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DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS DISTINGUISHED continued from page 27 Szczeinska, Szczecin; Filharmonia Opolska, Opole; Filharmonia Baltycka, Gdansk; and the Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra, Lodz. A talented and inspirational educator, Cobbs is known for his insightful pre-concert lectures, educational and children's concerts, and his work with youth symphonies, school, regional and AllState orchestras. Dr. Paul-Elliot Cobbs The director and conductor of The Tacoma Youth Symphony, Cobbs also serves as Music Director of the Everett Philharmonic Orchestra and guest conductor with the Sussex Symphony Orchestra in Brighton England. Renowned in Vienna, the cradle of 18th century classicism and 19th century romanticism, and in Germany, he is a unique voice in the international music community. Educated at the Akademie für Musik, Vienna, Cobbs possesses an intimate knowledge of European masterworks combined with rare expertise in American multiculturalism. He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education at Wayne State University and received his Doctorate in Conducting from the University of Washington. His interpretation of William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony — the subject of his doctoral thesis — is considered definitive by many. He began his conducting career at age 21 as Associate Conductor of the Detroit Metropolitan Symphony, Principal Conductor of its chamber orchestra, and guest conductor of the Michigan Opera. Cobbs appears frequently with orchestras and ensembles in Europe, Asia and the United States including Vienna's Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Dresden and Leipzig Opera, the Kamimura Wind Ensemble in Kagoshima, Japan; and the Seattle Symphony. His 2006 sold-out appearance in Carnegie Hall was a resounding success. His reading of the Afro-American Symphony was the first on that stage since the composer conducted the work 30 years prior. In 2008, Cobbs received, with his wife, the Lifetime Achievement Award from ArtsFund, in Seattle Washington. Appearances in Poland include Filharmonia 28 PAN PIPES SPRING 2011 sai-national.org Dr. Karen Fournier Dr. Karen Fournier was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Alpha Chapter in April. An award-winning pedagogue, Dr. Fournier joined the faculty of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance as an Assistant Professor in 2005 after holding the position of Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin. While still a graduate student, she also held adjunct positions in Ontario at Brock University and the Universities of Guelph (Ontario) and Western Ontario (London, Ontario). She has a particular interest in music theory pedagogy and has spoken at a number of pedagogy panels and workshops at national meetings of the College Music Society and the Society for Music Teacher Education. Dr. Fournier received a Bachelor's Degree in history from Carleton University, a second Bachelor's Degree in music (with distinction) from Ottawa University, a Master's Degree in musicology from the University of Western Ontario, and a doctorate in music theory from the University of Western Ontario. Using the history of music theory as the basis for a broader study of conceptual change, Dr. Fournier has published articles and reviews on epistemology in such journals at The Journal of Musicological Research, Culture and Power, The College Music Symposium, and Music Theory Spectrum, and has presented philosophical papers at music-theoretical and cultural-studies conferences in Canada, Spain, and the United States. Her most recent work in this area draws the analogy between research methodologies and biological species and proposes an evolutionary model to explain the growth and development of knowledge in the area of music theory. Her theories stand in diametric opposition to the more popular Kuhnian "revolutionary" model to which many critical studies of music scholarship tend to allude in their descriptions of the field. As a second area of interest, Dr. Fournier is engaged in a book-length study of the role played by women in the British punk movement during its foundation in the mid-1970s. The study focuses its attention on such British bands as Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Slits, X-Ray Spex, the Adverts, and Delta 5, and examines how punk challenged and redefined conventional gender stereotypes in popular culture. She has presented aspects of this work most recently at popular-music conferences at the Universities of Leeds and Chester, in the United Kingdom, and in 2008, she was a fellow at the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music: Jazz Meets Pop workshop, where she studied feminist criticism and popular music with Dr. Lori Burns. Dr. Chan Kiat Lim Dr. Chan Kiat Lim was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Lafayette Alumnae Chapter in January. Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Chan Kiat Lim was born in Malaysia and began his piano studies at the age of six. While in Malaysia's Sedaya College, he was awarded the College of Creative Arts Performance Grant from West Virginia University (WVU), which brought him to the United States in 1995 to complete his Bachelor's degree. He earned his Master's and Doctorate

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