Winter Weekend

Patty Cuyler, born in California, educated at Princeton University, long-time resident of Vermont, is an energetic, dynamic workshop leader and choral director and is internationally-renowned for her expertise in teaching Corsican, Georgian and South African music.

She is now VH’s director after being co-director since 1995. Over the years she 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 Village Harmony’s response to the pandemic and launched our online programs.

In 2005 Patty founded the community world music choir Boston Harmony, and co-founded the Chicago World Music Chorus in 2013. Both of these choruses continue to thrive under the VH umbrella.

Patty has compiled and edited a massive library of transcriptions of traditional Georgian, Balkan and South African music and co-edited two volumes of The Folk Rhythm, four volumes of the Raising the Bar series of book+dvd publications and two book+cd collections of Georgian folk and sacred music.

Julio Morales is a choral conductor, composer, pianist and music educator from Veracruz, Mexico currently working toward a doctorate in choral composition at University of Michigan. 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. 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 led numerous conducting and composition workshops in Cuba, USA, Argentina, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Germany, and Mexico.

Julio’s choral 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

A native of Asheville NC, Suzannah is a performer, teacher, activist, organizer and community leader. She comes from a family of three generations of traditional Appalachian and British Isles singers, storytellers, artists and dancers

Suzannah has been touring and teaching with VH ensembles for the past twenty five years, both in the USA and abroad. She was a young adult founding member of the VH alumni group, the Starry Mountain Singers. Historically one of VH most popular teachers, she became VH’s acting Board President in 2018 and joined the executive team in 2021.

Currently Suzannah is the founder-director of the Wild Asheville Community Chorus as well as a member of the traditional music faculty at Warren Wilson College.

As an activist she leads educational talks, marches in the streets and works with local people through her non-profit Community Roots. www.suzannahpark.com

Sinead will once again be leading our dance sessions. A native of Montpelier, VT, Sinead O’Mahoney has been singing with Village Harmony and Northern Harmony since she was in her mid-teens.

Sinead earned a bachelor’s degree in music education from the University of Vermont in 2016 and a masters degree program in choral conducting at Boston University in 2026.

She has traveled abroad with Village Harmony in Corsica, France, Switzerland, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and has made three trips to Caucasus Georgia.

Sinead has been praised for her sure command of rhythm and clear and efficient teaching style. Sinead became a co-director of VH’s community choir Boston Harmony in 2018. She has been in charge of programming Village Harmony’s teen programs since 2023.