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PAN PIPES • SUMMER 2016 • sai-national.org 28 the Journal of Musicology; her work explores Busoni's idiosyncratic compositional process. She has presented papers at conferences in California, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Michigan on topics ranging from the Middle Ages to the early 20th Century. Knyt was also a finalist for the In- golf Dahl Prize of the Pacific Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society in 2009. She has received several awards for her teaching, including the Chair's Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Hoefer Teaching Assistant Award, and the Centennial Teaching Assistant Award at Stanford University. She received her Bachelor's Degrees in Music History and Piano Performance with highest honors from the University of California, Davis in 2003 and a Master's in Music and Doctorate in Music and Humanities from Stanford University. Dr. Carl Anthony Dr. Carl Anthony was initiated as a Friend of the Arts in April by the Zeta Chi Chapter. He is Professor of Piano and eory and eory Pro- gram Coordinator at the University of Central Ar- kansas. He is the Principal Keyboardist for the Arkan- sas Symphony Orchestra. He received his bachelor's from Bucknell University and earned his Master's in Piano and his Doctorate in Music eory from the University of Arizona. Al- ways in demand as a chamber musician, he per- forms frequently with resident and guest soloists and ensembles at UCA, as well as with other art- ists throughout the state. Recent guest appearanc- es have taken him to Yale, New Orleans, Tokyo, Japan, and Vancouver, BC. During the 1999-2000 Arkansas Symphony Orchestra season, he was selected by audience vote to appear as a concerto soloist on the "Audience Choice" Program. He and his wife, Carolyn Brown, perform regularly in the United States and abroad as the Dionysus Duo; they have performed at the National Flute Conventions in Kansas City, Dallas, and St. Louis and internationally in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Ronald Attinger Dr. Ronald Attinger was initiated as a Friend of the Arts by the Evansville Alumnae Chapter in May. Dr. Attinger is an accomplished saxophonist and was the first to ever receive a Doctorate in Saxophone Performance in the United States (from the University of Michigan, the birthplace of SAI). He also holds a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Evansville and a Master's in Woodwinds from the University of Michigan. He is currently retired after 26 years as a Full Professor of Music History (undergraduate and graduate), woodwind instructor, director for saxophone quartets, woodwind quartets, sax choirs, and symphonic bands at Jacksonville State University in Alabama. He also taught at Eastern Michigan University and the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville. While an active university professor, he belonged to CBDNA, MENC, NEA, AEA (state NEA affiliate). He is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, serving as president of his college chapter for two years, and is a recipient of the Orpheus Award. Dr. Attinger enjoyed performing as an oboist and English hornist with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, and continues to play with several small ensembles and as a soloist. Dr. Jacob Bancks Dr. Jacob Bancks was initiated as a Friend of the Arts by the Delta Tau Chapter in April. Dr. Bancks is an Assistant Professor of composition and music theory at Augustana College. He has earned awards, honors, and commissions from the Minnesota Commissioning Club, American Academy of Arts and Letters, BMI, the Tangle- wood Festival of Contem- porary Music, the U.S. Department of Education, Soli Deo Gloria, the Inter- national Double Reed So- ciety, the Hanson Institute for American Music, and the Commission Project. Recordings of his music have been released by American Modern Record- ings and broadcast on BBC Radio 3, American Public Media's Performance Today, and WFMT- Chicago Classical Radio. At the core of his output are works for orchestra, with performances by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Nashville Symphony, the Sarajevo Philharmonic, the An- napolis Symphony, the South Dakota Symphony, the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony, and the New York Youth Symphony. A student of SAI Honorary Member Augusta Read omas among others, he holds degrees from the University of Chicago, Eastman School of Music, and Wheaton College. He is a frequent commentator on WVIK public radio in Rock Island, IL, and serves as program annotator for the Quad City Symphony. Dr. Erika Boysen Dr. Erika Boysen was initiated as a Friend of the Arts by the Kappa Gamma chapter in April. e Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of North Carolina at Greens- boro, she previously served as faculty at the Interlochen Arts Academy, Northwest- ern Michigan College, and Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts. She has performed with the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra, UNC School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra, and Central Iowa Sympho- ny. Dr. Boysen's passion for teaching is evident by the verve and energy that she brings to master- classes and private lessons, which she has been invited to teach across the country. She has a sin- cere interest in cross-disciplinary collaboration, as her doctoral dissertation recitals comprised music with other art forms, such as dance and spoken word. A native of Iowa, Dr. Boysen received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, a Master of Music from the New England Conservatory, and her Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan. DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS FRIEND OF THE ARTS a man or woman who is supportive of and actively involved in the arts at a local or regional level Anthony Attinger Boysen Knyt DISTINGUISHED continued from page 27 Bancks

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