Mary Levine...Conductor, pianist, speaker, writer and teacher. Her love affair with music and the theater spanned fifty years and covered five continents. She conducted over two hundred musicals around the country for the Omaha Playhouse, Honolulu's Diamond Head Theater and South Pacific Dinner Theater, and Seattle's Cirque Dinner Theater, Empty Space, Village and Bathhouse Theaters, and the Civic Light Opera, for which she was Music Director for twelve years. She served as Music Director of the Theatre Royal in Barkerville, B.C., Canada for ten summers, appearing with that company at EXPO '88 in Brisbane, Australia. She was the pianist and foreign correspondent for New York's American Ballet Theatre, accompanying the troupe on five goodwill tours of Central and South America, Europe and the Near East for the US Cultural Exchange Program. As Music Director / Coordinator, she headed the Honolulu City Ballet and Omaha Regional Ballet, and was Public Relations Director for the Honolulu Symphony and Hawaii Opera Theater, and for Seattle's Cornish Institute of the Arts, where she also taught musical theater.

She was vocal coach for the Philadelphia Chamber Opera and Hawaii Opera Theatre, and from 1976 to 1994 was Seattle Opera's tour pianist for their Opera in the Schools program. Additionally, she was Regional Evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts. A freelance writer, she was published in Musical America, Dance Magazine, the Saturday Evening Post and the Christian Science Monitor. She was listed in Who's Who of American Women and the International Who's Who in Music. Mary was the wife of renowned conductor-pianist Joseph Levine.

Mary and her family established the Mary Levine Scholarship Fund to further the careers of Seattle area performing artists. Address donations to the Mary Levine Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 99096, Seattle, Washington 98199.