Principal Trumpet at the Opera House in Rome, Mauro Maur has recorded for BMG Ariola, RCA, Sony Columbia and Denon. Trumpet player, conductor and composer for the theater, the television as well as for the cinema, Maur has played in prestigious concert halls in more than 40 countries around the world such as Carnegie Hall (New York), Festspiele (Salzburg), Megaron (Athens), Seoul Arts Center, Scala of Milan. Maur graduated at the National Conservatory of Paris where he studied with Pierre Thibaud. He also completed studies at Northwestern University in Chicago with A. Herseth, V. Cichowicz, A. Jacobs. Composers such as Morricone, Theodorakis, Bussotti, Clementi, Vlad, Ronchetti, Dashow, Scogna, de Rossi Re, have dedicated several musical compositions to Maur. He worked with Ennio Morricone for more than 18 years, who has dedicated many solos of his films to him and also his trumpet concerto named “Ut.” Maur has played in more than 100 films on sound tracks composed by Morricone, Piovani, Ortolani, Goldsmith, and Delerue. At the request of Italian President of the Council of Ministers, Maur was given the honorary distinction of Cavaliere (Knight) dell’Ordine “al Merito della Repubblica Italiana.”