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PAN PIPES Spring 2019 23 DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS collaborative pianists at Carnegie Mellon entitled Sprezzatura. As a coach, Jocelyn has served on the music staffs at Glimmerglass Opera, Seattle Opera, L'Académie Internationale d'Été de Nice, and the CoOPERAtive program at Westminster Choir College. She collaborated on Five Borough Songbook, a seminal collection of songs by New York City's most innovative composers. She was a pianist for the premieres of the second volume of the songbook in January 2017, for songs by SAI Member Laureate Libby Larsen and others. Jocelyn is a featured artist on an album of Matthew Schickele's solo and four-hands piano music, premiering in summer 2018. e album release marks four decades of duet playing with her brother, Byron Dueck. Honors and awards include grants from the Classical Recording Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, Meet the Composer MetLife Creative Connections, American Composers Forum Encore, a Tanglewood Music Center Fellowship, and a Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade grant with her pianist sibling trio, Dueck ree, for their concert tour of China. She was the proud recipient of the 2016 Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award from the Classical Recording Foundation. Dr. Dueck received a Bachelor's in Piano Performance and Doctorate in Accompanying and Coaching from the University of Minnesota under Karl Paulnack and Margo Garrett. Her dissertation focused on the unpublished song cycles of Les Six composer Louis Durey. She is the leading expert on Durey's songs in North America, having premiered the greater part of these cycles over the past decade. Dr. Dueck recently released the album Durey Rediscovered, engineered by Grammy award-winning producer Adam Abeshouse, with New Focus Recordings. Dr. Steven A. Harper Dr. Harper was initiated as a Friend of the Arts by the Gamma eta Chapter at Georgia Southern University in February. Dr. Steven A. Harper is Chair of the Department of Music at Georgia Southern University. Dr. Harper was previously on faculty at e University of Texas at Austin, Angelo State University, and Georgia State University, where he also served as Director of Graduate Studies and as Interim Director of the School of Music. He holds degrees from the University of Louisville (B.M.), Northwestern University (M.M.), and e University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D.). Dr. Harper's research interests are in music theory and analysis. He has published essays on the music of Anton Webern, Jean Sibelius, and Åke Hermanson. His work can be found in Indiana eory Review, College Music Symposium, Sibelius Forum, and STM-Online (the online journal of the Swedish Society for Musicology). Joseph Mazzaferro Joseph Mazzaferro was initiated as a Friend of the Arts by the eta Epsilon Chapter at California State University, Stanislaus in December. Trumpeter, Educator, Composer, and Arranger Joe Mazzaferro has been active in the Sacramento, Stockton, and Central Valley jazz scenes since 2002. His formal studies include a Bachelor's of Music in Music Education from the University of the Pacific and a Master's of Music in Jazz and Studio Music from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where he served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the jazz program and arranged regularly for the UT Jazz Ensemble. Aer holding numerous adjunct positions at various academic institutions, Mazzaferro became the Coordinator of Jazz Studies at California State University Stanislaus in 2012, where he teaches various jazz courses and directs the CSU Stanislaus Jazz Ensemble. In addition to his role as Coordinator of Jazz Studies, Mazzaferro also serves as the trumpet instructor at CSU Stanislaus and is the Director of Summer Music at Stanislaus (SMAS). He also regularly teaches at Cazadero Music Camp and the Brubeck Institutes Summer Jazz Colony. As an active freelance performer and collaborator, Mazzaferro has had the opportunity to perform with many jazz greats, including Dave Brubeck, Christian McBride, Stefon Harris, Eddie Gomez, Donny McCaslin, Donald Brown, Wycliffe Gordon, Jeff Clayton, Ingrid Jensen, Lewis Nash, Montez Coleman, and Jim Snidero. In recent performance opportunities, he has had the privilege of performing the Miles Davis masterpiece Birth of the Cool with Gunther Schuller at the 2013 Brubeck Festival and was a part of the series "Remembering James Williams & Mulgrew Miller" with pianist Donald Brown's Quartet at the 58th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival. Mazzaferro also performs regularly at Take 5 Jazz Club in Stockton and currently serves as the Musical Director and Co-Founder of the Sacramento Jazz Orchestra. Mazzaferro has gained critical acclaim as a composer and arranger. His works have been performed by many prominent jazz musicians which such as Ingrid Jensen, Claudia Villela, Dave Pietro, and Patrick Langham as well as the Sacramento Jazz Orchestra, University of Tennessee Jazz Ensemble, and the Tommy Igoe Big Band. Two of his more recent compositions, Song For Fizz and Dark Heartbeat, were featured on alto saxophonist Patrick Langham's 2015 album release Pocket Change. Sarah Mesko Sarah Mesko was initiated as a Friend of the Arts by the Fayetteville (AR) Alumnae Chapter in January. A native of Hot Springs, Arkansas, Mesko holds a master of music degree in vocal performance from Rice University and a bachelor of music degree in vocal and flute performance from the University of Arkansas. In the 2018-2019 season, Ms. Mesko returns to the Metropolitan Opera—following her successful performance of Arsace in Semiramide—to sing Mercédès in Carmen. She will also make her Canadian debut as Isolier in the comedic opera Le comte Ory with Edmonton Opera and her Opera eatre of Saint Louis debut as Ottavia in e Coronation of Poppea. She will appear in Handel's Messiah at the US Naval Academy and present recitals at the University of Arkansas and Hendrix College. Stephen Neely Stephen Neely was initiated as a Friend of the Arts by the Alpha Mu Chapter at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in March. Neely, a Carnegie Mellon Assistant Professor of Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Dalcroze License, and past President of the Dalcroze Harper Mazzaferro Mesko

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