Mai-Linh Pham

Appointed Fall 2022

Pianist Mai-Linh Pham has performed throughout the United States and abroad. Her concerts range from performances at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. to the Presidential Palace in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and feature solo works as well as collaborations with both singers and instrumentalists. Recent engagements included performances at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco and the Mondavi Center for Performing Arts, as well as multiple duo piano appearances with pianist Steven Bailey throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

She has been a faculty member at the Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute, Classical Singing in New York and has served as music director of the opera workshop program at Notre Dame de Namur University. She has worked in master classes and coachings with such diverse artists as Elly Ameling, Frederica Von Stade, Barbara Bonney, Leon Fleisher, Menahem Pressler and composers Jake Heggie, John Harbison and Libby Larsen.

Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Maryland, College Park, she held the position of Principal Coach and Associate Chair of the Voice Department at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she taught for 22 years. Her students have appeared onstage at prestigious opera houses throughout the world such as the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin.

She received her B.M. from Oberlin Conservatory where she studied piano and fortepiano. She went on to earn an M.M. from San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a D.M.A. in Collaborative Piano and Coaching from the University of Minnesota. Her major teachers include Margo Garrett, Timothy Bach, and Peter Takács.