Mary Martin

Mary Martin is an educator, director, and soprano from Michigan. Her recent position with DePauw University has included working with a lively voice studio, directing mainstage operas - most recently Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Rachel Portman's The Little Prince, and teaching courses such as lyric French, German, Italian and English Diction, Music for the Stage, and Beginning Class Voice. Her upcoming and recent operatic roles include Musetta (La bohème), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Governess (The Turn of the Screw), Alice (Falstaff), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro), and Antonia (The Tales of Hoffmann). Her concert work has included soprano solos in Carmina Burana, Handel’s Messiah, Fauré’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, and Purcell’s Come ye sons of art. Mary has performed with Central City Opera, Detroit Opera, South Bend Lyric Opera, Janiec Opera Company of Brevard Music Center, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the Battle Creek Symphony, Livingston Symphony Orchestra, Saginaw Chorale Society, Midland Symphony Orchestra, New York Opera Exchange, and Arbor Opera. Since 2019, Mary has directed Detroit Opera’s Operetta Remix - a program focusing on operatic and musical theatre repertoire for high school students. Mary earned her BM and MM degrees in voice from the University of Michigan, and her Doctor of Music from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where she served as an Associate Instructor and studied with Carol Vaness. She loves to read, experiment in the kitchen, and spend time with her rescue dog Andy. Mary is honored to join the Texas Tech School of Music faculty, and is excited to get started.