Education
BM, Piano Performance, New England Conservatory of Music
MM, Keyboard Collaborative Arts, USC
DMA, Keyboard Collaborative Arts, USC

Contact
Email:lzoolalian@glendale.edu

Dr. Linda Zoolalian enjoys an active career as a pianist, teacher, coach, and music director. She joined the piano faculty of Glendale College in the fall of 2015 and has been teaching at Pasadena City College since 1999. Since 2003 she has been on the staff of Los Angeles Opera where she prepares and cues the supertitles for all of their productions.

During her summers, Dr. Zoolalian is proud to be one of the founding members of the opera coaching faculty for Angels Vocal Art’s Intensive Opera Festival started here in Los Angeles in 2015. Her duties have also included performing in the orchestra, playing staging rehearsals, preparing and running supertitles and accompanying master classes for Metropolitan Opera singers Vittorio Grigolo and Nathan Stark.

Previously she worked ten summers for Operafestival di Roma in Italy, serving as music director, coach, pianist, prompter, and teacher of accompanying. In 2011 she was the music director of the Repertory Opera Company, preparing and performing completely staged and costumed productions of La Traviata and Carmen. She has been hired to play for the LA Philharmonic, LA Master Chorale, LA Opera, Long Beach Opera, Opera Pacific, Pasadena Opera, Angel City Opera and the LA Chamber Orchestra. For several seasons she enjoyed playing for the Los Angeles Library’s Performing Books Series sponsored by the Music Center.

From 2008 to 2014 she was on the music faculty at Pomona College of the Claremont Colleges. In the past, Dr. Zoolalian held positions at California State University of Long Beach’s Opera Institute, CalArts, CSULA, AIMS in Austria, Operaworks, Songfest, and Idyllwild Arts.

Awarded a Bachelor of Music from the New England of Conservatory in Boston in Piano Performance, Dr. Zoolalian pursued both a Master’s and Doctorate in Keyboard Collaborative Arts from the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, having studied with Dr. Alan Smith and graduated with honors. She was invited to study at the Aspen Music Festival as well as to the prestigious Academy of the West as a vocal pianist for two summers. She is especially proud to be one of the first graduates of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and to have performed in Japan for Mstislav Rostropovich.