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SAI-NATIONAL.ORG SPRING 2015 PAN PIPES 21 DR. ARTIE ALMEIDA Dr. Artie Almeida was initiated by the Zeta Tau Chapter in February. Dr. Almeida has been teaching elementary music for 36 years. She is currently the music specialist at Bear Lake Elementary School in Apopka, FL, where she teaches 1,075 kindergarten to fih grade students. Her dynamic performing groups have performed for MENC, AOSA, and NBC's Today. Her group, e Bear Lake Sound, will be featured in an upcoming national documentary called Marching Beyond Halime, a music education advocacy film being directed by Sara Flatow. In her career, Dr. Almeida has been Teacher of the Year at the school level six times in addition to being selected as the 1999 Seminole County Teacher of the Year and Runner-Up for Florida Teacher of the Year. Dr Almeida was also selected as an International Educator 2006 by the Cambridge England Biographical Society. She served seven years on the Board of Directors of the National Board for Teaching Standards, and was an early childhood consultant for Walt Disney World. She is included in the Who's Who in American Education and the publication Great Minds of the 21st Century. Dr. Almeida has also been named University of Central Florida College of Education Alumni of the decade. Dr. Almeida is the author of 32 publications including recorder methods, mallet percussion methods, interactive whiteboard games, student manipulative packs, orchestra and jazz focus materials, music assessment games, pointing pages, "found sound" rhythm lessons, and more. Her teaching resource materials are being used all over the world, including Europe, Asia, Australia, and even Azerbaijan. In addition to her work at the elementary level, Dr. Almeida has served as an adjunct professor for the University of Central Florida for over thirty years. She is also a performer with Ars Antiqua, an early music ensemble, and is an incredible saxophone player. CLEA GALHANO Clea Galhano was initiated by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Alumnae Chapter in February. Galhano is an internationally renowned performer of early, contemporary, and Brazilian music. As a featured soloist, Galhano has worked with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, World Symphony, Musical Offering, and Lyra Baroque Orchestra. Among other important music festivals, Galhano has performed at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Tage Alter Music Festival in Germany and at Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie/Weill and Merkin Hall in New York, and Palazzo Santa Croce in Rome, always receiving acclaimed reviews. She was featured in 2006 in the Second International Recorder Congress in Leiden, Holland and in 2007 at the International Recorder Conference in Montreal. She gave her Weill Hall/Carnegie Hall debut in May 2010 receiving wonderful reviews. She was featured at the ARS International Recorder Conference in 2012 and 2014. Galhano studied in Brazil at Faculdade Santa Marcelina, the Royal Conservatory (e Hague), and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, earning an LASPAU Fulbright scholarship and support from the Dutch government. As an advocate of recorder music and educational initiatives, she served for six years on the national board of the American Recorder Society and was featured many years as teacher and soloist at Suzuki and American Orff-Schulwerk Association conferences. A popular teacher and ensemble director, Galhano regularly conducts workshops across the United States, Europe, and Brazil. Currently, Galhano is the Executive Artistic Director of the St. Paul Conservatory of Music and she is on the faculty of Macalester College. She has recordings available on Dorian, Ten ousand Lakes, and Eldorado labels, is the Music Director of the Recorder Orchestra of the Midwest, and is the winner of the McKnight 2013 Artist fellow, MSAB Cultural collaborative grant and 2015 Arts Initiative. JOAN GRIFFITH Joan Griffith was initiated by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Alumnae Chapter in February. Griffith is known in the Midwest as a teacher, performer, and composer. She has toured and recorded extensively as a classical and jazz guitarist, bassist, and mandolinist. She is also a roster artist in jazz for COMPAS and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Her choral composition "Sweet Noel" won the 1998 Christmas Carol Contest sponsored by the American Composer's Forum and Vocalessence. Her performances on mandolin include the Minnesota Orchestra's recording of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and as soloist with the South Dakota Symphony on their premiere recording Journey to the Badlands. Her mandolin and bass playing can be heard on the many recordings of singer/songwriter Ann Reed. Joan teaches jazz improvisation, guitar, bass and mandolin at the University of St. omas and directs the jazz band at Macalester College. e 2011 album A Girl Named Vincent with Prudence Johnson, the 2008 jazz CD, Sambanova with pianist Laura Caviani, her 2009 CD Alma Brasileira with recorder player Clea Galhano, and the CD Enter You, Enter Love, with Lucia Newell feature many of her own compositions. Enter You, Enter Love was chosen as one of the top ten best recordings for 1996 by jazz radio station KBEM. DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE a man or woman who is nationally recognized for distinguished contribution to the arts

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