is a professional choral conductor and private voice teacher based in Peterborough, NH. Her voice studio serves students of varying abilities and needs, from timid beginners to experienced soloists, and of all ages, from children to adults. She is a Certified McClosky Voice Technician. Her current choral conducting activities include her position as director of the Grand Monadnock Youth Choirs, which she founded in 1997 and consists of more than 70 children in four auditioned ensembles; the music directorship of the Peterborough Unitarian Church; and Chorus Director at the Monadnock Waldorf High School in Keene, NH. Maria also is active as a soprano soloist throughout the Monadnock region, and in this capacity she has performed leading roles in operatic and musical theatre productions and appears often in churches, community events, benefits, and occasional solo recitals.