Hazel Dority – Woodwinds
Hazel Dority graduated from the University of Vermont with a B.S. in Music Education in spring of 2024. She has been teaching at the Vermont Jazz Camp since 2022.
She also works at All Saints Catholic Academy in Morrisville during the school year, teaching general, instrumental, and choral music to Pre-K through 8th grade students. She is a woodwind specialist, but as a music educator, is able to play and teach all instruments. She has played in several bands around the Burlington VT area, and has toured with some throughout New England. She has also subbed on occasion for the Vermont Jazz Ensemble. Hazel has been passionate about music and music education since early childhood- she grew up taking piano and clarinet lessons, and spent most of her free time in high school learning new instruments, arranging music to play with friends, and tinkering with old clarinets.