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friend of the arts FRIENDS continued from page 27 of Bands at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi where he conducts the Symphonic Winds, teaches courses in Conducting and Music Education, and serves as head of the wind and percussion division. In demand as a clinician, conductor, and adjudicator, Dr. Smith has been invited to work with bands in Texas, Utah, Arizona, Louisiana, and Idaho, and has guest conducted in a number of states. He has presented numerous clinics including one at the Texas Music Educators Association's Convention. He has also conducted the Texas Region XIV Concert Band and South Texas ATSSB Region Band, and serves as an adjudicator for American Classics Music Festivals. An accomplished trumpeter, Dr. Smith has served as principal trumpet in the top ensembles at Louisiana State and Boise State. He has been published in the Journal of the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles and has presented research on the wind music of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos at the national conferences of the College Music Society and the College Band Directors National Association. He has been included in Who's Who Among American Teachers and is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and Kappa Kappa Psi. He also holds memberships in the Texas Music Educators Association, the College Band Directors National Association, the National Band Association, the College Music Society, and the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles. Dr. Smith holds a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education from Boise State University, a Master's Degree in Conducting from Louisiana State University, and a Doctorate in Conducting from Arizona State University. Dr. Nikolai Wenzel Dr. Nikolai Wenzel was initiated by the Sigma Mu Chapter in April. Dr. Wenzel is Assistant Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College where he holds the Wallace and Marion Reemelin Chair in Free-Market Economics. An ardent supporter of music students and efforts at Hillsdale, he performs with the Georgetown Chimes, a male a cappella group. He also sings at the faculty dinners he organizes. He Wenzel is a member of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, and the American Association of Wine Economists.  With the U.S. State Department, he served as Vice Consul and Special Assistant to the U.S. Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.  He is also former Director of Academic Program for the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.  Dr. Wenzel holds a Bachelor's Degree in Foreign Service cum laude in International Affairs from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, as well as a Master's Degree and Doctorate from George Mason University. Kevin Woelfel Kevin Woelfel was initiated by the Sigma Zeta Chapter in February. He serves as Director of the Lionel Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho in Moscow. Previously, he served as Director of the Entrepreneurship Center for Music at University of Colorado at Boulder. His diversity in the music industry includes performance, composition, and manufacturing. At age nineteen, Woelfel's professional career began as the Third/Assistant Principal Trumpet in the Spokane Symphony. He went on to perform over the years with the Chicago Lyric Opera, Grant Park Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic, and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. Active in the jazz and pop genres, he has played with the Larry Elgart Orchestra, Third NIXON continued from page 8 The Peabody Conservatory has become an acknowledged leader in the cultural life of Maryland and has built a reputation that is truly international. As a division of The Johns Hopkins University, Peabody takes its place beside the university's other world-famous centers of 28 PAN PIPES SUMMER 2011 sai-national.org research and learning in the sciences, humanities, and medicine, poised to define the contribution of music in our lives in the 21st century. The Conservatory's present faculty is in the same distinguished tradition and includes prizewinners in the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition, Queen Elisabeth of Belgium World, and numerous touring productions. As a composer and arranger, Woelfel served in the U.S. Air Force band program stationed in Vacaville, CA, and Yokota, Japan. He has also written and arranged music for many projects including docudramas for National Public Radio. An entrepreneur, he founded several companies including WolfPak Incorporated and Rocky Mountain Case Works, both of which produce high-end music instrument cases for international distribution. He was also Director of Operations for the David G. Monette Corporation, manufacturing custom trumpets. Most recently, Woelfel founded ArtsStart.org to distribute his opportunity analysis tool called I'mART. He earned his Bachelor's Degree in Music Performance from Washington State University and his Master's Degree in Music Performance from the University of WisconsinMadison. Dr. Vernon Wolcott Dr. Vernon Wolcott was initiated by the Northwest Ohio Alumnae Chapter in April. The Adjunct Emeritus Professor of Performance Organ Studies at Bowling Green State University, Dr. Wolcott held organist-choirmaster positions at Philadelphia's St. Elisabeth's Episcopal Church, St. Peter's Lutheran Church in New York City, Baltimore's Franklin Street Presbyterian, and Bowling Green's First Presbyterian Church. Dr. Wolcott earned his Bachelor's Degree at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute, a cum laude Master's Degree in Sacred Music from New York's Union Seminary, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan. He studied under Member Laureate Marilyn Mason and National Arts Associate Dr. Robert Baker among others. In 1975, he inaugurated Bowling Green State University's First Annual Organ Competition Scholarship for high-school seniors. His students have received recognition in national and international organ competitions. Competition, the ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards, as well as Guggenheim fellows and Fulbright grantees. The Peabody Institute has awarded the Peabody Medal, instituted in 1980, to many distinguished composers, performers, philanthropists, scholars, and business and civic leaders.

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