Paul Mauffray

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Paul Mauffray, Prague 2017

Paul Mauffray (* 1968 , USA ) is an American conductor.

Life

Mauffray studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts at Louisiana State University , Justus Liebig University ( Giessen ), Masaryk University ( Brno ), and he was a lecturer and assistant conductor at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University .

Mauffray was also engaged in the Czech Republic at the National Theater in Prague and at the National Theater in Brno, and he also worked as assistant to Sir Charles Mackerras at the Czech Philharmonic for the recording of Leoš Janáček's Katja Kabanova and Antonín Dvořák's Rusalka . He also worked as assistant conductor to John Eliot Gardiner at the Salzburg Festival and to Kirill Petrenko at the Theater an der Wien .

In 2010 he was engaged at the Opera Națională in Bucharest ( Romania ). In 2011, 2013 and 2017 Paul Mauffray conducted concerts for the Hainburger Haydn Society . In addition to works of classical music by Joseph Haydn , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Ludwig van Beethoven , Franz Schubert , and Anton Bruckner , he performed works by American and Czech composers such as Samuel Barber , David Diamond , Leoš Janáček and Johann Baptist Vanhal . In 2011 Valery Gergiev invited him to conduct rehearsals of Janáček's The Makropulos Affair at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg and to guide the singers. In 2016 he conducted performances of Dvořák's Rusalka there .

Mauffray also campaigned for the rediscovery of forgotten operas. In 2016 he recorded excerpts from Fredric Kroll's opera The Scarlet Letter (1965) with the Brno Philharmonic . He also reconstructed rediscovered material from the lost Burlesque Opera of Tabasco (1894) by George Chadwick . After conducting parts of it in Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the USA, the completely reconstructed work was finally performed again with the New Orleans Opera under his direction in 2018 .

Awards

  • 1995 Certificate of Honor and Semi-Finalist, Prague Spring International Conducting Competition, Czech Republic.
  • 1996 1st prize, Freedman Conducting Competition.
  • 2007 2nd prize in the Bartok International Opera Conducting Competition.
  • 2nd Prize in 2018, 3rd Prize in 2019, 2016 and 2015, and 2014 Certificate of Honor, The American Prize for Professional Conductors.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Alan Levy: Paul Mauffray: "Prague is my muse". In: The Prague Post. July 24, 2003, archived from the original on January 31, 2013 ; accessed on January 11, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ Alumnus Paul Mauffray performs with soloist from Vienna Philharmonic on: Jacobs School of Music , August 11, 2011
  3. ^ Paul Mauffray assistant conductor in Janáček operas in the National Theater in Prague
  4. ↑ US conductor to stage concert in Brno to mark hurricane victims.
  5. ^ A b c Paul Mauffray Mariinski Theater artist biography
  6. ↑ Virtuoso and full of feeling . Lower Austrian news . May 25, 2011. Retrieved September 10, 2017.
  7. ^ Wiener Klassik - American Classics . Hainburger Haydn Society. February 18, 2013. Retrieved September 10, 2017.
  8. ↑ 2013 - 2019. In: Hainburger Haydngesellschaft. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Rusalka . Occupation. Retrieved March 9, 2020
  10. ↑ Steven Ledbetter: Chadwick's Tabasco Shakes Up New Orleans. In: The Boston Music Intelligencer. February 10, 2018, accessed January 11, 2020 .
  11. ^ Bartók Béla International Opera Conducting Competition
  12. ^ The American Prize
personal data
SURNAME Mauffray, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1968