Jean Mainous

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Jean Mainous, Denton, who served on the College of Music faculty from 1949 to 1952, 1955 to 1957 and 1975 to 1997, died Jan. 23. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University with majors in piano and violin, and then attended Yale University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in violin and a master's degree in piano, and received the Charles Ditson Fellowship for foreign study and travel. She received a diploma from the Juilliard Graduate School of Music, where she studied piano with Olga Samaroff Stokowski.She taught at the Manhattan School of Music and at Juilliard and was a faculty member at the Summer Music Institute in Taiwan. She appeared as featured soloist with orchestras, in chamber music ensembles and as a duo-pianist with her longtime friend and fellow piano faculty member Mary Nan Mailman (’50, ’56 M.M.). She was preceded in death by her husband, Frank Mainous, Professor Emeritus of music. Memorials may be made to the Dean’s Camerata — Jean Mainous Piano Scholarship in the College of Music.

Jean Mainous, Denton, who served on the College of Music faculty from 1949 to 1952, 1955 to 1957 and 1975 to 1997, died Jan. 23. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University with majors in piano and violin, and then attended Yale University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in violin and a master's degree in piano, and received the Charles Ditson Fellowship for foreign study and travel. She received a diploma from the Juilliard Graduate School of Music, where she studied piano with Olga Samaroff Stokowski.She taught at the Manhattan School of Music and at Juilliard and was a faculty member at the Summer Music Institute in Taiwan. She appeared as featured soloist with orchestras, in chamber music ensembles and as a duo-pianist with her longtime friend and fellow piano faculty member Mary Nan Mailman (’50, ’56 M.M.). She was preceded in death by her husband, Frank Mainous, Professor Emeritus of music. Memorials may be made to the Dean’s Camerata — Jean Mainous Piano Scholarship in the College of Music.

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