Who We Are: The Director 
Seth A. Hurd is a native of Maine and resides in Acton. Mr. Hurd earned a Bachelor of Music Degree with emphases in Organ and Conducting at the University of New Hampshire and a Master of Arts degree in Organizational Management at the University of Phoenix (AZ). While at UNH, he was a student conductor of the University Concert Choir and on tours in Jamaica and New York under the instruction of Cleveland Howard, Jr. while also studying conducting with Stanley Hettinger.
After his graduate degree he pursued a career in finance spanning private industry, public education, municipal government. He is currently an administrator at Berwick Academy in South Berwick, Maine and is also a member of the drama faculty. He has been the Music Director for the Upper School Musicals, coaching recent productions of The Boyfriend, Oklahoma!, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, and Oliver.
Mr. Hurd has worked in a number of non-profit arenas and has held positions on the local school board, finance committees, and on the board of the Old Berwick Historical Society. He is also no stranger to education, having taught 7th and 8th grade general music at Berwick Academy in the mid 1990's as well as chorus and general music in the Sanford School Department's Adult Education and Alternative Education Program from 1993 - 1998. His return to Berwick has found him not only directing the music in the Musicals and coaching students in music but on occasion co-teaching Art of Listening.
Mr. Hurd is the Director of Music and Organist at the North Parish Congregational Church in Sanford, Maine, a former Director (1993-1998) of the Sanford Community Chorus and a former Director (2005-2007) of the Seaglass Chorale (Kennebunk).
He also serves as the Placement Director for the Portland, Maine chapter of the American Guild of Organists and is a member of the American Choral Directors Association.