Staff & Board

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Patty Cuyler, Director & CEO

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 with Mollie Stone 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.

Suzannah Park, Creative Director

Suzannah, a native of Asheville NC, is a singer, teacher, activist and WRT Water Release Therapy® provider. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, she comes from a family of three generations of traditional singers, storytellers and dancers.

Suzannah has been touring and teaching for the past twenty-five plus years, both in the USA and abroad. She began singing with VH when she was twelve and touring with Northern Harmony at fourteen. One of VH most popular teachers, Suzannah became our acting Board President in 2018 and with the passing of VH founder, Larry Gordon transitioned to the executive team in 2021.

Founder and director of the Wild Asheville Community Chorus - now under the umbrella of VH - Suzannah is a founding member of VH alumni group, the Starry Mountain Singers. She is also a member of the traditional music faculty and choir director at Warren Wilson College.

As an activist Suzannah leads educational talks, marches in the streets and works with local people, businesses, organizations and politicians. She is also a counselor, teacher and organizer with a focus on Native liberation within the framework of the international peer-based counseling community, Re-evaluation Counseling.

Her newest fun, is offering sessions within the healing modality of WRT Water Release Therapy® . www.suzannahpark.com

Sinead O'Mahoney, Administrative assistant

Familiar with the inner workings of Village Harmony’s administrative systems from years of offering seasonal assistance in the Marshfield, VT office, Sinead O’Mahoney does part-time administrative work for VH.

Sinead , a native of Montpelier, VT, began singing with Village Harmony as a teenager and participated in international Village Harmony camps in Corsica, Georgia and Bosnia; she also took part in several Northern Harmony tours. Sinead earned a bachelor’s degree in music education from the University of Vermont in 2016. During the 2022-23 season, Sinead took over directorship of VH’s community choir, Boston Harmony.