<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31146486</id><updated>2012-01-24T21:03:06.398-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Conductor Paul Mauffray Bio &amp; Resume</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paulmauffray.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31146486/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paulmauffray.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>PAUL MAUFFRAY</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11198086256608389781</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2mIjH7C6EV8/Tx-L6avSZhI/AAAAAAAAAPU/48suXJpAyNE/s220/Paul%2540Trinity2009.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31146486.post-3499141648131569943</id><published>2010-10-10T10:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-11T08:59:22.813-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Conductor's bio</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div  align="justify" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f0TNFSAHV28/RsxWZhlMKMI/AAAAAAAAABY/HO6lkXWAe3U/s1600-h/Mauffray_Brno_2005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101547474415003842" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; 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He has also conducted &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;Cosi fan tutte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; at the Schleswig-Holstein Landestheater, and subscription concerts with the Augsburg Philharmonic, Slovak Philharmonic, and Orchestre National de Lyon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2007, Mauffray was engaged as Studienleiter/Assistant Conductor at the Janacek Opera/National Theater in Brno, Czech Republic, where he conducted &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;Don Carlos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;. His successful performance of Stravinsky’s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;The Rite of Spring&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; (taken over on 24 hours notice) with the Brno Philharmonic, led to an immediate return engagement in Mozart’s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;Requiem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f0TNFSAHV28/TLMyCAL3srI/AAAAAAAAAK0/8mZk4si6J1U/s1600/Paul%40IU.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f0TNFSAHV28/TLMyCAL3srI/AAAAAAAAAK0/8mZk4si6J1U/s400/Paul%40IU.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526816177704645298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Paul Mauffray’s passion for the operas of Leos Janacek led him to study in the Czech Republic and work as assistant to such prominent conductors as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Bohumil Gregor, Jiri Belohlavek, and Sir Charles Mackerras. He has worked as assistant conductor already on over eight productions of Janacek operas including, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;Jenufa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;Kata Kabanova&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;The Cunning Little Vixen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;, T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;he Makropulos Case&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;, and the American premier of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;Osud &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;(Fate).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mauffray has been an assistant conductor at the Prague National Theater, with the Czech Philharmonic on recordings of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;Kata Kabanova&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;Rusalka&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;, and at the Salzburg Festival with Sir John Eliot Gardiner on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;Jenufa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;. 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 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;The Excursions of Mr. Broucek &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;and the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;Glagolitic Mass&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;He has collaborated with Universal Edition in the corrections to the critical edition of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;Jenufa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; according to the original source material in the Janacek archives in Brno. 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&lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-priority:99;  mso-style-qformat:yes;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0in;  mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Garamond","serif";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;A native of Louisiana, Mauffray began his music studies at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and Louisiana State University.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;He studied conducting in Germany with Sergiu Celibedache, at Indiana Univeristy with Arthur Fagen and David Effron, and has conducted in masterclasses under the guidance of Larry Rachlef, David Zinman, James Conlon, David Robertson, and Jorma Panula.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;He was a conducting fellow at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen and awarded a conducting grant from the Geraldine C. &amp;amp; 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 &lt;/span&gt;He has also been one of a select number of conductors invited to participate in masterclasses with Michael Tilson Thomas in Miami (2001), with Esa-Pekka Salonen in Singapore (2008), and with Franz Welser-Möst in Indiana (2010).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31146486-3499141648131569943?l=paulmauffray.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31146486/posts/default/3499141648131569943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31146486/posts/default/3499141648131569943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paulmauffray.blogspot.com/2007/08/short-version-of-conductors-bio-370.html' title='Conductor&apos;s bio'/><author><name>PAUL MAUFFRAY</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11198086256608389781</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2mIjH7C6EV8/Tx-L6avSZhI/AAAAAAAAAPU/48suXJpAyNE/s220/Paul%2540Trinity2009.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f0TNFSAHV28/RsxWZhlMKMI/AAAAAAAAABY/HO6lkXWAe3U/s72-c/Mauffray_Brno_2005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31146486.post-2575302869386244797</id><published>2007-08-15T12:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-08T14:56:53.123-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Deutscher Lebenslauf</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Der Dirigent Paul Mauffray stammt aus New Orleans (geb. 1968). Seine musikalische Ausbildung führte ihn sehr früh nach Europa, wo er z.B. an der Justus Liebig Universität und an der Johannes Gutenberg Universität unter &lt;strong&gt;Sergiu Celibedache&lt;/strong&gt; studierte. Nach diversen Meisterklassen (auch in seiner Heimat USA) ging er in die Tschechische Republik - vor allem, um das Schaffen Leos Janaceks in dessen Heimatstadt Brno zu studieren. Weiters erhielt er in der Tschechischen Republik die Möglichkeit sich ein sehr breites Konzertrepertoire mit den verschiedensten Orchestern aufzubauen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sein fundiertes Wissen zum Gesamtwerk Leos Janaceks führte sehr rasch dazu, dass er mit einigen der bedeutendsten Künstler des internationalen Opernbetriebes bei verschiedensten Projekten arbeitete:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sir Charles Mackerras&lt;/strong&gt; und &lt;strong&gt;Gabriela Benackova&lt;/strong&gt; (Janaceks &lt;em&gt;Katja Kabanowa&lt;/em&gt;), &lt;strong&gt;Sir John Eliot Gardiner&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Karita Mattila&lt;/strong&gt; und &lt;strong&gt;Hildegard Behrens&lt;/strong&gt; (Janaceks &lt;em&gt;Jenufa&lt;/em&gt; bei den &lt;strong&gt;Salzburger Festspielen&lt;/strong&gt; 2001), &lt;strong&gt;Renee Fleming&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Dolora Zajick&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Ben Heppner&lt;/strong&gt; und &lt;strong&gt;Franz Hawlata&lt;/strong&gt; (Dvoraks &lt;em&gt;Rusalka&lt;/em&gt;, wieder unter Sir Charles Mackerras), &lt;strong&gt;Bohumil Gregor&lt;/strong&gt; und &lt;strong&gt;Jiri Belohlavek&lt;/strong&gt; (gemeinsame Einstudierung von diversen Werken Smetanas und Janaceks am &lt;strong&gt;Nationaltheater in Prag&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gastauftritte brachten den Preisträger diverser Dirigenten-Wettbewerbe (z.B. &lt;strong&gt;Bartok Internationalen Opernwettbewerb &lt;u&gt;2. Preis&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Freedman Wettbewerb &lt;u&gt;1. Preis&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) unter anderem nach Deutschland, Frankreich, Österreich, die Slowakei, Schweden, die USA und immer wieder natürlich in seine Wahlheimat, die Tschechische Republik, wo er auch die Stelle des Generalmusikdirektors an der Oper von Usti nad Labem innehatte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sein sehr kurzfristiges Einspringen bei &lt;strong&gt;Strawinskys &lt;em&gt;Le Sacre du Printemps&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; mit der &lt;strong&gt;Brünner Philharmonie&lt;/strong&gt; war ein grosser Erfolg und führte zu weiteren Verpflichtungen mit diesem Orchester (z.B. Mozarts &lt;em&gt;Requiem&lt;/em&gt;). Weiters arbeitete er im Rahmen seiner Gastauftritte mit vielen bedeutenden Orchestern (z.B. &lt;strong&gt;Orchestre National de Lyon&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Augsburger Philharmonie&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Slowakische Philharmonie&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Im letzten Saison trat Paul Mauffray im &lt;strong&gt;Brünner National Theater&lt;/strong&gt; als Studienleiter bei (Dirigate: Verdis &lt;em&gt;Don Carlos&lt;/em&gt;), und im dieser Saison ist er als musikalischer Assistent für &lt;em&gt;Katja Kabanowa&lt;/em&gt; im &lt;strong&gt;Theater an der Wien&lt;/strong&gt; engagiert. Als Preistrager des Bartok Opernwettbewerbs ist er als Gastdirigent zum Bucharest National Theater eingeladen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31146486-2575302869386244797?l=paulmauffray.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paulmauffray.blogspot.com/feeds/2575302869386244797/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31146486&amp;postID=2575302869386244797&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31146486/posts/default/2575302869386244797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31146486/posts/default/2575302869386244797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paulmauffray.blogspot.com/2007/10/deutsche-lebenslauf.html' title='Deutscher Lebenslauf'/><author><name>PAUL MAUFFRAY</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11198086256608389781</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2mIjH7C6EV8/Tx-L6avSZhI/AAAAAAAAAPU/48suXJpAyNE/s220/Paul%2540Trinity2009.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31146486.post-115292330640136540</id><published>2007-06-20T23:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-02T11:41:22.777-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Conductor's Bio (complete version)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Paul Mauffray was twice selected as one of the top finalists in the Bartok International Opera Conducting Competition in Romania, in 2005 and in 2007 when he was awarded &lt;u&gt;Second Prize&lt;/u&gt;. Apart from conducting complete performances of Bartok’s &lt;em&gt;Bluebeard’s Castle&lt;/em&gt; (both times), he also conducted scenes from &lt;em&gt;La Boheme&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Carmen&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Cavalleria&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;Rusticana&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;I Pagliacci&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Rigoletto&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Samson et Dalila&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;La Traviata&lt;/em&gt;, &amp;amp; &lt;em&gt;Tosca&lt;/em&gt;. In 2007 he has conducted the Slovak Sinfonietta in Zilina and the Cherubini &lt;em&gt;Requiem&lt;/em&gt; in a subscription concert with the prestigious Slovak Philharmonic in Bratislava. During this time, he took up the position of “Studienleiter”, or head of musical preparation, at the National Theater in Brno, Janacek Opera.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/502/3802/1600/fanfare_1.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/502/3802/320/fanfare_1.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;In 2005 Mauffray successfully replaced another conductor on 24 hours notice with the Brno Philharmonic in Stravinsky’s &lt;em&gt;Le sacre du printemps &lt;/em&gt;! This orchestra later volunteered its services to perform Mozart’s &lt;em&gt;Requiem&lt;/em&gt; with him in a sold-out benefit concert for victims of the hurricanes in New Orleans. In the spring of 2005, Mauffray was assistant conductor on a (as of yet unreleased) recording of Messiaen’s &lt;em&gt;Turangalila&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;Symphony&lt;/em&gt; with Serge Baudo and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. In 2006 he conducted the South Bohemia Chamber Philharmonic in a concert in honor of the anniversary of the end of World War II in Cesky Krumlov. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;A major focus of Mauffray’s work has been on Czech operas as assistant conductor at the Prague National Theatre, the Salzburg Music Festival, and on recordings with the Czech Philharmonic. He has covered nearly all of the major works of Leos Janacek as a replacement for Libor Pesek with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, and as assistant to Bohumil Gregor, Jiri Belohlavek, Sir Charles Mackerras, and Sir John Eliot Gardiner. For the summer of 2003, he was an assistant conductor to Leon Botstein on works of Janacek at the Bard Music Festival including the &lt;em&gt;Glagolitic Mass&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Osud&lt;/em&gt; which was the seventh Janacek opera Mauffray worked on during eight years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/502/3802/1600/fanfare_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/502/3802/320/fanfare_2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;In the 2003–04 season, Mauffray guest conducted the Rapides Symphony and the Monroe Symphony Orchestra in Louisiana where was a finalist in both Music Director searches. He has also guest conducted the Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra and has been a finalist in resident conductor searches with the Orchestre National de Lyon and Schleswig-Holstein Landestheater where he conducted a performance of Mozart’s &lt;em&gt;Cosi fan tutte&lt;/em&gt;. In 2001, he was one of six conductors selected by Michael Tilson Thomas to conduct Bartok’s &lt;em&gt;Concerto for Orchestra&lt;/em&gt; in a masterclass with the New World Symphony in Miami.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;In 1996, Paul Mauffray served as Interim Artistic Director of the City Opera of Usti nad Labem with performances of operas by Mozart, Smetana, Dvorak, Verdi, and Puccini. He has made numerous guest appearances with symphony orchestras throughout the Czech Republic including: the Prague Philharmonia, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Hradec Kralove Philharmonic, Pilsen Philharmonic, Carlsbad Symphony, Talich Chamber Orchestra, Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic, and the Janacek&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Philharmonic. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;In America, Mauffray was assistant to Raymond Harvey on Gounod’s &lt;em&gt;Faust&lt;/em&gt; at El Paso Opera, Texas, he worked as assistant to Michael Morgan on Massenet’s &lt;em&gt;Werther&lt;/em&gt; at Festival Opera in California, and he conducted performances of Tchaikovsky’s &lt;em&gt;Nutcracker&lt;/em&gt; with the Oakland Ballet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/502/3802/1600/fanfare_3.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/502/3802/320/fanfare_3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;He was awarded &lt;u&gt;First Prize&lt;/u&gt; for his performance of Brahms’ &lt;em&gt;Symphony #1&lt;/em&gt; at the Freedman Conducting Competition in America in 1996. He has also been a semi-finalist at international conducting competitions in: Bonn, Germany; Cadaques, Spain; and twice in the Prague Spring Conducting Competition where he was awarded &lt;u&gt;Honorary Mention&lt;/u&gt; for conducting Janacek’s &lt;em&gt;Taras Bulba&lt;/em&gt; and Stravinsky’s &lt;em&gt;Le sacre du printemps&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;He was a conducting fellow in the American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival and studied in the summer conducting programs at the Conductor’s Institute in South Carolina and Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. As a winner of the Geraldine C. &amp;amp; Emory M. Ford Award for American Conductors, he studied with Joseph Gifford in a conducting workshop in Boston. He has conducted in masterclasses under the guidance of Larry Rachlef, Lawrence Leighton-Smith, Paul Vermel, David Zinman, James Conlon, David Robertson, and Jorma Panula.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/502/3802/1600/fanfare_4.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/502/3802/320/fanfare_4.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;He began his musical studies at an early age at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts with Dr. Bert Braud and earned a Bachelor’s degree in music and German at the Louisiana State University where he also took graduate studies in baroque music and conducting. In Germany, he studied musicology at the Justus Liebig Universität and began conducting studies at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität with Sergiu Celibedache. He has furthered his graduate studies in musicology at the Masaryk University in Brno with a specialization in the music of Leoš Janáček.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;In the spring of 2008 he is engaged to work as Studienleiter/Assistant Conductor on "Kata Kabanova" with Kirill Petrenko and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchester at the &lt;a href="http://www.theater-wien.at/de/spielplan/oper/katja_kabanova/"&gt;Theater an der Wien&lt;/a&gt;, and as a prize winner of the Bartok International Opera Conducting Competition, Paul Mauffray has been offered to conduct at the Bucharest National Opera.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31146486-115292330640136540?l=paulmauffray.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paulmauffray.blogspot.com/feeds/115292330640136540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31146486&amp;postID=115292330640136540&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31146486/posts/default/115292330640136540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31146486/posts/default/115292330640136540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paulmauffray.blogspot.com/2006/07/conductors-bio-and-resume.html' title='Conductor&apos;s Bio (complete version)'/><author><name>PAUL MAUFFRAY</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11198086256608389781</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2mIjH7C6EV8/Tx-L6avSZhI/AAAAAAAAAPU/48suXJpAyNE/s220/Paul%2540Trinity2009.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31146486.post-2945799796408235846</id><published>2007-06-19T17:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-21T08:27:35.488-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Životopis</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Již dvakrát se stal Paul Mauffray jedním z hlavních finalistů mezinárodní dirigentské soutěže Bartók International Opera Conducting Competition v Rumunsku, a sice v roce 2005 a pak opět v roce 2007, kdy ve finále získal &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. cenu&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. Kromě kompletního provedení opery B. Bartóka &lt;em&gt;Hrad knížete Modrovouse&lt;/em&gt;, které dirigoval již podruhé, se Mauffray představil také ve vybraných scénách z oper &lt;em&gt;Bohéma&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Carmen&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Sedlák kavalír&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Komedianti&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Rigoletto&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Samson a Dalila&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Traviata&lt;/em&gt; a &lt;em&gt;Tosca&lt;/em&gt;. V roce 2007 dirigoval Paul Mauffray Státní komorní orchestr Žilina. Téhož roku uvedl v Bratislavě v rámci abonentních koncertů ve spolupráci s renomovanou Slovenskou filharmonií velkolepou oratorní skladbu Cherubiniho &lt;em&gt;Requiem&lt;/em&gt;. V té době také nastoupil jako vedoucí hudebního nastudování v Janáčkově opeře Národního divadla v Brně. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Americký dirigent Paul Mauffray, pocházející z Louisiany začal své hudební studium na New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (komponování, hru na klavír, violoncello, pozoun a jazzový bas). Je absolventem Louisianské státní univerzity, studoval na Liebigově univerzitě v Giessenu, na Chigiho akademii v Sieně, na American Academy of Conducting v Aspen Colorado, v dirigentském semináři Sergia Celibidache na Gutenbergově univerzitě v Mohuči a magisterské studium hudební vědy na Masarykově univerzitě v Brně.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Jeho první působení v České republice byl záskok na poslední chvíli při provedení Janáčkovy orchestrální suity z opery &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Příhody lišky Bystroušky&lt;/span&gt; s Filharmonií Hradec Králové v roce 1994. Do Hradce Králové byl Mauffray znovu pozván jako hostující dirigent v roce 1999, 2000 a 2002.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;V soutěži Pražského jara 1995 získal Mauffray jako semifinalista Čestné uznání za provedení Stravinského &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Svěcení jara&lt;/span&gt; a Janáčkova &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Tarase Bulby&lt;/span&gt;. O rok později zvítězil ve Freedmanově dirigentské soutěži ve státě &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Missouri&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt;. Byl semifinalista v soutěži v Cadaques (Španělsko) a v Bonnu (Německo). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;V letech 1995 až 1997 byl asistujícím dirigentem opery pražského Národního divadla, kde spolupracoval s dirigenty Bohumilem Gregorem a Jiřím Bělohlávkem na Janáčkových operách &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Příhody lišky Bystroušky&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Káťa Kabanová&lt;/span&gt; a na &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Její pastorkyňa&lt;/span&gt;. V roce 1996 byl zastupujícím šéfem opery v městském divadle v &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Ústi nad Labem&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;, kde dirigoval opery od Mozarta, Smetany, Dvořáka a Verdiho.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;V roce 1998 Mauffray dirigoval koncerty na festivalu Mladá Praha s Pražskou komorní filharmonií a na festivalu Talichův Beroun s Českým národním symfonickým orchestrem. Mezi 1994 a 1999 také působil u několika studentských orchestrů jako například Beethovenův orchestr v Ostravě, Orchestr Mládeže Vargön (ve Švédsku a taky v Praze) a Kammerorchester der Nationen na festivalu v německém Hundisburgu, kde řídil orchestr vytvořený ze studentů z třinácti různých zemí.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;V letech 1997 a 1998 asistoval Siru Charlesovi Mackerrasovi při natáčení &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Káti Kabanové&lt;/span&gt; a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Rusalky&lt;/span&gt;. Působil v operních domech v kalifornském Walnut Creeku (Massenet - &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Werther&lt;/span&gt;), v El Pasu (Gounod - &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Faust&lt;/span&gt;), ve Flensburgu (Mozart - &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Cosi fan tutte&lt;/span&gt;) a v Salcburku, kde asistoval Siru Johnovi Eliotovi Gardinerovi při nastudování &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Její pastorkyně&lt;/span&gt; s Českou filharmonií. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Paul Mauffray spolupůsobil při přípravě sedmi Janáčkových inscenací jako asistent dirigenta včetně prvního provedení Janáčkova &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Osudu &lt;/span&gt;v &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;USA&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; na Bard Music Festival. Na tomto Janáčkově festivalu v New Yorku připravil Mauffray sbor a sólisty pro provedeni &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Říkadel&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Glagolské mše&lt;/span&gt;, několik menších Janáčkových skladeb a scén z opery &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Příhody lišky Bystroušky&lt;/span&gt; a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Výlety pana Broučka&lt;/span&gt;. Mezi orchestrální skladby, u kterých asistoval v New Yorku, patřil i Janáčkův &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Taras Bulba&lt;/span&gt; a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sinfonietta&lt;/span&gt;. Tyto dvě skladby již dirigoval Mauffray v roce 1997 během zkoušky s Českým národním symfonickým orchestrem jako záskok za onemocnělého dirigenta Libora Peška.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Mezi další evropské orchestry, které Mauffray řídil patří Janáčkova filharmonie Ostrava, Plzeňská filharmonie, Jihočeská komorní filharmonie České Budějovice, Karlovarský symfonický orchestr, Talichův komorní orchestr, Komorní filharmonie Pardubice, filharmonie Augsburg, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne a Orchestre National de Lyon. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;V sezóně 2003-04, Paul Mauffray hostoval u Amerických orchestrů Rapides Symphony a Monroe Symphony Orchestra v Louisianě, kde byl zároveň finalistou na místa šéfdirigenta u obou orchestrů. Mauffray dirigoval v roce 2000 Oakland East Bay Symphony a Oakland Ballet v Kalifornii. V následujícím roce byl pozván mezi čtyři mladé dirigenty, aby řídil Bartókův &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Koncert pro orchestr&lt;/span&gt; v mistrovském kurzu s Michaelem Tilson-Thomasem a New World Symphony Orchestra v &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Miami&lt;/st1:city&gt; (&lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Florida&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt;). Další kurzy, kterých se Mauffray aktivně zúčastnil, byly pod vedením dirigentů: František Bílek, Otakar Trhlík, Larry Rachlef, Lawrence Leighton-Smith, Paul Vermel, David Zinman, James Conlon, David Robertson, a Jorma Panula ad.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;V roce 2005 zaskočil Paul Mauffray na poslední chvíli za náhle onemocnělého dirigenta při koncertu Státní filharmonie &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Brno&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;. Na programu, který zůstal beze změny, bylo Stravinského &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Svěcení jara&lt;/span&gt;. O pár měsíců později dirigoval Mozartovo &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Rekviem &lt;/span&gt;se Státní filharmonií &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Brno&lt;/st1:city&gt; a s Českým filharmonickým sborem na benefičním koncertu ve prospěch obětí hurikánu v jeho rodném &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;New Orleans&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Jako držitele druhé hlavní ceny mezinárodní dirigentské soutěže Bartók International Opera Conducting Competition čeká dirigenta Paula Mauffraye v sezóně 2007/2008 hostování v Bukurešťské národní opeře.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31146486-2945799796408235846?l=paulmauffray.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paulmauffray.blogspot.com/feeds/2945799796408235846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31146486&amp;postID=2945799796408235846&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31146486/posts/default/2945799796408235846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31146486/posts/default/2945799796408235846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paulmauffray.blogspot.com/2006/10/ivotopis.html' title='Životopis'/><author><name>PAUL MAUFFRAY</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11198086256608389781</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2mIjH7C6EV8/Tx-L6avSZhI/AAAAAAAAAPU/48suXJpAyNE/s220/Paul%2540Trinity2009.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
