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PAN PIPES FALL 2014 sAI-NATIONAL.ORg 36 Institute of Music. She was also the youngest wind player ever to win the Young Concert Artists prize. She has received fellowships from the Earhart and Bradley Foundations, the Arthur W. Foote Award, and the 2012 Women in the Arts Award from Women for Greater Philadelphia. Stillman has recorded for EMI, Innova, Albany, DTR, Dolce Suono and Centaur Records. Her 2-CD set, Odyssey: 11 American Premieres for Flute and Piano, with pianist National Arts Associate Charles Abramovic has received media praise and radio plays on four continents. She teaches on the faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music Summerfest and is Distinguished Faculty Chair at Settlement Music School. A published author, her articles have appeared in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, e Flutist Quarterly, and NewMusicBox. Stillman has worked with conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Sir André Previn, Kurt Masur, David Zinman, Christoph Eschenbach, Yuri Temirkanov, Marin Alsop, and Robert Spano. Ms. Stillman's 2013- 2014 engagements include recitals, masterclasses, and chamber music performances and solo performances with the Delaware County Symphony. In her role as Artistic and Executive Director of the Dolce Suono Ensemble, which she founded in Philadelphia in 2005, Mimi Stillman has presided over Dolce Suono's establishment as a highly regarded and pioneering force in the music world. Dolce Suono Ensemble presents highly acclaimed chamber music concerts on its home series in Philadelphia, performs on tour, commissions important new works, makes recordings, and engages in educational outreach partnerships with Philadelphia public schools. Dolce Suono's active commissioning program has led to the creation of 32 new works in nine years. She is regularly featured in the national press, as guest on NPR, Performance Today, WGBH Boston, WRTI Philadelphia, WQXR and WNYC, New York, WWFM, NY-NJ, New England Public Radio, and internationally, on radio stations including Kol HaMusica, Israel. She can be seen on WHYY TV Philadelphia's On Canvas show, and is host and performer on the Musical Encounters TV show and video, e Magic Flute. Equally at home with the classical canon, contemporary music, and Latin and Sephardic world music, she has performed with Paquito D'Rivera, recorded a film score for Kevin Bacon, and received hearty ovations for her performance with pianist Abramovic of the complete flute chamber works of Bach. lIora bresler Dr. Liora Bresler was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Urbana Alumnae Chapter in September. Dr. Bresler holds a professorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as positions in Norway, Sweden, and Hong Kong. She began her career in Tel-Aviv as a pianist and musicologist. She received degrees from Tel-Aviv University as well as the Rubin Academy of Music in Israel before moving to the United States to pursue a second Master's Degree in Education at Stanford University, where she went on to earn a Doctorate in Education. Bresler describes herself as a "field worker," investigating the importance of the performing arts in culture and education. ough primarily a musician, her research is interdisciplinary, including focus on dance, and drama as well. Her research has been published in numerous journals and handbooks. She founded the International Journal of Education and the Arts and created a book series on arts education for Springer Press. Additionally she has edited multiple books, including acting as sole editor for the International Handbook of Research in Arts Education. e volume includes contributions of 140 researchers from more than 40 countries around the world. Most recently she co-edited the International Handbook on Creativity. In addition to her extensive publications, Dr. Bresler has also been presented with various honors. She was honored as the Lin Wright Outstanding Recognition Award by the American Alliance for eatre and Education in 2007 as well as a National Art Education Fellow in 2010. She earned the College of Education Distinguished Lifetime Teaching Award and the University of Illinois Campus Graduate Teaching Award, given to a single member of the 5,000- person University of Illinois faculty. roughout her time at the University of Illinois, Bresler has advised more than one hundred doctoral students earning degrees in the arts, curriculum and instruction, and other disciplines. ZaCH CollIns Dr. Zach Collins was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Kappa Beta Chapter in May. Dr. Collins is associate professor of Tuba and Euphonium at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). He teaches applied lessons to all tuba and euphonium majors, leads the IUP Tubaphonium Ensemble, and teaches music history and theory. Collins performs with the Hoodlebug Brass Quintet (IUP's faculty brass quintet), Keystone Wind Ensemble, and Keystone Chamber Winds and is currently acting principal tuba with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Recent solo and chamber engagements have taken him to Russia, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, New York, and Washington, D.C., in addition to Pennsylvania. His interpretation of William Kra's "Encounters II for Solo Tuba" was released on Cambria Master Recordings in August 2009. He has performed with ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific dIstInGuIsHed MeMbers NATIONAL ARTs AssOCIATE a man or woman who is nationally recognized for distinguished contribution to the arts Vanessa Brice Stillman DISTINGUISHED continued from page 35

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