Mary Setrakian

Mary Setrakian is a native of San Francisco, California. She has been a resident of New York City for forty years performing professionally, in conjunction with teaching master voice to a variety of artists in New York, Los Angeles, and internationally in Italy, Australia, England, Portugal, Russia, and Armenia. Mary’s new book, SING, Find Your True Voice is a #1 Best Seller in voice on Amazon.

As a Master Voice Teacher, Mary prepared Nicole Kidman for her Golden Globe Award–winning and Oscar–nominated performance in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge. She has been the Master Voice Teacher to Oscar winners Forest Whitaker and Kate Winslet, Grammy award winners Michael Bolton and Mary J. Blige, Emmy Award-winner Kerry Washington, as well as the stars of John Turturro’s musical movie Romance & Cigarettes, including James Gandolfini, Mandy Moore, and Bobby Cannavale. Mary prepared Bella Thorne for her feature film singing debut in Midnight Sun. Mary was called upon by Disney to teach the leading players in the Broadway companies of Elton John’s Aida, Billy Elliot, The Lion King, and Phil Collins’ Tarzan. She was the vocal coach to Ben Daniels for his performance as Pontius Pilate in JC Superstar Live on NBC starring John Legend, and has been Broadway star Sierra Boggess’ teacher since Sierra was 17 years old.

Mary has been seen on Broadway in Hello, Dolly! starring Carol Channing. She toured with the Broadway companies of The Phantom of the Opera (Madame Giry), Les Miserables, Hello, Dolly!, and the World Tour of Evita (as Eva Peron in Duisburg, Germany). Mary was featured at Carnegie Hall in Jubilee directed by Herbert Ross.

Mary’s award winning “Best Actress” regional roles include Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, Trina in Falsettos, the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and her critically acclaimed one-woman show, A New York Romance. The LA Times exclaimed “Chanteuse Setrakian is … dazzling!”

Mary holds a Masters in Voice Performance with Distinction from the New England Conservatory and is a graduate of Stanford University in Music/Voice with Honors. She studied at the Tanglewood Music Festival with Phyllis Curtin and was a voice student of Joan Heller, Mark Pearson, Marie Gibson, and Corinne Swall. She has studied acting with her mentor, Susan Batson, for over thirty years.