Anthony J. Cirone
Professor of Music (Percussion)
Contact Information:
acirone
[at]
indiana [dot] edu
(acirone@indiana.edu)
Music Addition, Room MA352
Education
- M.S., The Juilliard School, 1965
- B.S., The Juilliard School, 1964
Biography
Anthony J. Cirone was a percussionist with the San Francisco Symphony from 1965 to 2001, and has performed under the batons of Josef Krips, Seiji Ozawa, Edo DeWaart, Herbert Blomstedt, Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Eugene Ormandy, Kurt Mazur, Rafael Kubelik, and James Levine.
Professor Cirone is a former faculty member and conductor of the percussion ensemble at San José State University, (1965-2001), and Stanford University (1983-1992). He has more than 70 published works, including three symphonies for percussion, four sonatas, a string quartet, orchestral works, textbooks, and Portraits in Rhythm for Snare Drum, used worldwide.
Professor Cirone was honored with the Special Distinction Award from ASCAP for Pentadic Striations for Orchestra in 1999 and has acted as percussion consultant/editor for Warner Brothers Publishing Co and as a clinician for Avedis Zildjian Cymbal Company and the Yamaha Corporation.