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Schuyler is a dynamic performer, teacher, and administrator based in the NYC area. Dr. Thornton is Lecturer of Flute and Director of Flute Ensemble at Muhlenberg College, and recently completed a 4 year, 1000+ performance tour as flutist with the Les Misérables North American Broadway Tour. A versatile musician, Schuyler played in the Off-Broadway revivals of Richard Rodgers’ No Strings and Stephen Schwartz’s The Baker’s Wife with The J2 Spotlight Theater Company, and has performed with the Ohio Light Opera. Orchestral appearances include Principal Flute with the MidAtlantic Philharmonic, Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra, and Sewanee Music Festival, and piccolo with Southern Virginia Opera and Rockbridge Symphony.

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She has been a featured performer at the National Flute Association Convention, New York, New Jersey, and Wisconsin Flute Fairs, NJMEA, VMEA, and CBDNA conferences, and has performed and presented numerous masterclasses and ensembles. Dr. Thornton is an active private teacher and has over fifteen years of experience teaching students of all ages both online and in person. She has several articles on pedagogy published in Flute Talk and The Instrumentalist. She is Membership Secretary of the New York Flute Club, Treasurer of the New Jersey Flute Society, and proudly serves on the Board of Trustees of the College Light Opera Company.

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Schuyler earned her B.M. in Performance and B.A. in Government from Lawrence University and Conservatory of Music, her M.M. in Performance from James Madison University, and her D.M.A. under the tutelage of Bart Feller at Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts.