JoAnn Falletta has been played on NTS shows including Ghunghru, with Für Alina (1976) first played on 30 October 2020.

JoAnn Falletta (born February 27, 1954, in Queens, New York City) is an American classical musician and orchestral conductor.

Falletta was educated at the Mannes College of Music and The Juilliard School in New York City. She began her musical career as a virtuoso guitar and mandolin player, and as a teenager often was called to perform with the Metropolitan Opera and New York Philharmonic when a work called for a mandolin or guitar obligato. She entered Mannes as a guitar student, but began conducting the…