Kathleen O’Boyle (voice) is an ardent music educator and performer and has been teaching private voice and piano lessons since 2006. She has taught many master classes and workshops specializing in audition and performance practice and has a keen ability for dramatic coaching. She specializes in vocal technique and has been taking leveling courses in speech language pathology to advance her scientific knowledge of the voice. She considers herself a crossover teacher and is comfortable teaching classical voice as well as pop and musical theater.  Kathleen has sung with Boston Opera Collaborative, Longwood Opera, Cambridge Summer Opera, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. She was a soloist and cantor at St. Theresa of Avila Parish and Trinity Lutheran Church of Boston in West Roxbury, and continues to

Jennie O’Brien (voice department chair/voice-soprano, Songweavers  Chorus) is a graduate of Boston University with Bachelor of Music, one in Vocal Performance and the other in Music Education and a Master’s in Education from University of Massachusetts Boston specializing in teaching students with visual impairments. A soloist for several area churches, Jennie has also performed with Newton Choral Society, Longy Chamber Singers, Broadmoor Chamber Singers, Vokes Theater, Revels, Inc., In Good Company, and her own trio Crooked Mowth. Jennie teaches voice, theatre arts, vocal ensembles, and independent living skills at Perkins School for the Blind. Jennie also teaches at New England Conservatory in the Continuing Education department and is a board member of the theater group, In Good Company.

Peter Furlong (voice- remote only) “A magesterial tenor…” is how The New York Times’ Anthony Tommasini described Peter Furlong’s voice. An accomplished Heldentenor with dark hues and powerful ring to his voice, Peter has appeared to plaudits on stages around the world including Germany, Italy, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and the USA. Upcoming performance is as Siegfried with Berlin Wagner Group in November of 2022. His recent engagements include two concerts with Berlin Wagner Group in July of 2022, the roles of Siegmund in Die Walküre in February 2020 in Toronto and Siegmund, Adam in Der Vogelhändler, and Max in Der Freischütz in Berlin. As a teacher, Peter is very much in demand. He has been teaching voice for 17 years in a fun, motivating, educational,

Peggo Horstmann Hodes (Northern Lights Vocal Ensemble) holds an M.A. in Elementary Education from Lesley College and an M.M. in Vocal Pedagogy from the New England Conservatory. She has been a soloist with the New Hampshire Symphony, Granite State Symphony, Concord Chorale, and the Musicians of Wall Street, and has premiered works written for her by William Fletcher and Thomas Oboe Lee. Her recordings as part of the duo Peggo and Paul have received Parent’s Choice Awards.

Jane Berlin Pauley (voice) received her B.M. in Voice Performance from the Mason Gross School of the Arts and her master’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music. Further studies include Westminster Choir College, Manhattan School of Music, Aspen Opera Theater Center, and the Tanglewood Music Center. Jane has participated in Levels I, II, and III of the Lovetri Institute for Somatic Voicework ™ and uses these principles to work with students interested in studying musical theatre, rock, and jazz. Her opera and concert engagements include Rutgers Summerfest, New England Lyric Operetta, Dartmouth Handel Society, and Longwood Opera. In addition to having taught at St. Paul’s School, she has also served as interim choir director at the Unitarian Church in Concord and given master classes