Sigma Alpha Iota

DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS member laureate Dr. Marian Liebowitz Dr. Marian Liebowitz was initiated as a Member Laureate by the San Diego County Alumnae Chapter in June. An initiate of the Sigma Theta Chapter at the Eastman School of Music, clarinetist Marian Liebowitz, winner of the U.S. State Department/ Kennedy Center 1997 Artistic Ambassador Competition, represented the United States in Latin America that year by performing a monthlong tour to seven countries. Each subsequent year, Dr. Liebowitz has toured throughout Latin America under the auspices of various embassies performing concerts and offering classes in arts management, wind instruments, or chamber music. In 2008, she performed a similar tour to the Philippines. She has toured in the U.S. and throughout California accompanied by pianist Richard Thompson. Dr. Liebowitz is one of a small number of wind soloists ever to be selected for the California Arts Council Touring Artists Roster. In past seasons, she performed concertos with the Maracaibo Symphony (Venezuela), the San Diego Symphony, the San Diego Chamber Orchestra, the Monteux Festival Orchestra, and the New Mexico Music Festival Orchestra. She is former Principal Clarinetist of the San Diego Chamber Orchestra and has appeared in such prestigious festivals as the La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest, the San Luis Obisbo Mozart Festival, the Mainly Mozart Festival, the Sacramento Festival of New American Music, and the Colorado Music Festival. She is former Executive Director and clarinetist of the Arioso Wind Quintet, with whom she recorded three CDs on the KOCH International label and toured extensively throughout the United States. Professor of Music for the School of Music and Dance at San Diego State University, Dr. 36 PAN PIPES FALL 2010sai-national.org Liebowitz was named to the campus "Top 25" list for 1999. She was also the recipient of the 2000 CSU Bautzer Faculty Award for excellence in fundraising, skills which she now uses on behalf of the SDSU School of Music and Dance as Development Liaison. At SDSU, she teaches studio clarinet, conducts Woodworks: The SDSU Clarinet Choir, and offers Professional Orientation for Music Performers, a popular seminar for music majors. In 1991, Dr. Liebowitz created the SDSU Adams' Project Performers Network, an innovative professional training program for soloists and small ensembles in music. Under these auspices, students have performed professionally throughout California since 1992 and internationally since 1998. In addition to her arts administration workshops abroad, Dr. Liebowitz has guest lectured on the Business of Music throughout the Western Hemisphere. Dr. Liebowitz holds the Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, the Master of Arts from Smith College, and the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Southern California. O'Reilly's former students are members of the world's major symphony orchestras and hold prominent teaching positions throughout the United States, Asia, and Australia. Many have become first-prize winners in numerous competitions including the Vittorio Gui in Italy, the Tokyo International, Irving Klein International, Music Teachers National Association student competitions, and the Banff String Quartet Competition. O'Reilly has held Fulbright Senior Lectureships to teach in South America, and has been visiting Professor of Violin in China, Austria, Ireland, Germany, Israel, Central America, Canada, and Korea. She received the Louisiana State University Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award in 1988 and was named to the David and Mary Wynton Green Endowed Chair for Violin Pedagogy, University of Texas School of Music, Austin, in 1998. Her landmark recordings with the Caecilian Trio of the French Piano Trio literature were recently re-released by Vox.  Professor O'Reilly is a frequent member of adjudication panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Commission, Chamber Music America, and American String Teachers Association. Her many pedagogical publications for Kjos Music Company are distributed internationally. honorary MEMBER Sally O'Reilly Sally O'Reilly was initiated as a Member Laureate by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Alumnae Chapter in September. Sally O'Reilly, Professor of Violin at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, is known throughout the music world as a soloist, chamber musician, and pedagogue. She studied with Ivan Galamian at Curtis Institute and with Josef Gingold at Indiana University, where she was his assistant. Later she studied with Andre Gertler and Carlo Van Neste in Brussels and was a Fulbright Scholar. Her chamber music coaches included Janos Starker, Gyorgy Sebok, Artur Balsam, William Primrose, and Felix Galimir. She was initiated into Sigma Alpha Iota by the Iota Theta Chapter at the University of North Texas in 1958. Emily Ellsworth Emily Ellsworth was initiated as an Honorary Member by the Oak Park Alumnae Chapter in May. Nationally recognized as a leader in the field of youth chorus directors, Ellsworth has served as Artistic Director of Anima Young Singers of Greater Chicago (formerly the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus) since 1996. Under her direction, Anima has won the 2008 Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence

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