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68<A NAME="full"><FONT size=5 class="title">JoAnn Falletta</FONT></A><br>
69Conductor<br>
70<FONT size=2>Full Length Biography</FONT><br>
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72Multiple GRAMMY-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta serves as Music
73Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Music Director Laureate
74of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the
75Brevard Music Center, and Conductor Laureate of the Hawaii Symphony
76Orchestra. Beginning this season, Falletta is also serving as Principal
77Guest Conductor and Artistic Advisor to the Omaha Symphony. She was
78recently named one of the “Fifty Great Conductors”, past and present, by
79Gramophone Magazine, and has been hailed by the Washington Post for
80having “Toscanini’s tight control over ensemble, Walter’s affectionate
81balancing of inner voices, Stokowski’s gutsy showmanship, and a
82controlled frenzy worthy of Bernstein.” As Music Director of the Buffalo
83Philharmonic, Falletta became the first woman to lead a major American
84orchestra.<br>
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91JoAnn with her Grammy Awards</font></td>
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94Falletta has conducted many of the world’s finest orchestras, including
95over a hundred orchestras in North America across 46 states, and many of
96the most prominent orchestras in Europe, Asia, and South America. Her
97North America guest conducting appearances have included the orchestras
98of Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, St. Louis, Seattle,
99Milwaukee, San Diego, New Jersey, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Quebec,
100Edmonton and the National Symphony Orchestra. International appearances
101include the London Symphony, Liverpool, and Manchester-BBC
102Philharmonics, RTE Concert Orchestra (Dublin), Royal Scottish BBC
103Orchestra, Warsaw, Kraków, Czech and Rotterdam Philharmonics, Residentie
104Orchestra of the Hague, Orchestra National de Lyon, Orchestra National
105de Belgique, Berlin Radio Orchestra Mannheim Orchestra, Real Orquesta
106Sinfonica de Sevilla, and the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra. Asian
107engagements include appearances with the Korean Broadcast Symphony,
108Seoul Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony
109Orchestra, China National Symphony, Beijing Symphony, Singapore Symphony
110and the Shanghai Symphony.<br>
111<tt>&#160;</tt><br>
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113Her 1999 appointment as music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic
114making her the first woman music director of a major American orchestra
115is one of the high points in a career of many firsts. In 1989, she was
116the first woman to become music director of an American regional
117orchestra when she took the position with the Long Beach Symphony in
118California. From 2011-14, she served as Principal Conductor of the
119Ulster Orchestra—the first woman and the first American to fill this
120post. In 2018, she was the first American woman conductor to lead an
121orchestra at the Beethoven Easter Festival in Poland, and in 1992, she
122became the first woman to conduct Germany's historic Mannheim Orchestra.<br>
123<tt>&#160;</tt><br>
124
125Falletta has conducted over 1,700 orchestral works by 600-plus
126composers, including over 135 works by more than 70 women composers.
127Credited with performing more than 150 world premieres, ASCAP has
128honored her as “a leading force for music of our time”. In 2019, JoAnn
129was named Performance Today’s first Classical Woman of The Year, calling
130her a “tireless champion”, and lauding her “unique combination of
131artistic authority and compassion, compelling musicianship and
132humanity.”<br>
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138<FONT size=2 color="#D9C88F">
139JoAnn with Leonard Bernstein at The Juilliard School
140<font size=1><nobr>(Photo: Peter Schaaf, 1983)</nobr></font></FONT></td>
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143Falletta’s recent and upcoming engagements include concerts in France,
144England, Spain, China, Sweden, Germany, Brazil, Croatia and Mexico, and
145North America concerts with the orchestras of Dallas, Boston, Baltimore,
146Detroit, Omaha, Indianapolis, Houston, Calgary, Vancouver, Tulsa,
147Charleston, Nashville, Rochester and at premier conservatories including
148Juilliard, Curtis, Cleveland Institute of Music, Indiana University, the
149Manhattan School, Mannes, and the Royal Conservatory of Music in
150Toronto.<br>
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153As Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, she has been credited
154with bringing the orchestra to an unprecedented level of national and
155international prominence. The Buffalo Philharmonic has become one of the
156leading recording orchestras for Naxos, with two Grammy® Award-winning
157recordings and a 2024 Best Orchestral Performance Grammy nomination for
158<i>Alexander Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy</i> and <i>Symphony No. 2</i> (Naxos). In 2025,
159JoAnn and the BPO were nominated for two Grammy® Awards, Best Orchestral
160Performance for music of <i>Kodaly</i> and Best Classical Compendium for music
161of <i>Lukas Foss</i>.<br>
162<tt>&#160;</tt><br>
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164Under her leadership, the BPO began a relationship with the Naxos label,
165producing thirty two albums to date and providing the BPO with
166international distribution. The Orchestra also started the Beau Fleuve
167label during her tenure, producing thirty three CDs on that label to
168date, internationally available via digital streaming services in
169partnership with Naxos. She has led the BPO in three concerts at
170Carnegie Hall, first in 2004 after a 20-year absence, again in 2013 as
171part of the Spring for Music Festival and in October 2022, to celebrate
172the Lukas Foss centennial. In 2018, the BPO made their first
173international tour in three decades, to perform at Warsaw’s prestigious
174Beethoven Easter Festival. She and the BPO have been honored with
175numerous ASCAP awards, including the top award for Adventurous
176Programming. Other accomplishments include the founding of the JoAnn
177Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition in partnership with
178WNED, five successful tours of Florida, with a sixth Florida tour this
179season, and the national and international broadcast of concerts on
180NPR’s Performance Today, SymphonyCast, and the European Broadcasting
181Union and nationally broadcast specials on PBS and Sirius XM. She and
182the BPO have collaborated with regional arts organizations such as art
183museums, historical sites, opera, choirs, theater, and community
184organizations, including concerts to benefit the local hospitals, and to
185bring awareness to the need for unity following tragic events in the
186Buffalo region.<br>
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194Falletta conducting the BPO in Mahler’s 2nd Symphony (the
195“Resurrection”) with 200 musicians at Kleinhans Music Hall, 2024</FONT></td>
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198Her inspired leadership extends well beyond the podium. She has been
199championing women conductors, composers, and musicians for decades. In
2002023, she was honored by MOLA, the association of orchestra librarians
201with their Eroica Award for outstanding service to music. Awards in 2024
202include the Dallas Symphony’s Award of Excellence and the International
203Conductor’s Guild Max Rudolf Award for outstanding achievement as a
204conductor and pedagogue.<br>
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207In 2020, JoAnn Falletta concluded a long and successful tenure as Music
208Director of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and was named the Connie and
209Marc Jacobson Music Director Laureate of the Virginia Symphony
210Orchestra. Under her baton, the VSO rose to celebrated artistic heights,
211performing world premieres by such composers as Kenneth Fuchs, Behzad
212Ranjbaran, Michael Daugherty and Lowell Liebermann, forgotten gems of
213the classical repertoire, as well as classics, pops and family concerts
214in Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Newport News and Williamsburg. The Orchestra
215made critically acclaimed debuts at the Kennedy Center and New York’s
216Carnegie Hall, was honored with an ASCAP Award for Adventurous
217Programming, and released eighteen recordings, including discs on the
218internationally acclaimed Naxos label, Albany Records, NPR, and the
219orchestra’s own Hampton Roads label. Virginians have honored her with a
220star on Norfolk’s Legends of Music Walk of Fame, the Virginia Women in
221History Award, Norfolk’s Downtowner of the Year, the 50 for 50 Arts
222Inspiration Award from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the
223Virginia Arts Festival’s Ovation Award in recognition of her significant
224impact on the arts in Hampton Roads.<br>
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227With a discography of over 135 titles, JoAnn is a leading recording
228artist for Naxos. She has won two individual Grammy® Awards, including
229the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance as Conductor of the
230world premiere Naxos recording, Richard Danielpour’s <i>The Passion of
231Yeshua</i>. In 2019, she won her first individual Grammy Award as conductor
232of the London Symphony in the Best Classical Compendium category for
233<i>Spiritualist</i>, her fifth world premiere recording of the music of Kenneth
234Fuchs. Her Naxos recording of John Corigliano’s <i>Mr. Tambourine Man:
235Seven Poems of Bob Dylan</i> with the BPO received two Grammys in 2008. The
236BPO’s 2020 Naxos recording of orchestral music of <i>Florent Schmitt</i>
237received the Diapason d’Or Award. Her recordings have been streamed
238almost 50 million times on Spotify alone.<br>
239<tt>&#160;</tt><br>
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241Her current and upcoming releases for Naxos with the BPO include <i>The
242French in Spain</i> released in September 2025 (Ravel, Ibert and Debussy),
243<i>Stravinsky Fairy Tales</i>, with a release date in early 2026, <i>Symphonic
244Dances</i> to be recorded in 2026 (Bartok, Copland and Hindemith), a
245recording of Richard Danielpour’s <i>St. Francis Oratorio</i>, to be recorded
246in October 2026, and <i>The Spanish in Paris</i>, to be recorded next season
247(Falla, Turina and Granadas). Future projects include a recording of
248Adolphus Hailstork’s <i>Saxophone Concerto</i> with soloist Tim McAllister and
249a recording of the music of <i>Jonathan Leshnoff</i>.<br>
250<tt>&#160;</tt><br>
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252Her 2024-25 recordings include <i>Beethoven/Hagen</i>, with the BPO
253celebrating the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Buffalo
254Philharmonic, pairing Beethoven’s <i>Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op 125,
255“Choral”</i>, and the world premiere recording of Daron Hagen’s <i>City of
256Light</i> commissioned by the BPO on Beau Fleuve, an album of the music of
257<i>Danny Elfman</i> with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic on Sony, 
258<i>Contemporary Landscapes</i>, with four works commissioned by the BPO by
259acclaimed American composers Kenneth Fuchs, Russell Platt, Randall Svane
260and Wang Jie, on Beau Fleuve, and <i>The Golden Age of the Horn</i>, a disc
261of Concertos for two horns, featuring the principal and associate
262principal horns of the BPO, on Naxos.<br>
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269Composer Adolphus Hailstork and Falletta, 2022</FONT></td>
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272In early 2024, Naxos released the BPO’s recording of orchestral works of
273Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály’s <i>Hary Janos, Symphony</i> and <i>Summer
274Evening</i>, Alexander Scriabin: <i>Poem of Ecstasy</i> and <i>Symphony No. 2</i>, and a
275recording of two concertos by award-winning American composers, Danny
276Elfman’s violin concerto <i>Eleven Eleven</i> performed by Sandy Cameron and
277Adolphus Hailstork’s <i>Piano Concerto No. 1</i> with soloist Stewart Goodyear,
278as well as a recording of works by Copland, Creston, Kay and Piston with
279the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic and soloists Anna Mattix
280(English Horn) and Tim McAllister (saxophone).<br>
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283Falletta is a member of the esteemed American Academy of Arts and
284Sciences, has served by presidential appointment as a Member of the
285National Council on the Arts during the George W. Bush and Obama
286administrations and is the recipient of many of the most prestigious
287conducting awards. Falletta is the recipient of 13 honorary doctorates
288from universities in New York, Virginia, Tennessee and Wisconsin.<br>
289<tt>&#160;</tt><br>
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291Recalling her lessons from conducting greats Leonard Bernstein, Jorge
292Mester, Sixten Ehrling, and Semyon Bychkov as artistic highlights of her
293life, Falletta is a strong advocate and mentor for young professional
294and student musicians. She has led seminars for women conductors for the
295League of American Orchestras and established a unique collaboration
296between the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Mannes College of Music to give
297up-and-coming conductors professional experience with a leading American
298orchestra. The BPO associate and assistant conductors she has mentored
299have gone on to music director positions with such orchestras such as
300the Boise, Springfield (MO), Augusta, Spartanberg and Fayetteville
301symphonies and the Louisiana Philharmonic. She served on the jury of the
302Malko Competition in Denmark, and has had remarkable success working
303with young musicians, guest conducting orchestras at top conservatories
304and summer programs including Tanglewood, Round Top, the National
305Repertory Orchestra, National Orchestral Institute, Interlochen, and
306Brevard Music Center.<br>
307<tt>&#160;</tt><br>
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309Falletta has held the positions of Principal Conductor of the Ulster
310Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Phoenix Symphony, Music
311Director of the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, Associate Conductor of
312the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and Music Director of the Denver
313Chamber Orchestra and The Women’s Philharmonic. She received her
314undergraduate degree from the Mannes School of Music, and her master’s
315and doctorate degrees from The Juilliard School. When not on the podium,
316JoAnn enjoys playing classical guitar, writing, cycling, yoga and is an
317avid reader.<br>
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327Conductor<br>
328<FONT size=2>Condensed Biography</FONT><br>
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331Multiple Grammy® Award-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta serves as Music
332Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, and the Connie and Marc Jacobson
333Music Director Laureate of the Virginia Symphony, Principal Guest
334Conductor of the Brevard Music Center, Principal Guest Conductor and
335Artistic Advisor to the Omaha Symphony and Conductor Laureate of the
336Hawaii Symphony. She was recently named one of the “Fifty Great
337Conductors”, past and present, by Gramophone Magazine, and is hailed for
338her work as a conductor, recording artist, audience builder and champion
339of American composers.<br>
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346Falletta conducting the BPO at Carnegie Hall, 2022<br>
347<font size=1><nobr>(Photo: Steve J. Sherman)</nobr></font></FONT></td>
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350As Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Falletta became the first
351woman to lead a major American orchestra and has been credited with
352bringing the Philharmonic to an unprecedented level of national and
353international prominence. The Buffalo Philharmonic has become one of the
354leading recording orchestras for Naxos, with two Grammy® Award-winning
355recordings. Falletta and the BPO were nominated for two Grammy Awards
356in 2025, Best Orchestral Performance for music of <i>Kodaly</i> and Best
357Classical Compendium for music of <i>Lukas Foss</i> and Best Orchestral
358Performance for <i>Alexander Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy</i> and <i>Symphony No.2</i>
359(Naxos) in 2024. In honor of Falletta’s 25th Anniversary with the BPO,
360NAXOS released twenty full albums of music, previously available only on
361Beau Fleuve CDs, across all major streaming platforms.<br>
362<tt>&#160;</tt><br>
363
364Falletta has conducted many of the world’s finest orchestras, including
365over a hundred orchestras in North America across 46 states.
366Internationally, Falletta has conducted many of the most prominent
367orchestras in Europe, Asia, and South America, including recent and
368upcoming concerts in France, England, Spain, China, Sweden, Germany,
369Brazil, Croatia and Mexico. Her recent and upcoming North American guest
370conducting includes the National Symphony, the orchestras of Dallas,
371Boston, Baltimore, Detroit, Omaha, Indianapolis, Houston, Milwaukee,
372Calgary, Vancouver, Quebec, Tulsa, Charleston, Nashville, Rochester and at premier
373conservatories including Julliard, Curtis, Cleveland Institute of Music,
374Indiana University, the Manhattan School, Mannes and the Royal
375Conservatory of Music in Toronto.<br>
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378With a discography of over 135 titles, Falletta is a leading recording
379artist for Naxos. She has won two individual Grammy® Awards, including
380the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance as conductor of the
381world premiere Naxos recording, Richard Danielpour’s <i>The Passion of
382Yeshua</i>. In 2019, she won her first individual Grammy Award as conductor
383of the London Symphony in the Best Classical Compendium category for
384<i>Spiritualist</i>, her fifth world premiere recording of the music of Kenneth
385Fuchs. Her Naxos recording of John Corigliano’s <i>Mr. Tambourine Man:
386Seven Poems of Bob Dylan</i>
386 received two Grammys in 2008. Her 2020 Naxos
387recording of orchestral music of <i>Florent Schmitt</i> with the Buffalo
388Philharmonic Orchestra received the prestigious Diapason d’Or Award. Her
389recordings have been streamed almost 50 million times on Spotify alone.<br>
390<tt>&#160;</tt><br>
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392Her current and upcoming releases for Naxos with the BPO include <i>The
393French in Spain</i> released in September 2025 (Ravel, Ibert and Debussy),
394<i>Stravinsky Fairy Tales</i>, with a release date in early 2026, <i>Symphonic
395Dances</i> to be recorded in 2026 (Bartok, Copland and Hindemith), a
396recording of Richard Danielpour’s <i>St. Francis Oratorio</i>, to be recorded
397in October 2026, and<i> The Spanish in Paris</i>, to be recorded next season
398(Falla, Turina and Granadas). Future projects include a recording of
399Adolphus Hailstork’s <i>Saxophone Concerto</i> with soloist Tim McAllister and
400a recording of the music of<i> Jonathan Leshnoff</i>.<br>
401<tt>&#160;</tt><br>
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406<FONT size=2 color="#D9C88F">
407Fred Child and Falletta in the Performance Today <nobr>studios, 2018</nobr></FONT></td>
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410Her 2024-2025 recordings include <i>Beethoven/Hagen</i>, with the BPO, pairing
411Beethoven’s <i>Symphony No. 9</i> and the world premiere recording of Daron
412Hagen’s <i>City of Light</i> on Beau Fleuve, an album of the music of <i>Danny
413Elfman</i> with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic on Sony, <i>Contemporary
414Landscapes</i>, with four works commissioned by the BPO by Kenneth Fuchs,
415Russell Platt, Randall Svane and Wang Jie, on Beau Fleuve, and <i>The
416Golden Age of the Horn</i>, a disc of Concertos for two horns, featuring
417the principal and associate principal horns of the BPO, on Naxos.<br>
418<tt>&#160;</tt><br>
419
420Falletta is a member of the esteemed American Academy of Arts and
421Sciences, has served by presidential appointment as a Member of the
422National Council on the Arts during the George W. Bush and Obama
423administrations and is the recipient of many of the most prestigious
424conducting awards. She has conducted over 1,700 orchestral works by
425600-plus composers, including over 135 works by more than 70 women.
426Credited with performing more than 150 world premieres, ASCAP has
427honored her as “a leading force for music of our time”. In 2019, JoAnn
428was named Performance Today’s first Classical Woman of The Year, calling
429her a “tireless champion”, and lauding her “unique combination of
430artistic authority and compassion, compelling musicianship and
431humanity.”<br>
432<tt>&#160;</tt><br>
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434Falletta is a strong advocate and mentor for young professional and
435student musicians. She has led seminars for women conductors for the
436League of American Orchestras and established a unique collaboration
437between the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Mannes College of Music to give
438up-and-coming conductors professional experience with a leading American
439orchestra. She served on the jury of the Malko Competition in Denmark
440and has had great success working with young musicians, guest conducting
441orchestras at top conservatories and summer programs.<br>
442<tt>&#160;</tt><br>
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444Falletta has held the positions of Principal Conductor of the Ulster
445Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Phoenix Symphony, Music
446Director of the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, Associate Conductor of
447the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and Music Director of the Denver
448Chamber Orchestra and The Women’s Philharmonic.<br>
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451After earning her bachelor’s degree at Mannes, Falletta received
452master’s and doctoral degrees from The Juilliard School. When not on the
453podium, JoAnn enjoys playing classical guitar, writing, cycling, yoga
454and is an avid reader.<br>
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