Nora Setliffe Kile, a Chattanooga native, earned her B.M. and M.M. degrees i flute performance from the College- Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati, where she studied with George Hambrecht. She is flutist for the New Art Trio and second flute with the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera Orchestra. She is head of the flute faculty at the Cadek Conservatory of Music at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and on the adjunct faculty for Bryan College in Dayton, TN, and Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, TN.

Her love of flute choirs started with ther participating in the flute ensemble classes at CCN coached by Robert Cavally. She has conducted flute choir workshops in Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Texas, and North Carolina. An active member of the National Flute Association, she has served on panels for flute choir organization, and arranging for flute choirs at the 1996 NFA conventions. She was a member of the 1989 NFA Professional Flute Choir, coordinated the flute choir reading sessions at the 1997 convention after conducting one at the 1995 convention, and was the conductor of the 1999 Professional Flute Choir. She is a charter member of the National Flute Choir, which has recorded ten flute choir CD's to date.

She has assisted with the flute ensembles classes at the Wildacres Flute Retreat for the past 18 years, and has several flute choir arrangements published by ALRY Publications, Falls House Press, and Little Piper, as well as arrangements for chamber trio.