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PAN PIPES SUMMER 2015 SAI-NATIONAL.ORG 20 DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS Salzburg where he led the concluding ceremony of the International Cantus MM Music Festival. During his tenure at the La Porte County Symphony, he is credited with significantly raising the orchestra's artistic level and spearheading collaborations with other non-profit organizations. Since his arrival in 1994, the audience has more than doubled in size and the budget expanded three-fold. e orchestra now attracts guest artists of national and international acclaim. rough his work with Chicago Opera eater, e Opera Factory, Light Opera Works, da Corneto Opera, Harbor Country Opera, Opera at the Acorn, and the Jarvis Conservatory, Bauman has gained a reputation as a highly respected conductor of the stage. Bauman made his podium debut with Chicago Opera eater in 1989, when as assistant conductor, he led the season's final performance of Romeo and Juliet on five minutes' notice. Since that dramatic and successful debut, he has had a ten-year association with the company and has conducted highly acclaimed performances of Where the Wild ings Are, Carousel, Count Ory, La Traviata, A Waterbird Talk, and e Medium with Metropolitan Opera star Mignon Dunn. In the Chicago area, he has served as music director and conductor of e Opera Factory, the Chicago Brass Choir, the Lake Shore Symphony Orchestra and the Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra, and as director of orchestras at Carl Sandburg High School in Orland Park. He spent 13 years as an associate conductor with the Elgin Symphony where he conducted over 100 performances encompassing subscription, pops and educational concerts. For five seasons he served as assistant conductor of the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra appearing on Pops and Classical concerts. He has also conducted the Wheaton Symphony, da Corneto Opera Ensemble, Indiana Opera North, the Downers Grove Oratorio Society, North Shore Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Youth Symphony Orchestra, Suburban Youth Symphony, DuPage Repertory eater, and Circle eater of Forest Park. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Music eory magna cum laude from Western Michigan University and a Master's Degree in Orchestral Conducting from Northwestern University. DR. LINA MORITA Dr. Lina Morita was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Lake Charles Alumnae Chapter in April. Pianist Lina Morita, a native of São Paulo, Brazil, has performed in various solo and collaborative performances in the US, Brazil, Mexico, France, and Czech Republic. Most recently, she has been invited to present recitals in Mexico City at the Museo Mural Diego Rivera and at La Escuela de Musica "Vida y Movimiento" del Centro Cultural Ollin Yoliztli. Other recent venues in which she has performed include the Music Center at Strathmore in Maryland, Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington DC, National City Christian Church, Church of the Epiphany in Washington DC, Vienna Presbyterian Church in Virginia, and Bertramka House in Prague. She has performed recitals and taught master classes at various colleges and universities, such as the University of Tennessee, University of North Dakota, Sam Houston State University, University of Southern Mississippi, St. Mary's College, Louisiana State University, and Tulane University. Morita's collaborative performance with soprano Carol Lines, When Hope Still Had Its Chance: e Songs of Keith Gates, was released in June 2012. Her solo and collaborative performances have been featured on WRKF 89.3FM in Baton Rouge, LA. In demand as a concerto soloist, Morita performed Mozart's Jeunehomme Concerto and the Chopin F Minor Concerto with the Ars Nova Chamber Orchestra in Washington DC and Virginia. Other soloist appearances include the Beethoven Concerto No. 4 with the Lake Charles Symphony in Louisiana and the Washington Sinfonietta in Washington DC. As an active member of Music Teachers National Association and Louisiana Music Teachers Association, Morita has presented at several state conventions and has been invited to teach master classes. Morita oen serves as an adjudicator in state and national competitions. Morita received her Bachelor's from Indiana University, her Master's from Rice University, and Doctorate in Piano Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music. She teaches as an Assistant Professor of Piano at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA, since 2007. At McNeese, her primary duties include teaching private piano, class piano and serve as a collaborative pianist for faculty and students. Prior to this position, she taught at the Levine School of Music in Washington DC. DR. BRYAN JEFFREY PROKSCH Dr. Bryan Jeffrey Proksch was initiated by the Lake Charles Alumnae Chapter in April. Proksch is assistant professor of music history at Lamar University in Beaumont, TX. His research centers on the reception and "revival" of Haydn's music in the early twentieth century, though he also works more generally on Viennese Classicism and the history of the trumpet. His first book, entitled Reviving Haydn: New Appreciations in the Twentieth Century, is forthcoming in Fall 2015 from the University of Rochester's "Eastman Studies in Music" series. His essays have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society and elsewhere. His research on the history of the trumpet that has resulted in articles on J. S. Bach, F. G. A. Dauverné, Anton Weidinger, and dictionary entries on Herb Alpert (in the New Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition, and elsewhere). He has spoken on Haydn at the Haydn House in Eisenstadt, Austria, on Schoenberg at the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna, and at three national meetings of the American Musicological Society. In 2007, he received a grant from the Avenir Foundation for a month's residence at the Schoenberg Center to study that composer's aesthetics and analytic techniques. In 2010, the Historic Brass Society gave him a Joe Utley Foundation Streitwieser Award for his ongoing work on trumpet history. His service includes working as the creator and editor of the International Trumpet Guild Journal's "Repertoire Corner" column, as a member of the ITGJ's editorial board, and as the newsletter/website editor for the Historic Brass Society. He keeps active as a musician by serving as the organist and music director at St. John's Lutheran Church in Lake Charles, LA. He has earned Colleague and Service Playing certifications from the American Guild of Organists. His community service work in Southwest Texas includes acting as a co-host for Behind the Music, a weekly radio show dedicated to the history of music that airs on Lamar's NPR

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