Lucy Mauro and Donald George

For five years, garnering national acclaim and now earning applause internationally, tenor Donald George and pianist Lucy Mauro have been conducting their master classes, workshops and other presentations, specializing in such areas as developing musical expression and communication, the nineteenth-century German Melodram, and the art of collaborative performance.

With a new bright and expressive approach to the traditional recital, incorporating multimedia that includes narration and projected images, they have created concert experiences of unequaled beauty, effervescence and lightness combined with literary, musical and artistic appeal.

Their first CD, Love is Everywhere: Selected Songs of Margaret Ruthven Lang, Volume 1, was selected as “Recording of the Year 2011″ by MusicWeb International, calling it a “delightful, refreshing experience” and “the revelation of the year”. It was also selected by iTunes for their “New and Noteworthy” and by WETA in Washington as their Vocal CD Pick of the Week and was featured in the Naxos Newsletter in February 2011 and the Journal of Singing in September 2011. The second volume, New Love Must Rise, released by Delos February 28, 2012, is already bringing in rave reviews!