Paul
Mauffray

Paul Mauffray
Paul Mauffray was named 2022 Honored Artist of The American Prize for professional conductors.  He was awarded 2nd Prize in the Bartok International Opera Conducting Competition and has conducted in: Salzburg; Vienna; with many German, Czech, and Slovak orchestras; Czech operas at the Mariinsky Theatre in Russia; and has often performed as conductor with soloists from the Vienna Philharmonic. He recently conducted the New Orleans Opera premiere of George Whitefield Chadwick's opera “Tabasco” which he reconstructed from the 1894 manuscript.
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Handel's Messiah
Harpsichord continuo soloist
Symphony Chorus of New Orleans
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Paul Mauffray

Paul Mauffray recently gave his New York conducting debut at Merkin Hall with New York Concert Artists Orchestra and his South American debut with music of Berlioz and Leoš Janáček in Argentina. During the Covid pandemic of 2020 he conducted the Czech premiere of “A Fiddler’s Tale” by Wynton Marsalis in Brno. In 2018 he conducted the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in the New Orleans Opera premiere of George W. Chadwick's opera Tabasco which he reconstructed from the original 1894 manuscript.

In 2016 he conducted performances of Rusalka at the prestigious Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg where he was previously invited by Valery Gergiev to conduct The Makropulos Case. Mauffray’s passion for the operas of Leoš Janáček led him to study in the Czech Republic and work as assistant to conductors Bohumil Gregor, Jiří Bělohlávek, and Sir Charles Mackerras on over eight productions of Janáček operas including, Jenůfa, Káťa Kabanová, The Cunning Little Vixen, The Makropulos Case, and the American premiere of Osud.

Recent conducting appearances have been in: Bratislava, Brno, Bear Valley, Chattanooga, Hainburg, Hukvaldy, Mobile, Ostrava, Pardubice, St. Petersburg, Zlin, multiple concerts with the Schloss Schönbrunn Orchester in Vienna, New Orleans (Faure Requiem), Baton Rouge (Handel Messiah), and Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen in Hradec Králové

In March of 2016, he conducted a studio recording of the opera The Scarlet Letter by Fredric Kroll in a return engagement with the Brno Philharmonic where he previously conducted Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps (taken over on 24 hours notice) and Mozart’s Requiem. He has performed regularly in Austria and in the Czech and Slovak Republics with violin-soloist Tomas Vinklat (then member of the Vienna Philharmonic), and a recent return engagement at the Hainburger Haydngesellschaft in 2017 with Filip Waldmann was his fifth collaboration with another soloist from the Vienna Philharmonic.

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Experience

Salta, AR

Conductor

2019 - 2019
Guest conductor in program of Berlioz and Janacek.
New Orleans, LA

Conductor

2018 - 2018
Conductor for Chadwick - The Burlesque Opera Tabasco

Mobile Opera

2016 - 2016
Mobile, AL

Conductor

2016 - 2016
Conductor for Moore - The Devil and Daniel Webster
Bear Valley, CA

Conductor

2016 - 2016
Guest conductor for program of music by Mozart, Haydn, and Chadwick
Chattanooga, TN

Conductor

2015 - 2015
Guest Conductor for program of orchestral music by Sullivan, Strauss, Sousa, and Chadwick
Riverside, CA, USA

Conductor

2015 - 2015
Guest conductor in orchestral concert of music by Mozart, Grieg, Chadwick, and Beethoven
Vienna, AT

Conductor

2013 - 2013
Conductor in programs of music by Haydn, Mozart, Lehar, Kalman, and the Strauss family.
St. Petersburg, RU

Conductor

2011 - 2016
Conductor for Dvorak - Rusalka & Janacek - The Makropulos Case
Bucharest, Romania

Conductor

2010 - 2010
Guest conductor for Verdi - La traviata

Opéra Louisiane

2009 - 2009
Baton Rouge, LA

Conductor

2009 - 2009
Conductor of Humperdinck - Hansel and Gretel

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Opera coach

Harpsichord

Continuo

Industry

Opera