Contact Ann Marie Falcone: [email protected]
A BIO [see new nostalgic part added in May 2025]
Ms. Ann Marie Falcone is a human being, and you are, too, unless you are a bot pretending to read this.
ALSO:
Ann Marie Falcone is a composer, performer, writer, and teacher who creates instrumental and orchestral music, music and libretto for opera, art songs, essays, and experimental works with hope to share something beneficial. She has performed for various things including: as a soprano in Stagecrafters' 50th Anniversary Celebration at The State Theatre in Playhouse Square, in CityMusic Cleveland Orchestra's Chorus, as section leader and soloist at Euclid Avenue UCC, and as a chorister with Opera Circle, plus as a clarinetist with the Catalina Chamber Orchestra and Youngstown Symphony. A snippet of her 2nd opera, her music and libretto, was showcased in Nightingale Opera Theatre's summer workshop. Early on, she was selected to the Children's Bach Choir of Bethlehem, PA, was cast in various musicals, and played clarinet in pit orchestras, honors orchestras and bands. -- NEW NOSTALGIC CELEBRATORY ADDITION TO MY BIO, ah auld lang syne: When I was 16, I was cast as Scrooge's young girlfriend at The Allentown Civic Little Theatre in a version of Mr. Scrooge. The Globe-Times, a newspaper then in Bethlehem, reviewed it and wrote, "The musical has irresistible small-town charm. And Ann Marie Falcone is absolutely gorgeous as [Scrooge's] Lost Love." I remember being terrified of forgetting the dialogue, which I only had a page of. I still have the script and found the newspaper clipping! Others said I had the voice of an angel and would go on to do great things on the stage. Well, I had stage fright for sure over the speaking dialogue but not over singing. I had an entire song to sing as solo and loved it. But after that run, I won a few first chairs as clarinetist in small competitions, and my dream became to play clarinet in a professional orchestra. I had been afraid of messing up speaking lines on stage, sheesh. C'est la vie, no job in an orchestra, but I'm stirring all of my talents together, now. Cheers!
Ann Marie earned a B.M. from Northwestern University, an M.M. from The University of Arizona, where she was a teaching assistant, took vocal pedagogy at Malone College, and completed an M.F.A. in Creative Writing in nonfiction with accents in fiction and publishing at Chatham University. Having taken and given numerous years of private voice, clarinet, and piano lessons, Ann Marie understands the beauty of the development of an artist's life.
Students have been accepted to the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, the Cleveland Youth Wind Symphonies, the Contemporary Youth Orchestra, and the Cleveland Music School Settlement Orchestra. Two have won a Cleveland Heights High School senior solo, their concerto competition. Voice students have participated at Heights Youth Theatre, Beachwood Theater, the Beck Center, Hathaway Brown's Summer Theatre Institute, and Stagecrafters along with their school productions. They've been selected for The Singing Angels of Cleveland and the Cleveland Orchestra Children's and Youth Choruses.
There are some Videos of her compositions at her YouTube and Public Facebook Pages, recordings at SoundCloud and Instagram, as well as here at the Art Songs and Clarinet Performances Pages.
A BIO [see new nostalgic part added in May 2025]
Ms. Ann Marie Falcone is a human being, and you are, too, unless you are a bot pretending to read this.
ALSO:
Ann Marie Falcone is a composer, performer, writer, and teacher who creates instrumental and orchestral music, music and libretto for opera, art songs, essays, and experimental works with hope to share something beneficial. She has performed for various things including: as a soprano in Stagecrafters' 50th Anniversary Celebration at The State Theatre in Playhouse Square, in CityMusic Cleveland Orchestra's Chorus, as section leader and soloist at Euclid Avenue UCC, and as a chorister with Opera Circle, plus as a clarinetist with the Catalina Chamber Orchestra and Youngstown Symphony. A snippet of her 2nd opera, her music and libretto, was showcased in Nightingale Opera Theatre's summer workshop. Early on, she was selected to the Children's Bach Choir of Bethlehem, PA, was cast in various musicals, and played clarinet in pit orchestras, honors orchestras and bands. -- NEW NOSTALGIC CELEBRATORY ADDITION TO MY BIO, ah auld lang syne: When I was 16, I was cast as Scrooge's young girlfriend at The Allentown Civic Little Theatre in a version of Mr. Scrooge. The Globe-Times, a newspaper then in Bethlehem, reviewed it and wrote, "The musical has irresistible small-town charm. And Ann Marie Falcone is absolutely gorgeous as [Scrooge's] Lost Love." I remember being terrified of forgetting the dialogue, which I only had a page of. I still have the script and found the newspaper clipping! Others said I had the voice of an angel and would go on to do great things on the stage. Well, I had stage fright for sure over the speaking dialogue but not over singing. I had an entire song to sing as solo and loved it. But after that run, I won a few first chairs as clarinetist in small competitions, and my dream became to play clarinet in a professional orchestra. I had been afraid of messing up speaking lines on stage, sheesh. C'est la vie, no job in an orchestra, but I'm stirring all of my talents together, now. Cheers!
Ann Marie earned a B.M. from Northwestern University, an M.M. from The University of Arizona, where she was a teaching assistant, took vocal pedagogy at Malone College, and completed an M.F.A. in Creative Writing in nonfiction with accents in fiction and publishing at Chatham University. Having taken and given numerous years of private voice, clarinet, and piano lessons, Ann Marie understands the beauty of the development of an artist's life.
Students have been accepted to the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, the Cleveland Youth Wind Symphonies, the Contemporary Youth Orchestra, and the Cleveland Music School Settlement Orchestra. Two have won a Cleveland Heights High School senior solo, their concerto competition. Voice students have participated at Heights Youth Theatre, Beachwood Theater, the Beck Center, Hathaway Brown's Summer Theatre Institute, and Stagecrafters along with their school productions. They've been selected for The Singing Angels of Cleveland and the Cleveland Orchestra Children's and Youth Choruses.
There are some Videos of her compositions at her YouTube and Public Facebook Pages, recordings at SoundCloud and Instagram, as well as here at the Art Songs and Clarinet Performances Pages.
- Ann Marie gives voice lessons to kids from age 10 and up and to adults.
- She starts piano students as young as 5-years-old and teaches beginners through early advanced students.
- She teaches clarinet to kids from fourth grade up and adults at all levels.
Works:
Piece for Orchestra (Symphony No. 1) - In 4 - 6 movements, versions of the first 2 are complete.
The 3rd is started. 2024
Piece for Orchestra and Voices - It has a title, but I'm not sharing that, yet, here. 2021/2023 c. 15 minutes
Igor at an Amusement Park (for Clarinet and Piano): 2005/2012, rehearsed in 2013 & 2022 c. 9 minutes- listen to part of the rehearsal on my clarinet performances page, have plans to compose a version for orchestra
Mother Nature (Opera #1 based on a true story/my memoir, disappearance of my mother): begun in 1999 -
in progress, nearly done revising the libretto but need to dive deeper into composing/revising the music.
Mr. Principal's Method (working title) = Opera #2 - out of Song Cycle #1: You can hear some of the ariettas/arias through videos I posted at my YouTube, public Facebook, & here at my Art Songs page. (Based on true stories and observances, my diary; about the last 1/4 of it will be fictionalized, now, and it will be awesome. The rest is true. At least as of now, this is how it is going to be. Need to do lots of music, still. It will come along. I'm working on a piece for orchestra unrelated to this right now 2024.): copyright 1999 [It was started in 1999 by accident in a writing journal and a composing notebook I kept. Mother Nature started the same way.] -
in progress - for two main characters and chamber chorus, some of whom might double as other characters.
Kleshas for Clarinet, Piano, & Tibetan Singing Bowl 2019/2023 - 4 of 5 movements are complete
Set of Duets for 2 woodwind instruments - 5 of 7 movements are complete
Some other musical works in progress. -
1. An experimental type of composition - A work that I could work on for the rest of my life no matter how old I live to be.
2. Duet
Essays & Memoir & Fiction:
Too many titles to post here; many are in revision. Started my first fiction novel in 2025; I'm confident this will be good, maybe not GREAT or popular, but I must finish it, regardless.
Piece for Orchestra (Symphony No. 1) - In 4 - 6 movements, versions of the first 2 are complete.
The 3rd is started. 2024
Piece for Orchestra and Voices - It has a title, but I'm not sharing that, yet, here. 2021/2023 c. 15 minutes
Igor at an Amusement Park (for Clarinet and Piano): 2005/2012, rehearsed in 2013 & 2022 c. 9 minutes- listen to part of the rehearsal on my clarinet performances page, have plans to compose a version for orchestra
Mother Nature (Opera #1 based on a true story/my memoir, disappearance of my mother): begun in 1999 -
in progress, nearly done revising the libretto but need to dive deeper into composing/revising the music.
Mr. Principal's Method (working title) = Opera #2 - out of Song Cycle #1: You can hear some of the ariettas/arias through videos I posted at my YouTube, public Facebook, & here at my Art Songs page. (Based on true stories and observances, my diary; about the last 1/4 of it will be fictionalized, now, and it will be awesome. The rest is true. At least as of now, this is how it is going to be. Need to do lots of music, still. It will come along. I'm working on a piece for orchestra unrelated to this right now 2024.): copyright 1999 [It was started in 1999 by accident in a writing journal and a composing notebook I kept. Mother Nature started the same way.] -
in progress - for two main characters and chamber chorus, some of whom might double as other characters.
Kleshas for Clarinet, Piano, & Tibetan Singing Bowl 2019/2023 - 4 of 5 movements are complete
Set of Duets for 2 woodwind instruments - 5 of 7 movements are complete
Some other musical works in progress. -
1. An experimental type of composition - A work that I could work on for the rest of my life no matter how old I live to be.
2. Duet
Essays & Memoir & Fiction:
Too many titles to post here; many are in revision. Started my first fiction novel in 2025; I'm confident this will be good, maybe not GREAT or popular, but I must finish it, regardless.
Publication
An Opinion Editorial Essay, "Elephants in America"
February 4, 2018 - cleveland.com
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2018/02/the_elephants_in_the_room_poin.html
February 8, 2018 - The Sun Newspapers
[Please see my public Facebook page for a couple explanations about "Elephants in America," such as: The editor changed my title for the online publication and also changed it to something completely different but a bit better than that other change for the actual printed newspaper version.]
Awards
2016 Semi-Finalist in William Faulkner/Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for Essay, "Rebirth and Racism"
2015 Semi-Finalist in Faulkner/Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for Essay, "Rebirth and Racism"
Honorable Mention for Memoir Essay in 75th Annual Writer's Digest Competition
An Opinion Editorial Essay, "Elephants in America"
February 4, 2018 - cleveland.com
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2018/02/the_elephants_in_the_room_poin.html
February 8, 2018 - The Sun Newspapers
[Please see my public Facebook page for a couple explanations about "Elephants in America," such as: The editor changed my title for the online publication and also changed it to something completely different but a bit better than that other change for the actual printed newspaper version.]
Awards
2016 Semi-Finalist in William Faulkner/Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for Essay, "Rebirth and Racism"
2015 Semi-Finalist in Faulkner/Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for Essay, "Rebirth and Racism"
Honorable Mention for Memoir Essay in 75th Annual Writer's Digest Competition
Love my students. Here's one right after school. HA! She had art class at the end of the day!
(I had her pose, because I thought it was funny.)