British soprano Maryam Wocial is a member the Royal College of Music's International Opera Studio, where she studies with Mary Nelson and is the Poppy Holden Scholar supported by the Martin Harris Scholarship and H R Taylor Trust. Recent awards include 2nd prize at the 2025 International Handel Singing Competition and the Prix Thierry Mermod at the 2025 Verbier Festival. She has performed as a concert soloist at the Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall in London, as well as the Queen’s Hall and Usher Hall in Edinburgh.

 

A keen interpreter of song, Maryam was an Atelier Lyrique artist at the 2025 Verbier Festival and worked on her repertoire alongside world-class performers including Veronique Gens, Thomas Hampson, and Benjamin Appl. She was also a Rising Star of Voice during the 2025 Edinburgh International Festival, working alongside pianist James Baillieu, as well as the 2025 Shipston Song Festival, working alongside pianist Ian Tindale.

 

In 2024, she made her debut with the Mozartists and was the inaugural vocalist on The English Concert’s early careers fellowship programme. During her Masters at the RCM, she performed the roles of Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Ilia (Idomeneo), and The Governess (The Turn of the Screw) in opera scenes, as well as the Angel in Jonathan Dove’s contemporary opera Seven Angels.

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As a Josephine Baker Trust artist, she has performed with several music societies across England. Concert highlights include performing as Merab in Handel’s Saul, Marta in Caldara's Maddalena ai Piedi di Cristo, and soprano soloist in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Mozart’s Mass in C and Litaniae Lauretanae K195, Haydn’s Missa Sanctae Caeciliae, Bach’s St John Passion, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, and Couperin’s Trois Leçons de Ténèbres.

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Before joining the RCM, Maryam studied Music at the University of Oxford, graduating in 2023 with first class honours.

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