Mezzo-Soprano
Photo Credit: Lucky Tang, Toronto Summer Music Festival 2025
Mezzo-soprano Mairin Srygley is a multifaceted interpreter of opera, art song, and contemporary music, known for her sharp musicianship, “palpable sincerity and sizable voice”. Most recently, DC Theater Arts praised her “sensational” debut as Sister Helen in Dead Man Walking (Opera AACC, USA).
This season, Mairin will make her soloist Messiah debut at the Basilica of the Assumption with Ed Polochik, reprise the role of Mother in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel at Maryland Opera’s Children’s Festival, and compete in the NATS Artist Awards. She will also join the ensembles in Annapolis Opera’s Don Giovanni and Maryland Opera’s Madama Butterfly, and will continue as an Outreach Artist with Maryland Opera. She looks forward to the release of composer Phlippe Treuille’s album Trilogy, where she can be heard in her first studio recording project.
In the 2024–25 season, Mairin debuted the roles of Sister Helen in Dead Man Walking under the direction of Maestro Quinton Folks, protégée of Marin Alsop, and Sheila in Whitacre’s newest chamber opera Gift of the Magi with Opera AACC, Maryland. She made her solo debut at the Chesapeake Arts Center’s Hammonds Lane Theatre in Home for the Holidays! of the Maryland Concert Series and reprised the role of Narrator in Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard with Opera AACC. She later made her debut as an invited artist in the Immanuel Concert Series — in collaboration with organist Chris Schroeder, they premiered Return, Beautiful Era, a 17th–19th century dramatic song program specially curated for the organ of Immanuel on the Green. To close out of the season, Mairin completed fellowships with the Mostly Modern Festival and the Toronto Summer Music Festival.
In the 2023–24 season, Mairin unveiled an innovative multi-sensory recital series in collaboration with pianist Sira Jittapirom, beginning with When I Am Alone, a program exploring the poetic, traumatic, spiritual, liberating, and comedic experiences of isolation during COVID-19. She also debuted two roles: Sesto in a collaboratively staged production of Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito under Maestra Elinor Rufeizen, protégée of Barbara Hannigan, in Delaware; and Narrator (multiple treble solos) for a new semi-staged production of Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard with Opera AACC and director Doug Byerly.
In the 2022–23 season, Mairin debuted three opera roles: Penelope in Penelope and the Geese, an intimate retelling of Odysseus’ wife’s story by Milica Paranosic and Cheri Magid with UD Lyric Theatre in Athens and the Corfu Museum of Asian Art, Greece; Mother Gertrud in a groundbreaking 3D immersion production of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel under conductor Aaron Breid with Miami Beach Classical Music Festival, Florida; and the title role in Handel’s Rinaldo with Chicago Summer Opera directed by Greg Eldridge. On the recital platform, she joined the UD Percussion Ensemble in Cerrone’s Goldbeater’s Skin, the Chicana Art Song Project in a celebration of Día de los Muertos, and award-winning pianist Junwen Liang for What She Said, a recital juxtaposing Debussy’s Chansons de Bilitis with love songs by Germaine Tailleferre, Alice Sauvrecis, and Pauline Viardot.
Highlights of earlier seasons include solo appearances with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Newark Symphony Orchestra, the Harford Choral Society, and the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, as well as engagements under the batons of Marin Alsop, Helmuth Rilling, and Kenneth Slowik.
Mairin has garnered recognition from the University of Maryland–College Park (full funding; Presser Scholar Award 2012), University of Delaware (full funding; Concerto Competition Finalist 2023), Mostly Modern Festival 2025 (Voice Fellowship; Runner-Up, Concerto Competition), Rochester International Vocal Competition 2025 (Semi-Finalist), Jennifer Rowley’s Epic Auditions 2024 (First Place, Professional Division), NATS Eastern Region Auditions 2024 (First Place, Non-traditional Classical Division), Greater Philadelphia NATS Auditions 2023 (First Place, Adult Classical Division), Classical Singer Competition San Francisco 2023 (Semi-Finalist, Professional Classical Division), and Vocal Arts DC Young Artists Competition 2013 (Finalist).
Ensemble Singer
Photo Credit: unknown, University of Maryland Chamber Singers with Dr. Edward Maclary, ca. 2011
Mairin has extensive experience in ensemble musicianship and sight-reading, having sung in sacred and secular choirs since 2004. As of 2024–25, she is a staff soloist and section leader at First English Lutheran Church Baltimore.
She continues to sing as a first-call substitute and seasonally with the National Shrine of St. Alphonsus, Emmanuel Episcopal Church Baltimore, Elevation (Elevate Vocal Arts), and other professional groups in the Mid-Atlantic. Mairin is on the roster for opera choruses in the mid-Atlantic, including Annapolis Opera, Washington Concert Opera, and Maryland Opera. She is proud have completed her first chorus audition at the Metropolitan Opera in 2025. Mairin has also held staff and ringer positions at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, University of Maryland Concert Choir, Coral Cantigas, and Grace UMC Baltimore.
Through her training and work with UMD Chamber Singers and Concert Choir, Mairin sang under the batons of internationally recognized conductors, including Marin Alsop, Laurence Cummings, Christoph Eschenbach, Laurence Equilbey, Jason Max Ferdinand, Iván Fischer, Matthew Halls, Jonathon Heyward, James MacMillan, Nicholas McGegan, Gianandrea Noseda, Helmuth Rilling and Nathalie Stutzmann.
As a voice-speech therapist since 2022, Mairin specializes in voice disorders, hypermobility and the voice, and muscle tension dysphonia. She also has a research background in anti-racism and culturally sustaining services for allied-health professionals. She has presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention, Loyola University Maryland, MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, the Voice Foundation Symposium. She is a member of the nascent ENT International Consortium of the Ehlers-Danlos Society.
As a singing voice teacher and gender-affirming voice coach, Mairin draws on her voice-SLP clinical training, education experience, and performing artist background to maximize client outcomes. She believes learning to use your voice is possible for everyone. Influenced by Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy, she aims to foster an identity-affirming space using student-led dialogue, collaborative goal-setting, interoception training, primal sounds, motivational counseling, and holistic vocal health coaching.
Of special interest to Mairin is nervous system regulation and myofascial release for performing artists—she draws on her own experiences managing chronic health challenges and performance anxiety, as well as training with her current teacher Dr. Madeline Miskie (Windsong Voice Studio), Ruby Rose Fox (Muscle Music), Christine Schneider (Visceral Voice), Jill Miller (Tune Up Fitness), Walt Fritz (Foundations in Manual Therapy), ECHO Allied Health Professionals, Sarah Wilson (First We Make the Beast Beautiful) and many others.
Mairin has conducted masterclasses and workshops on singing efficiently and sustainably for the Baltimore School for the Arts, the Frederick Chorale, and Charm City Sings. She is the music director and co-clinical educator of Neuro Notes, a choir for people with Parkinson’s Disease and other acquired neurological disorders at the University of Delaware.
Voice Therapist & Singing Teacher
Photo Credit: UD Dept of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Neuro Notes rehearsal, 2024
Early Career
Photo Credit: Khandeya Sheppard, League of American Orchestra Conference 2017, featuring OrchKids
From 2013–2022, Mairin’s career focused on professional choral ensemble singing and music education inspired by El Sistema. From 2014–2018, she worked full-time as a Spanish–English bilingual site manager for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s OrchKids program—a woman of all trades who liaised with Baltimore City Public School leadership and teachers, curated during- and after-school music programming for PK–8 students, fostered relationships with families and neighborhood organizations, led a team of 20+ staff and teachers, and taught assorted PK–12 music classes.
This experience in the non-profit industry shaped her understanding of leadership, management, community building, and, most importantly, racial justice. Not all of her choices then were good or right, so she chose to learn—and continues to learn today—from the work of Baltimore Racial Justice Action, Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead, and many other racial justice leaders.
Mairin holds multiple degrees, including an M.M. in Vocal Performance from the University of Delaware (mentors: Dr. Noël Archambeault, Dr. Blake Smith, Dr. Kittie Verdolini), an M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology (mentors: Dr. Janet Preis, John Sloan), a B.A. in Vocal Performance (mentors: mezzo-soprano Delores Ziegler, Dr. Edward Maclary), and a B.A. in Education and Social Change in Latin America (mentor: Dr. Paula Beckman). She graduated salutatorian of a pre-conservatory high school program at the Baltimore School for the Arts.
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