Anthony Iannaccone
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Anthony Iannaccone is a composer
and conductor
. His music has been performed by major orchestra
s and chamber
ensembles
, and he has conducted numerous regional and metropolitan orchestras in the United States and in Europe. He is a conductor and professor at Eastern Michigan University
.
He has studied with Aaron Copland
(1959–1964); with David Diamond
, Vittorio Giannini
, and Ludmila Ulehla
at the Manhattan School of Music
, from which he earned a master's degree (1961–1968); and with Samuel Adler
at the Eastman School of Music
, from which he earned his doctoral degree (1968–1971). He has taught composition at Eastern Michigan University
since 1971, where he founded an electronic music
studio, and has conducted the ensemble Collegium Musicum
there since 1973.
He won first prize from the National Band Association in 1988 for Apparitions, won the SAT/C.F. Peters Competition in 1990 for Two-Piano Inventions, and won American Bandmasters Association
's Ostwald Award
in 1995 for Sea Drift.
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and conductor
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
. His music has been performed by major orchestra
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
s and chamber
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
ensembles
Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...
, and he has conducted numerous regional and metropolitan orchestras in the United States and in Europe. He is a conductor and professor at Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ypsilanti is west of Detroit and eight miles east of Ann Arbor. The university was founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School...
.
He has studied with Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
(1959–1964); with David Diamond
David Diamond (composer)
David Leo Diamond was an American composer of classical music.-Life and career:He was born in Rochester, New York and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music under Bernard Rogers, also receiving lessons from Roger Sessions in New York City and Nadia Boulanger in...
, Vittorio Giannini
Vittorio Giannini
Vittorio Giannini was a neoromantic American composer of operas, songs, symphonies, and band works.-Life and work:...
, and Ludmila Ulehla
Ludmila Ulehla
Ludmila Ulehla was an American composer and music educator.-Biography:Ludmila Ulehla was born in Flushing, Queens, New York. She began the study of piano and violin very early and wrote short compositions at the age of five. Later she studied composition under Vittorio Giannini at the Manhattan...
at the Manhattan School of Music
Manhattan School of Music
The Manhattan School of Music is a major music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers degrees on the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition...
, from which he earned a master's degree (1961–1968); and with Samuel Adler
Samuel Adler (composer)
Samuel Hans Adler is an American composer and conductor.-Biography:Adler was born to a Jewish family in Mannheim, Germany, the son of Hugo Chaim Adler, a cantor and composer, and Selma Adler. The family fled to the United States in 1939, where Hugo became the cantor of Temple Emanuel in...
at the Eastman School of Music
Eastman School of Music
The Eastman School of Music is a music conservatory located in Rochester, New York. The Eastman School is a professional school within the University of Rochester...
, from which he earned his doctoral degree (1968–1971). He has taught composition at Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ypsilanti is west of Detroit and eight miles east of Ann Arbor. The university was founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School...
since 1971, where he founded an electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
studio, and has conducted the ensemble Collegium Musicum
Collegium Musicum
The Collegium Musicum was one of several types of musical societies that arose in German and German-Swiss cities and towns during the Reformation and thrived into the mid-18th century...
there since 1973.
He won first prize from the National Band Association in 1988 for Apparitions, won the SAT/C.F. Peters Competition in 1990 for Two-Piano Inventions, and won American Bandmasters Association
American Bandmasters Association
The American Bandmasters Association was formed in 1929 by Edwin Franko Goldman to promote concert band music. Goldman sought to raise esteem for concert bands among musicians and audiences...
's Ostwald Award
Ostwald Award
The Sousa/Ostwald Award is an annual award given by the American Bandmasters Association for a composition for concert band. It was first awarded in 1956, after band uniform suppliers Ernest and Adolph Ostwald established the ABA/Ostwald Award for the best band composition written in the previous...
in 1995 for Sea Drift.
Selected works
Iannaccone has published approximately fifty works, including:- Parodies for woodwind quintet (1958)
- Piano Trio (1959)
- Sonata for viola and piano (1961)
- Symphony No. 1 "Passage to Whitman" (1965)
- Symphony No. 2 (1966)
- Remembrance for viola and piano (1968)
- Walt Whitman Song (1980)
- Divertimento for orchestra (1983)
- A Whitman Madrigal (1984)
- Two-Piano Inventions (1990)
- Night Rivers, Symphony No. 3 (1990–92)
- Waiting for Sunrise on the Sound for orchestra (1998)
- From Time to Time (2000)
- Clarinet Quintet (2002); written on commission for clarinetist Richard StoltzmanRichard StoltzmanRichard Stoltzman is an American clarinetist. Born Richard Leslie Stoltzman in Omaha, Nebraska, he spent his early years in San Francisco, California and Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating from Woodward High School in 1960. Today, Stoltzman is part of the faculty list at the New England Conservatory...
- The Labyrinth (2003)