JoAnn Falletta was born on February 27,1954 in Queens, New York and is an American conductor.
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15 Facts About JoAnn Falletta
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JoAnn Falletta was educated at the Mannes College of Music and The Juilliard School in New York City.
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JoAnn Falletta began her musical career as a guitar and mandolin player, and in her twenties was often called to perform with the Metropolitan Opera and New York Philharmonic when a work called for a mandolin or guitar obbligato.
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JoAnn Falletta entered Mannes in 1972 as a guitar student, but began conducting the student orchestra in her freshman year, which initiated her interest in a conducting career.
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JoAnn Falletta studied conducting with such conductors as Jorge Mester, Sixten Ehrling, and Semyon Bychkov, and participated in master classes with Leonard Bernstein.
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JoAnn Falletta served as music director of the Denver Chamber Orchestra from 1983 to 1992, and as associate conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 1988.
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JoAnn Falletta was music director of the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra from 1989 to 2000.
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In 1991, JoAnn Falletta was appointed the eleventh music director of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra.
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Outside of the USA, JoAnn Falletta first guest-conducted the Ulster Orchestra in August 2010, and returned for further concerts in January 2011.
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JoAnn Falletta was the first American and the first female conductor to be appointed the orchestra's principal conductor.
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JoAnn Falletta was the first woman to conduct the orchestra of the National Theatre Mannheim.
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JoAnn Falletta has recorded over 70 albums for such labels as Naxos, featuring works by Brahms, Barber, and Schubert, and women composers such as Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger, and Germaine Tailleferre, in addition to contemporary composers such as John Corigliano.
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JoAnn Falletta has received eleven awards from ASCAP for creative programming, as well as the American Symphony Orchestra League's John S Edwards Award.
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JoAnn Falletta has championed the work of several contemporary American composers throughout her career, with an extensive repertoire of new works and over 100 world premieres to her credit.
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In 2016, JoAnn Falletta was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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