Lucinda Carver
Senior Lecturer of Keyboard Studies and Conducting
Instruments/Expertise: Piano, Harpsichord, Instrumental Conducting
(213) 740-7703 phone
carver@usc.edu
RHM 112
Instruments/Expertise: Piano, Harpsichord, Instrumental Conducting
(213) 740-7703 phone
carver@usc.edu
RHM 112
Biography
“Carver makes musical thought manifest” – Daniel Cariaga, Los Angeles Times. Extremely gifted and versatile, Lucinda Carver enjoys a prominent career as pianist, harpsichordist and conductor. As music director and conductor of the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra from 1992-2001, Carver garnered critical praise for her stylistic interpretations of music from the Classical Era. Active in both the symphonic and operatic arenas, she has been proclaimed “a find…a first-rate conductor” by Bernard Holland of The New York Times and “an important emerging conductor” by Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times. Carver’s symphonic credits include appearances with the National Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, Richmond Symphony and Hong Kong Philharmonic. She has conducted at major music festivals, including Wolf Trap, Brooklyn Academy of Music’s ‘Next Wave’ Festival and the Orange County Performing Arts Center’s ‘Eclectic Orange’ Festival.
Carver has conducted productions of Don Pasquale with the New York City Opera, Don Giovanni with the Minnesota Opera, Die Zauberflöte and Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Le nozze di Figaro with the Virginia Opera and has made two critically acclaimed recordings with the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra on the RCM label, featuring Haydn Symphonies Nos. 43 & 48 and Mozart Symphonies No. 17, 29 and 34. She also led the orchestra on two North American tours, highlights of which were featured on ‘CBS Sunday Morning.’
Carver is also a highly acclaimed pianist and harpsichordist. As a Fulbright Fellow to Austria she concertized extensively throughout Europe. She has performed as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, Musica Angelica, Capella Salisburgensis, Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra and Manhattan Philharmonic, and frequently took the dual role of soloist/conductor in Mozart piano concerti with the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra. Carver has been featured in solo and chamber music recitals at the Carmel Bach Festival, San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, Prince George Music Festival and under the aegis of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Her performances have been broadcast across the United States on National Public Radio and locally on KUSC and KMZT.
Carver earned a doctor of musical arts from the USC Thornton School of Music, an Artist Diploma from the Salzburg ‘Mozarteum’ and a master of music from the Manhattan School of Music. Her teachers include pianists Murray Perahia, Gary Graffman, Hans Leygraf and John Perry, harpsichordist Malcolm Hamilton and conductors Gustav Meier and William Schaefer. In 1998 she joined the faculty at the USC Thornton School of Music where she teaches piano, harpsichord and conducting.
Video Interviews with Lucinda Carver:
About Lucinda Carver
Lucinda Carver’s Education and Training
Reviewing Past Performances
Career Regrets
Challenges of Conducting Opera and Classical
Conducting Different Sections of the Orchestra
Creating Cohesion when Conducting an Ensemble
How to Know if you are Conducting a Successful Performance
Preparing to Conduct a Performance
Building a Strong Relationship with your Ensemble
Advice for Parents of Musicians
Is Context Important when Conducting a Work?
What Responsibilities Does a Conductor have to the Audience?
Playing the Harpsichord
Programming Concerts
“Classical Music” and the “Music of our Time”
