Musical Staff

Director: Mary Hamilton

Mary HamiltonMary Hamilton served as Assistant Director for the Sunnyvale Singers for a year before becoming our seventh director in the Fall of 2013. Mary has been singing all her life including in high school and college choirs, community choirs, and caroling groups. She has always loved music and discovered the exquisite beauty of choral music at a young age, but figured out that she wanted to make music her life work about 15 years ago. Mary has a Bachelor’s degree in Earth Sciences from Stanford University and a Bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance, Music Education, and a Teaching Credential from San Jose State University.

Mary has accompanied choirs and toured in Europe with her children for 10 years with the Cantabile Youth Singers, founded by Signe Boyer. She also sang on tour in Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic in 2010 with the SJSU singers directed by Dr. Amanda Quist. Mary sings in a local chamber choir, Collage Vocal Ensemble, teaches chorus to middle school students in Los Altos, and lives in Mountain View with her husband and cat.

You can contact Mary at director@sunnyvalesingers.org

Previous Directors

Assistant Director: Margaux Millman

Margaux Millman is a native of Washington, D.C. She holds an undergraduate degree in music education from the University of Illinois, a masters degree in choral conducting from Northwestern University, and is finishing doctoral work in music education through the University of Illinois. For 7 years she taught middle and high school choir and ran a private voice and piano studio. Margaux is the music teacher at Yavneh Day School in Los Gatos. She has worked as a musician, conductor, and teacher throughout the Bay and directed the treble choirs at San Jose State University. She currently directs the Fun Time Singers in San Jose. Ms. Millman lives in Mountain View with her husband and three children.

Accompanist: Amy Huang

Amy Huang graduated from National Taiwan Normal University, majoring in piano, under the tutorship of many famous  pianists in Taiwan. Amy taught at Guangren Catholic Elementary School (Music Magnet) and Taipei Fuxing High School before moving to the Bay Area. In recent years, she has been active in the accompaniment of soloists and choirs. In 2017, she was the rehearsal pianist for the world premiere of the symphonic chorus “Patch the Sky”.

Previous Accompanists