Mary Cunningham Neumann leads The Halalisa Singers in her fourth year as Artistic Director. Active as a conductor, vocalist and flute soloist, she is the Adult Choir Director at the Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church. She is on the faculty of the Powers Music School and has a private teaching studio in her Lexington home.

Ms. Neumann earned a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Case Western Reserve University, a First Diploma from the Hochschule fuer Music und darstellende Kunst "Mozarteum" in Salzburg, Austria, and a Master Music in Flute Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Ms. Neumann has held faculty positions at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Cleveland Music School Settlement, Riverside Music School and Winchester Community Music School. She has performed frequently with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and as a flute soloist throughout the Boston Area.

She currently serves as president of the Lexington Music Club and resides in Lexington with her two teen-aged children and husband, Eric.