Millennium Magazine_7th Ed

44 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine ARTIST Honolulu, HI ARTS, MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT P laying music for the entirety of her life, particularly the piano, Dr. Severine Neff is a renowned music educator who served the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for 20 years. Starting out as a professor of music in 1995, she was elevated to Eugene Falk Distinguished Professor in 2004 until attaining emeritus status in 2015. Prior to these appointments, she taught at such institutions as the Cincinnati College Conservatory, Cornell University, Barnard College, the University of Hawaii and Bates College beginning in 1979. Drawing upon a BA from Barnard College, MA from Yale University, and MFA and PhD from Princeton University, Dr. Neff has utilized her academic degrees to study the works of Arnold Schoenberg, a prominent Austrian American composer andmusic theorist of the 20th century. Discovering two previously unknown works of Schoenberg, she has published numerous works about his life, musical theories and compositions. Dr. Neff has been recognized for her musical contributions, including from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Society for Music Theory, the Fulbright Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. She is proudest of teaching Schoenberg’s music in Moscow. EUGENE FALK DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR EMERITUS University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Goleta, CA SEVERINE NEFF, PHD A n expert in printmaking and photography, John Morita is an artist located in Honolulu, whose work has been recognized internationally. Trying his hand at photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, he earned a BFA in photography in 1974. Thereafter, he attended San Francisco State University and received an MA in printmaking in 1976. He first worked in a commercial darkroom studio, and also lent his expertise to the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and Windward Community College. Participating in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States, Germany, Bulgaria, Japan and Brazil, Mr. Morita has continued his 48-year lifetime photography, printmaking and video project of artist Charles Ware’s family, in which he documented their legacy within the art world. He also received invitations from the Chicago and New York Human Rights Campaigns to three human rights tours to Israel and occupied Palestinian territories to photograph conflicts. Mr. Morita is proudest of the retrospective art exhibition at Intergrafik 90, International Print Triennial in Berlin in 1990 and a solo show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1979. He earned the National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship Grant in 1986. JOHN MORITA