In addition to his position as Music Director for the Pemigewasset Choral Society, William Gunn is the director of music at Plymouth Regional High School where he conducts the Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, and teaches a year long guitar elective. Gunn received his bachelor of music in music education from Ithaca College and his masters of music in conducting from Colorado State University. He has studied conducting with Wes Kenney, Dwight Bigler, Steve Peterson, and Eric Hammer. Gunn is the immediate past president of the New Hampshire chapter of the American Choral Directors’ Association and serves as the High School Repertoire and Resources chair for ACDA Eastern Region. 

Gunn’s school choirs have consistently received high ratings at local and regional festivals. In 2014, the PRHS Chamber Singers were chosen to be the featured choir at the All New England Choral Festival. In 2016, the PRHS Concert Choir premiered a new work in collaboration with the ALS Association of New England and raised over two thousand dollars for ALS research. The new composition included text by a local author and community member who lost the battle to ALS in 2015. He has also collaborated on new commissions with Dr. Jonathan Santore and Michael John Trotta. Gunn regularly guest conducts and adjudicates at local and regional festivals. In 2018, he was a Conducting Scholar at the Delaware Choral Academy in Aix en Provence, France.

He lives in Plymouth with his wife Gaia and their pitbull-mix, Linny.

Pemi Choral is also very lucky to have such a talented accompanist. Laura V. Belanger received her degree from Manhattan School of Music where she studied under Bronson Ragan and Frederick Swan. She holds Choir Master (ChM) and Associateship (AAGO) certificates from the American Guid of Organists (AGO). Belanger is an active composer and has directed and accompanied choruses and church choirs throughout New England, including the University Glee Club of Providence, R.I. She is an avid enthusiast of musical theater and has served as music director for many community theater productions, including Once Upon a Mattress, Godspell, and Cinderella. In 2017, she was nominated for "Best Musical Direction in a Community Theater Production" by NH Theater Awards.

Belanger is retired from Steinert's Pianos where she was a Steinway sales consultant. She lives in the New Hampshire Lakes Region and serves as organist at the Sanbornton Congregational Church in Sanbornton, N.H.