Mary Jane Austin earned her bachelor’s degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Olga Radosavljevich and Vivian Weilerstein. She then pursued graduate studies in vocal coaching and accompanying, studying both art song and opera at Duquesne University with Warren Jones and Claudia Pinza. She has worked as an accompanist and coach for six summers at the EPCASO opera program in Oderzo, Italy, with mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux, soprano Young Ok Shin, and baritones Richard Bernstein and Michael Chioldi, among others.

Closer to home, she co-founded the Sky Meadow Chamber Players in 2003, has worked at the Green Mountain Opera Festival as chorus pianist and repetiteur for their Emerging Artist Program, and has played with the Mad River Chorale, Onion River Chorus, Vermont Opera Theater and Echo Valley Community Arts. She has played for several silent films at the Vergennes Opera House. She is currently the organist at the Waterbury Congregational Church, accompanies the South Burlington Community Chorus and the Vermont Young Singers’ Chorus, and teaches at Johnson State College.

Mary Jane Austin earned her bachelor’s degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Olga Radosavljevich and Vivian Weilerstein. She then pursued graduate studies in vocal coaching and accompanying, studying both art song and opera at Duquesne University with Warren Jones and Claudia Pinza. She has worked as an accompanist and coach for six summers at the EPCASO opera program in Oderzo, Italy. Closer to home, she co-founded the Sky Meadow Chamber Players in 2003, has worked at the Green Mountain Opera Festival as chorus pianist and repetiteur for their Emerging Artist Program. She has played for several silent films at the Vergennes Opera House. She is currently the organist at the Waterbury Congregational Church, accompanies the South Burlington Community Chorus and the Vermont Young Singers’ Chorus, and teaches at Johnson State College.