Paul Mauffray is an American conductor and laureat of the 2007 Bartók International Opera Conducting Competition,
/ref> The American Prize for Conductors, and 1996 Freedman Conducting Competition. He has studied at the

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(Giessen),

Masaryk University Masaryk University (MU) ( cs, Masarykova univerzita; la, Universitas Masarykiana Brunensis) is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno as the seco ...

(

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), and earned a Masters of Music degree in Orchestra Conducting as an Associate Instructor / Assistant Conductor at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. He has been engaged in the

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at the

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and National Theater in Brno, and he has worked as assistant conductor to Sir

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with the

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on recordings of Leoš Janáček's '' Kata Kabanova'' and

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's ''

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''. He has also worked as assistant conductor on operas at the

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, and was a guest conductor at the

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, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landestheater, Slovak National Theater (Bratislava, Slovakia), Opéra Louisiane, Mobile Opera Alabama, and the

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. As an advocate for the revival of lost operas, Paul Mauffray recorded excerpts from the 1964 opera "The Scarlet Letter" by

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with the Brno Philharmonic, and he reconstructed

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" which had been lost since 1894 and which he conducted with New Orleans Opera in 2018.Tabasco review by the Boston Musical Intelligencer
/ref> Paul Mauffray, Prague 2017

In 2018, Paul Mauffray was inducted as a national honorary member of

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music fraternity and recognized as a Signature Sinfonian.

Orchestras

The orchestras which Paul Mauffray has conducted include the following:

Awards

* Second Place 2021, 2018, Third Place 2015, 2016, & 2019 Honorary Mention 201
, The American Prize for Professional Conductors
* Second Prize, Béla Bartók International Opera Conducting Competition, Romania, 2007 * First Prize, Freedman Conducting Competition, U.S.A., 1996 * Honorary Mention & Semi-Finalist, Prague Spring International Conducting Competition, Czech Republic, 1995 & 2000

External links

Official website

Conducting videos

Excerpts from "The Scarlet Letter" by Fredric Kroll

Janáček Lachian Dances with folk ballet at Janáček Festival Hukvaldy 2014

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mauffray, Paul American male conductors (music) Living people Louisiana State University alumni Indiana University faculty Jacobs School of Music faculty Masaryk University alumni 21st-century American conductors (music) 21st-century American male musicians Year of birth missing (living people)