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distinguished members pronounced his performances as remarkable, masterful and poetic. Albert Hunt earned a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree at The Juilliard School, where he received the William Randolph Hearst Scholarship. Prior to attending Juilliard, Dr. Hunt was a scholarship student at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music. His clarinet teachers constitute a compendium of prominent pedagogs of late 20th Century including: Vincent J. Abato, Joseph Allard, Mordecai Appelbaum, William Blount, and David Weber. He studied chamber music with James Chambers, William Lincer and Leonard Rose. In addition to his life as a performer, Albert Hunt maintains an active studio of clarinet students. Students Dr. Hunt taught and coached have been accepted to The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, Harvard, Rice and Yale Universities and Eastman School of Music as well as summer music festivals throughout the United States and in Europe. Dr. Hunt's high school students consistently earn top honors and principal clarinet positions in area and state youth orchestras and all-state bands and orchestras. Two chamber music groups coached by Dr. Hunt have earned invitations to participate in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in South Bend, Indiana. He has presented master classes in universities throughout the United States. Dr. Hunt also serves as International Coordinator of Ecuador's Sinfonía por la Vida. In this position, he has been featured in masterclasses throughout Ecuador and helped to develop a program for teachers there. He has also coordinated the donations of instruments to the program and visits of North American teachers and performers to teach in the Symphonic Youth Orchestra Foundation of Ecuador and for Sinfonía por la vida in cities throughout Ecuador. Dr. Hunt has developed a relationship between The Juilliard School and Sinfonía por la Vida that has resulted in several residencies of Juilliard faculty and students in Ecuador and visits of Ecuadorian teachers to Juilliard. Dr. Hunt has been Music Department Chair of the Alabama School of Fine Arts and served on the faculties of Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and the University of West Florida. His articles on reed making, clarinet performance and teaching have been published in The Instrumentalist, Music Educators Journal and The Clarinet. Dr. Lowell Lybarger Dr. Lowell Lybarger was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Zeta Rho Chapter in April. Dr. Lybarger is the Music and Multimedia Librarian at Arkansas Tech University, serving as the Director of the Music Lab and Webmaster for the Music Lab Website. He catalogs music scores and music multimedia materials, provides general reference services, oversees the Ross Pendergraft Library's multimedia collection development, and serves as the bibliographer for Stevens music, art, speech, theatre, and drama. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Freshman Advisor, ushering music students Anthropology from Rutgers, a Master's in Degree into their degree programs.  As part of the in Library Science from Kent State University, a Faculty Research Council, she encourages Master's Degree in Ethnomusicology from the interdisciplinary research.  This special University of Washington, and a Doctorate in involvement has fostered unique collaborations Musicology from the University of Toronto. between music and sports psychology through presentations on performance anxiety as well as Dr. Lybarger's dissertation research was supported by the Fulbright Program and the music and modern dance through performance.  Pakistan National Council of the Arts, and he She has also mentored the Gamma Iota chapter has presented numerous papers at academic as a Membership Advisor. conferences in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. He has taught courses in musicology, library District Metropolitan Opera Auditions, her instruction, information literacy, and music operatic experience includes the title roles of technology in Lahore, Pakistan as a UNESCO Purcell's Dido and Handel's Xerxes, as well as Consultant (2004), Hautes Etudes Commerciales Idamante in Mozart's Idomeneo, the Mother in visiting professor (2007) for the National Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, Ma Moss College of Arts and Sanjan Nagar Institute of in Copland's The Tender Land, Elmire in SAI Philosophy and Arts, and worked as a technical National Arts Associate Kirke Mechem's Tartuffe. consultant and archivist in 2006 for an National Carrie has a particular interest in contemporary Endowment for the Humanities Preservation music and has been involved in many premieres Project at Radio-Television Afghanistan in including works by Mechem, Ofer Ben-Amots, Kabul, Afghanistan. John Baboukis, and Russell Burnham. She holds a Doctorate of Music from the University of He teaches World Music Culture at Arkansas A 1992 winner of the Upper Midwest Tech and participated in a Rotary Exchange Minnesota. Program, studying libraries and music culture in Paraguay and Argentina in July 2008. her talents in a wide variety of venues.  Having An avid performer, Dr. Stevens has shared sung under such tremendous conductors Dr. Carrie Stevens Dr. Carrie Stevens was initiated as a National as Helmuth Rilling, Robert Shaw, and Dale Warland, she is able to include her experience in her studio teaching.  She is often featured at Arts Associate by the Gamma Iota chapter the Staunton Music Festival, the Shenandoah in April. Valley Bach Festival, and has been part of the University's Kennedy Center collaborations.  As an Associate Professor of Voice, Dr. Stevens is an icon of the School of Music at Dr. Stevens previously held teaching positions James Madison University.  In her ten years at the University of Minnesota and California on faculty, she has taken roles such as Interim State University, and sang in Gächinger Kantorei Opera Production Coordinator and Vocal Stuttgart and as a professional soloist throughout Area Coordinator.  She currently serves as Europe and the United States. sai-national.org SPRING 2012 PAN PIPES 31

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