Anthony Joseph Iannaccone (born October 14, 1943 in

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. His music has been performed by major

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s and chamber ensembles, and he has conducted numerous regional and metropolitan orchestras in the United States and in Europe. He was a conductor and professor at

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, from which he retired at the end of the winter semester of 2013. He studied with

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(1959–1964); with David Diamond,

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at the

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, from which he earned a master's degree (1962–1968); and with Samuel Adler at the

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, from which he earned a doctoral degree. During the 1960s he supported himself as an orchestral violinist, and taught at the

from 1966 to 1968. He taught at

from 1971, where he founded an

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studio, taught composition, and for 30 years conducted the Collegium Chamber Orchestra and Chorus, focusing on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century repertory. He won first prize from the

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in 1988 for ''Apparitions'', won the SAI/C.F. Peters Competition in 1990 for ''Two-Piano Inventions'', and won

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in 1995 for ''Sea Drift''. His ''Waiting for Sunrise on the Sound'' was chosen as one of five finalists in the 2001 London Symphony Orchestra Masterprize Competition from an international field of 1151 orchestral works submitted.

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

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*''The Labyrinth'' (2003)

References

*Cummings, Robert. Allmusic, s.v. Retrieved July 16, 2006 from
Biography at personal website

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