Enriching our community with joyful music & performances since 1988.

Louis Tusz is the passionate and highly talented Director of the Huntsville Community Choir. He is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario where he studied voice with Peter Wall and Ginette Duplessis, and choral techniques with Deral Johnson. He began his teaching career at Huntsville High School in 1988, teaching instrumental and vocal music, as well as music recording techniques. With the support of Marion Haggart and the Muskoka Musical Arts Society, he started the Huntsville Community Choir in 1989, the same year he became the string bass player for the Trillium Dixie Jazz Band. In retirement, he continues to collaborate with other musicians and ensembles in a variety of musical styles including, most recently, conducting Vivaldi’s Gloria with the Whispering River Orchestra

Kristine's lifelong passion for music began with early piano lessons, quickly achieving her Gr. 9 RCM. Moving to Huntsville at 12, she played various instruments in Huntsville High School bands. She met her husband in Huntsville and homeschooled their four children. Kristine trained at the Southwestern Ontario Suzuki Institute and has taught Suzuki Piano since 2006 at Muskoka Music Centre. She has accompanied countless recitals for the Huntsville Suzuki School of Music and is active in her church's music ministry at Riverside Baptist. In 2007, she became the Huntsville Community Choir accompanist, working with Sherisse Stevens, Jillian McDougall, and Louis Tusz. After a brief hiatus, she returned in 2024 to work with Louis and the Choir again.