Catherine Orr is our Director of Music.
A Chicago native and Los Angeles expatriate, she studied music at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles, at the Musikakademie in Vienna, Austria, at Dartmouth College, and at Eastman School of Music. She earned a master's degree in conducting from Indiana University.
Early in her career, she performed throughout Europe with the Camerata of Los Angeles, a vocal and orchestral group.
In 1990 she organized and conducted landmark performances of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Over the years she has worked with most of the vocal and instrumental musicians in Central Vermont in performances large and small, from serious to light to comical. She has been a vocal coach for the Pegasus Players at Norwich University and has taught at Johnson State College.
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