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distinguished members Foulk Brass, Monarch Brass, the Fontana Chamber Ensemble and regularly performs with the Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, and Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestras. She has served as Principal Horn with the Oshkosh and Manitowoc Symphony Orchestras, was a member of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and the Wisconsin Wind Orchestra (with which she toured the Netherlands in 2001) and has frequently performed as substitute and extra musician with the Milwaukee and Madison Symphony Orchestras. During the summer, she teaches horn and chamber music at the prestigious Kendall Betts Horn Camp in Lyman, NH, and at WMU's High School Music Camp (Seminar). Especially interested in music with horn by female composers, Dr. Foulk has performed and presented lectures on works by women at universities throughout the United States and as a Guest Artist at the International Horn Symposium in Valencia, Spain. Her first compact disc, Four Elements: Works for Horn and Piano by Female Composers, was released in 2004. She has also published an annotated guide to works for horn and piano by female composers and this website, which lists over 1,000 works with horn by female composers. She currently serves on the Board of the International Women's Brass Conference and recently served on the Board of the International Alliance for Women in Music, in which she organized IAWM's only public annual event for three seasons, a concert held in various cities throughout the United States. German Gutiérrez Germán Augusto Gutiérrez was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Fort Worth Alumnae Chapter in November. He has served as Director of Orchestras and Associate Professor of Orchestral Studies at Gutiérrez Fort Worth's Texas Christian University (TCU) as well as Director of TCU's Latin American Music Center and biennial Latin American Music Festival since 1996.  Since 2000, Gutiérrez has also served as Music Director of the Youth Orchestra of Greater Fort Worth.  Gutiérrez is a frequent guest conductor of professional orchestras in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific.  In 2007, he returned for an unprecedented eleventh year as guest conductor of the Dallas Symphony's Hispanic Festival.  In 2006, he was invited to conduct the Czech National Symphony in historic Smetana Hall as part of the 110th anniversary of Carl Orff 's birth, where he led the orchestra in a performance of Carmina Burana.  He has also appeared with the Fort Worth Symphony, Auckland Philharmonic (New Zealand), Bogotá Philharmonic, Puerto Rico National Symphony, Sinfónica del Teatro Municipal de Rio de Janeiro, and Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra (Brazil) among others.  He makes regular appearances with orchestras in his native Colombia, including the Medellín Philharmonic, Sinfónica del Valle, and Sinfónica de Barranquilla.  In 2002, Maestro Gutiérrez was invited to the Trentino region of Italy to conduct Rossini's Barber of Seville for the 30th anniversary of the Pergine Spettacolo Aperto. Under his baton, the TCU Symphony and the Youth Orchestra of Greater Fort Worth have achieved exceptional levels of recognition at home and abroad.  Both groups have traveled on numerous international tours, obtaining enthusiastic reviews and repeat invitations to engagements such as the Iberoamerican Music Festival in Puerto Rico, where the TCU Symphony was the featured orchestra in 2005 and 2007, and the Texas Music Educators Association Convention in San Antonio, where the TCU Symphony was selected to perform in 2006.  With the TCU Symphony, Gutiérrez has also conducted the world premieres of more than 12 contemporary works.  In 2004, he led the Youth Orchestra of Greater Fort Worth on a tour of Europe, including performances in Prague, at the Mozarteum (Salzburg) and at Esterházy Palace (Eisenstadt, Austria).  Gutiérrez holds Músico Bachiller and Maestro en Música degrees from the Tolima Conservatory in Colombia.  He also received a Master's Degree from Illinois State University and a Doctorate from the University of Northern Colorado.  For his involvement and dedication to TCU, Gutiérrez received the Dean's Teaching Award, the Dean's Award for Research and Creative Activity, and the 2003 Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Research and Creative Activity, the highest award that the university bestows. Dr. Christopher S. Kachian Dr. Christopher S. Kachian was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Alumnae Chapter in November. After earning the first Bachelor's Degree in Guitar Performance from the University of Minnesota in 1980, Kachian went on to earn a Master's and Doctorate in Guitar Performance there. His many music scholarships included a 1981 American String Teachers Association (ASTA) scholarship. In 1984, at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, he founded the Guitar Studies program, now one of the largest guitar programs in the U.S. He now serves as Professor of Music at that university, directing the Guitar Studies program and those for Music Business, Recording Arts, and Popular Music. An internationally known guitarist, he has given over 500 performances throughout Europe, and North and South America. He has soloed with orchestras in Germany, Minnesota, and many music festivals. His work has been heard on National Public Radio, American Public Radio, and Minnesota Public radio. ASSOCIATE continued on page 42 sai-national.org WINTER 2012 PAN PIPES 41

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