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Norman Dello Joio
Norman Dello Joio composer / arranger
date of birth: 24.01.1913
date of death: 24.07.2008
Pseudonym des Komponisten: Nicodemo DeGioio
Sensitive, imaginative, the music of Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Norman Dello Joio has won praise from artists and critics.
Mr. Dello Joio, descendent from three generations of Italian organists, received his early musical training under his father. At
the age of 14, Norman Dello Joio became organist and choir director of the Star of the Sea Church on City Island, New York. Until recently Dello Joio was dean of the School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston University.
His music reflects his beliefs, emotions and communication with the contemporary arts. He has expressed himself often in works for instruments, writing with facility for orchestra, band, chamber groups and for solo players, for major concert performers and the educational sphere.
Mr. Dello Joio, descendent from three generations of Italian organists, received his early musical training under his father. At
the age of 14, Norman Dello Joio became organist and choir director of the Star of the Sea Church on City Island, New York. Until recently Dello Joio was dean of the School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston University.
His music reflects his beliefs, emotions and communication with the contemporary arts. He has expressed himself often in works for instruments, writing with facility for orchestra, band, chamber groups and for solo players, for major concert performers and the educational sphere.
