Mezzo-soprano Maya Sypert (formerly Hoover) is a professional classical singer, teacher, and author. Praised for her outstanding artistry, “vocal beauty of high technical caliber,” “vocal flare and flamenco abandon,” and “gifted storytell[ing],” she has performed in opera, concert, and recital throughout the United States, Europe, Latin America, and China. She has been a featured artist with Orquesta Sinfónico de Trujillo (Perú); Songs Across the Americas Festival (Bolivia); Bellingham Festival of Music; Bloomington Early Music Festival; Escuela de Artes Musicales, Universidad de Costa Rica; Auditorio Fabio Lozano (Bogotá, Colombia); Teatro Municipal (Trujillo, Perú), Tuscia Operafestival (Italy); Opera Fort Collins; Axelrod Performing Arts Center; Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra; Morris Choral Society; and Hawaii Opera Theatre. She has sung multiple times with the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra, most notably in concerts with renowned soprano Sumi Jo. She has performed regularly with pianist José Meléndez for over 28 years, and they are thrilled to be frequent teaching artists for the Art Song Preservation Society of New York as the representatives for Spanish and Latin American art song.

Maya Sypert holds a Doctor of Music degree in Voice Performance and Literature with a minor in Music Education from Indiana University, a Master of Music degree in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College, and a Bachelor of Music degree with a minor in Italian Language and Literature from Binghamton University. She has studied with Mary Burgess, Laura Brooks Rice, Patricia Havranek, Virginia Zeani, and she currently studies with Andrea DelGiudice. Her publications have appeared in Classical Singer, The Mentoring Connection, Philosophy of Music Education Review, and the Choral Journal, and she is the author/editor of Guide to the Latin American Art Song Repertoire: An Annotated Catalog of Twentieth-Century Art Songs for Voice and Piano (Indiana University Press). In August 2007, she joined the distinguished faculty of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, where she serves as Associate Chair and Professor of Music with a world-class faculty.