Marla Tusa grew up in rural Canada where she developed a love of choral music at a young age. She has a Bachelor of Music from Brandon University where she majored in voice with a piano minor and a Bachelor of Education from Vancouver Island University. She has over 15 years of classroom music experience, 20 years of private piano and voice lesson experience and has directed youth and adult choirs, musical theater productions, rock bands and concert bands. Mrs. Tusa taught music at Merryhill School in Santa Rosa from 1999-2004. She spent 10 years living on Vancouver Island where she sang with The Island Consort, directed music and choir at Brechin United Church and taught K-10 music and French at Aspengrove School. She directed the choir and taught music at Strawberry and Yulupa Elementary Schools from 2016-2019 and has taught music with Santa Rosa City Schools since 2019. Marla has sung with choirs her whole life and now sings alto with the chamber ensemble Cantiamo Sonoma. She is also the Director of the Training and Intermediate Groups of the Santa Rosa Children's Choral Academy