Lucy Mauro is an
Assistant Professor of Music and the Director of
Accompanying at Radford 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. While at Peabody, she also studied with
the late, noted accompanist Samuel Sanders and
performed in master classes of Leon Fleisher,
James Tocco, Malcolm Bilson, Nelita True,
Fernando Laires, and Robert Weirich.
Performances for the 2007-2008 season include
concerts with her colleague, tenor Donald
George, at the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor, University of Missouri at Columbia, West
Virginia University, Western Illinois
University, Marshall University, Longwood
University and Concord University, among others.
They also performed at the International
Conference on Arts and Humanities in Hawaii in
January 2008 and will be presenting their new
program on the nineteenth-century German
Melodram at the 2008 National Conference of the
MTNA in Denver. They presented their workshop
“Developing Musical Expression and
Communication: What Pianists Can Learn From
Singers” for several colleges and music
organizations, including Emory and Henry College
and for the Blue Ridge Music Teachers
Association in October 2007. Upcoming concerts
with Mr. George include those for Metropolitan
State College of Denver in April 2008, for the
WVMTA 2008 State Conference and for the 2008
Asolo Song Festival in Italy and the 2009 Mozart
Festival in Würzburg, Germany.
Other recent concerts include those at the
Library of Congress, Coolidge Auditorium,
Washington, D.C.; Music at Ogontz in Sugar Hill,
NH; the Embassy of Poland in Washington, D.C.;
Washington and Lee University; the Whitaker
Center, ArtsFest, and Pine Street Presbyterian
Church in Harrisburg, PA; West Virginia Wesleyan
College; Salem International University;
Virginia Tech; for the Roane County Arts Council
and Randolph County Arts Alliance; Philadelphia,
PA; and Hartford, CT. She also performed the
premier of a new work by Walter Hartley,
Sonatina (2002) for alto saxophone and piano, in
Washington, D.C. with saxophonist David Wright.
Dr. Mauro also frequently collaborates with her
colleague Dr. Scott Beard (Shepherd University)
in a variety of duo-piano performances,
presentations, and other projects. Recent
piano-duo concerts with Dr. Beard include those
at the Washington County Fine Arts Museum in
Hagerstown, MD, and for the Contemporary
American Theater Festival and the reunion of the
French Piano Institute, both held at Shepherd
University. They have also written pedagogical
articles for American Music Teacher and Piano
Rendezvous. Their first book, Essential
Two-Piano Repertoire, a collection of twenty
late-intermediate/early-advanced works for two
keyboards from the Baroque to Modern periods,
published by Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.,
received a “highly recommended” review in the
November 2005 issue of Clavier. Dr. Mauro and
Dr. Beard also frequently present workshops,
most recently for the 2005 State Conference of
the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association held
at Penn State University (“Piano Duos:
Developing Chamber Music Skills, Musicianship,
and Solid Performances”) and for the 2004 State
Conference of the Virginia Music Teachers
Association held at Virginia Commonwealth
University ("Including Duets and Two-Piano Music
in Studio Lessons”).
Dr. Mauro does much adjudicating, most recently
for the 2007 VMTA State Competition held at
Shenandoah Conservatory and the 2007 Sonata
Festival at East Tennessee State University, the
2005 Pennsylvania State Music Teachers MTNA
Senior Piano Competition; the 2006 and 2005
Rebecca Orr Technique Festivals; the 2003
Eastern Pan Handle Music Teachers Association
Spring Festival (Shepherdstown, WV); 2003 Polish
Singers' Alliance Competition, (Philadelphia,
PA); and the 2002 Frederick Music Teachers
Association Fall Festival (Frederick, MD).
Piano Studies at Radford University
