The distinguished and extraordinarily varied career of John Mauceri has brought him notonly to the world’s greatest opera companies and symphony orchestras, but also to themusical stages of Broadway and Hollywood as well as the most prestigious halls of academia. He is the Chancellor of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem and is the Founding Director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in Los Angeles, which was created for him in 1991 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. He has conducted over three hundred concerts at the 18,000-seat amphitheatre with a total audience of some four million people. From June of 2000 until July of 2006, he conducted 22 productions as music director of the Pittsburgh Opera.
Mr. Mauceri served as music director (direttore stabile) of the Teatro Regio in Torino(Turin) Italy for three years after completing seven years (22 productions and threerecordings) as music director of Scottish Opera, and is the first American ever to have held the post of music director of an opera house in either Great Britain or Italy. He wasmusic director of the Washington Opera (The Kennedy Center) and was the first musicdirector of American Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall after its founding director, Leopold Stokowski, with whom he studied. For fifteen years he served on the faculty ofhis alma mater, Yale University and returned in 2001 to teach and conduct the official concert celebrating the university’s 300th anniversary.
Mr. Mauceri is one of the world’s most accomplished recording artists and is therecipient of Grammy, Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk, Edison, Emmy, Diapason d’Or,Cannes Classique, Billboard, and four Deutsche Schallplatten awards. In 1999, Mr.Mauceri was chosen as a “Standard-bearer of the Twentieth Century” for WQXR, the nation’s most-listened-to classical radio station. According to WQXR, “These are a select number of musical artists who have already established themselves as forces to bereckoned with and who will be the Standard Bearers of the 21st Century’s music scene.” The recipients were chosen for “their visionary talent and technical virtuosity.” In addition, CNN and CNN International chose Mr. Mauceri as a “Voice of the Millennium”.