current positions

• Chancellor, University of North Carolina School of the Arts
• 2006 -

• Executive Director, Fletcher Opera Institute
• 2008 -

• Founding Director, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
• 2006 -

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Music Director, Pittsburgh Opera
• 2001 - 2006

• Director, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
• 1991 - 2006

• Visiting Professor, Yale College
• 2000 - 2001

• Direttore Stabile, Teatro Regio, Turin, Italy
• 1995 - 1998

• Music Director, Scottish Opera
• 1987 - 1993

• Music Director, American Symphony (Carnegie Hall)
• 1985 - 1987

• Consultant for Music Theater, Kennedy Center
• 1982 - 1991

• Music Director of Orchestras, Kennedy Center
• 1979 - 1991

• Music Director, Washington Opera, (Kennedy Center)
• 1979 - 1982

• Associate Professor Yale University
• 1968 - 1984

• Music Director, Yale Symphony Orchestra
• 1968 - 1974

PUBLICATIONS AND SPEECHES

• 2008
• "The Artist and the Economy of the State," keynote address Appalachian Regional Development Institute Leadership Summit (ARDI) - see Writings

• 2007
• "Celebrating West Side Story," a book by John Mauceri, with the photography of Donald Dietz. NCSA Press (see http://www.ncarts.edu)
• "Bernstein on Broadway," with an introduction by John Mauceri. Hal Leonard Corporation.

• 2006
• "When You Play the Music and No One Hears It" - address to ASOL [American Symphony Orchestra League] National Conference, Los Angeles, California - delivered June 1, 2006. Published in Symphony Magazine (excerpted) as "Did You Hear That?" {November /December 2006].

• 2005
• "Exiles in Hollywood" - keynote speech for MOLA (Major Orchestra Librarians Association)Conference, Los Angeles, California. Published in Marcato, Volume XIX, Number 4; June 2005

• 2003
• "Textual Theory - Textual Practice: The Anecdote and the Opera House in the 20th Century"- delivered November 14, 2003, American Musicological Society Conference, Houston, Texas.

• 2001
• "Verdi for the Twenty-first Century" - Verdi 2001 Conference, New York University, published 2003 in Verdi: Atti di Convegno Internazionale. Proceedings from the International Conference; ed: Della Seta, Marvin, Marica. Florence: Leo S. Olshki.

• 2000
• Writer/Host: "The Evening Concert," KMZT (Los Angeles) - 250 two-hour classical music broadcasts.

• 1999
• "Erich Wolfgang Korngold and our Century" - Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York

• 1998
• "Where has all the Music Gone?" - Keynote Address, Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio, Los Angeles

• 1996
• "Tuning the Music to the Hall" - International Acoustic Conference, Turin, Italy

• 1995
• "The Music which has no Name" - Association of California Symphony Orchestras, Los Angeles, and subsequently for The Society for the Preservation of Film Music published (abridged) in Stagebill (New York)

• 1990
• "Failed Futures" - International Society of Performing Arts Administrators, Glasgow, (published in Musical America, July, 1991, as "High Art, Low Art -- The Fatal Split")

• 1988
• "Preparing for the Pit" Sennets & Tuckets: A Bernstein Celebration; ed. Ledbetter Godine, Boston

Numerous articles and speeches: published in Gramophone, Opera Magazine, The Verdi Newsletter, Musical America, Schwann Opus, Billboard Magazine, The Times of London, The Sunday Times, Lincoln Center's Stagebill, liner notes for recordings, program notes for the Yale Symphony Orchestra and Scottish Opera, San Francisco Opera, Atlanta Symphony, Turin Opera, etc., as well as letters published in New York Times and Opera Magazine.

Mr. Mauceri also can be seen on a number of DVD releases discussing the music of classic films, such as Sunset Boulevard, Bambi, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex,The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, Jezebel, The Fall of the Roman Empire and El Cid.

recordings

• Over 70 CDs for: London/Decca, Philips Classics, Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, CBS, RCA, Polydor, MCA, New World, Electra/Nonesuch, Warner Brothers, Angel, Decca, Capriccio (see Discography)

awards and honors

• Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame, 2007
• Diapason d'or, Porgy and Bess [Decca records], 2007
• "Treasures of Los Angeles" - Central City Association of Los Angeles, 2007
• Young Musicians Foundation [Los Angeles] "Magic Baton Award," 2005
• Cannes Classical Music Award: Weill, Der Protagonist, 2003
• American Academy in Berlin: Fellowship Prize, 1999
• Emmy Award (LA Area) for on-camera performance Bowl Orchestra broadcast, 1998
• Diapason d'or, 1997 (Flammen)
• Emmy Award (LA Area) for writing Hollywood Bowl Orchestra broadcast, 1994
• Billboard No. 1 Classical Crossover Award, 1993 (The King and I)
• Deutsche Schallplatten Prize won four times (1991 - 1993) (Die Sieben Todsünden, Street Scene, Gershwins in Hollywood, The King and I)
• Wavendon Award "Conductor of the Year," presented by HRH Princess Margaret, 1990
• High Fidelity Magazine "Record of the Year" Gershwin's Girl Crazy, 1991
• Edison Klassiek Award, 1991 (Girl Crazy)
• Olivier (SWET) Award, Best Musical (adaptation of Candide in London), 1988
• Grammy Award: Best Opera Recording (Candide), 1987
• Yale Arts Alumni Award, 1985
• Antoinette Perry ("Tony") Award, 1983
• Drama Desk Award, 1983
• Outer Critics Circle Award, 1983

ORGANIZATIONS

• Leonard Bernstein Center for Learning, member Advisory Board (2006 -
• The Leonard Bernstein Organization, Consultant (2006 -
• The Film Music Society, member Advisory Board (2006 -
• Kurt Weill Edition, member Advisory Board (1996 -
• American Institute of Verdi Studies, member Advisory Board (1986 -
• National Institute for Music Theater, Trustee (1986 - 1991)
• Charles Ives Society, member Board of Directors (1986 - 1991)
• National Endowment for the Arts, Advisory Panel (1973-76)

career highlights

• 2008a
• Edits and conducts world premiere concert adaptation of Dimitri Shostakovich's Hamlet (composed in 1964) with North Carolina Symphony.

• 2008b
• Successfully recruits Ethan Stiefel as Dean of the School of Dance and Jordan Kerner as Dean of the School of Filmmaking; Leads renaming of NCSA to UNCSA; achieves $55 million additional support of NC legislature during first two years as chancellor.

• 2008c
• Arranges and conducts Rhapsody in Blue with Lang Lang and Herbie Hancock at 50th Anniversary Gammy Awards, seen by 100 million people worldwide. See Media"

• 2007a
• After returning to the Lyric Opera of Chicago for a series of performances of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, speaks at Harvard University [Bernstein Symposium], music directs West Side Story at North Carolina School of the Arts [NCSA] with members of original creative team and cast in attendance. Returns to Gewandhaus and Detroit Symphony.

• 2007b
• Ravinia Festival: NCSA's West Side Story; Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame Induction; music directs Motion Picture Fund gala with Chatherine Zeta-Jones, Hugh Jackman, Chita Rivera, Dick van Dyke, Shirley MacLaine, Vanessa Williams, Anika Noni Rose, Raul Esparza, Jamie Campbell Bower, Kristin Chenoweth, Jennifer Hudson; Bill Condon, director.

• 2007c
• Vienna: conducts official concert commemorating 50^th anniversary of E. W. Korngold's death; first concerts in Vienna of Hollywood film music.
• Publishes first book: Celebrating "West Side Story" for NCSA Press.

• 2006a
• Returns for seventh consecutive year to Gewandhaus Orchestra and premieres works by Korngold, Kaper, Waxman, Gershwin, Goldsmith and E. Bernstein.

• 2006b
• Edits and conducts restoration of original 1935 production version of Porgy and Bess for Nashville Symphony and records it for Decca.

• 2005a
• Act 3, Götterdämmerung with Brewer, Goerke, Franz, Rydl, Held and Los Angeles Philharmonic; 300^th concert at Hollywood Bowl (Barbara Cook, Deborah Voigt, Dianne Reeves); Camelot (Jeremy Irons, Melissa Errico); Moiseyev Dance Company; American Film Institute co-presentation of top 25 film scores of all time.

• 2005b
• Music Directs gala for Motion Picture and Television Fund (Azaria; Chenoweth; Fisher; Mazzie; Pascal; Billy Porter; Winokur; Zeta Jones); conducts Chicago Lyric Opera's Millennium Park gala; conducts the Walt Disney Company's Studo Showcase (Kodak Theater).

• 2005c
• Records Danny Elfman's Serenada Schizophrana; creates new concert works: Rota The Godfather (two versions); Goldsmith The New Enterprise; Korngold Between Two Worlds - A Concert Overture; Fain, etc. Alice: The Wonderland Suite

• 2005d
• Appears on bonus DVDs, discussing the music of Disney's Bambi; Korngold's The Sea Hawk, Captain Blood, and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Korngold)

• 2004a
• Opens Hollywood Bowl's new shell, with world premiere of Elmer Bernstein's Fanfare for John at the Bowl. Completes 14^th season at Hollywood Bowl: Average attendance exceeds 13,000 per concert. Soloists include Joffrey Ballet (Bowl debut), Sarah Chang, Brian Wilson, Sesame Street, Paris Combo (debut), Moulin Rouge (debut); first Bowl Turandot; various premieres of film scores include. Mutiny on the Bounty (Kaper) and various original restorations from Disney archives.

• 2004b
• Kennedy Center Honors: conducts for Dame Joan Sutherland

• 2004c
• New York premieres of Gershwin Shall we Dance ballet; Copland's The Heiress; Herrmann (various); rarely heard Schoenberg (American works); European premieres of works by Williams, Elfman, Arnold (James Bond), Rozsa w/ Gewandhaus

• 2003a
• Appears on Bonus DVDs of digitally remastered "The Adventures of Robin Hood" on the music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold as well as "Sunset Boulevard" on the music of Franz Waxman

• 2003b
• Completes 13^th season at the Hollywood Bowl, conducting Bowl debuts of Michael Boublé, Elizabeth Futral, Frank Lopardo, Roger Daltry (with orchestra), John Lithgow, Melissa Errico, Rosemarie Harris, Tsai Chin; also Carol Channing, Aurdra McDonald and Patti Lupone

• 2003c
• Conducts new production of Mark Blizstein's "Regina" at Lyric opera of Chicago, cited by the New York Times in "The Highs: The Classical Moments of the Year," (Sunday, December 26, 2003); "Der Fliegende Holländer" called "Number One Classical Concert of the Year" in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• 2003d
• Artistic Advisor and Editor to Howard Shore for "The Lord of the Rings Symphony" (New Zealand world premiere); conducts Asian premiere (Taipei)

• 2003e
• Fifth consecutive season with the Gewandhaus Orchestra (Leipzig)

• 2002a
• August 31 named "John Mauceri Day" by California Governor, Gray Davis, in honor of Mauceri's 250th concert with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra

• 2002b
• Initiates, edits and conducts world premiere of Howard Shore's The Fellowship of the Ring for symphony orchestra, chorus and children's chorus at Hollywood Bowl

• 2002c
• Voice of "Claude Maginot" for video game, "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City"

• 2002d
• Conducts one of five New York City outdoor concerts commemorating 9/11/01; with the Brooklyn Philharmonic in Prospect Park (September)

• 2002e
• Conducts American premiere of critical edition of Un Ballo in Maschera for Pittsburgh Opera (October)

• 2002f
• Conducts opera gala party sequence for Metropolitan Opera (Act Two Die Fledermaus) (December)

• 2001a
• Restores, edits and conducts world premiere of Alex North's Cleopatra Symphony with the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig

• 2001b
• Visiting professor at Yale University: teaches "Music, the Policies of Fascist Europe and Current Perceptions" and conducts the 300th anniversary concert with combined orchestras and choruses

• 2001c
• Writes and hosts nightly two hour classical radio show "The Evening Concert" for KMZT in Los Angeles for an entire year (250 broadcasts)

• 2001d
• Conducts at Kennedy Center Honors (Pavarotti segment)

• 2000a
• First performances of émigré film composers' music with the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig

• 2000b
• Conducts first recording of Kurt Weill's Der Protagonist in Berlin (Cannes Award)

• 2000c
• Restores, edits and conducts world premiere of Herrmann's Psycho: Narrative for String Orchestra (Bowl Orchestra, Los Angeles)

• 2000d
• Conducted 200th concert with total audience of 3 million people at the Bowl

• 1999a
• Debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin (La Bohême)

• 1999b
• World premiere of complete version of Weill's Der Weg der Verheissung (Chemnitz) in co-production with Brooklyn Academy and New Israeli Opera

• 1999c
• Named "Voice of the Millennium" by CNN and CNN International

• 1999d
• Named "Standard-bearer of the 20th Century" by WQXR radio (December)

• 1999e
• Featured performer and sole guest for Italian Radio's (RAI Tre) tribute to American music in the 20th Century (Passagio di Secolo)

• 1998
• Conducts 150th concert at Hollywood Bowl, more than doubling previous record. Total audience over eight seasons: 2.6 million people

• 1997a
• Centenary concert for Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Vienna Konzerthaus)

• 1997b
• Swiss premiere: Korngold's Symphony in F#

• 1996a
• Conducted soundtrack of Evita with Madonna

• 1996b
• MTV Awards, conducted opening "Smashing Pumpkins" - Radio City Music Hall

• 1996c
• Italian premiere of Weill's Street Scene

• 1995a
• Conducted first performances in Portugal of Candide and Street Scene

• 1995b
• Film "Music for the Movies - The Hollywood Sound" televised worldwide

• 1994
• Conducted Placido Domingo on Grammy Awards telecast

• 1993
• Completes seven seasons with Scottish Opera, having brought the company its first productions of Billy Budd, Carmen, Lulu, Aida, Vec Makropolous, Salomé, as well as new productions of la Traviata, Die Fledermaus, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre and Les Troyens. Headed the first U.K. production of Street Scene, the world premiere restoration of Regina (both recorded for London-Decca). Conducted the world premiere of the definitive version of Candide, which won and Olivier Award and was televised by the BBC. Lead and restored concert performances of Girl Crazy and Lady in the Dark at the Edinburgh Festival. Recorded recital disc with Josephine Barstow, which included the only recording of the original Alfano ending to Turandot

• 1991
• Cover story, "Musical America" (final edition)

• 1990
• Crusaid Concert, Conductor with Simon Rattle, Royal Festival Hall/ Philharmonia Orchestra. Soloists Sherrill Milnes, Felicity Lott, and Anne Evans

• 1987a
• Conductor, national tour Boston Pops Orchestra

• 1987b
• Music director, PBS-TV, Gala of Stars

• 1986a
• Music Director, Leonard Bernstein Festival, London Symphony Orchestra

• 1986b
• Conducts world premiere del Tredici's Child Alice - Carnegie Hall

• 1986c
• Conducts Roméo et Juliette on final Metropolitan Opera National Tour and NYC parks

• 1985a
• Italian premiere of critical edition of Verdi's Rigoletto Macerata Festival

• 1985b
• Conducts Turandot at La Scala for state visit of Prince Charles and Princess Diana

• 1985c
• Musical Supervisor Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song & Dance - Broadway

• 1985d
• Appointed Music Director, American Symphony Orchestra (Carnegie Hall)

• 1984
• Debut with Royal Opera, Covent Garden Madama Butterfly and La Boheme

• 1983a
• Edits, conducts World Premiere of Leonard Bernstein's A Quiet Place (revised 3-act version) La Scala, and American premiere, Kennedy Center

• 1983b
• Initiates and co-produces Rodgers and Hart's On Your Toes on Broadway and London

• 1983c
• Debut English National Opera - La Forza del Destino

• 1982
• Creates "Opera House Version" of Candide; wins Grammy for Best Opera Recording

• 1981
• Leonard Bernstein's Mass tenth anniversary production, telecast on PBS "Live from the Kennedy Center"; Presidential Inaugural Concert (Ronald Reagan); appointed Advisor for Music Theater at the Kennedy Center (Roger Stevens), a post held for ten years

• 1980
• Appointed music director of the Washington Opera; Hollywood Bowl debut with Los Angeles Philharmonic (August 22)

• 1979
• All Hindemith concert (Yale Philharmonia) in Carnegie Hall; 60^th Birthday concert for Leonard Bernstein (Wolf Trap); Music Director: Summer Opera at Kennedy Center; conducts Weill's Street Scene on Live from Lincoln Center; conducts Beverly Sills' last stage performances (La Loca of Menotti)

• 1978
• Creates plan for music theater department at NYU (Richard Rodgers commission)

• 1977
• Debut, New York City Opera (Boito's Mefistofele); orchestrates Three Meditations from Mass for Leonard Bernstein and Mstislav Rostropovich; conducts Wagner's Rienzi in San Antonio with Friedleind Wagner in attendance

• 1976a
• Debut, Metropolitan Opera (Beethoven's Fidelio)

• 1976b
• World Premiere Andrew Imbrie's Angle of Repose (San Francisco Opera)

• 1975
• West Coast premiere Britten's Death in Venice (San Francisco)

• 1974a
• New production Berg's Lulu (Santa Fe Opera)

• 1974b
• European premiere Menotti's Tamu-Tamu (Spoleto, Italy)

• 1974c
• Professional concert debut, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Rudolph Serkin, soloist

• 1974d
• World premiere large orchestra version Ives' 3 Places in New England

• 1974e
• American Premiere: Der Rosenkavalier silent film (1926) - Yale University

• 1973a
• European premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass (Vienna) - worldwide television (ORF/BBC/PBS)

• 1973b
• Professional opera debut: Menotti's Saint of Bleecker Street, Wolf Trap Farm Park

• 1972a
• Assistant to Leonard Bernstein: Carmen (Metropolitan Opera)

• 1972b
• Produces and Conducts first staged performance of Stockhausen's Hymnen - Yale University

• 1971a
• Paris premieres: Debussy's Khamma, Scriabin's Prométée, and Ives' Symphony No. 4 (Yale Symphony Tour)

• 1971b
• Prepared orchestra for Leopold Stokowski; continued to work two years w/ LS

• 1969
• American Premiere Debussy's Khamma (New Haven)

• 1967
• New York City premiere Britten's Curlew River, United Nations Catholic Chapel

orchestras conducted

• Atlanta Symphony,
• Baltimore Symphony, BBC Symphony (London), Berlin Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Berlin Symphony Orchestra,
• Boston Symphony Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic,
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
• Cleveland Orchestra, Colorado Symphony,
• Detroit Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie Orchestra (Berlin) (formerly RSO), Düsseldorfer Symphoniker,
• Gewandhaus Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic,
• Los Angeles Philharmonic,
• London Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra,
• Mittel-Deutsche Rundfunk Orchester (Leipzig),
• Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Münchner Symphoniker, National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa), National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, National Symphony (Washington, D.C.), New Haven Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, New York Philharmonic,
• New Zealand Symphony Orchestra,
• l'Orchestra della Radio Svizzera-Italiana, l'Orchestra della RAI (Rome),
• l'Orchestra di Santa Cecilia (Rome),
• l'Orchestre Nationale de France, l'Orchestre Symphonique de Monte Carlo,
• l'Orchestre Symphonique de Montpélier, l'Orquestra Simfonica di Xalapa (Mexico), l'Orquesta Sinfonica Portuguesa (Lisbon),
• Philadelphia Orchestra
• Philharmonia Orchestra
• Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien (Vienna), Rotterdam Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic, (London), the Royal Scottish National Orchestra,
• San Antonio Symphony, San Francisco Symphony.

Opera Companies conducted

Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Teatro Regio (Torino), English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Scottish National Opera, Wolf Trap Farm Park, Santa Fe, Spoleto Festival (Italy), San Antonio Opera, Opera Omaha, Dallas Opera, Manitoba Opera, Opera Pacific, l'Opéra de Monte Carlo, Teatro San Carlos (Lisboa), Michigan Opera Theater, l'Opéra de Nice, le Grand Théâtre de Genève, Chemnitz Oper , New Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, Pittsburgh Opera.

Opera repertory conducted

• Argento:
• A Postcard from Morocco
• Beethoven:
• Fidelio (Metropolitan)
• Bellini:
• Norma
• Bernstein:
• A Quiet Place (La Scala), Mass (Vienna)
• Berg:
• Lulu (3 Acts) (San Francisco)
• Berlioz:
• Les Troyens (Covent Garden)
• Bizet:
• Carmen, les Pêcheurs de Perles
• Blitzstein:
• Regina
• Boito:
• Mefistofele
• Britten:
• Albert Herring, Billy Budd, Curlew River, Peter Grimes, Turn of the Screw, Death in Venice
• Debussy:
• Pelléas et Mélisande
• Donizetti:
• Lucia di Lammermoor, La Fille du Régiment, Il Furioso all'isola di San Domingo, Anna Bolena
• Gershwin:
• Porgy and Bess [February, 2006: new performing edition]
• Gounod:
• Roméo et Juliette (Metropolitan), Faust
• Imbrie:
• Angle of Repose (San Francisco)
• Handel:
• Giulio Cesare
• Heggie:
• Dead Man Walking
• Janacek:
• Vec Makropoulos
• Korngold:
• Das Wunder der Heliane
• Massenet:
• Manon
• Menotti:
• Saint of Bleecker Street, Juana la Loca, Tamu-Tamu, The Medium
• Montemezzi:
• l'Amore dei tre Re
• Monteverdi:
• Incorronazione di Poppea
• Mozart:
• Don Giovanni, le Nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte (Santa Fe),der Schauspieldirektor
• Poulenc:
• La voix humaine
• Puccini:
• Manon Lescaut, La Bohême (Covent Garden, Chicago Lyric, Deutsche Oper), Tosca, Madama Butterfly (Covent Garden), la Fanciulla del West (Covent Garden), Turandot (La Scala)
• Rossini:
• il Barbiere de Siviglia, la Cenerentola
• Schulhoff:
• Flammen
• Strauss, J.:
• Die Fledermaus
• Strauss, R.:
• Salomé, Elektra, Ariadne auf Naxos
• Stravinsky:
• The Rake's Progress (San Francisco), Oedipus Rex
• Verdi:
• I due Foscari, Rigoletto, la Traviata, Un Ballo in Maschera, la Forza del Destino, Don Carlos, Aida, Otello, Falstaff
• Wagner:
• Rienzi, der Fliegende Holländer, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Götterdämmerung (Act 3), Parsifal (Acts 2 and 3)
• Weber:
• Abu Hassan
• Weill:
• Die Dreigroschenoper, Mahagonny Songspiel, der Protagonist, die Sieben Todsünden, Street Scene, Der Weg der Verheissung