Orchestral Career
Mr. Mauceri’s professional orchestral conducting debut was with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1974 with Rudolph Serkin playing Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto as well as Stravinsky’s le Sacre du printemps. Since then he has appeared with the majoror chestras of America and Europe including concerts with the New York Philharmonic, the orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, San Francisco, Pittsburgh,and Atlanta, the Israel Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the French National Orchestra, the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester (DSO) in Berlin, the MDR (Leipzig), the NDR (Hannover), the Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester (Berlin), the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra della RAI (Rome), the Orquesta Sinfonica Portuguesa in Lisbon, and the Orchestra della Radio Svizzera Italiana. His concerts typically brought new music to each city. He conducted the Italian premiere of Sibelius’ Symphony No. 4 in Rome, and the Swiss premiere of the Korngold Symphony in F# in Lugano. He conducted the Boston Symphony premieres of Weill’s die Sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins) and the Korngold Symphony as well as the New York Philharmonic premiere of Korngold’s Symphonic Serenade, along with the first performance of Rozsa’s Theme, Variations and Finale since it was last heard in 1943 at Leonard Bernstein’s debut.
He has a special relationship with Leipzig’s legendary Gewandhaus Orchestra and has appeared with them for eight consecutive years, which is unprecedented in the orchestra’s 300-year history. Together they have performed more than ten hours of music never heard live in concert in Europe, including music by Gershwin, Steiner, Rozsa, Waxman, Korngold, Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, and Danny Elfman.
Mr. Mauceri has conducted concerts in London with the Royal Philharmonic as well as the Philharmonia and has appeared at the Proms. He was music director of the 1986 Leonard Bernstein Festival for the London Symphony with which he has recorded and televised concerts. In 1985 he was appointed music director of the American Symphony Orchestra in New York, the first conductor to hold that post since the orchestra’s founder Leopold Stokowski. With the American Symphony Mr. Mauceri conducted the world premiere of David Del Tredici’s Child Alice in Carnegie Hall in 1986. Mr. Mauceri was the first conductor to perform at the newly renovated Carnegie Hall in December of 1986 in a special concert with members of the New York Philharmonic and MetropolitanOpera Orchestra as well as the Empire Brass. In 1987 he created a sensation on a national tour with the Boston Pops of summer festivals in Ravinia (Chicago), Blossom (Cleveland), and at the Hollywood Bowl.
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