Bio

Andrei Strizek is a first-year EdD student in Music Education at the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign. He holds an assistantship at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, in the Events office, and in the School of Music Student Teaching office.

Andrei is an active performer, and is in demand as a music director and keyboardist for many musical theatre productions.

He earned his Bachelor's of Music Education from UW-Eau Claire in 2005, after studying with Dr Jerry Young, Dr Mark Heidel, Dr Randal Dickerson, and Dr Donald Patterson, and his Master's of Music Education from the University of Illinois in 2011.

He holds a wide range of interests, from musical theatre to jazz and popular music history to aesthetics, from the use of technology in education to audience development.

Please contact Andrei if you have any questions, comments or suggestions!

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Wednesday
Oct272010

Nina Simone - I Loves You Porgy

DateWednesday, October 27, 2010 at 11:53PM

My Gershwin class today was student presentations on the first 3 scenes of Act II of Porgy & Bess. The pair who talked about Scene 3 showed part of this clip of Nina Simone singing/playing I Loves You Porgy. I knew she could sing, but I didn't know she could play piano like this. (I also like her intro to the song.)

The 4 minutes it takes to watch this will be well worth your time.

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