Bio

Lyndsi Maus is an award-winning collaborative pianist who specializes in Lieder and working with singers. She is an advocate of American song and new music. She holds a Master’s degree in Piano Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a second Master’s degree in Klavier Vokalbegleitung from the Kunst Universität Graz as a student of Stacey Bartsch and the acclaimed British pianist, Julius Drake. She has also been the recipient of several awards, including the “Pianist Prize” at the 2016 International Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria and in the same summer, the “Outstanding Lieder Pianist Prize” at the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria. She is also a Britten-Pears Young Artist, having participated in the 21st Century Singer course in 2018.

In addition to Lied accompanying, Lyndsi has served as a répétiteur and harpsichordist for several opera festivals around Europe. From 2019-2021 she was a member of Opernstudio at Staatstheater Nürnberg. For the 2021-2022 season, she joined the team at Theater Regensburg as a full-time répétiteur.

After seven years in Europe, she moved back to the United States in 2022 to join the faculty at Rice University The Shepherd School of Music as an Artist Teacher of Opera Studies. In addition to opera coaching, she teaches the graduate level course on Song Literature, and continues to concertize as well as creating special recital projects with students and advising with program planning. This involves including both standard repertoire and contemporary music, especially that which can spark important conversations. For example, she played for the world premiere of Anton Lubchenko’s opera “Mui”, which tells the story of a dystopian society where government controls every aspect of life and people lose all sense of identity. In the summer of 2023, she played the SongFest premiere of Shawn Okpebholo’s “Songs in Flight”, a song cycle inspired by the database “Freedom on the Move” which has compiled over 30,000 ads that were run in the 1800’s to track down runaway slaves. She toured a program with tenor Kellan Dunlap entitled “Even the Trees Weep” featuring American art song and a newly commissioned song cycle by Victor Cui to give a voice to those tragically lost in school shootings. Most recently, she and baritone Jonathan Bryan have developed a staged version of Schubert’s “Winterreise” to generate conversations around the epidemic of homelessness in America.  

She also serves as the inaugural Artistic Consultant for Stratagem Artists, advising the roster on audition and recital repertoire, as well as collaborating with them from the piano on various projects.