Lorin Maazel

On Wednesday, September 23, 2009, the Institute of International Education (IIE) honored Maestro Maazel with the Fritz Redlich Alumni Award at their 90th Anniversary gala in recognition of Maestro Maazel's distinguished career as a Fulbright alumnus and as an important artist, composer and educator. IIE's 90th Anniversary Gala took place at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City. Distinguished guests included Her Highness Sheik...

  This summer, Maestro Maazel, Founder and Artistic Director of the Châteauville Foundation, opened his home for the first Castleton Festival. Throughout the six week period on Maestro Maazel’s farm in Castleton, Virginia, nearly 200 young artists gathered from across the globe to interact across a range of disciplines, with mentoring and performance activities at the highest level.   Highlights from the Fest...

Lorin Maazel after one of his final concerts with the New York Philharmonic was honored by a Proclamation from the Office of the Mayor o the City of New York proclaiming June 24 as "Maestro Lorin Maazel Day".  

Maestro Lorin Maazel has renewed his contract as Music Director of the Palau de les Arts (Valencia, Spain's three-year old, state-of-the-art opera house) for two seasons. During the 2009-10 and 2010-11 seasons, he will conduct the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana for 24 performances, which will include two new opera productions, several repertory productions and symphonic concerts. The Palau's Intendant, Helga Schmi...

Maestro Maazel first conducted London's Philharmonia Orchestra fifty years ago, in Lisbon, with a program that included Stravinsky’s Song of the Nightingale and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. Early this April, as part of a special series celebrating the 50th anniversary of his first performances with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Maestro Maazel lead the orchestra in a string of symphonic concerts througho...