Sarah Ioannides
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Sarah Ioannides (born 1972) is an American conductor of Australian birth. She is Music Director and Conductor of the El Paso Symphony Orchestra (El Paso, Texas) and the Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra (Spartanburg, South Carolina).
Ioannides has conducted several premieres and has collaborated with composers including Louis Andriessen, Richard Danielpour, Stephen Paulus, Steve Reich and Tan Dun; she served as assistant conductor on international tours with Tan for four seasons. Ioannides has also held positions as assistant conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra. During her 2003-2004 season with the Cincinnati Symphony, she was awarded the Bruno Walter Assistant Conductor Chair by the Bruno Walter Foundation, being one of only two such recipients in the United States that year. Ioannides began her tenure in El Paso in 2005 after winning an audition to replace the orchestra's previous music director, Gürer Aykal.
She has received critical praise in publications including The New York Times and the Cincinnati Post.
[edit] Biography and Education
Ioannides was born in Canberra, Australia, to a Cypriot father and Scottish mother. Growing up in England, Ioannides received musical training in piano, horn and violin. She earned a Master of Arts in Music from Somerville College, Oxford University. In 1996, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and entered the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia to study conducting. She was subsequently awarded a Presser Foundation Scholarship to study in St. Petersburg. Ioannides earned a Master of Music degree in conducting at the Juilliard School, where she received the Bruno Walter Scholarship and was assistant conductor to Otto Werner-Mueller.
[edit] Official Website
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