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DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS HONORARY MEMBER FM Radio and on Nippon TV (NTV) and NHK TV. In 1997 an hour-long documentary film about her was broadcast in Japan. Ito has recorded CDs for the Fontec label in Japan. These include the complete sonatas by Saint-Saëns and Grieg with the pianist Phillip Moll. She has also recorded for EMI, ASV and Naxos. In addition to her performing career, Ito taught at the Youth Conservatory for Music at Missouri's Park University where her husband Martin Storey served on the faculty as professor of cello. A frequent collaborator in chamber music, Ito has performed in many formats from duo to octet with established artists around the world. She is a frequent guest artist at the International Music Arts Institute in Maine and the Corbridge Music Festival in the UK. NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE Kanako Ito Kanako Ito was initiated as an Honorary Member by the Kansas City Alumnae Chapter in June 2010. Concertmistress of the Kansas City Symphony from 2000 to 2010, Kanako Ito has had a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral leader. She was born in northern Japan in 1970 and started playing the violin at the age of five. After studying at the Toho-Gakuen Music High School in Tokyo, she continued her studies at the Paris Conservatoire before completing the Artist Diploma Program at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. After her study, she moved to London where she lived and worked for several years, performed as a member of the chamber ensemble Mobius and toured with many of the major London orchestras. She has won prizes in many international competitions, including the Geneva Competition, the Lexus Violin Competition in New Zealand, the Japanese-American Association Competition in New York, and the Schöntal Violin Competition in Germany. Her solo appearances include performances with the Leningrad State Orchestra, the Suisse Romande Orchestra, Wiener Streicher Solisten, Romania Radio Symphony, the Chautauqua Symphony, the New Zealand Symphony, the Winterthur Orchestra, and the Suk Chamber Orchestra. She has also performed with many of the major orchestras in Japan and has appeared on NHK Jeffrey D. Bradetich Jeffrey D. Bradetich was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Iota Theta Chapter in February. Bradetich is the director of the largest double bass program in the world at the University of North Texas, appointed in 1994. His students hold positions in major orchestras on five continents and in leading universities in the US and abroad. He previously taught at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University. Since his New York debut in Carnegie Recital Hall in 1982, Bradetich, regarded as one of the leading performers and teachers of the double bass in the US today, has performed more than 450 concerts on four continents including his London debut in Wigmore Hall in 1986. Bradetich began his study of the bass at age 10 in the school orchestra program in Eugene, OR, studying with Royce Lewis and Dr. Robert Hladky before studying at Northwestern University with Warren Benfield where he earned Bachelor's Degree in Double bass Performance and his Master's Degree in Conducting and Chamber Music. He gave his professional concerto debut at the age of 16 and was appointed to the orchestra of the Lyric Opera of Chicago by age 19. He has won many major solo competitions and has been featured on radio and television throughout North and South America and Europe including CBS, CNN, BBC, CBC and NPR. In addition to his international tours as a performer and teacher, Mr. Bradetich has been an active proponent of the double bass.  As Executive Director of the International Society of Bassists (ISB) from 1982-1990 he established the ISB International Conventions, now in their 25th year; the ISB Classical, Jazz and Orchestral International Competitions; the ISB Endowment Fund; and the Bass World, ISB magazine. In 1987, Bradetich co-founded Music For All To Hear, Inc., the first company to record music especially arranged and acoustically prepared for the hard of hearing. His pioneering work in this field has helped to bring music into the lives of thousands of individuals with hearing losses. He continues to offer his Summer Master Classes, now in their 27th year, for students of all ages and abilities. He has also helped to encourage, develop, and organize many other double bass workshops throughout the world including the Texas Bass Symposiums, the Hammond Ashley Memorial Workshops, the Mittenwald, Germany International Master Classes, and the Hong Kong Bass Camp. In addition to being an active lecturer and clinician, Mr. Bradetich has transcribed more than 100 solo works. He has given more than 1,200 master classes throughout the world including annual week-long workshops on three continents. He has produced an instructional video and DVD and a DVD recording of the first Bach cello suite and BB Wolf by SAI Composers Bureau Member Jon Deak. Dr. Paul-Elliot Cobbs Dr. Paul-Elliot Cobbs was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Tacoma Alumnae Chapter in September. DISTINGUISHED continued on page 28 sai-national.org SPRING 2011 PAN PIPES 27

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