Contact Ann Marie Falcone: falconeannm@gmail.com
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Ms. Ann Marie Falcone is a human being, and you are, too, unless you are a bot pretending to read this.
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Ann Marie Falcone is a performing composer, writer, and teacher. She creates art songs, music and libretto for opera, instrumental solo and orchestral music, experimental works, and essays with hope to share something beneficial for the world. In her early years, she was selected to the Children's Bach Choir of Bethlehem, PA, was cast in various musicals, and played clarinet in pit orchestras. As an adult, her second opera, "Mr. Principal's Method," received a Workshop Premiere with Nightingale Opera Theater. Ann Marie has performed: as soprano section leader and soloist in Euclid Avenue Congregational Church for six years, as a chorister with Opera Circle, as a soprano in CityMusic Cleveland Orchestra's project of Verdi's Requiem, and as clarinetist with the Catalina Chamber Orchestra and Youngstown Symphony. She's performed recently with artists from Holidayopolis, a music plus theatre and human connection venue.
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.
She has been teaching since 1994. Her 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
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 performing composer, writer, and teacher. She creates art songs, music and libretto for opera, instrumental solo and orchestral music, experimental works, and essays with hope to share something beneficial for the world. In her early years, she was selected to the Children's Bach Choir of Bethlehem, PA, was cast in various musicals, and played clarinet in pit orchestras. As an adult, her second opera, "Mr. Principal's Method," received a Workshop Premiere with Nightingale Opera Theater. Ann Marie has performed: as soprano section leader and soloist in Euclid Avenue Congregational Church for six years, as a chorister with Opera Circle, as a soprano in CityMusic Cleveland Orchestra's project of Verdi's Requiem, and as clarinetist with the Catalina Chamber Orchestra and Youngstown Symphony. She's performed recently with artists from Holidayopolis, a music plus theatre and human connection venue.
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.
She has been teaching since 1994. Her 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 starting from age 10 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 at all levels.
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 title was changed for the online post, and it was also changed to something completely different but a bit better 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 title was changed for the online post, and it was also changed to something completely different but a bit better 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
Musical Works:
Igor at an Amusement Park (for Clarinet and Piano): copyright 2005 (finished in 2012, rehearsed in 2013)
Mother Nature (Opera #1 based on a true story/my memoir, disappearance of my mother): copyright 1999 -
in progress, libretto is being revised and is nearly finished.
Opera #2 (from Song Cycle #1) Made progress on this in 2021 and am continuing in 2022. 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): 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, tiny chamber chorus, some of whom might double as other characters.
As of now, it consists of an introduction, approximately 10 ariettas/arias, 7 scenes, and recitatives in between.
Kleshas for Clarinet, Piano, & Tibetan Singing Bowl copyright 2019 - 5 movements
4 movements are complete; 1 is in progress
I have a few other musical works in progress. -
1. Piece for Orchestra and Voices
2. 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.
3. A set of Duets
4. Duet
Essays & Memoir:
Too many titles to post here; many are in revision.
Igor at an Amusement Park (for Clarinet and Piano): copyright 2005 (finished in 2012, rehearsed in 2013)
Mother Nature (Opera #1 based on a true story/my memoir, disappearance of my mother): copyright 1999 -
in progress, libretto is being revised and is nearly finished.
Opera #2 (from Song Cycle #1) Made progress on this in 2021 and am continuing in 2022. 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): 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, tiny chamber chorus, some of whom might double as other characters.
As of now, it consists of an introduction, approximately 10 ariettas/arias, 7 scenes, and recitatives in between.
Kleshas for Clarinet, Piano, & Tibetan Singing Bowl copyright 2019 - 5 movements
4 movements are complete; 1 is in progress
I have a few other musical works in progress. -
1. Piece for Orchestra and Voices
2. 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.
3. A set of Duets
4. Duet
Essays & Memoir:
Too many titles to post here; many are in revision.
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.)