Monica Adams

Monica Adams has worked at Pacific as a collaborative pianist since 1995. Currently she also directs the University Chorus.

Adams holds a Bachelor of Music in music performance, voice, from University of the Pacific, where she studied piano with Frank Wiens, voice with William Whitesides, George Buckbee and John DeHaan, and conducting with William Dehning and Robert Halseth.

Adams has performed as a pianist with the Stockton Symphony Orchestra and sang the roles of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro and Old Maid in Old Maid and the Thief. She has served as musical director and conductor at Pacific for Pajama Game (Fallon House), Paint Your Wagon (Fallon House), You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, Apple Tree, Falsettoland, Assassins and 1940's Radio Hour. She has also music-directed Oliver, La Cage aux Folles, Babes in Arms, Footloose (conducted, too), Beauty and the Beast, The Full Monty and Godspell for various theatres.

In 2004 Adams participated in the summer SongFest program, which included coaching with Martin Katz, Graham Johnson, D'Anna Fortunato, John Hall, Judith Kellock and John Harbison, as well as performing in multiple recitals.