8-day Guadalajara
Winter Camp 2026

Cuban-born choir director and teacher Wilmia Verrier Quiñones earned her Master's degree in Music with a focus on Choral Conducting from the University of the Arts (ISA) in Havana, Cuba in 2002. She then taught at Cuba’s National School of Music (ENA) and the University of the Arts (ISA) and other music conservatories in Havana, as well as at the National Conservatory of Music in La Paz, Bolivia. 

From 2011 and 2018, Wilmia was director of the professional female group Ensemble Vocal Luna, participatingin national and international festivals and sharing the stage with prestigious Cuban and foreign groups. Her work in leading the group was punctuated by the two gold medals they won at the X World Choral Olympics in Tshwane, South Africa in 2018. 

Wilmia has directed a number of choirs internationally, and has given workshops in countries such as Bolivia, Guatemala, Argentina, Jamaica, South Africa, and Mexico. She is the creator and member of the artistic-directive committee of FICFE, International Festival of Women's Choirs of Latin America; she is also a member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).

Wilmia has been living in Guadalajara since 2020, where she teaches conducting classes at the University of Guadalajara and directs numerous ensembles, including the university’s Chamber Choir, the Mayahuel Coro Femenino and the Fundación Beckmann Youth Choir.

Julio Morales is a choral conductor, composer, pianist and music educator residing in Veracruz, Mexico with aMaster’s Degree in Composition from the Tito Puente University. He currently serves as director of the community choir program at the Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura and teaches choral conducting at the Instituto Superior de Música Esperanza Azteca.

Julio founded Vox A Cappella Band (a.k.a Vox Populi Project) in 2012, an internationally known a cappella group that promotes the popular rhythms of Mexico through Latin styles, pop and jazz. Since its foundation they have made multiple international tours in Germany, Argentina, Ecuador, USA, Spain, France and Poland.

In 2018 he joined Exigence vocal ensemble as a tenor singer, a professional ensemble with selected singers of different nationalities. In 2020 he founded Los Bordershop Quartet, the first binational barbershop quartet that seeks to represent Mexico and USA with barbershop repertoire in Spanish and English.

Julio has given many choral conducting and composition workshops in Cuba, USA, Argentina, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Germany, and Mexico. His arrangements have won him international recognition and his music has premiered in the USA, Canada, Germany, France, Poland, Spain, Latvia, Estonia, Thailand, Indonesia and in countries throughout Latin America. His music is published by Hal Leonard, La Voz Music Publishing, Graphite Publisher and can be purchased at: juliomoralesmusic.com

Patty Cuyler, born in California, educated at Princeton University, long-time resident of Vermont and currently living in Marshfield, VT, is an energetic, dynamic workshop leader and choral director. Patty is internationally-renowned for her expertise in teaching Corsican, Georgian and South African music. She is currently VH’s head director after acting as the co-director since 1995.

Over the years Patty spear-headed the expansion of the organization’s reach into the four corners of the globe. It was primarily Patty’s vision and labor that shaped VH’s successful response to the pandemic year and launched the online programs that allowed Village Harmony to sustain itself until we could resume our in-person programs.