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Fiora Corradetti Contino
Text Box: Founder and Director of the Carondelet Children’s Chorus 1999-2010 Carondelet Women’s Chorus 2001-2010 D.M.A. Conducting, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. M.M. Conducting, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign B.M. Music Education, Fontbonne College, St. Louis, Missouri. Winner of the prestigious Gladis Krieble-Delmas Award for research on the Venetian Ospedali. Private studio in piano, voice, guitar, and recorder Composer, author, editor, guest conductor, and clinician for the American Choral Directors Association American Guild of Organists The College Music Society Dissertation: "Revision of music performed at theVenetian Ospedali in the eighteenth century." (1986) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Music of the Venetian Ospedali: a Thematic Catalogue. Stuyvesant: Pendragon Press, 1995. Wisdom, Wit, and Will: Women’s Conductors on their Art, Chicago: GIA, 2009. Contributing author of nine biographies: Charlene Archibeque, Elaine Brown, Fiora Contino, Margaret Hawkins, Iva Dee Hiatt, Margaret Hillis, Eva Jessye, Colleen Kirk, Alice Parker. Joan Whittemore’s compositions have been performed widely throughout the United States. Alice Parker designated her as a Melodious Accord Fellow. Joan is listed in Who’s Who of American Women. Text Box: Joan Whittemore is a descendent of the Founding Families of St. Louis through Francois Marcheteau dit Desnoyer (1719 Montreal c. 1770, St. Louis) son of Pierre Marcheteau (1678, Ste Eulalie, France– after 1724). Francois, his brothers Joseph (1699-after 1741) and Louis (1714-1774) were among the thirty men Who came with Pierre Laclede and August Chouteau From Fort Des Chartres to establish St. Louis, February 14, 1764. See map of St. Louis 1894 Www.nps.gov/archive/jeff/lewisclark2/circa1804/stlouis/StLouis.htm