ObituaryJean Mainous
Submitted on Thursday, March 29, 2012
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.