JOHN MAUCERI
CONDUCTOR
Agent: Jean-Jacques Cesbron
Territory: Worldwide
ABOUT
The distinguished and extraordinarily varied career of John Mauceri has taken him not only to the world's greatest opera companies and symphony orchestras, but also to the musical stages of Broadway and Hollywood as well as the most prestigious halls of academia.
Mr. Mauceri served as music director (direttore stabile) of the Teatro Regio in Torino (Turin) Italy for three years after completing seven years as music director of Scottish Opera (22 productions and three recordings) 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 previously was music director of the Washington Opera (The Kennedy Center) and was the first music director of the American Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall after its founding director, Leopold Stokowski, with whom he studied. For fifteen years he served on the faculty of his alma mater, Yale University, having been appointed to the faculty at the age of 22. He has lectured and spoken at Columbia University, New York University, Harvard, Vienna’s Universität der darstellende Kunst, London’s Royal College of Music, and the American Academy in Berlin.
Mr. Mauceri is one of the world's most accomplished recording artists and is the recipient of Grammy, Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk, Edison Klassiek, 3 Emmy, 2 Diapasons 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 be reckoned 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".
Mr. Mauceri is a leading conductor and proponent of music banned by the Third Reich, especially music by refugee composers who fled to the United States, including those who created the “sound of Hollywood.” He 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, and where he conducted over three hundred concerts at the 18,000-seat amphitheater with a total audience of some four million people. These concerts included hundreds of world concert premieres and brought opera, dance, and fully staged musicals to the venue. During the 1990s, Mr. Mauceri and his technical team invented the system whereby live-to-picture concerts became a possibility.
He has published three books, Maestros and Their Music, For the Love of Music (both for (Knopf), and The War on Music (Yale), and continues his legacy of musical restorations, the most recent of which is the Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer opera, Blues Opera, that awaits its world premiere.