Marion Dry is a leading artist in the rarely heard vocal category:  the true contralto.  With an extensive repertoire of opera, oratorio and chamber music, and as an accomplished interpreter of 20th Century music and Art Songs, she has elicited high praise from audiences and critics alike for her beautiful voice and fine musicianship.  She has appeared with Netherlands Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Boston, Houston Grand Opera, The Tanglewood Festival, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Academy of Music,  Cleveland Orchestra,  The Boston Pops Orchestra,  Madison Symphony, The National Symphony Orchestras of the Ukraine and Panama, The Boston Modern Orchestra Project, at the Edinburgh Festival and the Kennedy Center.  She has been presented in recital by the Boston and New York Wagner Societies, Bargemusic, and various colleges and universities. She has also collaborated with numerous chamber groups, including the Lydian String Quartet, the Triple Helix, the Borromeo String Quartet and the Boston Chamber Music Society.  With baritone, Robert Honeysucker and pianist, Leslie Amper, she is a member of the Jubilee Trio, an ensemble dedicated to performing American Art Songs and Spirituals.  Recordings include the Jubilee Trio recording, “Let’s Have a Union” (Brave Records), the first recording of Lukas Foss’s children’s opera, Griffelkin, for which she sang the Grandmother (devil), and Samuel Barber’s opera Vanessa.  She can be heard on the Brave Records, Naxos, Nonesuch, Koch, Virgin Classics and CRI recording labels, performing works by John Adams (Nixon in China), Ivan Tcherepnin and Virgil Thomson.  She is a member of the Music Department of Wellesley College, where she teaches voice and is the Director of the Music Performance Program.