Mary Letellier

Style: Pop; Opera; Jazz; Folk; Classical; Musical Theatre

Title: President

Bio:

Soprano Mary Johnston Letellier (she/her) works with students of all ages and levels to develop cohesive, healthy, and beautiful voices. Dr. Letellier is passionate about creating an inclusive learning environment for students of all backgrounds, gender identities, and physical abilities. She strives to empower all students to become well-rounded musicians across classical, musical theater, contemporary commercial music, and jazz styles.

Dr. Letellier is earning her certification with a 3-year diploma at the Complete Vocal Institute in Copenhagen. She earned her doctorate at the New England Conservatory of Music for in Vocal Performance with a Minor in Musicology. She received her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Opera Performance from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She is currently a member of the voice faculty at University of Southern Maine, and 317 Main Community Music Center, as well as the Co-Founding Artistic Director of The Complete Voice, a summer workshop for aspiring professionals and motivated amateurs in both classical and musical theater performance. In 2013, Dr. Letellier founded her private vocal studio, MJL Voice Studio, which she has since grown to 60+ students. Her students have consistently placed highly at NATS and have garnered several other awards. Many have gone on to study at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Lawrence Conservatory of Music, Taylor University, Tanglewood, Schmidt Vocal Institute, and The Boston Conservatory at Berklee Musical Theater Intensives, and perform with Opera Maine, Opera in the Pines, Snowlion Repertory, Good Theater, Seacoast Repertory Theater, Rochester Opera House, Maine State Music Theater, Ogunquit Playhouse, and even the Metropolitan Opera. Dr. Letellier’s varied pedagogical interests have led her to develop coursework in vocal pedagogy, diction for singers, voice for instrumentalists, dramatic coaching, technology for singers, basic music theory, and accessibility in voice. She presented her “Listen Up” workshop, focused on teaching students with developmental disabilities, at 317 Main Community Music Center. Committed to her own professional development. Dr. Letellier has taken the Trans Voices Masterclass with Dr. Stephanie Weiss at Opera Programs Berlin, the Vocal Pedagogy Professional Workshop at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, the Acoustic Vocal Pedagogy Workshop at the New England Conservatory, Alexander Technique for the Audition Brain at The Empowered Musician, and many others.

She serves as the Governor of the New England Region of NATS, as well as the President of the Maine chapter of NATS, and has been an invited adjudicator at NATS New England (2021) and NATS Maine (2018). She is Founder and Co-Manager of the Maine chapter of Opera on Tap: Maine, and she remains an active member of the Society of Pi Kappa Lambda, the American Honor Society for Music. As a performer, she brings her warm, expressive voice and strong artistic instincts to a wide variety of repertoire.

Contemporary roles include Milica in Hogfish’s production of SVADBA and workshopping the role of Harpy with Mark Adamo for his Sarah in the Theater for New England Conservatory and Odyssey Opera. Favorite Classical and Romantic roles include Amelia in Opera in the Pines’ production of A Masked Ball, Musetta in Bar Crawl Bohème with Opera in the Pines, the Queen of the Night in NEC’s production of Die Zauberflöte, Violetta in Mass Opera’s unique production of La Traviata, covering the role of Musetta in Opera Maine’s La Bohème, and covering the role of First Lady in Die Zauberflöte with Opera Maine. In her musical theater career, she has enjoyed working with Snowlion Repertory, where she portrayed Grace in The Christmas Bride in Concert, premiered the role of Conrad/ Conradine in The Secret Princess, and originated the role of the Narrator in the premiere of Mesmerized. Other recent engagements on the musical theater stage include Julie/Carrie/Nettie/Louise in Carousel at Tophat Toy Theater, Franca Naccarelli in The Light in the Piazza and The Ghost of Christmas past in The Christmas Carol: The Musical, both at Biddeford City Theater. She has had the honor of singing the soprano soloist at the Assabet Valley Mastersinger's concert of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem. In addition, she made her debut as soprano soloist of Haydn's The Seasons with the Assabet Valley Mastersingers. As a recitalist, she has created Our Bodies, Our Voices; Le Petit Prince: A Musical Journey; Deep Magic of the Earth and Songs to the Moon; and East Meets West: Exoticism in Arias and Art Song. She was also thrilled to lend her voice to Still Dreaming: A Tribute to MLK at Milton Community Concerts, and to the Black Lives Matter Faculty Concert at the University of Southern Maine.

Also a sought after concert performer, Ms. Letellier has been a featured soloist in programs with Lyric Music Theater, Opera Maine, Port City Blue, Biddeford City Theater, and others. She won the New England Regional NATS Artist Award and the Anne Marie Gertz Award at the National NATS Artist Competition in 2022.

Voice Type: Soprano

Music Styles Taught: Pop; Opera; Jazz; Folk; Classical; Musical Theatre

Availability: I am available as a performer; I am currently accepting private students; I accept students through a college or university program

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