Mark Mandarano enjoys an international career as a conductor. He has conducted performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and other important venues in the U. S. and abroad.  In both 2017 and in 2018, he was invited to act as a cultural ambassador to Russia leading tours of the American music throughout Russia performing Gershwin (2017) and Bernstein (2018), with sold-out performances in Kaliningrad, Voronezh, Nizhny-Novgorod, Volgograd, Novosibirsk and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia “Svetlanov.” He conducted two new works with the New York City Opera in 2009 and has served as principal guest conductor of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Mandarano has led performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Nürnberger Symphoniker, and the Ural Philharmonic. He has worked with conductors such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Christoph von Dohnányi, Antonio Pappano, Mstislav Rostropovich, Sir Roger Norrington, Valery Gergiev, Leon Botstein, Osmo Vänskä and Leonard Slatkin.