Twyla Brunson is a graduate of the University of Idaho and holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in vocal performance, Twyla taught junior high choral music for 33 years in Walla Walla and Sumner, WA, retiring in 2002. She has studied at the Kodaly Institute, Esztergom, Hungary, Orff Institute, Salzburg, Austria, and St. John’s and Kings’ Colleges at Cambridge University, England with John Rutter. She has sung with the Oregon Bach Festival Choir, Seattle Symphony Chorale, Walla Walla Choral Society, and currently Opus 7. In 1988, she was a member of the Washington State Delegation of Visual and Performing Artists to the Peoples’ Republic of China. Twyla received the Christa McAuliffe Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000.  She is a past president of the Northwestern Division of American Choral Directors and Washington ACDA.