C.V.

Click below to see my Bachelor's and Master's degree diplomas

Millikin University B.M. 2006

University of Missouri - Kansas City M.M. 2010

Objective

To help my students discover and explore who they are through the arts.
To use the arts to foster a more civil and enlightened society.
To cultivate a passion for art in all those with whom I work.
To bring art to a community and a world where appreciation for the arts is increasingly declining.

Employment History

United Presbyterian Church of Freeport, IL
Organist, Accompanist, Choir Director; 2011 to 2018
302 W. Stephenson Rd.
Freeport, IL 61032
Diane Jochum (815) 541-7266
Molly DooLittle (815) 233-0966

Classical Ballet North
Piano Teacher February 2007 to Present (self-employed)
6308 North Prospect Ave.
Gladstone, MO 64119-1825
Angela Updyke (Parent of former student): 816-222-4548

Hosanna Lutheran Church
Organist, Accompanist; November 2006 to Present
2800 N. Church Rd.
Liberty, MO 64068
(816) 781-7991

Millikin University
Piano Teacher; First half of 2006
1184 W Main St.
Decatur, IL 62522
Coordinator: Carol Greenleaf cgreenleaf@mail.millikin.edu

Prairie Avenue Christian Church
Choir Accompanist; September 2005-May 2006
2201 E. Prairie Ave.
Decatur, IL 62521
Director of Music: Paul Primme (217)-412-4293

First Church of Christ
Pianist; Summers of 2002, 2003, 2005
Organist; Summer of 2004
4555 Spring Creek Rd.
Rockford, IL 61107
(815)-397-6593

Education

University of Missouri-Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Rd.
Kansas City, MO 64110
M.M. Piano Performance - 2010

Millikin University
1184 W. Main St.
Decatur, IL 62522
B.M. Piano Performance - 2006

Awards/Honors/Professional Memberships

-Pi Kappa Lambda
-Recipient of Whelan Music Scholarship at Millikin ($10k per year)
-Recipient of a Scholarship at UMKC ($12k per year)
-Wilna Moffet Keyboardist of the Year Millikin 2006
-Finalist in the Hollis Prize Millikin
-Magna Cum Laude in undergrad (3.79 gpa in undergrad and 3.78 gpa in grad school)
-Played in Master Classes for Dr. Ksenia Nosikova, Maurizio Moretti, Andrea Padova, and Stephen Gosling, as well as the Verdehr Trio

Other Music Related Experience

-Eleven Jazz courses in undergrad
this includes combo, solo, big band, and latin ensemble experience
-One semester of Harpsichord lessons with emphasis on figured-bass
-Experience playing electric and bass guitars, trumpet, baritone, sousaphone, tuba, saxophone, and singing in choirs
-Four years of experience in the recording studio and on P.A. systems, this includes
performing, mixing, and manning the boards
-Teachers: Jon McIntyre, Ronald YaDeau, Jon Ditto, Bruce Gibbons, Perry Rask, Roger Wilder, Stephen Widenhofer

Repertoire

Piano Solo
Bach, Johann Sebastian Invention #1 in C major
Bach Invention #2 in C minor
Bach Invention #3 in D major
Bach Invention #4 in D minor
Bach Invention # 13 in A minor
Bach Invention #14 in Bb major
Bach Partita #4 in D major
Bach Prelude and Fugue in C major from Book I of The Well Tempered Klavier
Bach Prelude and Fugue in C minor from Book I of WTK
Bach Prelude and Fugue in D major from Book I of WTK
Bach Prelude and Fugue in Eb major from Book I of WTK
Bach Prelude and Fugue in D major from Book II of WTK
Bach Prelude in F minor from Book II of WTK
Bartok Piano Sonata (1926)
Beethoven Piano Concerto in C minor #3 Op. 37
Beethoven Sonata #1 in F minor Op. 2, no. 1
Beethoven Sonata #8 in C minor Op. 13 Pathetique
Beethoven Sonata #10 in G major Op. 14, no. 2
Beethoven Sonata #14 in C# minor Op. 27, no. 2 Moonlight
Beethoven Sonata #17 in D minor Op. 31, no. 2 The Tempest
Brahms Capriccio in F# minor Op. 76, no. 1
Brahms Capriccio in D minor Op. 116, no. 1
Brahms Intermezzo in E major Op. 116, no. 4
Chopin Ballade #1 in G minor Op. 23
Chopin Etudes Op. 10, no. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12
Chopin Etudes Op. 25, no. 1, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12
Chopin Nocturne in Bb minor Op. 9, no. 1
Chopin Nocturne in Eb major Op. 9, no. 2
Debussy Prelude #2 Voiles
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue for Solo Piano
Haydn Sonata #48 in C major H. XVI/35
Kabalevsky Sonatina Op. 13, no. 1
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody #2
Liszt Liebestraum
Liszt 'Les jeux d'eau a la Villa d'Este' from Troisieme Annee of Annees de Pelerinage
Macdowell Scotch Poem
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto #2 in G minor Op. 25, mvt. 2-3
Messian Vingt Regardes sur l'enfant-Jesus no. 18
Mozart Fantasie and Fugue in C major K. 394
Mozart Sonata #13 in Bb major K. 333
Mozart Sonata #12 in F major K. 332
Prokofiev Sonata #7 Op. 83, mvts. 1 and 3
Prokofiev Sonata #1 in F minor Op. 1
Rachmaninoff Prelude #3 in G minor, Op. 23
Rachmaninoff Prelude #4 in D major, Op. 23
Rachmaninoff Prelude #5 in G minor, Op. 23
Ravel Piano Concerto in G major
Scarlatti Sonata #19 in C major L. 457
Scarlatti Sonata #20 in C major L. 282
Scarlatti Sonata #22 in D major L. 107
Scarlatti Sonata #23 in A major L. 238
Scarlatti Sonata #24 in A major L. 428
Schoenberg Sechs Kleine Klavierstucke Op. 19
Schubert Intermezzi Op. 90, no. 1-4
Scriabin Etude in C# minor Op. 2, no. 1
Scriabin Etude in D# minor Op. 8, no. 12
Scriabin Nocturne in Db major for Left Hand Op. 9, no. 2

Organ
Armand, J.O. Prelude and Fugue
Bach, Johann Sebastian Air from Overture in D major
Bach Fugue in G minor BWV 578
Bach 'Herzlich tut mich verlangen'
Bach 'Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier'
Bach The Liturgical Year-
'Alle Menschen Mussen Sterben'
'Christ Lag in Todesbanden'
'Christum Wir Sollen Loben Schon'
'Das Alte Jahr Vergangen Ist'
'Der Tag, Der Ist so Freudenreich'
'Gelobet Seist Du, Jesu Christ'
'Gott, Durch Deine Gute'
'Helft Mir Gott's Gute Preisen'
'Herr Christ, der Ein'ge Gottes Sohn'
'Ich Ruf' zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ'
'In Dir Ist Freude'
'Jesu, Meine Freude'
'Lob Sei dem Allmachtigen Gott'
'Lobt Gott, Ihr Christen, Allzugleich'
'Mit Fried' und Freud' Ich Fahr' Dahin'
'Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland'
'Puer Natus in Bethlehem'
'Vom Himmel Hoch, da Komm' Ich Her'
'Vom Himmel Kam der Engel Schaar'
'Wir Christenleut'
'Wenn Wir in Hachsten Noten Sein'
Bach Short Prelude and Fugue BWV 553 in C major
Bach Short Prelude and Fugue BWV 554 in D minor
Bach 'Vater unser im Himmelreich'
Bach 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme'
Bach 'Wer nur den lieben Gott lasst walten'
Bartok, Bela Choral
Bohm, Carl Sarabande
Bohm, Carl 'Wiegenlied'
Boelby, Alexandre Postlude in C major
Boellmann, Leon 'Poeme'
Boellmann 'Verset de Procession sur l'Adoro Te'
Boelly, Alexandre Fughetta
Brahms Elf Choralspiele Op. post. 122, no. 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10
Buxtehude 'Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist'
Buxtehude 'Praise God, Ye Christians, All Together'
Buxtehude 'Prelude, Fugue, and Chaconne'
Calkin, J. Baptiste 'Festal March' in C Op. 80
Cappelan, Christian Postlude in C Op. 28, no. 8
Durand, Auguste Chaconne in A minor
Dupre 'Antiphon V: How Fair and How Pleasant Art Thou'
Franck Trois Chorals No. III in A minor
Grieg 'Triumphal March' Op. 56
Gounod, Charles 'Marche Romaine'
Handel Arioso in C major
Handel 'Comfort Ye' from The Messiah
Handel 'He Shall Feed His Flock' from The Messiah
Handel Air from 'Water Music'
Humperdink 'Evening Prayer'
Kabalevsky, Dmitri Etude in A
Kabalevsky Offertory in B minor
Kabalevsky Prelude in C minor
Kabelevsky Prelude and Fugue in E minor
Kabelevsky Postlude in F major
Langlais, Jean 'Prelude Modal'
Langlais, Jean 'Priere'
Lemaigre Capriccio
Lemmens, Jacques 'Fanfare'
Liszt 'Introit'
Mozart Dialogue in Eb major
Pachelbel Fugue in D minor
Pachelbel Fugue in C major
Pachelbel Ricercar in C minor
Pachelbel 'Toccata in E minor'
Pachelbel 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm' Ich Herr'
Perdew, Ruth Postlude in F minor
Ravel 'Chanson Triste'
Ravina, Jean Henri Menuet
Rebikov, Vladimir 'Legende'
Rebikov Prelude
Rheinberger, Josef 'Trio'
Saint-Saens, Camille 'The Swan'
Schroeder, Hermann 'Praeludium'
Schroeder, Hermann 'Schonster Herr Jesu'
Schop, Johann 'Come with Us, O Blessed Jesus'
Schubert 'Ave Maria'
Tchaikovski 'Melodie'
Thomas Gavotte from Mignon
Turk 'Sicilienne'
Vierne, Louis 'Berceuse'
Wagner 'Processional March' from Parsifal
Walcha, Helmut 'Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du verbrochen'
Walther, Johann Gottfried 'Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend'
Weber, Carl Maria 'Perpetual Motion'
Zachau, Friedrich Wilhelm 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm' ich her'

Accompaniment
Boehm Grand Polonaise
Glierre Horn Concerto
Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben
Taktakishvilli Flute Sonata
Telemann Suite for Flute
Six semesters of voice students in undergrad including music by
Rossini, Bellini, Mozart, Beethoven, Lehar, J.S. Bach, Hugo Wolf, Schumann,
and several musical theater numbers

Chamber Music
Arutiunian, Alexander Suite for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano
Beethoven Egmont Overture for two pianos eight hands
Copland excerpts from Billie the Kid
Martinu, Bohuslav Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano
Mozart Kegelstatt Trio
Mozart Piano Duo in Bb
Ravel Mother Goose Suite for Piano Duo
Satie, Erik excerpts from Parade
Schumann Andante und Variationen in Bb major for Piano Duo Op. 46

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