Lucy Mauro’s  recent performances include those for the Colorado Music
Festival Chamber Music Series, Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of
Congress,  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, the reunion of the French Piano Institute, the Embassy of
Poland in Washington, D.C., and the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg.    She
has recorded for Capstone Records and is also the co-editor of
Essential Two-
Piano Repertoire, Essential Keyboard Trios,
 Essential Keyboard Duets, vol. 4, Duet
Transcriptions
from Alfred Publishing.

Ms. Mauro 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.

She is an Assistant Professor of Music at West Virginia University and the
Coordinator of Coaching and Accompanying for the International
Performing Arts Institute in Germany.  
Donald George, tenor has performed at La Scala, at the Paris Opera Bastille
and Théâtre du Châtelet,  Royal Opera of Brussels, Kennedy Center, the State
Operas of Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna, the Festivals of Salzburg, Buenos
Aires, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Perth(Australia) and Blossom USA. He has sung
with Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur,Yehudi Menuhin, Jeffry Tate, Vladimir
Jurowski, Simone Young and recorded Elijah, Verdi Requiem, Rossini’s
Aurelieano in Palmira and Le Nozzedi Teti e Peleo (the world premiere
recording), Die Schöne Müllerin among others.  He has recorded for Sony,
Naxos, Phillips Classic, Teldec, and Bavarian Radio, among others. He has
worked with prominent stage directors such as John Dew, Harry Kupfer,
Mario Martone, Yannis Kokkos, William Kenntridge and others.   

Reviews of Donald George speak of his “pleasing tenorsound, vocally reliable
in all challenges” (Verdi Requiem-Metropolitan Opera News), “A success for
La Scala all possess a superb technique, and are consummate actors…including
Donald George” (Peter Grimes-Corriere della Sera), Donald George provides
Candide with a supple, beautiful toned lyricism-His Lament is one of the
highlights of the performance (Candide-MünchnerMerkur – Munich,
Germany).   2010 concerts for Donald George include a  New Year’s Concert
with the Nuremberg Philharmonic, a tour of Carmina Buranawith the
Symphony Heilbrunn  and Liederabend in the US and Germany.

Donald George is Opera Director of the International Performing Arts
Institute in Germany, a summer program for opera and musical singers.
He is also a guest of the Schloß Laubach Opera Summer Festival in
Germany, for young professional singers wishing to start a career in
Germany.  He is an Associate Professor of Vocal Music at the Crane School of
Music- State University of New York, Potsdam and an Honored Professor at
Shenyang Conservatory in China and Guest Artist in Residence at West
Virginia University.  Mr. George has also taught at the Bavarian Theater
Academy Hochschule für Theater und Musik in Munich.

Donald George studied at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond,
LA where he received his Bachelor of Music degree studying with Ralph
Roberts and then attended Louisiana State University for his Master's degree.  
He is a member of the Hall of Fame of Southeastern Louisiana University.
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