Maria Fuller

Conductor

Canadian Conductor Maria Fuller is one of Canada’s captivating musical personalities. Described as a polymath, Maria performs internationally as a conductor, trumpeter, and pianist and is also an acclaimed vocal coach, award-winning composer and sought after arranger. She conducts the symphonic, ballet and operatic repertoire, is a thoughtful curator of family and educational programs, and is an arranger and composer of fresh cinematic music containing a “new baroque” twist. In all that she does, Maria “radiates energy” (Ruch Muzyczny) and is gaining a reputation for her “vivid imagination, energetic personality” (Kalejdoskop) “precise gesture, and sensitivity to detail” from the podium (Ruch Muzyczny). In 2026, Maria was nominated for the Heinz Unger Conducting Award, a Betty Mitchell award for Outstanding Musical Direction, and a YYC Music Award for “Classical Recording of the Year” for her oratorio “The Christmas Messiah.”

Fuller is the Founding Music Director of Ammolite Opera, Calgary, and alongside Co-Founder Tayte Mitchell they have received six Betty Mitchell Award nominations in two years. After being a finalist at the 11th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Conducting Competition, Poland in 2023, Maria’s career has taken her to the European stage. As a conductor of opera, she has worked at the Teatr Wielki w Łodzi, Poland, the infamous Narodní Divadlo, Prague, and as a symphonic conductor with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Belgium as their Assistant Conductor. This summer, Maria is on faculty at the Trentino Music Festival, Italy as head coach, and conductor.

Last season’s highlights include a mentorship with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitan, and debuts with the Filharmonia Opolska, Okanagan Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Rochester Philharmonic, and the Rocky Mountain Symphony. Maria looks forward to the second performance of her oratorio “The Christmas Messiah” with Ammolite Opera this December 6th at Grace Presbyterian Church, Calgary.