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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Arrangements | Articles/Reviews | Citations | Guest Speaking Engagements & Presentations 

 

Arrangements

Sinfonia No. 9 in F minor, JS Bach. Written for three euphoniums. Published by the Tuba Euphonium Press. Reviewed in the ITEA Journal, Fall 2004, volume 32, number 1 (PDF file).

Ave Maria, Franz Biebl. Written for tuba euphonium ensemble. Published by Really Good Music.

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Articles/Reviews

The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays (PDF file). Review of a book by Richard Taruskin. Published in the Music Educators Journal, volume 96, number 4, June 2010. (Copyright held by MENC.)

Duties of Low Brass Instructors (PDF file), co-written with Dr Jerry Young. Published in the ITEA Journal, volume 33, number 4, Summer 2006.

The Piano in Wind Band (PDF File). The beginnings of an on-going research project that details the use of the piano in original wind band literature. Published in the NBA Journal, Volume 45, number 2, December 2004.

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Citations

Sinfonia No. 9 in F minor reviewed in the ITEA Journal, Fall 2004, volume 32, number 1 (PDF file).

Sinfonia No. 9 in F minor cited in the Guide to the Euphonium Repertoire: The Euphonium Source Book, p. 218. Google Books link available here.

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Guest Speaking Engagements/Presentations

Filling the Shoes of Teachers Past. Panel Presentation given at the Wisconsin State Music Conference, Friday, October 21, 2008.

Marching Band Techniques. Fall, 2008. Guest lecturer for three sessions of UW-Eau Claire's MuEd 421 course (Seminar in Teaching Instrumental Music).

Keys to Success as a First-Year Teacher (PDF File). Talk given to the UW-Eau Claire NBA Chapter on October 12, 2006, about my experiences as a first-year teacher.

The WSMA State Contest List for Euphonium/Tuba Quartet. Presentation-performance given by the Eu-Tu(ba) Quartet at the Wisconsin State Music Conference, Friday, October 31, 2003, 1:30 pm.

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