Mariana Corichi Gómez, current Rita E. Hauser Fellow at the Curtis Institute of Music, is a conductor and vocalist from Mexico City. A bicultural artist, Mariana seeks to celebrate her musical traditions and identities through her work on the podium. As a Conducting Fellow at Curtis, Mariana works under Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Jim Ross, and conducts in performance with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra and Curtis New Music Ensemble.

In 2024, Mariana served as Assistant Conductor to the National Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Music Institute at the Kennedy Center. While conducting in the D.C area, she debuted with the Georgetown University Orchestra and made her pit debut with the Maryland Opera Studio in a performance of Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas. In the 2024-2025 season, Mariana will make her Kimmel Center Debut conducting the Curtis Symphony Orchestra in concert, where she will share the stage with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Yuja Wang.

Equally comfortable conducting orchestras and choirs, Mariana served as the Associate Director of Choirs at Princeton University’s Department of Music. In this role, she co-directed the Princeton University Glee Club along with its new ensemble, Alegría, a choir dedicated to Latin American & Latino repertoire. As Associate Director, Mariana conducted orchestral ensembles of the collegiate and professional level, including a performance with NYC artist-led collective, Decoda. At Princeton, Mariana served as the Director of Trenton Youth Singers, a youth choir for public school students in the greater Trenton area. Previously, she worked as a Teaching Artist at the Yale School of Music, Music in Schools Initiative.

At Curtis, Mariana will be the first conductor to complete a three-year fellowship in operatic and symphonic conducting, working closely with Curtis Opera faculty and assistant conducting Curtis Opera productions. In March 2025, Mariana will assistant conduct Le Nozze di Figaro at Curtis, conducted by Nicholas McGegan and directed by Marcus Shields. Mariana previously served as Assistant Conductor to the Maryland Opera Studio, where she conducted works by Puccini, Britten, Mozart, Mazzoli, and Catán.

In June of 2023, Mariana was a Conducting Fellow at the National Orchestral Institute + Festival where she studied with Marin Alsop and conducted the world premiere of “Pressure System” by Dayton Hare. Further conducting studies include masterclasses with Gustavo Dudamel, Jonathon Heyward, and Joseph Young.

As a consort singer, Mariana has the pleasure of performing with acclaimed professional choirs in the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2024, Mariana joined the roster of the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers and made her debut in a Juneteenth performance beside Wynton Marsalis. In 2019, Mariana sang as a guest artist with Grammy-nominated choir Tenebrae, as part of their Russian Treasures regional tour. She sang with the consort group Gallicantus in Death of Classical’s concert series presenting Mass for the Endangered, written by Sarah Kirkland Snider. Mariana has workshopped and premiered roles in new operas and music theater pieces, as well as performed solo recitals of Latin American and Spanish repertoire.

As a composer, Mariana explores themes of memory, grief, and cultural dissonance. She presented her original song cycle, La Casa del Árbol: An Immigrant’s Story of Loss and Forgiveness as her senior thesis. She is a past recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts and the Edward T. Cone Memorial Prize, both presented annually to a graduating senior who has demonstrated excellence in performance, execution, or composition in one of the arts.

Mariana has conducted ensembles in the United States, Europe, and Mexico, including a performance in Centro Cultural Ollin Yoliztli, Mexico City. During her time at the University of Maryland, Mariana served as Conductor of the University’s Repertory Orchestra, Assistant Conductor to the University Orchestra, and led cross-disciplinary projects with choirs involving the greater Maryland community. For three years, she served as Music Director of Princeton Camerata, a chamber orchestra championing new works. In her role as Program Associate for Trenton Arts at Princeton, Mariana helped coordinate the “The Neighborhood Music Project” in conjunction with Princeton University Concerts, where she worked with artists such as Conrad Tao, Caleb Teicher, Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason.

In 2021, Mariana graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University. She received her Masters of Music in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Maryland, studying under David Neely. In her career, Mariana seeks cross-disciplinary collaborations as a means of centering underrepresented stories. She’s deeply passionate about bringing new works to life and reimagining classic symphonic masterpieces. As an educator, Mariana offers private lessons in musicianship at all levels, voice, and conducting.