List of Sigma Alpha Iota members
Sigma Alpha Iota is an international music women's fraternity.[1] It was established on June 22, 1903, at the University School of Music in Ann Arbor, Michigan.[1] Sigma Alpha Iota's members include musicians, teachers, composers, and conductors. Following are some of the notable men and women who have been honored with Distinguished Membership by Sigma Alpha Iota.[2]
Members
- Martha Atwell (radio director)
- Roberta Bitgood (classical composer)
- Lila-Gene George (composer)
- Joyce Grill (composer, conductor, and professor)
- Susan Cohn Lackman (composer and academic)
- Mary Lynn Lightfoot (choral composer and music publishing editor)
- Marian MacDowell (pianist and co-founder of the MacDowell Colony)[3]
- Sharon Elery Rogers (composer, music educator, and organist)
- Gertrude Auld Thomas (soprano opera singer)
- Bertha Weber (composer and organist)
- Norma Wendelburg (composer and pianist)
- Amy Aldrich Worth (composer, choir director, and organist)
- Glad Robinson Youse (composer)
Laureates
A member laureate is "an initiated member of the fraternity who has achieved international distinction in the music profession. She may be a performer, composer, teacher, author, musicologist, or philanthropist."[2] Some member laureates include:
- Maro Ajemian (pianist)[4]
- Florence Birdwell (educator, musician, and singer)[4]
- Mary Louise Boehm (pianist and painter)[4]
- Bonita Boyd ( flutist, soloist and pedagogue)[4]
- Rosemarie Brancato (soprano)[4]
- Radie Britain (composer)[4]
- Katherine Ciesinski (opera singer)[4]
- Rebecca Copley (soprano opera singer)[4]
- Sheryl Crow (singer and songwriter)[5][6][7]
- Jean Dickenson (singer)[4]
- Annamary Dickey (soprano and actress)[4]
- Saramae Endich (opera singer)[4]
- Mary Ann Feldman (music critic)[4]
- Margaret Hillis (conductor)[4]
- Marguerite V. Hood (music educator)[4][8][9][10]
- Katherine Hoover (composer, conductor, and flutist)[4]
- Joyce Johnson (organist)[4]
- Sheila Johnson (violinist and co-founder of BET)[5][4]
- Libby Larsen (composer)[11][4]
- Loretta Long (actress, known for Sesame Street)[4]
- Marilyn Mason (concert organist and professor)[4]
- Leona Mitchell (opera singer)[4]
- Dika Newlin (musicologist)[4]
- Jessye Norman (operatic soprano)[4][5]
- Hilda Ohlin (opera soprano singer)[4][12][13]
- Helen Olheim (opera mezzo-soprano)[4]
- Karin Pendle (musicologist)[4][14][15]
- Ina Souez (soprano and jazz singer)[4]
- Cheryl Studer (dramatic soprano)[4]
- Joan Wall (operatic mezzo-soprano and voice teacher)[4]
- Gloria Wilson Swisher (composer, music educator, and pianist)[4]
- Marie Sidenius Zendt (soprano)[4]
- Marilyn J. Ziffrin (classical composer)[4]
Honorary members
Honorary members are women who have "achieved international distinction in the music profession who are [are] not an initiated member of Sigma Alpha Iota. She may be a performer, composer, teacher, author, musicologist, or philanthropist."[2] Some of its notable honorary members include:
- Anahid Ajemian (violinist)[16]
- Marie-Claire Alain (organist)[16]
- Licia Albanese (operatic soprano)[16]
- Eunice Alberts (opera singer)[16]
- Merle Alcock (contralto and opera singer)[16]
- Betty Allen (operatic mezzo-soprano)[16]
- Elsa Alsen (dramatic soprano and concert singer)[16]
- Marin Alsop (conductor)[16]
- Lucine Amara (soprano)[16]
- Marian Anderson (contralto)[16]
- Josephine Antoine (opera singer)[16]
- Violet Archer (composer, pianist, organist, and percussionist)[16]
- Martina Arroyo (soprano)[16]
- Marina Arsenijevic (pianist and composer)[16]
- Florence Austin (violinist)[16]
- Florence Austral (operatic soprano)[16]
- Olga Averino (opera singer)[16]
- Madi Bacon (musician, choral conductor, and educator)[16]
- Eva Badura-Skoda (musicologist)[16]
- Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)[16]
- Constance Balfour (soprano)[16]
- Ester Ballou (classical composer)[16]
- Rose Bampton (opera singer)[16]
- Carol E. Barnett (composer)[16]
- Ethel Robertson Bartlett (pianist)[16]
- Wanda L. Bass (philanthropist who donated pianos to schools)[16]
- Eula Beal (opera lyric contralto)[16]
- Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)[16]
- Frances Bible (operatic mezzo-soprano)[16]
- Adelaide Bishop (operatic soprano, musical theatre actress, opera director, and stage director)[16]
- Roberta Bitgood (classical composer)[16]
- Judith Blegen (soprano)[16]
- Helen Boatwright (opera singer)[16]
- Lucrezia Bori (operatic singer)[16]
- Nadia Boulanger (composer, conductor, and teacher)[16]
- Ina Bourskaya (opera singer)[16]
- Karin Branzell (operatic contralto)[16]
- Antonia Brico (conductor and pianist)[16]
- Tamara Brooks (choral conductor)[16]
- Angela Brown (opera singer)[16]
- Elaine Brown (writer, singer, and former Black Panther Party chairwoman)[16]
- Grace Bumbry (opera singer)[16]
- Clara Butt (dramatic contralto)[16]
- Montserrat Caballe (operatic soprano)[16]
- Sarah Caldwell (opera conductor)[16]
- Emma Calve (opera singer)[16]
- Gaby Casadesus (classical pianist and teacher)[16]
- Winifred Cecil (operatic soprano)[16]
- Dorothy Buffum Chandler (performing arts philanthropist)[16]
- Angela Cheng (pianist)[16]
- Kristin Chenoweth (singer and actress)[16]
- Winifred Christie (pianist and composer)[16]
- Frances Clark (pianist)[16]
- Julia Claussen (mezzo-soprano)[16]
- Andrea Clearfield (composer)[16]
- Catherine Comet (conductor)[16]
- Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge (pianist and music patron)[16]
- Mary Costa (actress and singer)[16]
- Regine Crespin (soprano)[16]
- Gilda Cruz-Romo (soprano)[16]
- Gianna D'Angelo (opera singer)[16]
- Bella Davidovich (pianist)[16]
- Gloria Davy (opera singer)[16]
- Monique de la Bruchellerie (pianist)[16]
- Alicia De Larrocha (pianist)[16]
- Jan DeGaetani (opera singer)[16]
- Frances Densmore (anthropologist and ethnographer who studied Native American music)[16]
- Mattiwilda Dobbs (opera singer)[16]
- Ania Dorfmann (pianist and teacher)[16]
- Jessica Dragonette (radio singer)[16]
- Jacqueline du Pré (cellist)[16]
- Mignon Dunn (mezzo-soprano and voice teacher)[16]
- Irene Dunne (actress)[16]
- Deanna Durbin (singer and actress)[16]
- Florence Easton (opera singer)[16]
- Alice Ehlers (harpsichordist)[16]
- Rosalind Elias (mezzo-soprano)[16]
- Chloe Elmo (opera singer)[16]
- Gloria Estefan (singer)[16]
- Eileen Farrell (soprano)[16]
- Ellen Faull (operatic soprano)[16]
- Kathleen Ferrier (singer)[16]
- Vivian Fine (composer)[16]
- Anna Fitzu (soprano)[16]
- Kirsten Flagstad (operatic singer)[16]
- Jorja Fleezanis (violinist)[16]
- Renée Fleming (soprano)[16]
- Grace Fong (pianist and academic)[16]
- Bertha Foster (dean of music at the University of Miami)[16]
- Olive Fremstad (opera singer)[16]
- Marjorie Fulton (violinist)[16]
- Nancy Galbraith (composer)[16]
- Amelita Galli-Curci (coloratura soprano)[16]
- Raya Garbousova (cellist and teacher)[16]
- Nelli Gardini (singer and head of the voice department of the Chicago Musical College)[16]
- Cécile Staub Genhart (pianist and teacher)[16]
- Mary Elaine Gentemann (composer)[16]
- Ester Ferrabini (aka Mrs. Agide Jacchia) (opera singer)[16]
- Alice Gentle (opera singer)[16]
- Herta Glaz (opera singer)[16]
- Carroll Glenn (violinist)[16]
- Denyce Graves (mezzo-soprano)[16]
- Reri Grist (opera singer)[16]
- Hilde Gueden (opera singer)[16]
- Cecelia Hansen (violinist)[16]
- Johanna Harris (pianist, composer, and music educator)[16]
- Janice Harsanyi (opera singer)[16]
- Margaret Harshaw (opera singer)[16]
- Elizabeth Harwood (lyric soprano)[16]
- Markella Hatziano (opera singer)[16]
- Frieda Hempel (soprano)[16]
- Barbara Hendricks (opera singer)[16]
- Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer (pianist)[16]
- Myra Hess (pianist)[16]
- Jennifer Higdon (composer)[16]
- Elsa Hilger (cellist)[16]
- Louise Homer (operatic contralto)[16]
- Lois Hunt (opera singer)[16]
- Sharon Isbin (classical guitarist and the founding director of the guitar department at the Juilliard School)[16]
- Kanako Itō (singer)[16]
- Patricia Prattis Jennings (keyboardist and composer)[16]
- Maria Jeritza (dramatic soprano)[16]
- Camellia Johnson (opera soprano)[16]
- Christine Johnson (contralto opera singer and actress)[16]
- Maryla Jonas (classical pianist)[16]
- Isola Jones (mezzo-soprano opera singer)[16]
- Joan Bennett Kennedy (wife of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy)[16]
- Olga Kern (pianist)[16]
- Patricia Kern (opera singer)[16]
- Minuetta Kessler (concert pianist and composer)[16]
- Emma Kirkby (soprano)[16]
- Dorothy Kirsten (opera singer)[16]
- Gwendolyn Koldofsky (piano accompanist and music educator)[16]
- Lili Kraus (pianist)[16]
- Beatrice Krebs (opera singer)[16]
- Helen Kwalwasser (violinist)[16]
- Lori Laitman (composer)[16]
- Ruth Laredo (pianist)[16]
- Hulda Lashanska (soprano)[16]
- Marjorie Lawrence (soprano)[16]
- Lotte Lehmann (lyric soprano)[16]
- Sylvia Lent (violinist)[16]
- Rosina Lhevinne (pianist and pedagogue)[16]
- Estelle Liebling (soprano, composer, arranger, and vocal coach)[16]
- Wilma Lipp (soprano)[16]
- Joan Lippincott (concert organist)[16]
- Marguerite Melville Liszniewska (pianist)[16]
- Goeta Ljungberg (soprano)[16]
- Shirley Love (operatic mezzo-soprano)[16]
- Lea Luboshutz (violinist)[16]
- Josephine Lucchese (opera soprano)[16]
- Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr (clarinetist and music educator)[16]
- Kathryn Lukas (flutist and teacher)[16]
- Anne-Sophie Mutter (violinist)[17]
- Marni Nixon (soprano known as "The Voice of Hollywood")[17]
- Dolly Parton (singer and songwriter)[18][7]
- Irene Pavloska
- Rachel Barton Pine (violinist)[5][16]
- Leontyne Price (soprano)[17]
- Beverly Sills (soprano)[17]
- Mimi Stillman (flutist)[5]
- Joan Sutherland (soprano)[17]
- Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)[17]
- Mary Curtis Verna (opera singer)[16]
- Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano opera singer)[5]
- Deborah Voigt (soprano)[17]
- Angelica Morales von Sauer
- Himie Voxman
- Gertrude Price Wollner (composer)[17]
- Oxana Yablonskaya (pianist)[16]
- Glad Robinson Youse (composer)[16]
- Judith Lang Zaimont (classical composer)[16]
- Virginia Zeani (opera singer)[16]
- Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler (pianist)[16]
- Eugenia Zukerman (flutist, writer, and journalist)[16]
National arts associates
The status of national arts associate is awarded to "a man or woman who is nationally recognized for distinguished contribution to the arts."[2] Following are some of the notable national arts associates.
- Beegie Adair (jazz pianist)[19]
- Samuel Adler (composer)[19][7]
- Jay Bocook (composer)[19]
- Horace Boyer (vocalist, educator, and scholar)[19]
- Quaintance Eaton (opera historian)[19]
- Paul Fritts (organ builder)[19]
- Bradford Gowen (concert pianist and educator)[19]
- Marta Istomin (violinist, cellist, and artistic director)[19]
- Keith Lockhart (conductor)[19]
- Wynton Marsalis (jazz trumpet)[19]
- Temple Painter (harpsichordist and organist)[19]
- Jeannie G. Pool (composer and author)[19]
- Robert Ward (composer)[19]
- Rayburn Wright (trombonist, composer, and conductor)[19]
- Pinchas Zukerman (violinist, violist, and conductor)[19]
Patronesses
A patroness is "a woman actively interested in community musical affairs, in the endeavors of the collegiate or alumnae chapter, and the purpose of the Fraternity, who has been invited by a collegiate or alumnae chapter to join SAI."[20] Some notable patronesses include:
- Mamie Eisenhower (Epsilon Beta chapter), First Lady of the United States[21][22]
- Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States[23][24]
- Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States[7]
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