Carol Menges spent most of her professional career in the Greater Seattle area as a musician, teaching all ages and levels of students piano, organ, choral conducting, choral technique and composition. After graduate school in choral conducting, she became an off-campus instructor for Western Washington University (Bellingham, Washington, USA), offering WWU credit for music history and theory. She organized choral performance ensembles Marysville Musicale, Puget Sound Children's Chorus (with Judith Nielsen), Marysville Mormon Children's Choir, and Song Arising, plus music festivals for adult singers, music teachers and children. She now lives in Boise, Idaho, USA.