conducting videos of Paul Mauffray, Prize winner of the Bartok International Opera Conducting Competition, originally from Louisiana.
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As a prize winner in the 2007 Bartok International Opera Conducting Competition, Paul Mauffray has conducted Bluebeards Castle, La Boheme, Carmen, Cavalleria Rusticana, I Pagliacci, Rigoletto, Samson et Dalila, La Traviata, & Tosca in Romania. He has also been offered a guest conducting appearance at the Bucharest National Opera.

He has conducted in 15 countries on 3 continents and developed his symphonic repertoire with regular engagements predominantly with Czech orchestras for over the past 15 years. He has also conducted Cosi fan tutte at the Schleswig-Holstein Landestheater, and subscription concerts with the Augsburg Philharmonic, Slovak Philharmonic, and Orchestre National de Lyon.

Recently, Mauffray was engaged as Studienleiter/Assistant Conductor at the Janacek Opera/National Theater in Brno, Czech Republic, where he conducted Don Carlos. His successful performance of Stravinskys The Rite of Spring (taken over on 24 hours notice) with the Brno Philharmonic, led to an immediate return engagement in Mozarts Requiem.

Paul Mauffrays passion for the operas of Leos Janacek led him to study in the Czech Republic and work as assistant to such prominent conductors as Bohumil Gregor, Jiri Belohlavek, and Sir Charles Mackerras. He has worked as assistant conductor already on over eight productions of Janacek operas including, Jenufa, Kata Kabanova, The Cunning Little Vixen, The Makropulos Case, and the American premier of Osud (Fate).

Mauffray has been an assistant conductor at the Prague National Theater, with the Czech Philharmonic on recordings of Kata Kabanova, Rusalka, and at the Salzburg Festival with Sir John Eliot Gardiner on Jenufa. He has also conducted at the Bard Music Festival in New York as assistant to Leon Botstein where he helped prepare works of Janacek such as The Excursions of Mr. Broucek and the Glagolitic Mass.

He has collaborated with Universal Edition in the corrections to the critical edition of Jenufa according to the original source material in the Janacek archives in Brno. In the spring of 2008 he was engaged as Studienleiter/Assistant Conductor and Czech Language Coach on Kata Kabanova with Kirill Petrenko and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchester at the Theater an der Wien.

A native of Louisiana, Mauffray began his music studies at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and Louisiana State University. He studied conducting in Germany with Sergiu Celibedache and has conducted in masterclasses under the guidance of Larry Rachlef, David Zinman, James Conlon, David Robertson, and Jorma Panula. He was a conducting fellow at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, Conductors Institute, and he was awarded a conducting grant from the Geraldine C. & Emory M. Ford Foundation.

He was a semi-finalist in conducting competitions in Bonn, Cadaques, and in the Prague Spring Conducting Competition where he was awarded Honorary Mention. In 2001, he was the only American conductor admitted to the orchestra finals of the prestigious Besancon conducting competition. He has also been one of a select number of conductors invited to participate in masterclasses with Michael Tilson Thomas in Miami (2001) and with Esa-Pekka Salonen in Singapore (2008).

complete list of videos at:
www.mauffrayvideos.blogspo.com