Maria has previously taught creative and healthy voice use at Northern School of Contemporary Dance and York St Johns University in UK for a number of years. From 2018 to august 2022, she worked as a music teacher at Hvalstad skole in Asker including teaching at their Special Needs Pedagogy unit “Regnbuen”. She also worked during 2019-2020 as a children’s choir conductor at Nesodden Kulturskole. Since august 2022 she has worked as a music and English teacher at Ås ungdomsskole.
Maria completed her PPU studies in music pedagogics at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo in 2019.