Dorothy has a degree in music education and has been a choral conductor as well aa a public school teacher.

As a teenager she was influenced by the Society of Ancient Instruments in Philadelphia which drew her to an interest in early music.

Dorothy has sung in choirs in Philadelphia, Princeton, and Sacramento. She has taken master classes on the viola da gamba with Mary Springfels, Martha McGaughy, and Margriet Tindemans, and is currently studying with Julie Jeffrey. As her schedule allows, Dorothy attends as many viola da gamba workshops as possible, playing treble, tenor and bass viols. In Sacramento she enjoys playing in a consort of viols.

When not engaged in music, Dorothy's day job is as a social worker with the developmentally disabled.