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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Andrei Strizek began conducting actively while working on his undergrad degree at UW-Eau Claire. He has conducted a number of different ensembles, including concert bands, chamber groups, and jazz ensembles. Below is a list of repertoire he has conducted in performance.

Concert Band | Jazz Ensemble | Pit Orchestra | String Orchestra | Chamber Ensembles

 

Concert Band

  • Sleigh Ride - Leroy Anderson
  • Prelude, Siciliano, and Rondo - Malcom Arnold, trans. Paynter
  • Make Our Garden Grow - Leonard Bernstein, trans. Strizek
  • Overture to "Candide" - Leonard Bernstein, trans. Grundman
  • Ave Maria - Franz Biebl, arr. Robert C. Cameron
  • Kirkpatrick Fanfare- Andrew Boysen, Jr.
  • Incantation and Dance - John Barnes Chance
  • Carillons at Christmastide- J.B. Calkin, arr. A. Davis
  • Acrostic Song - David del Tredici, trans. Mark Spede
  • Air and Boureé - Frank Erickson
  • Matrix - Gary Fagan
  • Americans We - Henry Fillmore
  • Irish Tune from County Derry - Percy Aldridge Grainger
  • Overture to "Messiah" - G.F. Handel, trans. Lucien Calliet
  • Patapan - Shelley Hanson
  • Seis Manuel - Shelley Hanson
  • Fantasy on a Gaelic Hymnson - David Holsinger
  • Havendance - David Holsinger
  • Prelude and Rondo - David Holsinger
  • In the Bleak Midwinter - Gustav Holst, arr. Robert W. Smith
  • Second Suite in F - Gustav Holst
  • Esprit de Corps - Robert Jager
  • Third Suite - Robert Jager
  • American Riversongs - Pierre La Plante
  • Mother Earth - David Maslanka
  • Ere the World Began to Be - Jack Stamp
  • Amazing Grace - Frank Ticheli
  • Joy Revisited - Frank Ticheli
  • Loch Lomond - Frank Ticheli
  • Away in the Manger - Traditional, arr. C. Davis & R. Longfield
  • Carol of the Bells/Greensleeves - Traditional, arr. Larry Clark
  • A Fireside Christmas - Traditional, arr. Sammy Nestico
  • October - Eric Whitacre
  • Old Scottish Melody - Charles A. Wiley

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Jazz Ensemble

  • Walk on the Wild Side Suite - Elmer Bernstein, arr. John La Barbera
  • Impressions - John Coltrane, arr. Mark Taylor
  • La Fiesta - Chick Corea, arr. Tony Klatka
  • After You've Gone - Harry Creamer, arr. Paul Clark
  • I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart- Duke Ellington
  • Isfahan - Duke Ellington
  • It Don't Mean a Thing - Duke Ellington, arr. Mike Carubia
  • Never No Lament - Duke Ellington
  • Oclupaca - Duke Ellington
  • Rockabye River - Duke Ellington
  • Such Sweet Thunder - Duke Ellington
  • The Chicken - Alfred James Ellis, arr. Kris Berg
  • The Big Dance - Ralph Ford
  • Misty- Erroll Garner, arr. Mike Lewis
  • La Negra Tiene Tumbao - Sergio George, arr. Victor Lopez
  • A Few Good Men - Gordon Goodwin
  • Hunting Wabbits - Gordon Goodwin
  • Anitra's Dance - Edvard Grieg, arr. Billy Strayhorn
  • Give It Up - Matt Harris
  • Woodchopper's Ball - Woody Herman, arr. Peter Blair
  • Honk - Jeff Jarvis
  • A Child Is Born - Thad Jones
  • One for My Baby (and One More For the Road) - Mercer/Allen, arr. Frank Mantooth
  • Moten Swing - Bennie Moten, arr. Ernie Wilkins
  • Señorita Fajita - Larry Neeck
  • Celtic Aire - Fred Sturm
  • Riverscape - Fred Sturm
  • Birdland - Josef Zawinul, arr. John Higgins
  • Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - Josef Zawinul, arr. Robert Woods

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Pit Orchestra

  • Grease
  • High School Musical
  • High School Musical 2
  • Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  • The Last Five Years
  • Once Upon a Mattress
  • Songs for a New World
  • A Year With Frog & Toad

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String Orchestra

  • Cantique de Noel - Adolphe Adam, arr. Owen Goldsmith
  • Four Royal Dances - Eric Ewazen

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Chamber Ensembles

  • Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble
    • Almighty Father - Leonard Bernstein, arr. Strizek
    • Ave Maria - Franz Biebl, arr. Strizek
    • Impresario Overture - W.A. Mozart, arr. Knoener
    • A Nightengale Sang in Berkley Square - Sherwin, arr. Funderburk
    • Adagio - John Stevens
  • Brass Choir
    • Fanfare for the Common Man - Aaron Copland
    • Sonata Pian e Forte - Giovanni Gabrielli
    • Con te Partiro (Time To Say Goodbye) - Quarantotto, arr. McGinnis
    • Salvation is Created - Tschesnekov, arr. McGinnis
  • Other Chamber Ensembles
    • Easy-Going Clarinets - Michael G. Cunningham
    • Valentines, Op. 237c - Michael G. Cunningham

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