Mary is an award-winning composer whose works have been performed by The Riot Ensemble, CHROMA, BCMG, The Carice Singers, CoMA London, and featured on CamFM. She has received commissions from The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge, The Ripieno Choir and mainly slow organ music, and her opera Esther: a voice for the voiceless was premiered by Cambridge University Opera Society under her baton. She founded her own New Music Festival at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with Nico Muhly and Diana Burrell and takes a keen interest in collaboration and improvisation: a prominent topic in her presentation at the Phoenix Music Society Conference 2022. She continues to explore new music as a conductor, having been Musical Director of her own opera and MD of an original musical premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022. Mary graduated from The University of Cambridge with a BA(Hons) in Music and is currently studying MMus Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, where she was awarded a Bertie Douglas Haywood Award and receives tuition from Philip Cashian.
for SSAA choir
for solo soprano and string quintet