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Mary K. Wilson holds a BME from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MEd. with honors from National-Louis University. She studied in England at the Royal School of Church Music and with Nigel Wickens and Marjorie Thomas. Other graduate study was done at the University of South Florida. She was an Episcopal church musician and a voice teacher for forty years in Virginia, North Carolina and Missouri and serves as an adjunct professor at St. Petersburg (FL) College. She continues teaching private students at her own studio in St. Petersburg, Florida.

A soprano, Mary K. has performed as a soloist on National Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Radio with Sir David Willcocks conducting and in Germany with the St. Louis Chamber Chorus under Allen Larsen. She has performed as a soloist with the Florida Orchestra,with conductors Jahja Ling, Susan Haig, and Robert Romanski . She also sang with the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, Robert Summer conducting.

Mary K. first heard about David Blair McClosky in 1997 when she bought his books and attended a seminar in 2003 at Bentley College. "My experience with the McClosky Institute changed my life. After decades of recitals and professional performances, I thought I knew how to sing and how to teach until I found these fine master teachers and realized how much more there was to know.”

Mary K. is a member of NATS, ACDA, AGO, and the Association of Anglican Musicians. Mary K. and her husband, John, are proud parents of three sons who are all artists, and five grandchildren.

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