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' Fellow Travelers. After a successful debut with the Muses Project, he continues as their Music Director. In 2026, he conducts a series of concerts throughout Arkansas — Celtic Spring, Broadway!, Broken Standards, and Voices of Angels. Also in Portland, he assists on Portland Symphonic Choir's production of Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil.
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, Guest Conductor with the Danube Symphony Orchestra, Guest Conductor with the South Liverpool Orchestra, Guest Conductor with the Northern Ballet School, Assistant and Cover Conductor of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Sale Male Voice Choir, and Guest Conductor with the Macclesfield Oriana Choir.
As a coach, répétiteur, and chorus master, he has worked throughout the world on 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.
Cultivating the skills and experience to lead within the musical performing arts, Gyan has partnered with Living Opera where he works as their Founding Fellow of the Portland Circle — an initiative that brings high-quality performances, educational programs, and creative projects directly to local audiences. In this capacity, he has the opportunity to share his artistry as a keyboardist and composer, to share his love of education through music, and to create an agile and resilient musical performing-arts series.
Gyan looks forward to continuing his relationship with Portland Opera as their Resident Artist Conductor 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.
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 conducting with Marcello Cormio and Alessandro Poleggi, keyboard with Tom Primrose and Norma Verilli, and composition with Raphael Fusco and Joseph Utterback.