JoAnn Falletta serves as Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic and Virginia Symphony, and is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Brevard Music Center of North Carolina. She has guest conducted many of the most prominent orchestras around the world. Recipient of the Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts Conductors Award, winner of the Stokowski Competition, and the Toscanini, Ditson and Bruno Walter conducting awards, Falletta has also received twelve ASCAP awards and served on the U.S. National Council on the Arts. Her Naxos recordings include the double GRAMMY® Award-winning disc of works by John Corigliano and GRAMMY® nominated discs of works by Tyberg, Dohnányi, Fuchs, Schubert, Respighi, Gershwin, Hailstork and Holst.

Aside from playing French horn for 13 years, D. Wilson Ochoa is also known for his orchestral and chamber arrangements and transcriptions. These include Aaron Copland’s Emblems, and additional works by Chance, Jenkins and Prokofiev, as well as the opening Promenade from Leonard Slatkin’s compilation of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition (Naxos 8.570716). Ochoa has also been a producer on four albums by the Nashville Symphony and the Alias Chamber Ensemble on the Naxos label.

The GRAMMY® Award-winning Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, is Buffalo’s leading cultural ambassador and presents more than 120 Classics, Pops and Youth Concerts each year. During the tenure of JoAnn Falletta the BPO has rekindled its distinguished history of radio broadcasts and recordings, including the release of 24 new albums of a highly diverse repertoire on the Naxos and Beau Fleuve labels. The Philharmonic’s Naxos recording of composer John Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man (8.559331), featuring soprano Hila Plitmann, won GRAMMYs® in two categories of the three for which it was nominated – Classical Vocal Performance and Classical Contemporary Composition.