Sigma Alpha Iota

distinguished members HONORaRY MEMBER a woman who has achieved international distinction in the music profession who is not an initiated member of Sigma Alpha Iota. Andrea Ridilla Andrea Ridilla was initiated as an Honorary Member by the Lambda Upsilon Chapter in April. Professor of Oboe at the Miami (OH) University School of Fine Arts, she is Principal Oboe of the Classical Music Festival in Eisendstadt, Austria and was Principal Oboe of the Festival International Echternach Orchestra in Luxembourg from 1991-2007. She is also Principal Oboe of the Middletown Symphony under Maestro Carmon DeLeone. She holds a Bachelor's degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a Bachelor's and Master's Degree of Music from The Juilliard School. In her CD, L'Amore Italiano, the lyrical oboe in opera and cinema, released on the Kleos label of Helicon Records in New York, she is featured soloist with the Sofia Philharmonic in Bulgaria under conductor Ricardo Averbach. With Udo Heng of Reeds 'n Stuff in Annaberg, Germany, she is co-designer of the Ridilla-Heng gouging machine, which is U.S. Patented and available at Forrest's Music, Berkeley, CA. Beginning in April, Ridilla was a guest artist at the Moscow Conservatory of Music and the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music in Russia appearing as a representative of Reeds 'n Stuff of Germany in performing, leading oboe masterclasses, and reedmaking masterclasses. In March, she was the Guest Oboe Professor at the 3rd Encuentro of the Asociación de Doble Caña of Seville, Spain. In July 2011, she was soloist in the Skopje Summer FEST in Macedonia. She has 24 been a guest performer in several concerts with Camerata Pacifica in Santa Barbara, California. She has performed solo recitals throughout Italy in Rome, Florence, Turin and Pisa. Ridilla performed in the Festival Internacional de Musica de Camara in Colonia Tovar, Venezuela and was a soloist in the Weiner Bezirkwochen Festival in Vienna. In 2010, she appeared as soloist at the Musica no Museu Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as well as concerto soloist with the Quito Orquesta da Camera in Ecuador. She has also been concerto soloist with the Guayaquil Symphony Orchestra in Ecuador. She was soloist with the Festival Echternach in Luxembourg, the Moselle Music Festival in Germany, the Classical Music Festival Orchestra in Austria, in Seoul Arts Center, Korea, with the Westmoreland Symphony, and the Ashland Symphony. She won the top prize for winds at the Munich Preliminaries of the Torneo Internazionale di Musica Competition, and was one of six international soloists invited to Rome in May 1998. Ridilla was awarded fellowships to Tanglewood, Yale at Norfolk, and the Music Academy of the West. Prior to her appointment at Miami University, she served as principal oboe with the Las Vegas Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, and the National Orchestra of New York. She has been on the faculties of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the New York State Summer School for the Arts at Saratoga. At the invitation of Joseph Robinson (Principal Oboe Laureate of the New York Philharmonic), Ridilla was a guest at Duke University as an oboe lecturer and performer. She was a Guest Research Scholar at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and Guest Professor at the Udine Conservatory of Music in Italy where she presented a masterclass on the American style of oboe reedmaking. With the Miami Wind Quintet, Ridilla recorded three collaborative albums with the Prague Wind Quintet on the Helicon and Mastersound labels, featuring Czech wind music. She has given masterclasses throughout the U.S., at the Quebec Conservatories in Canada, Conservatorio Simon Bolivar in Venezuela, Tung Hai University in Taiwan, in Ecuador, and throughout Korea. She is an advocate of foreign language study for research and the dissemination of knowledge, and for cultural diversity. She studied French at the Université du Var in Toulon, France, the Université de Genève in Switzerland, and the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, France. She also studied Italian at the Accademia Europea PAN PIPESSUMMER 2012 sai-national.org in Florence, Italy. At Miami University, Ridilla created and teaches a course, Discovering Italian Opera, for University Honor's students. For her teaching, Professor Ridilla received the Excellence in Teaching Award given by the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities, At Miami University she was a recipient of the Miami University Excellence in Teaching Award, the Alumni Enrichment Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching, and the Miami University Star Award, for outstanding support of Miami students. Dr. Jayne M. Standley Dr. Jayne M. Standley was initiated as an Honorary Member by the Beta Alpha Chapter in April. Dr. Standley, a longtime researcher and professor in Florida State University (FSU) School of Music, is the 2005-2006 Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor, the Florida State University's highest faculty honor, and the Ella Scoble Opperman Professor of Music with a courtesy appointment in the College of Medicine. She directs the Music Therapy program at FSU, the National Institute for Infant and Child Medical Music Therapy which awards the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit –Music Therapy national certificate, and the Medical Music Therapy and Arts in Medicine Programs in partnership with Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare. She teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in Music Therapy Methods, Medical Music Therapy, Music in Counseling, and the Music Therapy Research Seminar. She is an internationally acclaimed researcher and has published extensively in music in learning and music in medical settings with refereed publications appearing in nursing, early childhood, and music therapy journals. Dr. Standley's pioneering work in the field of

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