Marioara Trifan (born 8 March 1950) is an internationally performing American pianist and conductor.
Trifan was born in Los Angeles and grew up in New Jersey.
She studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia,[1] and at the Juilliard School, New York, where she received Bachelor's and Master's degrees.
She made her conducting debut in 1985 at the National Theatre Mannheim[2] and has since extensively conducted operas, symphonies, and ballet, in Germany and the United States.
Since then, she is professor and Musical Director at the Opera School of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München[3] in Munich and gives frequent master classes in Europe and America.