Anthony Iannaccone

Anthony Joseph Iannaccone (born October 14, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American composer and conductor.

He was a conductor and professor at Eastern Michigan University, from which he retired at the end of the winter semester of 2013.

He studied with Aaron Copland (1959–1964); with David Diamond, Vittorio Giannini, and Ludmila Ulehla at the Manhattan School of Music, from which he earned a master's degree (1962–1968); and with Samuel Adler at the Eastman School of Music, from which he earned a doctoral degree.

Peters Competition in 1990 for Two-Piano Inventions, and won American Bandmasters Association's Ostwald Award in 1995 for Sea Drift.

His Waiting for Sunrise on the Sound was chosen as one of five finalists in the 2001 London Symphony Orchestra Masterprize Competition from an international field of 1151 orchestral works submitted.