Multiple GRAMMY-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta serves as music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) and music director laureate of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. She has guest conducted many of the most prominent orchestras in America, Canada, Europe, Asia and South America. As music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Falletta became the first woman to lead a major American ensemble.

She has a discography of over 125 titles, and is a leading recording artist for Naxos. Her GRAMMY-winning Naxos recordings include Richard Danielpour’s The Passion of Yeshua (8.559885–86) and John Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan (8.559331), both with the BPO, and Kenneth Fuchs’ Spiritualist with the London Symphony Orchestra (8.559824).

Falletta is a member of the esteemed American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has served as a member of the National Council on the Arts, is the recipient of many of the most prestigious conducting awards and was named Performance Today’s Classical Woman of the Year 2019 and one of the 50 great conductors of all time by Gramophone magazine.

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“Buffalo Phil: Premieres Without Pain” courtesy of American Record Guide

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Jack Gallagher is the Olive Williams Kettering Professor of Music at The College of Wooster in Ohio. He holds doctoral and master’s degrees in composition from Cornell University and the bachelor’s degree cum laude from Hofstra University. He studied composition with Elie Siegmeister, Robert Palmer and Burrill Phillips, participated in seminars with Karel Husa, Thea Musgrave and Ned Rorem, and in masterclasses with Aaron Copland, George Crumb and William Bolcom. His compositions are included on fifteen compact discs on the Musical Heritage Society, Capstone, Vienna Modern Masters, Summit Records, Promuse, Altissimo! and ERM labels. Publishers include Editions Bim, Lawson-Gould, Kalmus/Ludwig Masters Publications and Manduca Music Publications. Gallagher’s awards include recognition from the Ohio Arts Council, the Charles Ives Center for American Music, Meet the Composer, the Yaddo Corporation, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The College of Wooster Henry Luce III Award for Distinguished Scholarship, and other organizations. As a producer, his recording for TNC Records of Messiaen’s Oiseaux exotiques with pianist Angelin Chang, conductor John McLaughlin Williams and the Cleveland Chamber Symphony won a 2006 GRAMMY^® Award in the classical category “Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra.” More information about his music may be found at: www.JackGallagherMusic.com. Jack Gallagher’s first Naxos disc Orchestral Music (8.559652) with the LSO conducted by JoAnn Falletta was awarded five stars by both BBC Music Magazine and Audiophile Audition, which found his Symphony in One Movement: Threnody “truly a work of genius.” Hailed as “fresh and exuberant” by Gramophone, which noted its “explosions of sound and colour,” the work was described as “brilliantly orchestrated” by National Public Radio’s “Deceptive Cadence.”