Paul Mauffray
Upcoming:
Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Ballet
Space Coast Ballet & Brevard Symphony Orchestra
Melbourne, Florida, December 5 & 6, 2026
RECENT PAST CONCERTS:
Più Mosso Baroque
Harpsichord Concertos & Comic Cantatas
presented by the New Orleans Chamber Orchestra
March 21 & 22, 2026
with vocal soloists:
Rachel Looney, Jake Jenkins, Bogdan Mynka,
Kristin Schmitz, Ken Weber, & Kevin Rouchell
Jean-Philippe Rameau – Premier concert in c-minor
Antonio Vivaldi – La tiranna e avversa sorte, RV 700
Georg Philip Telemann – Canary Cantata, funeral cantata for an artistically trained canary bird
Johann Sebastian Bach – Harpsichord Concerto #5 in f-minor
Georg Philip Telemann – Distrait, from Suite à 4
Johann Sebastian Bach – Coffee Cantata BWV 211
Baroque Concertos & Solo Cantatas
presented by Symphony Chorus of New Orleans
Nov. 17, 2024
at St. Mary's Assumption Church, New Orleans
Nicole Heinen (soprano), Jacob Huffty (baritone),
Michael Bauer (organ), & Paul Mauffray (harpsichord)
Handel - Concerto grosso, Op. 6, No. 7, HWV 325
Bach/Stolzel - Bist du bei mir, BWV 508
Bach - Cantata "Ich habe genug", BWV 82
Vivaldi - Concerto "Alla rustica", RV 151
Corelli - Concerto grosso, Op. 6, No. 8
Bach - Cantata "Jauchzet Gott", BWV 51
Three Wishes for Ukraine - Benefit Concert
Members of the Baton Rouge Symphony
& members of Louisiana Philharmonic, May 25, 2022
Tchaikovsky - Melodie, Op. 42
Tchaikovsky - Andante Cantabile
Rachmaninoff - Vocalise
Tchaikovsky - Serenade for strings
Ukrainian folk song - Plyve Kacha
Marsalis - A Fiddler's Tale, August 16, 2020
at Dům pánů z Kunštátu, Brno
with members of the Brno Philharmonic and
members of Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc
CANCELED due to Covid-19:
Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, April 18, 2020
at Hainburger Haydngesellschaft, Austria
Beethoven - Leonore Overture #1
Dvorak - Romance in f-minor, op. 11
Saint-Saens - Introduction et rondo capriccioso
Beethoven - Symphony #4
Prague Chamber Orchestra, June 9, 2020
Beethoven - Symphony #7
Brahms - Double Concerto for Violin and Cello
PAST CONCERTS:
Orquesta Sinfonica de Salta, July 2019
Berlioz - Romeo et Juliette (Scene d'amour)
Vivaldi - Piccolo Concerto in C major
Janáček - Taras Bulba
New York Concert Artists Orchestra, Jan. 2019
Beethoven - Prometheus Overture
Beethoven - Piano Concerto #1
Vivaldi - Harp Concerto
Beethoven - Piano Concerto #5
Members of the Baton Rouge Symphony, Dec. 2017
Handel - Messiah
Members of the Baton Rouge Symphony
& members of Louisiana Philharmonic, Nov. 2017
Fauré - Requiem
Hradec Kralove Philharmonic, Mar. 2017
Smetana - Sarka from Ma vlast
Janáček - The Cunning Little Vixen Act 2
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Zlin, Mar. 2017
Janáček - Suite for Strings
Vanhal - Concerto for Contrabass
Bruckner - Adagio from String Quintet
Haydn - Symphony #95 in c minor
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Zlin, Feb. 2017
Educational Concert
Smetana - Dances from The Bartered Bride
Janáček - Lachian Dances
Bear Valley Music Festival, Aug. 2016
Mozart - Arias from Le nozze di Figaro & Cosi fan tutte
Chadwick - Excerpts from the Tabasco Opera
Haydn - Symphony #82 in C maj. "The Bear"
Members of the Baton Rouge Symphony
& members of Louisiana Philharmonic, Sept. 2016
Guido d'Arezzo - Ut queant laxis
Mozart - Requiem
Hradec Kralove Philharmonic, Mar. 2016
Educational Concert "What is Sonata Form?"
Mozart - Symphony #25
Beethoven - Symphony #5
Dvorak - Symphony #8
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Zlin, Feb. 2016
Maurice Ravel - Mother Goose Suite
Benjamin Britten - Young Person's Guide to the Orch.
Chattanooga Symphony & Opera, Sept. 2015
Sousa - The Thunderer March
Sullivan - The Sorcerer Overture
Johann Strauss II - Ich bin dir gut, Walzer
Johann Strauss II - Thunder and Lightning Polka
Chadwick - Excerpts from the Tabasco Opera
Hradec Kralove Philharmonic, Sept. 2015
Johann Strauss II - Fest Marsch (1893)
Chadwick - Tabasco Act 1 (1894)
Johann Strauss II - Ich bin dir gut, Walzer (1894)
Ziehrer - Schoenfeld Marsch (1890)
Chadwick - Tabasco Act 2 (1894)
La Sierra University Orchestra, Jan. 2015
Mozart - Overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio
Grieg - Holberg Suite
Chadwick - Dance of the Harem
& March of the Pasha's Guard from Tabasco
Beethoven - Symphony #2 in D major
Hradec Kralove Philharmonic, Nov. 2014
"Getting to Know Leoš Janáček"
- Lachian Dances
- Jealousy Overture
- Taras Bulba
- Sinfonietta
- Glagolitic Mass (Uvod & Intrada)
Czech Chamber Philharmonic Pardubice, Nov. 2014
Violin soloist Tomas Vinklat
Johann Sebastian Bach - Violin Concerto in E-maj.
Edvard Grieg - Holberg Suite
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Vocalise (arr. for violin and strings)
Joseph Haydn - Violin Concerto #4 in G maj.
Janáček Philharmonic, Ostrava, June 2014
Janáček Festival Hukvaldy
Leos Janacek - Lachian Dances
Josef Suk - Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, op. 24
(violin soloist Pavel Sporcl)
Antonin Dvorak - Symphony #8 in G major
Hradec Kralove Philharmonic, April 2014
Educational Concert: “From DNA to Outer Space”
Benjamin Britten - Young Person's Guide to the Orch.
Gustav Holst - The Planets
Symphony Chorus of New Orleans,
& musicians from the Louisiana Philharmonic
"A Taste of Tabasco", March 2014
excerpts from the opera "Tabasco"
by George Whitefield Chadwick
Schönbrunn Palace Orchestra, Vienna, Austria, July-Aug. 2013
W. A. Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro, Overture
W. A. Mozart - Don Giovanni, “Giovinette che fate all’amore”
W. A. Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro, “Se vuol ballare”
W. A. Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro, “Porgi amor qualche ristoro”
W. A. Mozart - Don Giovanni, “La ci darem”
Joseph Haydn - Symphony #95 in c-minor
C.M. Ziehrer - Schönfeldmarsch, op. 422
Franz Lehàr - “Liebe du Himmel auf Erden” from “Paganini”
Johann Strauss II - Myrthenkränze Walzer op. 154
Josef Strauss - Auf Ferienreisen, Polka schnell, op. 133
Emmerich Kàlmàn - “Komm Zigan” from “Gräfin Mariza”
Eduard Strauss - Ausser Rand und Band, Polka schnell, op. 168
Franz Lehàr - “Mädel klein Mädel fein” from “Der Graf von Luxemburg”
Johann Strauss II - An der schönen blauen Donau, Walzer, op 314
Slovak Sinfonietta Žilina, Slovak Republic
& Hainburg, Austria, March 2013
Joseph Haydn - Overture D major, Hob. IA:4
W. A. Mozart - Violin Concerto #4, D maj. KV 218
Richard Wagner - Träume, for Violin solo and orchestra
Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings
David Diamond - Rounds for String Orchestra
Johann Strauss II - Lagunen Walzer, op. 411
Hradec Kralove Philharmonic, Oct. 2013,
Janácek Philharmonic, Ostrava, Nov. 2011,
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, Zlin, Nov. 2011
Educational Concert: “Colors of the Orchestra”
Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird (1919 suite)
Leos Janacek - Suite from “The Cunning Little Vixen”
Claude Debussy - La mer
Hradec Kralove Philharmonic, May 2013,
Janácek Philharmonic, Ostrava, Mar. 2012 & Sept. 2009,
Educational Concert: “Pictures”
Modest Mussorgsky / Ravel - Pictures from an Exhibition
Janácek Philharmonic, Ostrava March 2013,
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, Zlin, Nov. 2012
Educational Concert: "Czech Symphonic Poems"
Bedrich Smetana - Sarka (from Ma Vlast)
Leos Janacek - Taras Bulba
Antonin Dvorak - The Noon Witch, op. 108
Slovak Sinfonietta Žilina, Slovakia,
& Hainburg, Austria, May 2011
Gioachino Rossini - Il Signor Bruschino (Overture)
Joseph Haydn - Violin Concerto #4 in G maj.
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Vocalise (arr. for violin and strings)
Richard Wagner - Siegfried Idyll
Edward Elgar - Introduction and Allegro for Strings
Josef & Johann Strauss II - Pizzicato Polka
Indiana University Symphony Orchestra,
Bloomington, IN, U.S.A., Dec. 2010
Antonin Dvorak - The Noon Witch, op. 108
Sergei Rachmaninov - The Isle of the Dead, op. 29
Indiana University Symphony Orchestra,
Bloomington, IN, U.S.A. Oct. 2010
Hector Berlioz - Les nuits d'ete, op. 7
Johann Strauss II - Emperor Waltz, op. 437
Johann Strauss I - Radetzky March, op. 228
Students of Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Baroque Christmas Benefit Concert, Dec. 2009
Arcangelo Corelli - Concerto Grosso #8 (Christmas Concerto)
Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Indiana University Symphony Orchestra,
Bloomington, IN, U.S.A. Oct. 2009
Gustav Mahler - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Richard Wagner - Im Treibhaus & Träume
Richard Wagner - Siegfried Idyll
Chamber orchestra of musicians from Louisiana Philharmonic,
New Orleans, Aug. 2009
Jules Massenet - Adieu notre petite table
Hector Berlioz - Les nuits d'ete, op. 7
Richard Wagner - Träume, for Violin solo and orchestra
Richard Wagner - Siegfried Idyll
Richard Strauss - Allerseelen, op. 10, no. 8
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, Zlin, Oct. 2008
Educational Concert
Benjamin Britten - Young Person's Guide to the Orch.
Bach / Stokowski - Toccata & Fugue in d-minor
Richard Wagner - Prelude to Die Meistersinger
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, Zlin, May 2008
Educational concert: "Folk Song in the Symphony"
Johannes Brahms - Academic Festival Overture
Gustav Mahler - Symphony #1 in D-major "Titan" (3rd mov.)
P. I. Tchaikovsky - Symphony #4 in f-minor (4th mov.)
Leos Janacek - Lachian Dances
Slovak Sinfonietta Žilina, Slovak Republic, June 2007
Gioachino Rossini - Overture to the Barber of Seville
G. F. Handel - Concerto for Harp
W. A. Mozart - Clarinet Concerto
Ottorino Respighi - Trittico Botticelliano
Slovak Philharmonic, Slovak Republic, April 2007
Franz Schubert - Symphony #4 in c “Tragic”
Luigi Cherubini - Requiem in c
Czech Virtuosi, at the Hainburg Haydngesellschaft, Austria, April 2007
Henry Purcell - Chacony in g-minor (arr. Britten)
W. A. Mozart - Adagio and Fuque in C Minor (K.564)
J.G. H. Backofen - Concerto for Basset horn and Strings
Franz Schubert - Five German Dances
Felix Mendelssohn - Sinfonia No.8 in D
Oskar Nedbal - Valse Triste
South Bohemian Chamber Orchestra, Czech Republic, May 2006
Berdrich Smetana - Overture to The Bartered Bride
Antonin Dvorak - Cello Concerto
P. I. Tchaikovsky - Symphony #5
M. Glinka - Ruslan & Ludmilla Overture
Brno Philharmonic, Czech Republic, Nov. 2005
"Benefit Concert for Hurricane Victims"
Tomaso Albinoni - Adagio
W. A. Mozart - Requiem
Brno Philharmonic, Czech Republic, March 2005
(as replacement on 24 hours notice)
Antonin Dvorak - The Wild Dove
Johannes Brahms - Variations on a Theme of Haydn
Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring
Pilsen Philharmonic, Czech Republic, May 2004
R. Vaughan-Williams - Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Maurice Ravel - Sheherazade
Camille Saint-Saens - Piano Concerto #2
Leos Janacek - Lachian Dances
Rapides Symphony, Alexandria, Louisiana, April 2004
"The Return of Spring"
Johann Strauss Jr. - Voices of Spring Waltz
Frank Martin - Ballad for Flute and Strings
R. Vaughan Williams - Tuba Concerto
N. Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian Easter Festival Overture
Ottorino Respighi - The Pines of Rome
Monroe Symphony Orchestra, Louisiana, Nov. 2003
A. Borodin - Prince Igor Overture
Franz Strauss - Horn Concerto in c minor, op.8
P. I. Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite
P. I. Tchaikovsky - Capriccio italian, op.45
Hradec Kralove Philharmonic, Czech Republic, Jan. 2002
Educational concert: "Jazz in the symphony before Rhapsody in Blue"
Maurice Ravel - Alborada del gracioso
Louis Moreau Gottschalk - A Night in the Tropics (Czech premiere)
Igor Stravinsky - L’histoire du soldat (Tango, Valse, & Ragtime)
Paul Hindemith - Kammermusik Nr. 1 (Finale 1921)
Darius Milhaud - La creation du monde
George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
Pilsen Philharmonic, Czech Republic, Sept. 2001
M. Glinka - Ruslan & Ludmilla Overture
Sergei Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto #2, op. 18
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov - A Fairy Tale, op. 29
P. I. Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet Overture Fantasy
Augsburg Philharmonic, Germany, April 2001
Werner Egk - Overture to "Der Zaubergeige"
Maurice Ravel - Sheherazade
Werner Egk - French Suite after Rameau
Maurice Ravel - Pavane pour une infante defunte
Werner Egk- La tentation de Saint Antoine
Maurice Ravel - Bolero
Janácek Philharmonic, Ostrava, Czech Republic, April 2000
Ernst Bloch - Schelomo
Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring (full orchestral suite)
Sergei Rachmaninov - Symphony #3 in a-minor
Hradec Kralove Philharmonic, Czech Republic, Feb. 2000
Educational concert: "Folk Song in the Symphony"
Johannes Brahms - Academic Festival Overture
R. Vaughan-Williams - Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Gustav Mahler - Symphony #1 in D-major "Titan" (3rd mov.)
P. I. Tchaikovsky - Symphony #4 in f-minor (4th mov.)
Hradec Kralove Philharmonic, Czech Republic, Feb. 1999
Tomaso Albinoni - Adagio
Francis Poulenc - Concerto for Two Pianos in d-minor
Maurice Ravel - Ma mere l’oye (Suite)
Igor Stravinsky - L’oiseau de feu (Suite 1919)
Czech National Symphony Orchestra,
Czech Rep., Talich Festival, Beroun, Nov. 1998
Richard Wagner - Siegfried Idyll
Igor Stravinsky - Pulcinella Suite
Aaron Copland - Quiet City
W. A. Mozart - Sinfonia concertante K.9/297b
Prague Philharmonia, Czech Republic, Aug. 1998
(festival concert with young soloists)
Gioachino Rossini - Semiramide (Overture)
Jaques Ibert - Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
P. I. Tchaikovsky - Rococo Variations, Op. 33
L. van Beethoven - Piano Concerto #5 in Eb-major, "Emperor"
Vargön Youth Orchestra, Sweden, Aug. 1998
Gioachino Rossini - Il Signor Bruschino (Overture)
Gabriel Faure - Pavane
W. A. Mozart - Violin concerto in G-major
Franz Schubert - Symphony #8 in b-minor "Unfinished"
Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dance #5 in g-minor
Talich Chamber Orchestra, Prague, Czech Republic, June 1997
Georg Fr. Handel - Concerto grosso in c, Op.6 No. 8
Igor Stravinsky - Apollo (Apollon musagete)
Antonin Dvorak - Serenade for Strings in E-major
International Music Academy Hundisburg,
Haldensleben, Germany, July 1996
(youth orchestra tour)
Luigi Boccherini - Cello Concerto in Bb-major
Henrik Gorecki - Three Pieces in Old Style
Fr. Joseph Haydn - Horn Concerto #2 in D-major
Leos Janacek - Suite for String Orchestra
Vojtech Kilar - Orawa
Members of Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic,
Zlin, Czech Republic, Jan. 1995
Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings
Leos Janácek - On an Overgrown Path (excerpts)
Arnold Schoenberg -Transfigured Night
Beethoven Chamber Orchestra, Ostrava, Czech Republic, Aug. 1994
Walter Piston - Divertimento for 9 Instruments
Halsey Stevens - Magnificat (arr. for Trumpet, Piano, & Strings)
Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question
Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring (orig. for 13 instruments)
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Orchestras Conducted
Academies Festival Orchestra Singapore
Augsburg Philharmonic
Bear Valley Festival Orchestra
Beethoven Orchester Bonn
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Zlin
Brno Philharmonic
Brno National Theater Orchestra
Bucharest National Opera
Carlsbad Symphony
Chattanooga Symphony & Opera
City Opera of Usti nad Labem
Czech National Symphony Orchestra
Czech Virtuosi
Hradec Kralove Philharmonic
Hungarian Opera Cluj-Napoca
Indiana University Symphony Orchestra
Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava
Jefferson Symphony Orchestra
Kammerphilharmonie der Nationen
Kazakh State Philharmonic
La Sierra University Orchestra
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Mobile Opera Orchestra
Monroe Symphony Orchestra
New Orleans Civic Symphony
New World Symphony
New York Concert Artists Orchestra
North Hungarian Symphony Orchestra Miskolc
Oakland East Bay Symphony
Opéra Louisiane
Orchestre de Besançon Franche-Comté
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Orchestre National de Lyon
Orquesta Sinfónica de Salta
Prague Philharmonia
Pilsen Philharmonic
Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic
Rapides Symphony
Saint Joseph Symphony
Schleswig-Holsteinisches Sinfonieorchester
Schloss Schönbrunn Orchester
Slovak National Opera
Slovak Philharmonic
Slovak Sinfonietta Zilina
South Bohemia Chamber Philharmonic
Stern Orchestra Prague
Talich Chamber Orchestra
Vargön Youth Orchestra
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