John Mauceri
Chancellor, North Carolina School of the Arts
The distinguished and extraordinarily varied career of John Mauceri has brought him not only to the world's greatest opera companies and symphony orchestras, but also to the musical stages of Broadway and Hollywood as well as the most prestigious halls of academia. Mr. Mauceri served as music director of the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy for three years after completing seven years as music director of Scottish Opera. He is the first American ever to have held the post of music director of an opera house in either Great Britain or Italy. He was music director of the Washington Opera at The Kennedy Center and was music director of the American Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall. For 15 years he served on the faculty of Yale University.
More recently he was the music director of the Pittsburgh Opera, a post he assumed in June 2000, and director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in Los Angeles, which was created for him in 1991, by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. He now has the title of founding director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. He appears regularly on radio and television throughout the world. In addition to his work as a conductor, arranger and editor, Mr. Mauceri writes frequently on opera and musical theater.
Mr. Mauceri is one of the world's most accomplished recording artists and is the recipient of Grammy, Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk, Edison, Emmy, Diapason d'Or, Cannes Classique, Billboard, and four Deutsche Schallplatten awards. In recognition of his outstanding contributions in restoring and performing music for film, he was given a special award by the Society for the Preservation of Film Music in August of 1995. Mr. Mauceri has won two Los Angeles Emmy Awards: one in 1995, as a writer and the other in 1998, as an on-camera personality.
Mr. Mauceri became the seventh chancellor of the North Carolina School of the Arts on July 1, 2006. Since then, he has spread the news about the School as he has conducted and lectured around the world. He graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1967, and in 1985, was awarded Yale's first Arts Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievement. Mr. Mauceri lives in Winston-Salem with his wife, Betty. Their son Benjamin lives in Los Angeles and is Director of Business and Legal Affairs at Comedy Central.
[Mr. Mauceri's full biography can be found at http://www.ncarts.edu/chancellor/biography.htm]
