Gyan Singh maria

In the 2025–2026 season, Gyan continues his tenure as the Conducting Fellow at Portland Opera, where he assists on Puccini's La Bohème and Verdi's Messa da Requiem and coaches for Spears's Fellow Travelers. Gyan looks forward to continuing his relationship with Portland Opera in the 2026–2027 season, where he will conduct a double bill of Frida Kahlo and the Bravest Girl in the World and Stone Soup.

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In 2025 Gyan was appointed Music Director and Executive Leadership Fellow at the Muses Project after a successful conducting debut. Throughout 2026, he conducts a series of concerts — Celtic Spring, Broadway!, Broken Standards, and Voices of Angels. Concurrently, he collaborates with the CEO to design and build productions, create budgets, and assist with rehearsals, performances, and artist management.

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In previous seasons, Gyan music directed the world premiere of Shizue: An American Story and assisted on Paul Moravec’s The Shining at Portland Opera. At Fargo-Moorhead Opera, he conducted sold-out performances of Michael Ching’s Speed Dating Tonight!, and he was the Associate Conductor for Puccini’s Turandot.

 

In addition to his work in opera, he has served as the Music Director of the Trans-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra and the Sale Male Voice Choir. He was also the Associate Conductor of the Danube Symphony Orchestra, the South Liverpool Orchestra, the Northern Ballet School, the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, and the Macclesfield Oriana Choir.

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Gyan has been a member of music staff for productions of Tosca, La fille du régiment, Les pêcheurs de perles, and Attila with Sarasota Opera; Suor Angelica with Opera Lucca; Le Nozze di Figaro with the Austrian American Mozart Academy; The Pilgrim's Progress with British Youth Opera; Così fan tutte with Opernfest Berlin; Don Giovanni, Lakmé, and Alcina with Chicago Summer Opera; Ariadne auf Naxos with Pacific Northwest Opera; and selections from Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde, and Das Rheingold with New York Dramatic Voices.

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Gyan Singh Maria was born into diverse and disparate musical cultures. His paternal grandfather, a Kolkata-born resident of Hong Kong, was a North Indian classical musician; his maternal grandfather, an Esztergom-born resident of Budapest, was a Romani violinist. He studied in Rome, Berlin, London, Budapest, and Aix-en-Provence.