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 projects around Europe, including works such as Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” and “Cosi fan tutte”, Humperdinck’s “Hänsel und Gretel”, and Monteverdi’s “L’incoronazione di Poppea”. She was a member of Staatstheater Nürnberg’s Opera Studio from 2019-2021. She was then a full-time répétiteur at Theater Regensburg from 2021-2022, where she took part in productions such as Massenet’s “Werther”, J.Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus”, the musical “Chicago”, and the world premiere of “Mui” by Anton Lubchenko.

In July of 2022, she moved back home to the United States to join the faculty at Rice University as an Artist Teacher of Operas Studies. In addition to opera coaching, she also teaches the graduate level song literature course.