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 who creates instrumental and orchestral music, music and libretto for opera, art songs, essays, and experimental works with hope to share something beneficial for the world. In summer of 2022, she was accepted as a composer to Nightingale Opera Theatre's summer workshop, where they presented a snippet of her 2nd opera in a Showcase. It can be viewed on her YouTube channel.
Ann Marie has performed for various things including: as soprano section leader and soloist at Euclid Avenue UCC Church, 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. 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.
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 who creates instrumental and orchestral music, music and libretto for opera, art songs, essays, and experimental works with hope to share something beneficial for the world. In summer of 2022, she was accepted as a composer to Nightingale Opera Theatre's summer workshop, where they presented a snippet of her 2nd opera in a Showcase. It can be viewed on her YouTube channel.
Ann Marie has performed for various things including: as soprano section leader and soloist at Euclid Avenue UCC Church, 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. 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.
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 8 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.
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
Works:
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 c. 9 minutes- listen to part of the rehearsal on my clarinet performances page
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
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): 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, 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 - 4 of 8 movements are complete
Some other musical works in progress. -
1. New orchestral work started in 2023
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. Duet for a string instrument and woodwind instrument
Essays & Memoir:
Too many titles to post here; many are in revision.
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 c. 9 minutes- listen to part of the rehearsal on my clarinet performances page
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
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): 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, 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 - 4 of 8 movements are complete
Some other musical works in progress. -
1. New orchestral work started in 2023
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. Duet for a string instrument and woodwind instrument
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.)