Mezzo-soprano Mairin Srygley is a multifaceted singer-actress and entrepreneur, recently praised for her “sensational” debut of Sister Helen/Dead Man Walking (Opera AACC, USA). An avid interpreter of opera, chamber music, and concert works, she has also been hailed for taking “a star turn” for her “palpable sincerity and sizable voice" in her portrayal of Gertrud/Hansel and Gretel (Miami Classical Music Festival) by South Florida Classical Review. She is also known for diving head first into last-minute offers using her expert musicianship as needed, problem-solving skills, creative intuition, and professionalism to make the best of any situation. Mairin draws on her varied life experience in the arts, sciences, languages, and healthcare to bring her best self to colleagues, mentors, clients, students, and audiences for productions, concerts, voice-speech therapy, and singing lessons.

Mairin is passionate about advancing justice in and through the arts, challenging traditions of classical music recitals, and sharing evidence-based information about vocal health. Notable recital programs include “When I Am Alone,” a multi-sensory 20th-21st century song program on isolation during COVID-19, “What She Said,” a juxtaposition of Debussy’s Chansons de Bilitis with the songs of Tailleferre, Sauvrecis, and Viardot, and “Return, Beautiful Era,” a one-of-a-kind 17th-19th century program curated for voice and organ. She regularly offers pro-bono vocal health consults to her colleagues from the University of Maryland, University of Delaware, Opera AACC, First English Lutheran Church, Miami Music Festival, Jennifer Rowley’s Aria Bootcamp, and any singer that is seeking evidence-based recommendations.

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. With an invitation to return to her alma mater Baltimore School for the Arts high school, she facilitated a masterclass on vocal health and technique that was described as superb, informative, and engaging by faculty and students. To close the spring season, she is excited to make her debut as an invited artist in the Immanuel Concert Series. In collaboration with organist Chris Schroeder, she will premiere “Return, Beautiful Era,” a one-of-a-kind 17th-19th century dramatic song program specially curated for the organ of Immanuel on the Green.

Summer 2025 plans will be announced soon!

In the 2023-24 season, Mairin unveiled an innovative multi-sensory recital series in collaboration with pianist Sira Jittapirom, starting with When I am Alone, a program that explores the poetic, traumatic, spiritual, liberating and even comedic experiences on 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 an intimate re-telling of Odysseus’ wife’s circumstances, Penelope and the Geese, by Milica Paranosic and Cheri Magid with UDLyric Theatre in Athens and the Corfu Museum of Asian Art, Greece; Mother Gertrud in a groundbreaking 3D immersion production of Humperdinck’s family classic Hansel and Gretel under conductor Aaron Breid with Miami Beach Classical Music Festival, Florida; and the title role of 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 song 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, and the Harford Choral Society, and engagements under the batons of Marin Alsop, Helmuth Rilling, and Kenneth Slowik.

As a skilled chorister, Mairin has sung professionally in sacred and secular ensembles including the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, University of MD Concert Choir, Coral Cantigas, and Grace UMC Baltimore. As of 2024-25, she is a staff soloist at First English Lutheran Church Baltimore and sings seasonly with the National Shrine of St Alphonsus, Emmanuel Episcopal Church Baltimore, Opera AACC, Annapolis Opera Company, and Elevation (Elevate Vocal Arts). Since 2023, she has been 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.

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), 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-trad 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).