British soprano Maryam Wocial is a member of the Royal College of Music's International Opera Studio, where she is the Poppy Holden Scholar supported by the Andrea Bocelli Foundation-Community Jameel Scholarship. She is supported by the International Opera Awards, the Drake Calleja Trust, and the Countess of Munster Trust’s Dame Janet Baker Award. Maryam is a Samling Artist, a Josephine Baker Trust Artist, a former Early Career Fellow with the English Concert (2024–25) and was 2nd prize-winner at the 2025 International Handel Singing Competition.

Her roles at the RCM's Britten Theatre include Sandrina in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera, the Fox in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, and the Angel in Jonathan Dove’s Seven Angels, as well as Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Ilia (Idomeneo), and the Governess (The Turn of the Screw) in scenes. Maryam was a 2026 Alvarez Emerging Artist at Garsington Opera, where she covered the roles of La Fortuna/ Giunone in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. This coming Autumn, she will perform the role of Drusilla in a concert tour of L’incoronazione di Poppea with the Academy of Ancient Music, directed by Laurence Cummings.

A keen interpreter of song repertoire, Maryam was awarded the Prix Thierry Mermod for her performances at the 2025 Verbier Festival’s Academy Atelier Lyrique. She performed as a ‘Rising Star of Voice’ at both the 2025 Edinburgh International Festival and 2025 Shipston Song Festival, and as a Waverley Young Artist at the 2026 Ryedale Festival. This autumn she joins the 2026/27 Oxford Song Young Artist Programme with duo partner Archie Bonham.