Linda Mack Berven, earned her doctoral degree from the University of Illinois, and enjoyed many years of teaching in the Music Department at Fort Lewis College. She served for 25 years as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Durango Choral Society and the Durango Women’s Choir. Her engagements as a conductor, singer, and pianist have included the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, San Juan Symphony, the Durango Bach Festival, and the Music in the Mountains Festival, where Linda also serves as the pre-concert lecturer. Her professional conducting engagements have ranged from performances at Carnegie Hall to concerts in Prague, Greece, Zagreb, Salzburg, Innsbruck and Linz. In 2025 she will conduct a consortium of choral singers with the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina in Florence, Italy.

Linda has sung with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Carnegie Hall Choral Workshop, New Texas Festival, Victoria Bach Festival, and local and regional choral ensembles in addition to solo recitals, adjudication, and vocal clinics in Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Arizona.

Linda is an active member of Merely Players Theatre Company and Durango Arts Repertory Theatre. She is currently participating in her second season at Palm Canyon Theatre in Palm Springs. Some of her acting credits include: Sweeney Todd (Beggar Woman), Bye Bye Birdie (Mrs. Mae Peterson), Fiddler on the Roof (Fruma-Sarah), The Mikado (Katisha), 

L’Histoire du Soldat (the Devil), The Odd Couple (Gwendolyn), Gilbert and Sullivan: Select Cuts (multiple roles), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hippolyta), Quilters (60 performances- multiple roles), Red, Hot, and Cole (Linda), Man of La Mancha (Maria), Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 (Bernice), and Chorus/singer in many musicals

Linda has served as Music Director/Vocal Coach for numerous shows including: The Pirates of Penzance, Chicago, Camelot, Sweeney Todd, Grease