About
Canadian soprano Mary Jane Egan is quickly making a name for herself in Canada and abroad, praised for her clarity of tone, artistry and poise.
She is a graduate of and has received scholarships from the Canadian Vocal Arts Institute, Songfest, the Lachine Vocal Academy, the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music Opera Bootcamp Program, the Tel Aviv Summer Opera Festival, Summer Opera Lyric Theatre, the Domaine Forget Academy, and the Art Song Foundation of Canada.
In 2024, Mary Jane sang the role of "The Soprano" in Tom Johnson's The Four Note Opera at the Canadian Vocal Arts Institute under the baton of Simon Charette. She also made her debut singing some of Mozart's greatest opera works with David Bowser and the Toronto Mozart Players in April of 2024. Mary Jane made her Toronto opera debut in 2023, singing the role of Blanche in Summer Opera Lyric Theatre's production of Dialogues des Carmelites. In the summer of 2025, Mary Jane covered the role of Micaela in Bizet's Carmen at the Brott Music Festival in Hamilton, Canada.
A great lover of Oratorio and sacred music, Mary Jane has sung the soprano soloist in Dvorak's Te Deum (Cantabile Chorale), Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore (Mississauga Chamber Choir and Cantabile Chorale), G. Faure's Requieum (Mississauga Chamber Choir), Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem (McGill Symphony Orchestra), H. Goodale's Eternal Light (McGill University Concert Choir), and Handel's Messiah (Toronto Beach Chorale). In 2025, Mary Jane joined the Mississauga Chamber Singers again to perform Haydn's Paukenmesse. In the 2026 season, Mary Jane will make her debut performing Carmina Burana and Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass.
In the 2025 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, Mary Jane won an Encouragement Award in the Pittsburgh District. That same year, she was chosen to compete in the 11th Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition in Dublin, Ireland. In 2024, Mary Jane took home 2nd Prize at the Toronto Mozart Competition.
Mary Jane completed her Bachelors and Masters degrees at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University under the tutelage of Stefano Algieri. There, she was the recipient of the Gaelyne Gabora Memorial Prize, the Martha Schiller Memorial Award and the Duncan Campbell Memorial Award. She participated in numerous Opera McGill Productions, including Dialogues de Carmelites (2018) and Die Zauberflote (2019), and sang the role of Nora in R. Vaughn William's Riders to the Sea in Opera McGill's inaugural Horizons Project season.
Mary Jane began singing at a young age. Raised in a tradition of Renaissance polyphony and Gregorian chant, she spent her youth singing in the Toronto Oratory Children's Choir. At the age of 9, Mary Jane made her Carnegie Hall debut singing in the children's chorus of Oratorio Terezin, a work written by British-Canadian composer Ruth Fazal which set to music poems written by children in the Terezin ghetto during the Holocaust. These experiences, alongside a decade of Royal Ballet training and a lot of high school musical theatre, helped cement in Mary Jane not only a love of music, but the dedication and perseverance required in the pursuit of a musical career.