John Mauceri, world-renowned conductor, educator, and writer, has appeared with the world’s greatest opera companies and symphony orchestras and on the musical stages of Broadway and Hollywood. He served as direttore stabile of the Teatro Regio in Turin and music director of Scottish Opera, Washington Opera (at the Kennedy Center), Pittsburgh Opera, and the American Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall. For fifteen years he served on the faculty of his alma mater, Yale University. For eighteen years, he worked closely with Leonard Bernstein and conducted many of the composer’s premieres at Bernstein’s request. He is the founding director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, which was created for him in 1991 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association.
For seven years (2006–13) he served as chancellor of the University of North Carolina’s School of the Arts, America’s first public arts conservatory-university. Deeply committed to preserving two American art forms, the Broadway musical and Hollywood film scores, he has edited and performed a vast catalogue of restorations and first performances. Mr. Mauceri has spoken at Harvard University, Yale University, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Musicological Society, and elsewhere. His writing has appeared in Gramophone magazine, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Huffington Post.
Mr. Mauceri has released over fifty CDs and is the recipient of a Grammy, a Tony, an Olivier, a Drama Desk, and a Billboard award, three Emmy awards, two Diapasons d’Or, and four Deutschen Schallplattenkritik prizes. He was recently awarded the Ditson Conductor’s Award for his five decades of commitment to performing and editing American music. He lives in New York City.