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.
Fleurette Africaine, by Duke Ellington. Recorded 17 March 2011.
Single Petal of a Rose, by Duke Ellington. Recorded 9 February 2011.
Prelude Op 34, No 14, in Eb minor, by Dmitri Shostakovich. Recorded 8 February 2011.
"Bard" from Elegiac Cycle, by Brad Mehldau. Recorded 20 September 2010.
"Bard" from Elegiac Cycle, by Brad Mehldau. Recorded 20 September 2010. Shown with sheet music.
