John Mauceri

John Mauceri was born in New York City and graduated from Yale University, where he studied composition and music theory in addition to achitecture and literature. At the age of twenty two he was appointed to the faculty at Yale University, where he taught for fifteen years. In 1985 he was awarded Yale University's first Alumni Arts Award for Outstanding Achievement. In 1971 he became a conducting fellow at Tanglewood and studied with Bruno Maderna and Leonard Bernstein. Mauceri was a close associate of Leonard Bernstein and conducted the European premieres of Bernstein's Mass in Vienna and A Quiet Place at Teatro Alla Scala in Milan, and the world premiere of the definitive Candide with Scottish Opera. From 1972 until his death in 1990, Bernstein chose Mauceri to conduct and edit his music.

Mauceri made his professional conducting debut in 1973 leading Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Saint of Bleecker Street at Wolf Trap, Virginia. He made his major orchestral conducting debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1974. Mauceri has gone on to conduct many of the world’s great symphony orchestras as well as the Royal Opera at Covent Garden, Teatro Alla Scala in Milan, the Opéra de Monte Carlo, New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, the San Francisco Opera and the Grand Théâtre de Genève. He served for seven years as music director of Scottish Opera, and has also served as music director of the Washington Opera and of the American Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall.

Since 1991 he has been Principal Conductor of the Holywood Bowl Orchestra, was Music Director of the Teatro Regio in Turin for three years following his tenure at Scottish Opera and is currently Music Director at Pittsburgh Opera.

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