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!

Read here for a full bio, or download Andrei's CV.

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Saturday
Jan082011

Maria Schneider Quote

DateSaturday, January 8, 2011 at 1:26PM

I love this beautiful quote from Maria Schneider. It's so simple, yet something we musicians probably tend to forget to do more than we'd like to admit.

You can see Ms Schneider's enthusiasm and passion in her conducting of her band playing Bolería, Soléa & Rumba in the following clips - one of my personal favorites of her compositions, and from her Grammy-winning 2004 album Concert in the Garden.

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