Mairi Harris Grewar

Mairi Harris Grewar is a Scottish-American pianist and conductor. She studied piano in Washington, USA, before moving to London. She obtained her Master’s degree in piano accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she subsequently served as an »Advanced Artist Fellow« on the renowned opera course. As a member of the National Opera Studio in London during the 2019–2020 season, she performed at Opera North, the English National Opera and the Welsh National Opera. She was a participant and later a coach at the Solti Accademia in Italy and studied art song at the Franz Schubert Institute in Baden near Vienna. As a conductor, Mairi Harris Grewar has conducted performances of »The Nutcracker« and »Alcina« at the Landestheater Coburg. Since 2024, she has been working with the Tyrolean Ensemble for New Music, with whom she has conducted concerts in Innsbruck and Paris. Before joining the Gärtnerplatztheater in 2025, Mairi Harris Grewar was a solo coach at the Landestheater Coburg from 2020 to 2022 and at the Tyrolean State Theatre from 2023 to 2025. She also makes regular guest appearances at Opera Holland Park in London, most recently in »The Flying Dutchman«. From 2022 to 2023, she was chorus pianist and assistant at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and accompanied the chorus’s concert performance as part of the Daegu Opera Festival in South Korea. Alongside her work as a répétiteur, Mairi Harris Grewar performs recitals and duet concerts across Europe and America. In London, she performed as a song accompanist at the Barbican Concert Hall and Wigmore Hall, and could be heard on BBC Radio 4.