Mary Hubbell, described in the New York Times as “a soprano with a sweetly focused tone,” excels in a wide range of styles, from early to modern music. Orchestral engagements include singing in the solo quintet in Louis Andriessen’s Tao with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the direction of David Robertson, and the solo soprano part of Nielsen’s Symphony No. 3 with the Orkestvereniging Musica under the direction of Hans Leenders. She has appeared as a featured soloist with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (Kapilow’s Green Eggs and Ham), the Beaufort Symphony Orchestra (Mozart’s Exsultate jubilate), the South Hadley Chorale in Massachusetts (Haydn’s Creation and Mozart’s Mass in C minor), the Amherst College Choral Society (Schubert’s Ständchen), and the Williams College Wind Ensemble (Ogren’s Evening Music and Ticheli’s Angels in the Architecture).
Ms. Hubbell is an active performer of early music. She has performed with The Arcadia Players (MA), The Transfiguration Early Music Ensemble (NYC), and the Amherst Early Music Festival (CT). She appeared as a soloist in Vivaldi’s Beatus vir with the Chorale Society of the Hamptons (NY), and Bach’s Cantata BWV 202 (“Wedding”) with Musica Viva of New York. While living in the Netherlands, she was a frequent soloist with early music ensembles La Prunelle Ensemble and Praetorius Blokfluit Ensemble.
An accomplished recitalist, Ms. Hubbell has performed art song and chamber music in a variety of venues, including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC. She frequently appears in chamber music series such as “Concerts at Seven” (Plainfield, MA), “Music in the Noon Hour” at Smith College (Northampton, MA), and “Concerts on the Canal” (Holyoke, MA).
Ms. Hubbell maintains a strong commitment to new music and has appeared at the contemporary music venues of the Young Composer’s Festival in Apeldoorn and the Gaudeamus Festival in Amsterdam. In 2014 she performed with role of Katherine Wright in Jocelyn Hagen’s opera Test Pilot in Minnesota. She has appeared as a soloist with counter)induction, the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Composer’s Voice Series, and others. She has also participated in the Women Composers Festival in Hartford, CT and the Queens New Music Festival in NY. She regularly performs with flutist Alice Jones as the duo conText, which presents 20th and 21st century music and has commissioned new works from the composers Gregory W. Brown, Inés Thiebaut, and Eric Nathan.
Ms. Hubbell lives in western Massachusetts, where she is a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (Robert White), as well as a First Phase Degree in Classical Singing from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (Meinard Kraak, Gerda van Zelm, Lenie van den Heuvel), a Masters Degree in Voice from the University of California, Santa Barbara (Elizabeth Mosher), and continues private studies with Maureen O'Flynn.
