Patricia Norton has studied piano, conducting, composition, music theory, and voice with many teachers, including Judi Vinar, Bobby McFerrin, and Alice Parker, despite being told in 1st grade to mouth the words. A graduate of Middlebury College, local choral groups and soloists have commissioned her compositions, and she publishes an occasional poem. In the fall of 2012, she founded the Juneberry Music Choral Singing School, which merged with the UVMC in July of 2016. Patricia was choir director and organist at the First Congregational Church in Thetford for 13 years, and continues to facilitate classes in literature and music with OSHER at Dartmouth and the Vermont Humanities Council. She lives in Thetford, VT, in a passive-solar home with her husband, Tom, menagerie, and piano. They greatly enjoy visits with their two children.

Vicky Nooe is a passionate music educator and collaborative pianist. She has a MM in Collaborative Piano at Boston University as well as a BM in Piano Performance and MM in Theory Pedagogy from Southern Methodist University. She is also a member of Pi Kappa Lambda She has studied under Shiela Kibbe, Carol Leone, Alfred Mouledous, and Stephen Buck. She has worked with Metroplex Opera Company in Dallas, TX and NEMPAC Opera Project in Boston as well as a staff pianist at Southern Methodist University, Boston Conservatory, and Hebrew College. As a pianist, she has won the Boston University Collaborative Piano Department Award, Van Katwijk Award, and was a finalist in Greenville Symphony’s Young Artist Competition. Vicky has taught private piano lessons for over a decade, as well as class piano at the college level and theory for all ages.