Staff Members

Marty Renner-Hughes

Assistant Conductor

Marty Renner-Hughes is the Assistant Conductor as well as a charter member of the American Chamber Chorale.  She is newly retired after 25 years as a member of the music faculty at St. Louis Community College at Forest Park.  Ms. Renner-Hughes previously taught on the high school level in the St. Louis area and also served as a docent for Opera Theatre of St. Louis.

Ms. Renner-Hughes earned a BA in Music Education from St. Louis University, graduating summa cum laude. As a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, she studied voice at the Conservatoire Nationale de la France.  She returned to St. Louis and received her Master’s Degree in Vocal Music Education from Washington University as a recipient of a Nussbaum Fellowship.  Post-graduate work includes certificates from the Voice Care Network and courses in Choral Conducting and Voice.

Besides performing/directing music from the classical repertoire, she has directed and/or performed in numerous musical comedy productions throughout the St. Louis area. She is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, the Missouri Music Educators Association, and the Voice Care Network.  She is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Sigma Nu (Jesuit Honor Society), and Pi Delta Phi (the French Honor Society).

Bonnie Wilson

Accompanist

Bonnie Wilson has been an active church musician in the St. Louis area for over thirty-five years.  She discovered a love for choral accompanying early in life, as a member of the Parker Road Elementary School choir, under the direction of Elizabeth Hutcherson-Rucks.  Her life as a church musician was first cultivated by the congregation of Church of the Master UCC and its music director Priscilla Metzger.  She studied piano with Polly Goodwin and Mary Mottl, organ with Jule Hostetter, and further learned the art of accompanying in the voice studio of Dr. Susan McMane.

Bonnie holds a BA in music from Saint Louis University and a PhD in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  In her role as an economist, she is a public choice scholar and an Associate Professor of Economics at Saint Louis University.  She’s ever grateful to her parents, Ed and Janet Wilson, for the Everett spinet in the living room, and for all the piano and organ (and other) lessons.

Marsha Armentrout

Executive Director

Marsha holds a Bachelor of Science in Education with a major in voice from Southeast Missouri State University and a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Colorado State University. Her post graduate work includes twenty hours of music education from colleges and universities in Colorado, Illinois and Missouri.

Ms. Armentrout, a retired music educator, taught elementary music in the Pattonville School District in St. Louis, MO, and secondary choral music at Meramec Valley R-III School District in Pacific, MO for a combined twenty-seven years. In addition, for eighteen summers she worked at Geneva Glen Camps in Colorado where she gained extensive experience as Program Director, Administrative Assistant and Director of Music. 

Rachel Robison

Administrator

Rachel Robison has been an active member of the American Chamber Chorale since 2011, when she returned to choral singing after a long hiatus. A native of Taylorville, Illinois, she has been a singer and musician since early childhood. In addition to her involvement with the ACC, she is a member of the Salem Chancel Choir and the Belleville, Illinois-based No-Name Chorale.

Rachel holds a master’s degree in health administration from Webster University and just celebrated her 27th year at SSM Health, where she currently serves as a Project Manager in Philanthropy. When she’s not singing, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, working on her varied hobbies and wrangling her two rambunctious cats.