Catherine (she/her) brings nearly 20 years of private music teaching experience to the studio, including 11 years teaching in Vermont public schools.  Catherine received her Bachelor of Music degree, summa cum laude, from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam in Music Education and Flute Performance and her Master of Music degree in Flute Performance from the prestigious Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.  Catherine moved to Vermont in 2010, teaching middle school band and jazz band at Middlebury Union Middle School for three years, where she was named VMEA’s “Outstanding New Music Educator” of the year, followed by a three year stint at West Rutland School (K-12), and five years teaching choral and general music at Edmunds Middle School in Burlington.  Over the years, Catherine has played, sang, and conducted with various community ensembles including the Trillium Hospice Chorus, Maiden Vermont, the Vermont Choral Union, Middlebury Community Players Pit Orchestra, the Sage City Symphony, and most recently she can be found conducting the Middlebury Community Wind Ensemble and playing with the Vermont Philharmonic and Champlain Philharmonic Orchestras.  An avid traveler and life-long learner, Catherine also holds a Master of Arts degree, distinction, in TESOL & Applied Linguistics from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England, where she had the great fortune to meet a folk duo with which she continues a trans-Atlantic musical collaboration, Northern Passage.