website associated_acts birth_place background birth_date instrument genre image article_title name occupation
www.sarahioannides.net tacoma paso symphony orchestra symphony orchestra , spartanburg philharmonic orchestra , el canberra , australia non_performing_personnel april 2 , 1972 violin , piano , french horn classical thumb sarah ioannides
 sarah ioannides conductor
sarah ioannides

sarah ioannides -lrb- born 1972 , in canberra -rrb- is a greek cypriot-scottish-australian conductor .
her father , ayis ioannides , is a conductor and composer of greek cypriot ancestry .
her mother is of scottish ancestry .
ioannides grew up in england and studied piano , horn and violin .
she played in the national youth orchestra of great britain .
she later earned bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees in music from somerville college , oxford university .
in 1996 , she was awarded a fulbright scholarship and entered the curtis institute of music in philadelphia to study conducting .
she was subsequently awarded a presser foundation scholarship to study in st. petersburg .
ioannides earned a master of music degree in conducting at the juilliard school , where she received the bruno walter scholarship and was assistant conductor to otto-werner mueller .
ioannides has conducted several premieres and has collaborated with composers including louis andriessen , richard danielpour , stephen paulus , steve reich and tan dun ; she served as assistant conductor on international tours with tan for four seasons .
ioannides has also held positions as assistant conductor of the cincinnati symphony orchestra -lrb- where she was the first woman on the conducting staff -rrb- and music director of the cincinnati symphony youth orchestra .
during her 2003-2004 season with the cincinnati symphony , she was one of two recipients of the bruno walter assistant conductor chair by the bruno walter foundation .
in 2005 , ioannides became music director of both the el paso symphony orchestra and the spartanburg philharmonic orchestra .
she concluded her tenure with the el paso symphony orchestra in may 2011 .
in june 2009 , her spartanburg contract was extended through the 2011-2012 season , at which time the contract becomes an ` evergreen ' contract that automatically renews each season by mutual agreement .
in january 2014 , the tacoma symphony orchestra announced the appointment of ioannides as its first female music director , effective 1 july 2014 , with an initial contract of 5 years .
ioannides conducted her first commercial recording with violinist lara st. john and the royal philharmonic orchestra , released in 2008 , of works by john corigliano , matthew hindson and franz liszt .
ioannides , who holds joint australian and british citizenship , is married to scott hartman , a trombonist and professor at yale university , since 2005 .
the couple have three children , a daughter , audrey rose , born 12 february 2008 , and twins elsa isabel and karl alexander , born 22 april 2010 .
