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The Tucson Girls Chorus, founded in 1985, is a non-profit, choral education program that works with girls from 1st grade to 12th grade. The chorus is split into five separate choirs and has over 100 members.

The mission of the Tucson Girls Chorus is "to prepare a diverse group of young women to be confident leaders through participation in a well-constructed educational program that emphasizes music, performance, leadership training and community service," as stated on their website.

The Advanced Choir
The highest level choir of the Tucson Girls Chorus, the Advanced Choir is comprised of mainly high school students from across the Tucson area. Each summer they tour domestically or internationally, with some of their more notable tours being in 2006 to England, Scotland, and Wales, in 2008 to Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic, and in 2009 to New York City to sing in Carnegie Hall.

Artistic Director
In 2006 Marcela Molina became the artistic director of the Tucson Girls Chorus. A native of Bogotá, Colombia, Molina is currently completing her doctoral studies in choral conducting at the University of Arizona. She holds a master’s degree in choral conducting from the University of Arizona and a bachelor’s degree in theory and composition from Westminster Choir College.

From 2003 to 2006, Molina was the assistant conductor of the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus. In 2002 Ms. Molina was on the theory faculty for the select Young Artist Certificate Program at the Westminster Conservatory, the community music school of Westminster Choir College.

As a member of the Westminster Symphonic Choir, Molina sang under the batons of Joseph Flummerfelt, Kurt Masur, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Zdenek Macal, and Sir Colin Davis. Molina has studied under the tutelage of Drs. Bruce Chamberlain, Elizabeth Schauer, James Jordan, and Andrew Megill, and Professor Allan Crowell. In the fall of 2005, she contributed four articles to the book Teaching through Performance in Choir, Volume 2.

Marcela Molina is currently the artistic director of The Tucson Girls Chorus, the Tucson Masterworks Chorale and the music director at Christ Presbyterian Church.