Sigma Alpha Iota

PAN PIPES • SUMMER 2017 • sai-national.org 26 J OYC E D I C A M I L L O Joyce DiCamillo was initiated as an Honorary Member by the Sigma Iota Chapter at Syracuse University in April. Joyce DiCamillo, pianist, has led her own jazz trio for over twenty years. As a pianist, Joyce has performed with such jazz greats as James Moody, Phil Woods, Houston Person, Nick Brignola, Marvin Stamm, Urbie Green, Arnie Lawrence, Steve Marcus, Gerry Neiwood, Bob Mintzer, Butch Miles, Andy Fusco, and Marlene verPlanck. Her trio has released five CDs, A Touch of Jazz, Freelancin', Moment to Moment, Love Letters, and Sunrise Lady. Joyce performs on a Steinway piano and is included on the prestigious International Roster of Steinway Artists. She has performed a return engagement at the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, hosted by Dr. Billy Taylor. Her trio has headlined at such venues as Guinness Jazz Festival (Cork, Ireland), Andria Jazz Festival (Italy), Syracuse Jazzfest, e Jazz Cruise, and Litchfield Jazz Festival. Her performance/interview on National Public Radio's Piano Jazz hosted by Marian McPartland aired in the fall of 2000. She has toured as a pianist for internationally known pop vocalist Donna Summer, appearing with her in Mexico, Chile, and throughout the United States. She is one of the artists interviewed on the American Federation of Musicians video, "How to Get the Gigs that Pay the Big Bucks," and has appeared as a panelist at the Kennedy Center discussing the music business. A graduate of Syracuse University School of Music, Joyce holds a degree in Music eory/ Composition with Honors in Piano; she studied with concert pianist Frederick Marvin, a disciple of Claudio Arrau. Joyce is listed in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities and Outstanding Young Women of America. She has given lecture/demonstrations on jazz for such groups as American Association of University Women and American Pen Women. A long-time classical piano instructor and jazz coach, Joyce is a member of the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE), and a co- founder/instructor of the Young Artists Summer Jazz Workshop. She composed the original score for Arnold Wesker's e Four Seasons, and her Song Cycle for Voice and Piano, a setting of Hermann Hesse poetry, was performed and danced at the Harlem Dance eater. A consultant in music education, she appears in concert with the trio and as clinician/artist in high schools and colleges throughout the country. She was an original faculty member of e Music Box in Stamford, CT, which offered free music lessons to inner city youth. D R . M A R I A A S T E R I A D O U Dr. Maria Asteriadou was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Mu Zeta Chapter of Kutztown University of Pennsylvania in May. Dr. Asteriadou is an internationally accomplished Greek pianist and an acclaimed soloist, chamber musician, and pedagogue. She has appeared in recitals and as a soloist with orchestras in major concert halls throughout the United States, South America, Canada, and Europe. She has performed with the Moscow Radio Symphony, Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony of Costa Rica, the Stuttgart Kamerata, Luxembourg Philharmonia, the Bucharest Chamber Orchestra, Iasi Philharmonic Romania, the Adrian (Michigan) Symphony Orchestra, the Canadian Chamber Academy, the Louisiana Sinfonietta, the Athens Camerata as well as the Athens and Thessaloniki State Orchestras. Dr. Asteriadou is a professor of music at the Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and at the Manhattan School of Music. She is the program creator of the Chamber Music Outreach Program and is the Artistic Director of the Kutztown University Summer Chamber Music Festival. Her love for her native Greece and her enthusiasm for contemporary music have resulted in prestigious premieres by many of Greece's most prominent composers including Dimitri Mitropoulos, Nikos Skalkottas, Christos Samaras, and Yiorgos Sicillianos, as well as numerous collaborations with the American-born Greek composers George Tsontakis, Dinos Constantinides, and Christos Hatzis. In addition, she has frequently collaborated with the American composer David Noon, most recently having premiered his Concerto for Piano and Percussion. D R . C Y N T H I A J O H N S TO N T U R N E R Dr. Cynthia Johnston Turner was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Iota Zeta Chapter at the University of Georgia in November. Dr. Turner is in demand as a conductor, conducting and ensemble clinician, and speaker in the United States, Australia, Latin America, Europe, and Canada. Before her appointment at the Hodgson School at the University of Georgia, Dr. Turner was Director of Wind Ensembles at Cornell University. Earlier in her career, she was a high school music educator, taught middle school beginning instrumental music in Toronto, and choral music in Switzerland. She currently serves as a conductor with the Syracuse Society of New Music, the Austrian Festival Orchestra, and the Paris Lodron Ensemble in Salzburg. A Canadian, Dr. Turner completed her Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education degrees at Queens University and her Master DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE a man or woman who is nationally recognized for distinguished contribution to the arts HONORARY MEMBER a woman who achieved international distinction in the music profession & who is not an initiated member of SAI

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