An emerging orchestral voice, Loiacono has received commissions and performances from such nationally esteemed ensembles as the Detroit Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and the American Composers Orchestra. She is a frequent collaborator of the Albany Symphony, serving as Mellon Composer-Educator-in-Residence for the 2017-18 season. In June 2018, the Albany Symphony premiered her Concerto for Piano, written for Vicky Chow. In 2012, the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic premiered her Violin Concerto at St. Petersburg’s Shostakovich Philharmonic Hall, with Nicholas DiEugenio as soloist.

Loiacono is also a prolific writer of chamber and vocal music, with performances by ensembles and performers including clarinetist Anthony McGill; pianist Xak Bjerken; cellist Peter Stumpf; New Morse Code; Latitude 49; the New York Virtuosi Singers; Music from Copland House; Transit New Music Ensemble; and the JACK, FLUX, Friction, Argus and Altius String Quartets. 

Loiacono has received awards from ASCAP's Morton Gould Awards, New York Youth Symphony’s First Music Commissioning Program, the Minnesota Orchestra Composers Institute, and many others. In 2015, she was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, where her “Stout With Another Man’s Song” was performed by the New Fromm Players. In 2017, she received the ASCAP Foundation Fellowship for Composition at the Aspen Music Festival & School.

Loiacono is a co-founder of the Kettle Corn New Music concert series and served as executive director of the MATA Festival. A native of Stony Brook, New York, she holds degrees from Cornell University (D.M.A.) and Yale University (M.M./B.A.).

Education

D.M.A.,  Cornell University
M.M. and B.A., Yale University