in the northeast Bowe has sung with ensembles such as Festina, Voce, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She is a founding member of Red Shift in Baton Rouge, LA. She’s excited to join both the Vermont Chamber Artists and international ensemble Viatores Mundi for performances this summer. Bowe is a proud alumna and recent administrator of Seraphic Fire’s Professional Choral Institute at Aspen Music Festival and School. As a conductor, Bowe is a frequent guest artist, adjudicator, and clinician, known for her engaging programming and inspiring energy. She has served on the choral faculties of Cornell University, Queens College (NY), Central Connecticut State University, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She maintains a private teaching studio specializing in musicianship and conducting, and she currently serves on the administrative team of Mormolyke Press for composer Melissa Dunphy. Bowe holds an M.M. and B.M. summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and completed D.M.A. coursework (A.B.D.) at Louisiana State University.

SARAH RICHARDS, soprano

Moving effortlessly from Renaissance and Baroque classics to contemporary opera and “new music,” soprano Sarah Richards demonstrates an enviable command of multiple periods and genres.

She has recently performed the role of Un Bergère in Brooklyn Telemann Chamber Society’s film production of Rameau’s Phèdre: Hippolyte et Aricie set to release in January 2024 and Young Artist at Duke Chapel under the direction of Dr. Philip Cave, as well as the soprano soloist in Fauré’s Requiem in D Minor and Pergolesi’s challenging Stabat Mater. Ms. Richards has performed at the Virginia Ryan art exhibition and the OperAffinity Concerto Lirica Gala Concert in Todi, Italy and has received vocal coaching from Marie McLaughlin, Laetitia Ruccolo, Felice Venanzoni, and Eleonora Pacetti. Ms. Richards’ opera roles include Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at International Summer Opera Festival of Morelia under the baton of Manuel Mario Castillo, Drusilla/Virtù/Liberto in Claudio Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at Miami Beach Classical Music Festival, Euridice in a concert version of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice through East End Song Studio, and making her OpernFest Prague debut as a Vocal Fellow at Smetana Hall in Summer 2024 under the baton of Jaroslav Kyzlink. Other endeavors include performing newly composed works including Glenn Rudolph’s Children of the Seraphim and promoting the performance of sacred Baroque music as one of the founding members of the vocal trio Halcyon Voices. Based currently in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Ms. Richards studied with Steven Rickards and Dana Marsh at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, where she earned her Master’s Degree in Early Music Voice.

MELODIA RINALDI, soprano

Melodia Rinaldi is a musician in the DC area specializing in arts education and community outreach. She is the director of many community and school based performing ensembles of all ages and often sings with the recently featured divisional ACDA Performing Ensemble, LUX.

KENDRA KOMSTOCK, soprano

Praised for her “nuance and sensitivity” (Boston Music Intelligencer), soprano Kendra Comstock, is a Boston-based performer and teacher. Kendra performs a wide variety of Classical and Contemporary repertoire, but is especially passionate about singing early music. Recent engagements include performances with the Cambridge Chamber Ensemble, the Boston Camerata, the Concordia Consort, the Society for Historically Informed Performance (SoHIP), the Nightingale Vocal Ensemble, the Lilith Vocal Ensemble, the BEMF Fringe Series, and her own ensemble, the Pandora Consort.
Kendra began her exploration into early music as a founding member of the Oklahoma City University Early Music Ensemble, directed by Kyle Patterson, from whom she also studied classical guitar. Kendra has performed at the Amherst, Madison, and Boston Early Music Festivals, as well as the International Baroque Institute at Longy. During these festivals, she studied with several early music specialists, including Pamela Dellal, Charles Weaver, and Paul O’Dette. Originally from Hartland, Vermont, Kendra is passionate about sharing Classical music in rural communities, and in 2018, Kendra produced and performed her first solo recital series of early music throughout New England, benefiting Hartland Community Arts. Following this recital, in 2021 Kendra was inspired to co-found the Pandora Consort, an early music ensemble focused on creating innovative performances of early music throughout New England. In the 2023-2024 season Kendra performed and produced original works with the Pandora Consort on the SoHIP Summer Series, the BEMF Fringe Series, Pegasus Early Music, NYS Baroque, and performed as featured Guest Artists at the Sable Project in Vermont.
Kendra holds a MM in Historical Performance at the Longy School of Music of Bard College, where she studied with Pamela Dellal. In addition to performing, Kendra maintains a private voice studio and teaches voice and piano at the North End Music and Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) and serves on the board of the Tutti Music Collective and SoHIP Boston.

HENRIK DAHLGREN, composer

Henrik Dahlgren, born in 1991, is an award-winning Swedish composer. He began his musical education at the Malmö Academy of Music, where he studied under the guidance of Professor Rolf Martinsson. He then continued his studies at the Royal College of Music in London and the University of Aberdeen, where he studied with the highly renowned composer Paul Mealor.

Henrik initially started his career as a drummer but soon traded his drumsticks for a composer's pen. Since then, he has worked in various musical genres and styles, both as a musician and a composer.
Henrik's primary focus is choral music, and he has gained recognition for his work with ensembles such as the Vocal Art Ensemble of Sweden, VoNo, USC Thornton Chamber Singers, San Diego Master Chorale, Pro Coro Canada, John Bauer Brass, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, and the US Air Force Academy Band, as well as prominent British ensembles Voces8 and Apollo5.

Over the years, Henrik has received several awards from various institutions, including the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, The Centre for Choral Activities in Southern Sweden, and the Swedish collecting society, STIM. In 2018, he received Lund Municipality's Cultural Scholarship for his artistic contributions to the region, and in 2020, he received the Swedish Church's Cultural Scholarship for his most extensive work to date, I Am, I Am, I Am, a 15 minute a cappella work, composed for the men's choir Svanholm Singers and their conductor Sofia Söderberg.

In February 2020, Henrik was selected as one of five composers to be composer-in-residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada. During a three-week period, he collaborated with conductors Michael Zaugg and Lone Larsen, as well as the professional choir Pro Coro Canada. This residency resulted in the compositions Before The West and Without Knowing.

Henrik's music is published by two of Sweden's largest music publishers, Gehrmans Musikförlag and Ejeby Förlag. Since the fall of 2020, Henrik has been deepening his knowledge of vocal music through an artistic doctoral program in composition at the University of Aberdeen, where he is supervised by the distinguished British composer Phillip A. Cooke.

SARAH LABRIE, alto

Boston-based conductor and music educator, Sarah Labrie, serves as the Artistic Director of Vellichor (Professional Vocal Ensemble), the Artistic Director of Quincy Choral Society, and as a Director of Choirs at Stoughton High School in Stoughton, Massachusetts.

Outside of conducting and teaching, she actively sings with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and Boston Symphony Orchestra, Viatores Mundi (Croatia), Sarteano Musica Sacra Choir (Italy), Vox Futura (Professional Recording Studio Choir), Labyrinth Choir, and in other various choral performances throughout New England and Europe. She has also sung professionally in choirs with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and has been a soloist with the Farmington Valley Symphony and the Pioneer Valley Symphony. She also is a lead singer for The Boston Rock and Soul Revue, and regularly cantors at St. Leonard's of Port Maurice in the North End, Boston's oldest church built by Italian immigrants.

Sarah graduated Summa Cum Laude from Westminster Choir College in 2014 with a B.M. in Music Education, and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Messiah University in 2021 with an M.M. and C.A.G.S. in Choral Conducting. She has had the pleasure of studying conducting and rehearsal technique with Simon Carrington, Dr. Joe Miller, Dr. Amanda Quist, Tom Shelton, Dr. Joy Meade, and Dr. Rachel Cornacchio. She studied voice with Dr. Rochelle Ellis.

Sarah is an active member of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), the Massachusetts Music Educator Association (MMEA), the Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association (MICCA), and the National Association for Music Educators (NAfME.)

PAULINA FRANSICO, soprano

Paulina Francisco is a versatile singer and interpreter of early music, and scholar of historical performance practices. In the summer of 2022, she was a finalist in the Aria Borealis Bodø chamber music competition in Bodø, Norway, and presented a lecture recital on the music of Francesca Caccini at the International MedRen Conference in Uppsala, Sweden. She has also recently been named one of eight winners of the 11th edition of Le Jardin des Voix with Les Arts Florissants, and will join the ensemble for an international tour of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen in the 2023-2024 season. Paulina enjoys a varied performance career as a soloist and chamber musician. She has performed with early music ensembles throughout the U.S. and Canada, including Bach Akademie Charlotte, Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Bourbon Baroque, Alchymy Viols, and the Bloomington Bach Cantata Project. When not performing, Paulina enjoys cooking, running, traveling, and cuddling with her sweet doggo Juneau.

ADELE GRAF, author and speaker (SPHERE- the full 360)

Adele Graf's most recent book, buckled into the sky, was published by Guernica Editions in 2021. Her book math for couples, also from Guernica Editions, appeared in 2017. Both works were shortlisted for the Archibald Lampman Award. Her chapbook, a Baltic Friday early in grey,was published by above/ground press in 2017. Her 2018 chapbook, Directions to Suffern NY circa 1950, published by Tree Press, won the Tree Reading Series chapbook prize.

RYAN DOYLE, tenor

Ryan Doyle's pedagogical interests lie at the intersection between cultural music and choral singing. His recently defended thesis Beyond ‘Multicultural’: Approaching Culturally Responsible Performance of Music of Other Cultures explores the use of choral music as a medium to deliver cross-cultural education to students, singers, and audiences. Ryan's conducting collaborations include the Varna International Music Academy, the Delaware Choral Academy, University of Delaware Opera Theater, conferences of the American Choral Directors Association, and with the Vermont Chamber Artists.

Ryan is a M.Mus. Choral Conducting student at McGill University's Schulich School of Music under the instruction of Jean-Sébastien Vallée. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of Delaware under instruction from Paul Head, Duane Cottrell, Sunmin Yoon, and more.

HENRY BRANSON, tenor

Henry Branson is a singer, conductor, and pedagogue based in the Carolinas. He began his musical training at the age of nine as a treble chorister in the North Carolina Boys Choir and has been singing ever since. Henry received his BM in Music Education from Furman University and his MM in Choral Conducting from East Carolina University.

During his time at Furman, he directed The Twelve Peers, a student-led ensemble dedicated to the performance of early and contemporary choral music. While at the helm of the Peers, he initiated a relationship with the composition department, resulting in multiple commissions of Furman composition students annually. In addition to being the student conductor for the Furman Singers, Chamber Choir, and University Chorale, he was also the Herring Music Intern at First Baptist Church Greenville. While at ECU, he served as a graduate teaching assistant in the School of Music and as Assistant Conductor of the Greenville Choral Society. His master’s project consisted of editing and conducting Charpentier’s Messe pour les trépassés with a period orchestra. In August 2018 and 2019, he was a conducting fellow under Simon Carrington at the Yale School of Music Norfolk Choral Workshop.

Henry is especially interested in early music. He has completed numerous editions of polyphonic music including Dunstable, Ockeghem, Gombert, Tallis, Sheppard, Victoria, Couperin, and others. His most recent edition, the Michel-Richard deLalande grand motet, Quemadmodum desiderat fontes, received a performance (likely the first since the early eighteenth century) at the Chorworks Young Artists Summer Course in 2019 – a program which he coordinated alongside Duke Chapel Music’s Philip Cave.

Henry currently holds the position of Director of Music & Arts at Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Durham, NC. He also serves as a Staff Singer at Duke Chapel, where he sings in two choirs and performs in the popular Bach Cantata Series. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, running, and watching sports (especially baseball and college basketball – go Tar Heels!). Henry is the proud dad of Mack, a 1-year old hound/shepherd rescue.

CHRIS LAROSA, bass

Christopher LaRosa composes acoustic, electronic, and mixed music that focuses on temporal perception, technology, and climate change. His music lies at an intersection of North American and European styles, exhibiting a fascination for texture and timbre while exploring resonance through an advanced harmonic palette.
LaRosa’s music has received performances throughout North America, Europe, and Asia by ensembles such as the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Suzhou Symphony Orchestra, United States Army Band, United States Marine Band, Artifice, Boston New Music Initiative, CEPROMUSIC, premier university ensembles, and by soloists such as pianist Thomas Weaver, percussionist Gregory LaRosa, and organist James Kibbie. LaRosa’s electronic music has received performances at the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, Seoul International Computer Music Festival, and Electronic Music Midwest. He has received commissions from the American Guild of Organists, Atlantic Coast Conference Band Directors Association, Georgina Joshi Foundation, and Hartford Symphony Orchestra. LaRosa holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area, where he serves as Staff Arranger for the United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own” and is the co-founder and co-director of CG Music Academy.

JUSTIN PARISH, bass

Justin Parish is an American composer, baritone vocalist, and teacher located on Massachusetts' South Shore. His musical philosophy is rooted in the idea that humans can accomplish more when creating together. Having worked with dancers, poets, filmmakers, visual artists, and performers of several mediums, he values interdisciplinary collaboration, and believes artists of all types can support and encourage one another.

Justin received his BM in composition and voice from Indiana University. In addition to working as a soloist, he is a proud member of et al, (formerly The Brookline Consort) a collaborative, member-run chamber choir reaching audiences across eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Recently, Justin has enthusiastically joined the Vermont Chamber Artists, established by Jessie Pierpont.

While a variety of interests take him down many vocational paths, (including real estate and mixology) Justin still strives to keep music alive in his life and the lives of others. In his search for connection with listeners and performers, he seeks to filter musical thought through human experience, and approaches composition and performance by exploring colorful and evocative topics and themes, whether in performance or on the page.

Dr. JESSIE PIERPONT, soprano

Dr. Jessica Pierpont is the Artistic Director, Founder and Conductor of the Vermont Academy of Choral Music since 2016 and Director of Choral Activities at Vermont State University- Johnson. She began her academic teaching career having worked for six years as a conductor, educator, professional singer, scholar and also numerous collegiate, professional and community ensembles throughout the United States and Canada. She frequently works as a guest conductor and clinician for workshops, clinics, choirs and orchestras. Under her direction her ensembles have toured Canada, the US and have been selected to perform around the continental United States.

During her time teaching elementary and middle school general music in 2016, she founded Vermont Academy of Choral Music where the Vermont Chamber Artists and Vermont Girls Choir was born. She designed academic courses and a virtual lecture series, called 4ward Voices during the COVID-19 pandemic. 4ward Voices was a virtual platform for education and discussion that brought to consciousness important issues, historical musical examples, innovative ideas and teaching techniques, and workshops, all cultivating a strong foundation through music. This lecture series included choral conductors, teachers, directors, advocates, and inspirational speakers from all around the world. This series allowed students and musicians to continue learning and making important musical connections through a choral platform while also creating various musical opportunities once the pandemic subsided.
Jessica held a position at McGill University, as a course lecturer teaching choral conducting to undergraduate students from 2020-2022. During her appointments at McGill University and Director of Choral Activities position at Johnson (VSU) she has taught courses and masterclasses in conducting, music history, vocal methods and pedagogy, and has been a guest artist and lecturer with various academic institutions and choral organizations. Additionally, in her appointment at Johnson she has designed academic courses that allowed students to travel to Montréal and explore links between choral conducting, choral singing, teaching and programming to enhance leadership amongst singers and choral conductors.
Dr. Pierpont remains an active professional choral singer with focuses in chant, Baroque, Renaissance, and Modern eras. She has sung with various professional vocal ensembles such as ProCoro in Edmonton Alberta and in Montréal, Les Rugissants, Bach Festival of Montréal, Voces Borealis and The Church of Saint Andrew and Saint Paul. In addition, she has attended and participated in many music workshops for both conducting and singing, including Oxford University Workshops, Westminster Choir College summer workshops, Yale University 21C, ACDA regional collegiate workshops, Beyond the Baton with Diane Wittry and was selected as a conducting fellow in the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival hosted by the Yale School of Music.
Dr. Pierpont received her Bachelor of the Arts in Piano Performance from Castleton University, studying conducting under Dr. Sherrill Blodget. She received her Master of Music degree in choral conducting at the University of Arizona and was the graduate assistant of the Arizona Choir under Dr. Bruce Chamberlain. She earned her Doctor of Music in Choral Conducting from McGill University graduating with a 4.0 GPA under Dr. Jean-Sébastian Vallée and Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt. Her areas of research include the evolution of treble choirs, the large works of Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams and the evolution of choral leadership. Her dissertation was titled, The Evolution of Choral Leadership- a study of Situational Leadership and Leader Autonomy Support in the Context of a Modern Choral Setting.

ALLISON STEINMETZ, soprano

Soprano Allison Steinmetz is an active performance artist, voice teacher, and arts administrator with 15+ years in the field. She performs in a range of styles from opera to musical theater and also as a concert soloist. She has sung across the US and Canada, and since relocating to Vermont has appeared with many of the state's most prominent ensembles. Allison also performs as a chorister with Counterpoint Chorus, Vermont's professional vocal ensemble. She has taught voice lessons and classes privately as well as at the university level at St. Michael's College and SUNY Plattsburgh, and she is currently an Affiliate Artist/Professor of Voice at The University of Vermont.

Allison has an affinity for new works and has premiered several roles including Nora (The Sailorboy and the Falcon) alongside Stephanie Blythe. Some additional favorite roles include Cunegonde (Candide), Lucy (The Telephone), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), YumYum (The Mikado), Luisa (The Fantasticks), Sarah (Guys & Dolls), and Kelly (Hands on a Hardbody.)

Allison holds degrees in vocal performance and music business administration from The University of Montreal and The Crane School of Music.

She is an administrator for the Opera Company of Middlebury, Vermont's only full-scale, professional-level opera company, specializing in creating grand opera in an intimate setting. She has worked formerly at organizations including the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Chamber Music Festival, and the Sarasota Opera Association.

Offstage, Allison is a proud wife and mama, and she lives with her sweet family in the Burlington area.

PATRICIA NORTON, alto

Patricia Norton, Middlebury College, B.A.

Patricia is a commissioned composer, conductor, and the founder of Juneberry Music Choral Singing School, now Juneberry at UVMC. She has studied with Alice Parker, Bobby McFerrin, Judi Vinar, Melinda O'Neal, and Jennifer Yocom. When recovering from a serious illness eight years ago, she asked herself, "What makes you come alive?" The answer was making music.

LAURA ALBRECHT, soprano

Laura Albrecht, a soprano from San Jose, California, is pursing a Master of Music in Choral Conducting at McGill University. She graduated from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, with a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance in June 2022, where she conducted a lab choir and a handbell choir. She also attended Westminster Choir College for her first two years of her undergraduate degree. She’s performed in three different collegiate choirs, including the St. Olaf Choir, the Westminster Symphonic Choir, and an early music chamber ensemble, Westminster Kantorei. She’s performed two solo recitals featuring the music of Bach, Poulenc, Rebecca Clarke, Duparc, Britten, Schoenberg, and more. She conducts and sings at Cathédrale Christ Church Montréal, is a teaching assistant for the Schulich Singers at McGill, and works with Choeur Maha, an all-women and non-binary treble choir, in the Plateau. She looks forward to singing with the Vermont Chamber singers over the next few years.

KEVIN QUIGLEY, bass

For as long as he can remember, Kevin Quigley has always been making some kind of art. From painting to performing to composing to producing experimental theater and dance, Kevin has been involved in the arts for nearly 40 years. In addition to directing the Thetford Chamber Singers, Kevin sings with Counterpoint (Vermont's stand-alone professional chorus), is an arts teacher at several Upper Valley institutions, and composes for both choral and instrumental ensembles. He also maintains practices as a graphic designer and Tarot counselor and is always looking for new projects and opportunities to collaborate with other artists.

REBECCA WOOD, soprano

Musician and educator Rebecca Wood studied both voice and classical saxophone for her Bachelor's of Science in Music Education from the University of Vermont, and recently completed her Kodály certification at the Hartt School of Music. Rebecca has traveled and performed around Europe with Bella Voce Women's Chorus of Vermont and Cantiamo in the soprano section. Active in her community, she directs community and church choirs in her hometown of Hartland, Vermont, where she also serves on the board of Hartland Community Arts. In addition to singing with Vermont Chamber Artists, Rebecca sings with Bel Canto, and plays saxophone in the Vermont Wind Ensemble.

Rebecca is currently working in Special Education at Hartland Elementary School in Hartland, Vermont after three years of teaching music. She looks forward to returning to teaching music in the future.

When not happily immersed in something musical, Rebecca enjoys coffee, reading, crocheting, and practicing photography.

AMBER LEAVITT, soprano

Amber has been singing since she can remember, but began her formal vocal training during high school. She went on to study voice, piano, and saxophone in college and received a bachelor’s degree in Music Therapy from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in 2009. After completing her undergraduate degree, Amber moved to Vermont and has been involved in numerous musical endeavors including performing with choirs, further studying voice, solo vocal performance, music ministry, and teaching voice. Amber is currently the Music Director for the East Barnard Church in East Barnard, VT and enjoys leading the congregation on the pump organ and directing the small, but mighty choir. In 2014 Amber graduated from Antioch University with her Master of Arts degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and is currently a child therapist at the Wilder School in Wilder, VT. Amber presides in South Royalton, VT with her husband and son and is extremely grateful for the opportunity to perform in this small and talented professional ensemble.