James Maverick

James Maverick joined The University of Texas at Austin’s Butler School of Music in 2021, where he teaches vocal accompanying and coaches singers. Since 2020, he has been music staff and Assistant Chorus Master at Cincinnati Opera, preparing productions of Don Giovanni, Madama Butterfly, The Pirates of Penzance, and Il barbiere di Siviglia, among others. Since moving to Texas, he has been a frequent collaborator with Austin Opera, as pianist for productions of Pagliacci, The Manchurian Candidate, and Verdi's Requiem, and as music director for the company's LatinX Residency workshop. He has also prepared workshops of new operas through Cincinnati's Opera Fusion: New Works program and Opera Philadelphia. He was chorus master and keyboardist for productions of Les pêcheurs des perles and Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, where he was also a Resident Artist from 2017-2019. While in Kansas City, he served on the coaching faculty at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, and has previously been a fellow with Wolf Trap Opera, the Merola Opera Program, and the Tanglewood Music Center. A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he holds degrees in piano performance, choral conducting, and collaborative piano from Lawrence University and Indiana University.