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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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Musical Advent Calendar, Day 21: Aimee Mann

DateTuesday, December 21, 2010 at 1:00AM

My Mission: One holiday-themed, non-carol song every day between now & Christmas. It's my own version of an Advent calendar. I may succeed, I may fail, but there will at least be some good music posted ... music you won't hear at the mall, that hopefully won't make you end up looking like him. ----->

(Backstage with Aimee Mann, about 2003)Day 21 (4 to go!): "Calling on Mary," "I Was Thinking I Could Clean Up For Christmas" & "Whatever Happened to Christmas" by Aimee Mann, and Aimee Mann's Christmas Shows. (Aimee Mann released a Christmas album, One More Drifter in the Snow, in 2006. She has been doing Christmas shows for 5 years - sometimes touring with her comedian & musician friends, sometimes just performing in the San Francisco area [like Largo]. Her Christmas album is beautiful, and below are two "live" performances of tracks on the album. Check out info about her musical-in-progress, based on her album The Forgotten Arm.)

The promos for her Christmas shows are hilarious, with Michael Cera, John Krakowski, Ben Stiller, John C Reilly, Will Farrell, etc. etc. (caution: swear words are present):

(You can see previous songs here. Email me or comment below if you have a tune suggestion!)

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