Michael Dauphinais // Music Director + Pianist
Michael Dauphinais is a pianist, vocal coach, conductor, and radio host whose musical career has taken him across the U.S. as well as to Austria, Ireland, Mexico, and Costa Rica. As a rehearsal pianist, coach, and occasional chorus master, Michael has served at many regional opera companies including Arizona Opera, San Diego Opera, Sarasota Opera, Opera Southwest, Tulsa Opera, Baltimore Concert Opera, Kentucky Opera, New Jersey Opera Theater, Opera in the Ozarks, and Alamo City Opera. Michael’s conducting credits include Daniel Catán’s La hija de Rappaccini at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) in Mexico City, in addition to
The Tender Land by Aaron Copland and the North American premiere of Elena Langer’s Rhondda Rips it Up! at the University of Arizona’s Fred Fox School of Music, where he taught from 2005 to 2022. Michael was also the principal pianist for Opera Southwest (Albuquerque, NM) from 2012 to 2019, and served on the opera coaching faculty for AIMS (American Institute for Musical Studies) in Graz, Austria from 2015 to 2022. He has appeared numerous times with True Concord Voices and Orchestra, and since 2004 has been a frequent substitute keyboard player for the Tucson Symphony Orchestra.
Michael is currently the midday host for weekday programming on NPR 89.1 KUAZ and the occasional announcer for classical 90.5 KUAT-FM. Prior to moving to Tucson in 2004, Michael was an announcer and production assistant for KBAQ in Phoenix, and an announcer for WMUK in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He holds degrees from Arizona State University (Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music) and Western Michigan University (Bachelor of Music). ||| www.michaeldauphinais.com