New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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.
Conductor on artist roster of William Reinert Associates http://www.williamreinert.com/artist.php?id=mauffray
Guest conductor for concert of Beethoven Piano Concertos at Merkin Hall
Guest Conductor / Music Director for the Tabasco opera production at a new venue for the opera, Le Petit Theatre. This was the first time this theater was used for a full opera production, and my responsibilities included not only the reconstruction, editing, and arranging of this revival of an unpublished 1894 opera, but also casting the singers and designing a pit suitable for the 30 musicians of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. All 5 performances were completely sold out at least one week before opening night.
guest conductor for multiple educational concerts which I programmed and scripted including music by: Bach/Stokowski, Brahms, Britten, Debussy, Dvorak, Janacek, Mahler, Prokofiev, Smetana, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner.