Pianist Mary Dibbern, a specialist in vocal accompaniment and opera coaching, has been Music Director of Education for The Dallas Opera since 2012. She is also Artistic Director of Secular Music for St Matthew’s Cathedral Arts. A graduate of Southern Methodist University (MM in Piano Performance), she moved to Paris, France, where she studied with Nadia Boulanger and played for singers in the studios of Pierre Bernac, Gérard Souzay and Dalton Baldwin. She resided in France for thirty-one years, with a successful international career as vocal coach for the Opéra National de Paris, all of the major French venues, and numerous companies in Europe, Asia and North America. Dibbern is in demand for vocal recitals and recordings for Harmonia Mundi France, Claves, Magelone, Toccata Classics. and JTBProd (Paris). Her recordings of French composer Jacques Leguerney with baritone Kurt Ollmann was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque (Académie Charles Cros) and her CD Songs of Franz Liszt with Jared Schwartz received Best Lieder Recording of 2017 (Voix des Arts). Dibbern has edited musical editions for Musik Fabrik (Paris), Classical Vocal Reprints (USA), and Editions Max Eschig (Paris). Her eight books on French vocal repertoire are published by Pendragon Press (New York).