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sai-national.org • SPRING 2018 • PAN PIPES 31 D R . B R I A N B O W M A N Dr. Brian Bowman was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Iota eta Chapter at the University of North Texas in March. A Euphonium professor at the University of North Texas College of Music, Dr. Bowman is a world- renowned instrumentalist, with success in both music performance and education. Dr. Bowman has held the principal euphonium position, in addition to being a featured soloist, in each of the bands he has been associated with: e University of Michigan Symphony Band, e United States Navy Band, e United States Bicentennial Band, e United States Air Force Band, and e River City Brass Band. In 1976, Dr. Bowman became the first musician to perform a euphonium recital in New York's Carnegie Recital Hall. He has performed as a soloist in all 50 states, Canada, Mexico, e Virgin Islands, Norway, Finland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Hungary, Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, Tonga, Taiwan, ailand, and the People's Republic of China. He has appeared as tenor tubist with the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony, and the Orchestra Symphonica of Xlapa, Mexico. He has performed concertos with the Lexington Kentucky Symphony, the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra in Japan, the North Carolina Symphony, and the Madison Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Bowman has also served on the music faculty of eight other universities. His students occupy prominent positions in professional organizations worldwide. He is the author of Practical Hints For Playing e Euphonium/ Baritone Horn and he frequently publishes articles in professional journals. His edition of the Arban Complete Method is the only complete bass clef edition of this famous brass method. His work as a clinician and soloist at such conferences as the Mid-West International Band & Orchestra Clinic, e British Association of Symphonic Bands & Wind Ensembles, and many national and international brass symposia have won him international recognition. He is the recipient of multiple honors and awards, including, among others, the Lifetime Achievement award from the International Tuba Euphonium Association in 1995 and the Edwin Franko Goldman Memorial Citation in 2016. In 1994, an annual competition in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, was named the Brian L. Bowman Euphonium Solo Competition in his honor. He is a member of the Symphonia Ensemble, a Tuba/Euphonium ensemble of professional players and teachers, which has performed throughout the United States and in Europe, and has recorded three compact discs with that group. He is the euphonium member of the Summit Brass Ensemble, composed of the leading soloists, chamber musicians, and orchestral players in the country. He is a regular artist faculty member of the Rafael Méndez Brass Institute each summer. He has been the euphonium artist faculty member at the International Tuba- Euphonium Summer Workshop at the University of Oklahoma and the International Euphonium Institute in Atlanta. He has contributed significantly to the field of euphonium instrument design and was instrumental in the development and success of the Willson euphonium, produced by the Willson Musical Instrument Company in Flums, Switzerland, and distributed by Getzen. He has also been a frequent consultant for other musical instrument companies and has designed a special line of Brian Bowman euphonium mouthpieces distributed by DEG Music Products. Dr. Bowman has contributed significantly to the body of literature available for euphonium performers today. Of seven new euphonium works commissioned by the Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association since its inception in 1974, Bowman has premiered four. A major thrust of Bowmans career has been working to generate quality new compositions for his beloved instrument. D R . G A R Y G A LVÁ N Dr. Gary Galván was initiated as a National Arts Associated by the Philadelphia Alumnae Chapter in January. Dr. Galván is the Curator for the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music at the Free Library of Philadelphia, the largest circulating collection of orchestral performance materials in the world. A guitarist, musicologist, author, lecturer, and digital archive specialist, he has presented his original research on 20th and 21st Century PanAmerican orchestral music at myriad colloquia across the nation and around the world, including the Music and the Moving Image Conference in New York City, the International College Music Society Conference in Bangkok and Ayuthaya, ailand, and the International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities in Granada, Spain. He has published articles in a wide array of peer- reviewed journals and texts, including American Music, e New Grove Dictionary of American Music, and Musicians and Composers of the Twentieth Century. He is an editor for the latest edition of Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary and is working on a book entitled From Cradle to Grave: Edwin A. Fleisher and the PanAmerican Symphonic Coming of Age. A member of La Salle University's faculty since 2006, he teaches a variety of special music topics including: Music of Latin America; America's Music; Music and the Moderns: e 20th Century Revolution; Jazz; Opera: Death, Desire, and Divas; 20th Century American Composers; and e Symphony. His research as an historical musicologist and his fascination with grave sculpture and genealogy have driven his participation on Find-a-Grave. He received his Bachelor's from Rowan University in Guitar Performance, specializing in jazz, he earned his Master's in Music Education focusing on classical Latin American guitar at the University of Central Florida, and his Ph.D. in Historical Musicology at the University of Florida, pursuing complementary studies in art history and digital media. DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE a man or woman who is nationally recognized for distinguished contribution to the arts

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