Lucy Mauro
Associate Professor - Piano
Lucy Mauro’s recordings for Delos have been hailed in Gramophone,
BBC Music Magazine, Diapason and awarded a Recording of the
Year 2011 by MusicWeb International, among other
recognitions. Her latest CD, Mademoiselle: Première Audience, Unknown Music of Nadia
Boulanger was nominated for a 2017 GRAMMY and a 2018 International Classical
Music Award in Europe and which the The
Buffalo News called “one of the most important classical records of this or
any year.”
The Journal of Singing calls her “a perfect partner,
whether called upon for thundering power or the tenderest whisper” and MusicWeb
International said her “delicate touch and flawless technique
give us a luminous sound of great beauty”. Her solo piano CD, From
the Unforgetting Skies: The Piano Music of Margaret Ruthven Lang (Delos,
2013)
has received acclaim in American Record Guide” (“Mauro
is a polished advocate, with delightful interpretations communicating the
richness and variety of her piano works” and describing her “excellent balance,
sensitivity, and taste”), MusicWeb International (“A new and
magnificently played entry in Delos’ rediscovery of this important American
composer”) and
selected for the December 2013 NAXOS Critics’ Choice List. Her CD Return
to Old Ireland: Music of Mary McAuliffe (2015)
includes students and colleagues from WVU, which MusicWeb
International says, "Lovers of Irish music shouldn't
hesitate."
Recent performances include the 2018 and 2017
MostArts Festival and concerto performances with the Alfred University Orchestra,
collaborative performances at numerous colleges and universities throughout the
US, and the 2013 Esterházy Festival in Austria. She can also be heard on Thomas
Hampson’s national radio program Song of America. Dr.
Mauro has performed and taught for festivals and schools in Germany, Italy,
Spain, China and the US.
Her publications which she has co-authored include Master
Singers: Advice from the Stage (2015, Oxford University Press) which features interviews with many
of today’s top opera singers and was endorsed by Plácido Domingo and Mirella
Freni. She has also co-selected and edited piano ensemble collections for
Alfred Publishing including Essential
Two-Piano Repertoire, Essential Keyboard Trios and Essential Keyboard Duets Vols. 4 and 5. Her articles have appeared in American
Music Teacher, Die Tonkunst, Society of
American Music Bulletin, Journal
of IAWM and the Delos Insider.
Dr. Mauro is graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University from which she received Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctorate degrees and where she studied with Ann Schein and Julio Esteban.