MaryJean's voice students have improved tremendously by applying the principles from her What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body workshop. Her voice students have won top awards at the local, state, and regional National Association of Teachers of Singing Student Auditions. MaryJean has taught private voice lessons for eighteen years.

Certified as an Andover Educator by Barbara Conable, MaryJean has taught the What Every Musician… workshop to singers, voice teachers, choral directors, pianists, piano teachers, and other instrumentalists in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Missouri.

A specialist in art song, MaryJean holds a Master of Music and an Artist Diploma in vocal performance, with a minor in piano performance. She performed leading roles in opera and operetta in five states, and was competitively selected to sing in two Art Song Festivals, coaching with Dalton Baldwin, Elly Ameling, Gerard Souzay, and others. Her most recent orchestral engagement was with Maryland's Columbia Pro Cantare, singing the soprano solos for Mozart's Grand Mass in C Minor, and Zelenka's Miserere.

A Chicago NATS Board member, MaryJean wrote two articles for NATS Internos suggesting methods for teachers to improve critique writing, and the benefits of adjudication. MaryJean continues to study voice with Dr. Karen Peeler, and studies Body Mapping and Alexander Technique with Barbara Conable.