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sai-natiOnal.ORg WintER 2014 PAN PIPES 23 is the founder of the Composers Now festival in New York City. She also served as Latin American Advisor to the American Composers Orchestra and New Music Advisor to the New York Philharmonic. Her honors include the New York Governor's Lifetime Achievement Award, Symphony Space's Access to the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and the Fromm, Koussevitzky, and Guggenheim Fellowships. In 2012 she received both a Grammy nomination (for Best Contemporary Classical Composition) and a Latin Grammy nomination (for Best Classical Contemporary Composition), and, in 2013, she was the recipient of the prestigious 2013 American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Victor Herbert Award. León has also received Honorary Doctorate Degrees from Colgate University, Oberlin, and SUNY Purchase College, and has served as U.S. Artistic Ambassador of American Culture in Madrid, Spain. A Professor at Brooklyn College since 1985, she was named Distinguished Professor of the City University of New York in 2006. In 2010 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. e Northern New Jersey Alumnae Chapter has received approval to initiate Ms. León as an Honorary Member. Dr. Daniel Brewbaker SAI National Arts Associate Dr. Daniel Brewbaker has been commissioned to compose works for leading conductors, ensembles and soloists worldwide, including Oratorios, Cantatas, Symphonic works and Concertos for Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Orchestra and Chorus, James Conlon and the Cincinnati Symphony and Chorus, Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony and Chorus, New York Chamber Symphony and Young People's Chorus of NYC, Doreen Rao and the Irish Chamber Orchestra, St. Luke's Chamber Orchestra and Millennium Festival Chorus, Kent Nagano and the Berkeley Symphony, violinist Vadim Repin, Yuri Temirkanov and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and cellist Carter Brey and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He has composed chamber and solo works for the centenary of the Juilliard School,e Borromeo String Quartet, pianist Richard Goode, Mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; and numerous choral works for, among others, Chanticleer, Musica Sacra, Handel Oratorio Society of Dartmouth College, Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, New Classic Singers, Heartland Voices, Brooklyn Youth Chorus and Symphony, Portland Symphonic Girlchoir, Children's Aid Society Chorus of NYC, Anima Young Singers (who performed at the 2009 SAI National Convention in Chicago), and a children's opera for the Children's eater of Elgin. Recent commissions include symphonic works for the Seattle and Elgin Symphony Orchestras, three brass quintets, two string quartets, a piano trio and an evening length dance work for the Buglisi Dance eater as composer/pianist. Brewbaker has been Composer in Residence at the Spoleto USA Music Festival in Charleston, SC, the Cabrillo Music Festival, the Prince Albert Music Festival in Hawaii, the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, the Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, the Ligurian Study Center in Italy, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, NM, Copland House, Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, and the American Academy in Rome. He has received awards from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, e Nadia Boulanger Foundation, Copland House/Borromeo String Quartet, and the International Rotary Foundation. He has held teaching positions at Juilliard, Hunter and Queens Colleges (CUNY), St. Stephen's School in Rome, and the Westminster Choir College. Dr. Brewbaker is also active as a guest conductor and lecturer. He has lived extensively abroad, working with composers Hans Werner Henze, Luciano Berio and Henri Dutilleaux. His music is published by Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., and distributed by Hal Leonard Corp. He currently lives in New York City. e Baltimore Sun said of a Brewbaker's recent violin concerto, "It did what precious few pieces of contemporary music do -- light a fire under the audience. With good reason. Daniel Brewbaker's Playing and Being Played has the right stuff. In a single, compact movement, Brewbaker's concerto packs a remarkable amount of thematic material that is developed clearly and arrestingly. From its misty opening measures to a breathless dash for the finish line, the score travels through a variety of moods with a restless energy that, even at the slowest, quietest moments, exudes a powerful tension. At one of those so spots, a lyrical theme, simple and direct, emerges from the violin. Many a composer, past or present, would envy its haunting pull. Brewbaker has a flair for writing unabashedly beautiful themes." Brewbaker, began formal training in composition with Gordon Binkerd at the U.of Illinois, where he earned his Bachelor's Degree, continuing with Roger Sessions and Elliott Carter at the Juilliard School in New York where he received the Master's Degree of Music and Doctorate of Musical Arts. He was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Oak Park (IL) Alumnae Chapter. sai philanthropies, inC. SIGMA ALPHA IOTA PHILANTHROPIES, INC. THE INTER-AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS: A TRIENNIAL COMPETITION FOR COMPOSERS PRIZE $2,500 cash award • Work published by C. F. Peters Corporation Premiere of work at Sigma Alpha Iota National Convention in 2015 Download application at sai-national.org

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