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sai-national.org • Summer 2024 29 Sound. Previously Dr. Doyle spent fifteen years at Adams State University in Alamosa, Colorado where she taught applied flute and courses in music education. Advocacy, equity, and community engagement are at the heart of Dr. Doyle's work as a musician, educator, and leader. Having taught at a variety of levels, including elementary general music, secondary instrumental music, and higher education, her holistic philosophy of music education inextricably links education with performance. Multidisciplinary collaboration is at the core of Dr. Doyle's creative activity as a flutist. She finds joy in performing in a variety of settings ranging from solo, chamber, and orchestral to Irish traditional music. Performances have taken her throughout the United States, Australia, and Japan. As a member of the Japanese-American Apricity Trio, with clarinetist Chiho Sugo and percussionist James Doyle, she recently released a CD titled Sandhill Crane featuring newly commissioned works, as well as standard repertoire. Dr. Doyle is a regular performer at the National Flute Association Convention and was a winner of the Convention Performers Competition, premiering several new works for flute and piccolo. Dr. Doyle currently serves as piccoloist with the San Juan Symphony in Durango, Colorado, and she is on faculty with the Santa Fe Flute Immersion summer intensive. Dr. Doyle earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in flute performance from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and her Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees in music education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. DR. MARY LOGAN-HASTINGS Dr. Mary Logan-Hastings was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Kappa Beta Chapter at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) in April. Soprano Mary Logan Hastings is currently professor of Music at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, with a Masters and DMA in Vocal Performance from the University of Maryland and an undergraduate degree in music from the University of Montana. With an extensive professional career in opera, she was the leading coloratura soprano for several years at Germany's prestigious Nationaltheater Mannheim. Dr. Logan-Hastings' career has taken her from American Houses such as Seattle Opera and Arizona Opera to the European Houses of Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Bern, Heidelberg, München, Antwerp, Luxembourg, Toulouse, and Basel. She has regularly performed leading roles such as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Gilda in Rigoletto, Musetta in La Bohème, Amina in La Sonnambula, and Die Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte. Dr. Logan-Hastings' solo concert work includes appearances with the Berliner Philharmonische under the baton of Christoph von Dohnányi and performances with the late Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Michael Gielen, Michel Plasson, Daniel Barenboim, Donald Runnicles, and the late Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, and Robert Shaw, among others. Included in her concert repertoire as soprano soloist are The Four Last Songs of Richard Strauss, Rachmaninoff 's Vocalise, Brahms' Requiem, Mahler's Symphony No. 8, his Symphony No. 4, and his Rückert Lieder, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, and Haydn's Die Jahreszeiten. Dr. Logan-Hastings has performed recitals and given master classes in the theaters and music conservatories of Croatia, Slovenia, Mexico, China, and Thailand. She continues to perform, lecture, and adjudicate throughout the United States and can be heard on CD recordings that include works composed by Alexander Zemlinsky, David Diamond, Stanley Chepaitis, and Jack Stamp. DARLA MEEK Darla Meek was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Dallas Alumnae Chapter in April. Darla Meek serves as Lecturer and Music Education Coordinator at Texas A&M University-Commerce, teaching undergraduate and graduate music classes and supervising student teachers. She earned a Bachelor of Music Education from Dallas Baptist University and a Master of Music at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She is presently working toward the Doctorate of Education in Supervision, Curriculum and Instruction. Certified in both Kodály and Orff Schulwerk, Darla is as a teacher trainer for the American Orff Schulwerk Association (AOSA) in both Movement and Level I Pedagogy for Orff Levels courses. Meek has served as assistant conductor for the Mesquite Children's Chorus andthe Children's Chorus of Collin County and as Children's Choir Coordinator for three churches in the Dallas area. She enjoys conducting elementary honor and festival choirs. Meek has published children's choir curricula for Lifeway Christian Resources and for Celebrating Grace, Inc. She is the author of three books for elementary music specialists, Journey Around the Globe with Recorder! and Flight 2: Another Journey Around the Globe with Recorder! published by Sweet Pipes, Inc., and All Things Bright and Beautiful published by Chorister's Guild. Her articles have appeared in The Orff Echo, Reverberations, The Chorister, and Kodály Envoy, and she presents professional Distinguished Members

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