Contact Information
Lucy.Mauro@mail.wvu.edu
Phone: (304) 293.4533
219-A Creative Arts Center
Keyboard Studies
Lucy Mauro
Assistant Professor-Piano
Lucy Mauro is an Assistant Professor at West Virginia University. She is a 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.
Dr. Mauro frequently performs, conducts master classes, workshops and other presentations with tenor Donald George, specializing in such areas as developing musical expression and communication, the nineteenth-century German Melodram, and the art of collaborative performance. They have performed to much acclaim for colleges, universities, concert series and festivals throughout the US and abroad, including those at Shenyang Conservatory in China, the Asolo Song Festival in Italy, and TOPOpera in Austria, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of Missouri at Columbia, University of Oregon, Marshall University, Western Illinois University, Longwood University, Virginia Tech, University of South Carolina, the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Randolph College, Eastern Michigan University, the 2008 MTNA National Conference in Denver (where they were selected as a “highlight” in American Music Teacher), the 2008 WVMTA State Conference, the 2009 MTNA National Conference in Atlanta, the 2009 Great Plains Regional Chapter Conference of the College Music Society at Kansas City Conservatory, 2009 College Music Society National Conference in Portland, the 2010 CMS Northeast Chapter Regional Conference at the University of Vermont, the 2010 WV/VA MTA Conference at James Madison University, the 2010 NYSMTA Conference in Albany, New York, the Chopin Club in Providence, RI, and the International Performing Arts Institute in Germany, among other venues. She and Donald George have also published recent articles in Die Tonkunst (October 2009), American Music Teacher (June/July 2009 and April/May 2010) and Classical Singer (July 2011) and have upcoming articles in the NOA Opera Journal and the Society for American Music Bulletin. Their new CD, Love is Everywhere: Selected Songs of Margaret Ruthven Lang, Volume 1 released in January 2011 by Delos, was selected as the Vocal CD Pick of the Week for WETA in Washington, D.C. and featured on iTunes in their New and Noteworthy and in the Naxos Newsletter for February 2011. About this CD, Metropolitan Opera star Stephanie Blythe said: “Bringing this repertoire to the fore, Donald George and his pianist Lucy Mauro, have done a wonderful service to the art of song with this recording- his singing is fresh and beautiful, with immediate diction, and their partnership is palpable throughout the selections. Her playing is as crystalline and telling as his singing.” The second volume of Lang songs, “New Love Must Rise”is scheduled for release in 2012. In 2011 they began their new summer program, the WVU Bavarian Summer Voice and Piano Collaborative Workshop, held in Germany for advanced singers and pianists to study art song and opera. Their website is www.duodrama.net.
Other performances for Dr. Mauro include those for the Colorado Music Festival, Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress and the Embassy of Poland in Washington, D.C., the reunion of the French Piano Institute at Shepherd University, Music at Ogontz in New Hampshire, Washington and Lee University, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the Washington County Fine Arts Museum in Maryland.
Lucy Mauro is also the co-editor of Essential Two-Piano Repertoire, Essential Keyboard Trios, and Essential Keyboard Duets, Vols. 4 and 5 from Alfred Publishing.
Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe, Nos. 1-8.mp3
Donald George, tenor
Lucy Mauro, piano