Lorin Maazel

It really has been a lifetime since an 11-year-old Lorin Maazel stood up to conduct the NBC Symphony Orchestra in 1941, but he hasn't forgotten those who guided him from being a child prodigy to becoming one of the world's most prolific and respected conductors. Maazel went so far as to build his own youth-oriented summer music festival at Castleton Farms, his personal retreat in the quiet, rolling Virginia countryside southwest of ...

When Lorin Maazel stepped down as music director of the New York Philharmonic, he could have done what most retirees do — travel, play a little golf, take it easy. Instead, he started an opera company. And he decided to house it in his own backyard. The company is Castleton Festival Opera, and it’s one of a kind. Launched in 2009 by Maazel and his wife, Dietlinde Turban-Maazel, it has become a premier attraction for oper...

Maestro Maazel will conduct the Munich Philharmonic this week, stepping in at the last minute for Maestro Thielemann, who unfortunately had to cancel due to health reasons. Maestro Maazel has just finished conducting the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía's production of Turandot in Guangzhou, China. The orchestra will perform Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 under Maestro Maazel's baton, first in Munich on May 11, followed by concerts i...

Hardly the retiring type, the veteran conductor fits the L.A. Philharmonic into his busy schedule. By:Barbara Isnberg - LA Times   As Los Angeles Philharmonic musicians take the Disney Hall stage to rehearse, guest conductor Lorin Maazel hangs back almost shyly in the doorway. But there is no hanging back when he takes the podium a few minutes later to lead the orchestra through Sibelius' Second Symphony.  Within a...

On Saturday, October 17, Maestro Maazel paid a much-anticipated visit to Coolidge Senior High School to work with a group of forty young musicians from the DC Youth Orchestra Program. The group, called the Youth Orchestra, is made up of musicians drawn from the Program's most advanced students. Maestro Maazel led the orchestra in rehearsal of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, the Pastoral , which it is scheduled to perform at the Kennedy Ce...