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distinguished members a man or woman who is nationally recognized for distinguished contribution to the arts HONORaRY MEMBER a woman who has achieved international distinction in the music profession who is not an initiated member of Sigma Alpha Iota. nium Association Journal. Frey is also a Yamaha Performing Artist and Guest Clinician. He promotes euphonium musicians and music as the current president of The Euphonium Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit effort to support commissions written for euphonium, expanding the instrument's meaningful repertoire. Frey also serves as Artistic Director of the International Euphonium Institute Festival. Host to top- otch n guest performers as well as global staff and participants, this festival affords young players the opportunity to interact with and learn from master and leaders of euphonium. More than 70 works have been composed or arranged specifically for him, the most recent being Aporia, composed by Northern Kentucky University professor Eric Knechtges for Frey and the Miami University Wind Ensemble. Adam Frey Albert Hunt Adam Frey was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Lambda Upsilon Chapter in February. Adjunct euphonium professor for Emory University and University of Georgia, Frey studied at University of Georgia and Royal Northern College of Manchester, England, to become an internationally renowned euphonium virtuoso. He has performed as a featured soloist on BBC Radio 2, Swiss Cable Radio, and NPR stations across the United States and has shared his talents with many celebrated orchestras including the Boston Pops, South Korea's Cheju Symphony Orchestra, the US Army Orchestra of Washington D.C., and Massachusetts's Harvard Pops. He has proven himself a multifaceted musician, having accepted 25 international performance invitations, produced numerous solo albums, and written articles and reviews for publication in the International Tuba Eupho- Albert Hunt was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Washington DC Alumnae Chapter in September 2011. Clarinetist Albert Hunt has performed extensively in the US, Asia and South America. Recently, he received enthusiastic reviews for a performance of Carl Maria von Weber's First Concerto with the Ecuador Philharmonic. In addition, he has performed with the clarinet sections of the Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's, the New York Philharmonic and other eminent US orchestras. An aficionado of new music, he has premiered many works, including several composed for him. His live performances and recordings have been heard throughout the US and in Canada on CBC, National Public Radio. He has recorded for OPUSone Recordings. Renowned pedagogue Joseph Allard, described Dr. Hunt as one of the most talented musicians he has worked with. Critics have She is a member of the Society for Music Theory, Society for Music Perception and Cognition, European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, College Music Society, Association for Technology in Music Instruction, and Music Theory Midwest. In addition to her vast contributions to the academic world of music theory, she performs as a bassoonist and contrabassoonist with experience in orchestras, wind ensembles, and chamber groups. Dr. VanHandel has been the faculty advisor for the Alpha Lambda chapter for many years. NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE Dr. Leigh VanHandel Dr. Leigh VanHandel was initiated as an Honorary Member by the Alpha Lambda Chapter in February. An Associate Professor at Michigan State University, Dr. VanHandel teaches a variety of music theory courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She was previously a visiting assistant professor at the University of Oregon and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a teacher and lecturer at Stanford University and the University of New Mexico. Her research interests include the relationship between music and language, computer-assisted music research, music perception and cognition, and how music cognition can affect music theory pedagogy She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Music Theory from Ohio State University, a Masters's Degree in Music Theory from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and her Doctorate in Music Theory and Acoustics from Stanford University. Dr. VanHandel has published and presented on a variety of topics related to music theory in countries around the world, including Finland, Italy, the United Kingdom, Austria and France as well as domestically. Her work has appeared in The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis, Journal of New Music Research, Language and Music as Cognitive Systems, Empirical Musicology Review, Proceedings of ESCOM 2009: 7th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (Finland), and Music Perception. 30 PAN PIPESSPRING 2012 sai-national.org

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