JoAnn Falletta will be performing as guest conductor with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra at our Something New concert on April 19. Tickets are available online or through our box office.
Photo credit: David Adam Beloff
Multiple Grammy Award-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta serves as Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Music Director Laureate of the Virginia Symphony, Principal Guest Conductor of the Brevard Music Center, and Conductor Laureate of the Hawaii Symphony. She was named one of the 50 great conductors of all time by Gramophone Magazine and ASCAP has honored her as “a leading force for music of our time.”
As Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Falletta became the first woman to lead a major American orchestra. She has guest-conducted over a hundred orchestras in North America, and many of the most prominent orchestras in Europe, Asia, and South America. She is a leading recording artist for Naxos, and has won two individual Grammy Awards, for Richard Danielpour’s “The Passion of Yeshua” with the BPO and Spiritualist by Kenneth Fuchs with the London Symphony. Her Naxos recording of John Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man with the BPO received two Grammys. Her Scriabin recording with the BPO is nominated for a 2024 Grammy for Best Orchestral Performance.
Falletta is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has served by Presidential appointment as a Member of the National Council on the Arts. She has conducted over 1,600 orchestral works by more than 600 composers, including over 135 works by women composers, and over 150 premieres.
After earning her bachelor’s degree at Mannes, Falletta received master’s and doctoral degrees from The Juilliard School.
For more information, visit www.joannfalletta.com.