ABOUT

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 was recently commissioned to compose a new work for The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge, which has received multiple performances, including at their 40th Anniversary Evensong and internationally in Stockholm Cathedral. She was commissioned to write new works for 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 as Musical Director. Recently she was selected to compose a new work for The Carice Singers at the Cheltenham Festival 2023 as part of their Composer Academy, and she has also recently been commissioned to compose a new work to be premiered in the Wigmore Hall this coming year. Mary 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 improvisation: a prominent topic in her presentation at the Phoenix Music Society Conference 2022, alongside keynote speaker Jonathan Dove. 

Mary 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, and conducting in a range of venues from St Paul's Church Covent Garden to Bruges Cathedral, Belgium. Mary graduated from The University of Cambridge with a BA(Hons) in Music where she studied under Charlotte Bray, 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.