Tetsuya Sugita started working as Bethel’s Director of Parish Music (D.P.M.) on September 15, 2021, and was installed during Reformation on October 31, 2021. Mr. Sugita graduated from Concordia University Irvine in 1994 with a degree in church music. He continued to study organ performance and piano pedagogy at Cal State Fullerton. Mr. Sugita is from Yokohama, Japan. He has served at Lutheran churches in Anaheim, California, and Grand Island, Nebraska, prior to coming to Bethel. Tetsuya and his wife, Julie, have 4 children and 2 grandchildren.
