JoAnn Falletta serves as music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic and Virginia Symphony Orchestras, and is the principal guest conductor of the Brevard Music Center of North Carolina. She has guest conducted many of the most prominent orchestras across the world, and served as principal conductor of the Ulster Orchestra from 2011 to 2014, with whom she made her debut at the BBC Proms.
A recipient of the Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts Conductors Award, winner of the Stokowski Competition, and the Toscanini, Ditson, and Bruno Walter conducting awards, Falletta became the first female conductor to lead a major American ensemble upon her appointment as music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in 1999. She has received twelve ASCAP awards, served on the US National Council on the Arts, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2019, Falletta was named Performance Today’s 2019 Classical Woman of the Year, and won her first individual GRAMMY Award as conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra for Spiritualist by Kenneth Fuchs.
Her recordings for Naxos include the double GRAMMY Award-winning release of works by John Corigliano and numerous GRAMMY-nominated albums.
JoAnn Falletta falls under the spell of EJ Moeran
JoAnn Falletta: ‘What this Gershwin recording means to me’
“Buffalo Phil: Premieres Without Pain” courtesy of American Record Guide
JoAnn Falletta at Round Top – An Interview with John Clare