Joseph Flummerfelt (February 24, 1937 – March 1, 2019) was an American conductor. He taught at

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for three decades. He was a co-founder of the

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in 1977, and its director of choral activities from 1977 to 2013. He was also the chorus master of the

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in Italy from 1971 to 1993. According to ''The New York Times'', he "played an outsize, if not always highly visible, role in American classical music."

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