Please see more testimonials in the photos and videos section. Mary is an award-winning electronic pop singer, songwriter, music producer, and coach who has been featured in publications including the Washington Post. She is an international opera singer turned Gypsy jazz singer, guitarist, songwriter, and audio engineer turned music producer. She now focuses on singing, writing, and releasing dance-pop music. She has a professional performance background of 28 years and 15 years of teaching experience to over a thousand students. She loves to coach musicians to find their voice and write and perform their original music. As an artist, Mary's music has gone to NBC’s World of Dance for millions of live television viewers and her songs have been performed at music festivals throughout the world. She has experience both behind the mic and as an audio engineer in New York City for multi-platinum artists and producers. Her six electronic-pop-world-jazz albums have won the Grand Prize in the Professional Artist Support System Songwriting Competition, New Artist of the Year, and Best Debut Album with the Washington Area Music Association. Her students have won the Making A Star Competition at the Apollo Theater in New York, Young Artist Of The Year with the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest, and First Place in the USA Songwriting Competition. She was granted an Artist-In-Residence position at the Brooklyn Arts Council and Strathmore and has twice served as a panelist granting fellowships to artists with the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She was also an artist fellow at the Transmute Retreat at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Mary has headlined at the Rainbow Room at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, and Blues Alley. She’s also collaborated and performed with Cuban hip hop artists at Fábrica de Arte Cubano, competed in the Apollo Theater’s National Tour, sung at Carnegie Hall, sung the national anthem solo and a capella for Major League Baseball and Soccer teams over two dozen times, featured as a lead voiceover in games by EA Games, and resided in Romani caravans as a vocalist, songwriter, and Gypsy jazz guitarist at the Festival de Django Reinhardt in Samois sur Seine, France. Mary's sound has been deeply influenced by experiences ranging from studying and performing opera and jazz internationally, creating an artist retreat in Havana, Cuba, writing and recording a Cuban jazz album in Havana, writing and recording on a collaborative Cuban hip hop album, and writing music with refugees in Greece as the Music Director the Campfire Project at the Ritsona Refugee Camp. She’s also studied advanced Ableton programming for live performance and controllerism with Laura Escudé of Electronic Creatives (Kanye West, Jay Z, The Weeknd, Ariana Grande, etc.) and DiViNCi, controllerist for Ms. Lauryn Hill. Mary holds a Bachelor of Music from the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montréal, Canada, where she studied classical voice and digital composition. She has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, Cuba, England, France, Austria, Italy, Greece, and Switzerland, and is based in Los Angeles.