Vice Chair of the Board (an elected position)
A four-year commitment; will serve two years as Vice Chair, two years as Chair.

Jonathan Keeble

Jonathan Keeble is in his sixth year as the flute professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a member of the Prairie Winds Woodwind Quintet and as a solo clinician, he travels throughout the world performing and teaching. This season’s performances take Keeble throughout the Midwest, California, Washington, New York, Tennessee, and Georgia, and he’ll be concertizing in Austria, Italy, Spain, Holland, Sweden, Serbia, and the Far East during the spring and summer. His solo, chamber and orchestral recordings appear on the Warner Brothers and Albany labels. In addition to performing, Keeble spends summers teaching at the Madeline Island Music Camp, the Burgos Chamber Music Festival, and the University of Illinois Summer Youth Music Flute Camp. Keeble holds degrees from Northwestern University and the Eastman School of Music. He and his wife Sue live in Mahomet, Illinois, where they spend the bulk of their free time building Lego spaceships with their sons Alexander and Bryson.

Chair of the Finance Committee (a ratified position)
A four-year commitment.

Debbie Hyde-Duby

Debbie Hyde-Duby is very active in the San Diego music community performing with the Coastal Communities Concert Band, two Chamber Trios, and her church orchestra. Hyde-Duby has taken the opportunity to spread the international language of music to over 65 countries through church music missions as well as performing with the International Flute Orchestra on their past nine tours. Debbie is an active Life Member in the NFA, past committee chair for the Myrna Brown Society, and equipment chair for the San Diego and Albuquerque Conventions.  

Assistant Secretary/Secretary Elect (an elected position)
A two year commitment; will serve one year as Assistant Secretary and the following year as Secretary. One is elected.

Sandy Saathoff

Sandra Saathoff is piccoloist with the Seattle Philharmonic and has developed a thriving private flute studio. She also performs with the Bellevue Philharmonic and area chamber ensembles, directs the Bellevue Youth Symphony flute ensemble, and is a sought after clinician. As vice president/programming chair for the Seattle Flute Society, she planned and organized flute events, was responsible for concert production and artist management, and served as newsletter editor. With her leadership, SFS membership and annual income increased by over 20 percent. She graduated cum laude from Pacific Lutheran Univ., received a Master of Arts degree from the Univ. of Washington, and served on the board of trustees for the Seattle Philharmonic, receiving their Esther Tye Smith Award for Outstanding Service & Dedication for efforts in publicity and as media liaison. She is executive director of Flutewise USA. Her teachers include Zart Dombourian-Eby, Rae Terpenning, and Kim Pineda (baroque flute).

NFA Board of Directors (a ratified position)
One board member for a two-year term.

Adrianne Greenbaum

Adrianne Greenbaum is an internationally recognized klezmer and classical flutist. As a klezmer she is the founder and leader of FleytMuzik, and of The Klezical Tradition klezmer ensembles. She teaches klezmer technique at many folk camps including  KlezKamp, KlezKanada, Klezmerquerque, and Boxwood, and has performed and given masterclasses throughout the U.S. and Europe in festivals and colleges. She holds degrees from Oberlin (BM: Willoughby) and Yale (MM: Nyfenger) and is solo flutist with the New Haven Symphony, the Wall Street Chamber Players, and Orchestra New England. Adrianne has held faculty positions at Wesleyan and Yale Universities and Smith College, and is currently professor of flute at Mount Holyoke College. Solo recordings include FleytMuzik and Sounds of America. Publications include a string orchestra arrangement of Doppler’s Andante and Rondo (International), Mozart G cadenzas (Southern) and two music books, one being of her own klezmer compositions (self).

Paul Taub

Paul Taub is professor of music at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and flutist and executive cirector of the Seattle Chamber Players. He was trained at Rutgers University and the California Institute of the Arts; his teachers include Marcel Moyse, Samuel Baron, Michel Debost, James Scott, Karl Kraber, David Shostac, and Robert Aitken. A founding member of SCP, Taub has had a strong musical presence in the Seattle chamber music scene since 1979. He is an active soloist and recitalist, with extensive work in American, Soviet/Russian, and international contemporary repertoire. With SCP, he has appeared at major festivals in Warsaw, Moscow, and St Petersburg. He has given world and U.S. premieres of music by Henry Brant, John Cage, George Crumb, Janice Giteck, Sofia Gubaidulina, Toru Takemitsu, and Peteris Vasks. His solo CD, Oo-ee (Periplum) features 12 pieces commissioned for his 20th year in Seattle. He is currently a member of the board of directors of Chamber Music America.