FLEMING, Shari

Shari Beatrice Fleming was an American composer, vocalist, and music educator from St. Johnsbury, Vermont. She attended St. Johnsbury schools including the Junior Conservatory of Music and graduated from there and St. Johnsbury Academy in 1952.

She then studied on scholarship at Peabody Conservatory of Music, later part of Johns Hopkins University. She graduated with degrees in harmony and composition while minoring in voice. Two years of graduate study followed. She then attended New England Conservatory in Boston where she earned a master’s degree in voice in 1966. She spent the summer of 1964 as a Vocal Fellow at Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Mass.