Mary Neumann
Director of Children and Youth Choirs
Ms. Neumann received a B.S. in Music Education from Case Western Reserve University, a First Diploma from the Hochschule fuer Music und darstellende Kunst "Mozarteum" in Salzburg, and a M.M. in Flute Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music. She has studied flute with Maurice Sharp, Helmut Zangerle and Josef Juhos, early music performance with Nicolas Harnoncourt, Doris Ornstein and Ross Duffin and conducting with Malcolm Tait, Kurt Pretzlef and Carl Topilow. She is on the faculty of the Powers Music School and has a private teaching studio in her Lexington home. She has held faculty positions at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Cleveland Music School Settlement, Riverside Music School and Winchester Community Music School.Active as a musician, she performs frequently with the Halalisa Singers, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and as a flute soloist throughout the Boston Area. She is also president of the Lexington Music Club. Her non-musical life focuses around her two children and her husband, Eric.