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distinguished members NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE a man or woman who is nationally recognized for distinguished contribution to the arts Dr. Daniel Brewbaker Dr. Daniel Brewbaker was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Oak Park Alumnae Chapter in June. A member of the SAI Composers Bureau, Dr. Bewbaker began formal training in composition with Gordon Binkerd at the U.of Illinois where he received his Bachelor's Degree, continuing with Roger Sessions and Elliott Carter at the Juilliard School in New York where he received the Master's Degree of Music and Doctorate of Musical Arts. Dr. Brewbaker has been commissioned to compose works for leading conductors, ensembles and soloists worldwide, including oratorios, cantatas, symphonic works and concertos for Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Orchestra and Chorus, James Conlon and the Cincinnati Symphony and Chorus, Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony and Chorus, New York Chamber Symphony and Young People's Chorus of NYC, Doreen Rao and the Irish Chamber Orchestra, St. Luke's Chamber Orchestra and Millennium Festival Chorus, Kent Nagano and the Berkeley Symphony, violinist Vadim Repin, Yuri Temirkanov and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and cellist Carter Brey and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He has composed chamber and solo works for the centenary of the Juilliard School, The Borromeo String Quartet, pianist Richard Goode, mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; and numerous choral works for, among others, Chanticleer, Musica Sacra, Handel Oratorio Society of Dartmouth 16 PAN PIPESSUMMER 2013 sai-national.org College, Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, New Classic Singers, Heartland Voices, Brooklyn Youth Chorus and Symphony, Portland Symphonic Girlchoir,  Children's Aid Society Chorus of NYC, Anima Young Singers, and a children's opera for the Children's Theater of Elgin. Recent commissions include symphonic works for the Seattle and Elgin Symphony Orchestras, three brass quintets, two string quartets, a piano trio and an evening length dance work for the Buglisi Dance Theater as composer/pianist. Oak Park Alumnae Chapter Patroness Elizabeth Hoeft recently commissioned a work for the Elgin Symphony in remembrance of her late husband, Douglas Hoeft. In 2006, he was inducted into the Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame to honor his national and international work. Dr. Brewbaker has been Composer in Residence at the Spoleto USA Music Festival in  Charleston, S.C., the Cabrillo Music Festival, the Prince Albert Music Festival in Hawaii, the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, the Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, the Ligurian Study Center in Italy, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico, Copland House, Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, and the American Academy in Rome. He has received awards from, among others, the American Academy of Arts & Letters, The Nadia Boulanger Foundation, Copland House/Borromeo String Quartet, and the International Rotary Foundation. He has held teaching positions at Juilliard, Hunter and Queens Colleges (CUNY), St. Stephen's School in Rome, and the Westminster Choir College. Dr. Brewbaker is also active as a guest conductor and lecturer. the faculty of the The Hartt School, University of Hartford, where she now also serves as the Music Director of The Hartt Opera. In November 2005, Kosloff was appointed Artistic Director of the Connecticut Concert Opera. She has served as the Executive Director of the Hartford Conservatory (the nation's oldest community music school), the Artistic Director and Managing Director of the Connecticut Opera and the Waterbury Opera Theatre. In 2009, she created the highly acclaimed American Opera Idol competition, which continues to draw new audiences to opera, and was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of Miami Lyric Opera. A frequent speaker and workshop director, Kosloff wrote the libretto for the critically acclaimed children's opera Goldilocks and the Three Bears, which was created under a grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Her article, "The Woman Opera Conductor; Personal Perspective," was published in The Musical Woman: An International Perspective, Volume I. Kosloff is the conductor of contemporary chamber orchestra works on many discs; she also recorded a symphonic disk with the Czech Radio Philharmonic. She was Music Director and Conductor for the world premiere of The Village (an opera based on the Holocaust) which premiered in March of 1995 in New York. Doris Lang Kosloff Doris Lang Kosloff was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Eta Mu Chapter in May. Kosloff, a native of Brooklyn, has held many prominent positions in the field of opera. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Queens College (The Aaron Copland School of Music) of the City University of New York and holds a Master of Music degree from the Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts, having graduated first in her class. From 1990-2005, she was a Professor of Music and the Director of the Opera Studio at the Aaron Copland School of Music. Her active guest-conducting career includes appearances with the Syracuse Opera, Orlando Opera, Hartford Ballet, Southern Ballet Theatre, and Opera Columbus, Treasure Coast Opera, and Miami Lyric Opera.  Since 2004, she has been a music coach on Dr. J. Stephen Moore Dr. J. Stephen Moore was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Epsilon Omega Chapter in May. Dr. Moore's father was a high school band director with a national reputation for excellence, and his mother was an elementary teacher, flute player, and auxiliary instructor. Inspired by their example, Moore knew by the age of eleven he wanted to be a conductor. He studied

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