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 conducts master classes, workshops and other presentations, often 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. During the 2007-2008 season, she has performed to much acclaim with Mr. George at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of Missouri at Columbia, Marshall University, Western Illinois University, Longwood University, Virginia Tech, Concord University, the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Metropolitan State College of Denver, and the 2008 MTNA National Conference in Denver, among other venues. . In addition, this summer, she and Mr. George were guest artists at the 2008 Asolo Song Festival and Institute in Italy and for the 2008 International Performing Arts Institute in Germany where Dr. Mauro is also a member of the faculty. Upcoming performances include those at the University of South Carolina at Columbia, the 2008 WVMTA conference, Randolph College, and the 2009 Mozart Festival in Wuerzburg, Germany.
Other recent performances for Dr. Mauro include those at 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, Washington County Fine Arts Museum in Maryland, the Contemporary American Theater Festival, and the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg. Dr. Mauro is also the co-editor of Essential Two-Piano Repertoire and other forthcoming books from Alfred Publishing, Co., Inc.
Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe, Nos. 1-8
Donald George, tenor
Lucy Mauro, piano