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PAN PIPES Winter 2019 27 DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS prestigious Music For All National Concert Band Festival in Indianapolis, IN (2008). His jazz bands qualified for the Iowa Jazz Championships every year—placing in the top six each of the last nine years. Professor Shanley earned a Bachelor's of Music Education (with jazz emphasis) degree from the University of Northern Iowa, Master's of Education in Music Education from the University of Minnesota, and a Master's of Arts in Educational Leadership from the University of Iowa. He is currently completing coursework towards a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership at the University of Iowa. He is licensed in Iowa as a K-12 Music Master Educator, PK-12 Principal, PK-12 Supervisor of Special Education, and Evaluator. In addition to teaching, Shanley frequently plays keyboard for touring Broadway shows, local theatrical productions, jazz ensembles, symphony orchestras, rock bands, and other ensembles. He is the music director, arranger, and keyboardist for Funk Stop, an 11-piece funk band, and the pianist and arranger for the Rod Pierson Big Band. Shanley has an active schedule as a guest conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and accompanist, and he is also in demand as a composer and arranger. Over 1,000 of his works have been performed by marching bands, jazz bands, concert bands, orchestras, brass bands, and choirs throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. He is an exam reader for College Board Advanced Placement Music eory, is co-chair of the Iowa Jazz Championships, and was the founding president of the Jazz Educators of Iowa. DAV I D E VA N T H O M A S David Evan omas was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Minneapolis-St. Paul Alumnae Chapter in October. Honored with a Citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowships (2013, 1992), a Montana Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship (1987), and the Möller-A.G.O. Award in Choral Composition, omas has received commissions from the Minnesota Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, e Schubert Club, the American Composers Forum, and the American Guild of Organists. He has been a resident artist at Wyoming's Ucross and Brush Creek Arts Foundations, and at California's Villa Montalvo. In 2017, omas was a winner of the VocalEssence Welcome Christmas Carol Contest and a recipient of a Renée B. Fisher Composer Award. omas's varied catalogue includes music for orchestra and wind ensemble, forty chamber works, keyboard pieces large and small, and an opera. Vocal music is prominent, with twelve song cycles — on subjects ranging from medieval women troubadours to the comic lyrics of Wendy Cope and baseball writings of Donald Hall — and fiy choral works. omas's music is published by Adlais, ALRY, ECS, Falls House, Fatrock Ink, Galaxy, Jeanné, Tritone, Yelton-Rhodes, and Classical Vocal Reprints. His concert music for organ solo and duet is available through MorningStar, and four volumes of service music have been published by Augsburg Fortress. omas's most recent recording, rum, was released by the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet on Innova in 2013. Other works are recorded on CRI, Klavier, and Ten ousand Lakes. omas is a B.M.I. affiliate. Born in Rochester, New York in 1958, omas grew up as the fourth of five children in a musical family, the son of flutist John omas. David attended Penfield High School and the Eastman "Prep" Department, graduating with Honors in Trumpet and receiving encouragement in composition from David Russell Williams. As an undergraduate at Northwestern University, he studied trumpet, composition, and conducting and sang in the Alice Millar Chapel Choir under Grigg Fountain's direction. As a master's degree student at Eastman he was awarded the Director's Fellowship; he then taught at the college level through the 1980s in Billings, Montana. omas served as Dominick Argento's assistant at the University of Minnesota, where he also taught composition and orchestration, receiving the Ph.D. in 1996. omas's teachers have included composers Dominick Argento, Samuel Adler, Robert Morris, and Alan Stout, and trumpeter Vincent Cichowicz. He studied further with David Diamond at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and at the Aspen Festival. In 2016 he received the "An die Musik Award" from e Schubert Club for outstanding service. As that organization's composer-in- residence from 1997-2005, omas became a familiar face in the Twin Cities arts community. He also served residencies at Westminster Presbyterian Church (Minneapolis) and the Cathedral of Saint Paul through the American Composers Forum Faith Partners Program, and at Saint Paul Academy. omas is a program annotator for the Schubert Club. His notes have also appeared in program books for the Minnesota Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Carnegie Hall, and the Brevard Festival. omas lives in Minneapolis, where he is active as a pianist and choral singer. Dr. Michael Bartnik Dr. Michael Bartnik was initiated as a Friend of the Arts by the eta eta Chapter at Nicholls State University in October. He has been the woodwind professor at Nicholls State University since 2011 and serves as the flute and clarinet instructor for majors and non-majors. He also teaches various music history classes at Nicholls. He served as the head of the music department during the spring semester of 2012 and previously taught at Ouachita Baptist University, Northwestern State University, and Longhorn Music Camp- University of Texas School of Music. He has performed with the Texarkana Symphony Orchestra, Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, Temple Symphony, Texas Wind Ensemble and Orchestra, Marshall Symphony, Aspen Chamber and Festival Orchestras, University of Cincinnati Philharmonic Orchestra, Natchitoches/Northwestern Symphony Orchestra, Wicked National Broadway Tour, Franco American Vocal Academy, Acadiana Symphony, and Round Rock Symphony Orchestra. He earned his Bachelor's in Music Education at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, LA., his Master's in Clarinet Performance from University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and his Doctorate in Clarinet Performance at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the International Clarinet Association, the College Music Society, and the Music Teacher's National Association. FRIEND OF THE ARTS a man or woman who is supportive of and actively involved in the arts at a local or regional level Bartnik

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