British soprano Maryam Wocial is a member of the Royal College of Music's Opera Studio, studying with Mary Nelson, where she is supported by the Poppy Holden scholarship and Martin Harris scholarship. Her roles whilst at the RCM include the Marchioness Violante Onesti (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.

 

A keen interpreter of song repertoire, Maryam was a ‘Rising Star’ artist at the 2025 Shipston Song Festival and the 2025 Edinburgh International Festival, and she was awarded the Prix Thierry Mermod for her performances at the 2025 Verbier Festival’s Academy Atelier Lyrique. Maryam will perform as a Waverley Young Artist at the Ryedale Festival in 2026.

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Maryam was awarded the Second Prize at the 2025 International Handel Singing Competition and was an Early Career Fellow with The English Concert from 2024–25. She is a Josephine Baker Trust artist, a 2026 International Opera Awards bursary recipient, and a 2026 Alvarez Emerging Artist with Garsington Opera, where she will cover the roles of Giunone/ La Fortuna in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria this summer.