Liz Winn has been a fourth grade teacher at Morristown Elementary School for the past 18 years. Liz is also a professional musician and a highly qualified certified music teacher for grades K-6. This year Liz will be our school’s music teacher. 

Liz’s undergraduate work was done at Johnson State College where she majored in piano performance and music education. In addition to this, she studied Dalcroze Eurhythmics (www.dalcrozeusa.org) at the Longy School of Music in Boston.  After a year teaching voice at St. Mary’s College in Rome, Italy, she returned to Vermont to create and teach the program of general music, chorus, and band at East Montpelier School and Rumney Memorial School.  That’s where Liz’s interest in integration of music into elementary academics began.  After five years, she decided to do her graduate work at Eastern Michigan University earning a master’s degree in Social Foundations of Education.  It was there that she became certified as an elementary classroom teacher after writing her master’s thesis on interdisciplinary curriculums with a focus on integration of music into the elementary academic curriculum. Liz is looking forward to reconnecting with her passion for music and her love of conveying that love into the hearts and minds of her students.               

Outside of the schools, Liz has continued as a professional musician.  For ten years, she sang and recorded with the group Anima, a women’s group that specialized in the 10th century sacred music of Hildegard von Bingen.  She is also frequently hired as a studio musician for vocal backups for recordings of local musicians.  In addition, Liz was the education consultant and co-producer for the Rebop Records Mother Goose series commissioned by Vermont Center for the Book.  One of her proudest musical endeavors has been the work she has done with her sister’s award winning recording company Rebop Records (www.reboprecords.com).   

*Note   This past summer Leigh Lamphere, our school’s music teacher of 22 years passed away unexpectedly. Liz has agreed to help our school make the difficult transition from a sad ending to a new beginning. We will all hold Leigh’s memory and her contributions to our school in our hearts.  Liz and Leigh were very close colleagues and friends, both committed to the arts, Liz will make herself available to help the children with this transition as well as continue to honor Morristown Elementary music traditions such as the winter and spring concerts, chorus, and select chorus, drama club, and the talent show.