Dean Jilek 1 DEAN F. JILEK 651– 402 – 8606 (mobile) 3120 Hornbeam St., [email protected] Argyle, TX 76226 ______

EDUCATION

University of North Texas, Denton, TX, 2016 DMA, Performance in Choral Dr. Jerry McCoy, Major Professor Additional studies with Dr. Richard Sparks Minor in Vocal Pedagogy, Dr. Stephen Austin, Professor

North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, 2004 M.M., Choral Conducting and Literature Dr. Jo Ann Miller, Major Professor Additional studies with Dr. Michael Weber

Dickinson State University, Dickinson, ND, 1995 B.S., Vocal Music Dr. Elwood H. Brown, Major Professor

ADDITIONAL STUDIES/PROFESSIONAL CONDUCTING SYMPOSIA

2015 International Conducting Workshop and Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria Orchestra Conducting Full Participant Studied with Larry Rachleff, Rice University and Don Schleicher, University of Illinois 2014 Vancouver Chamber Conducting Symposium, Vancouver, BC Choral Conducting Full Participant Studied with Jon Washburn

APPOINTMENTS (Academic)

University of North Dakota, 2016-present • Director of o Concert Choir MUSC 260 o Varsity Bards MUSC 263 o Voice Class MUSC 150 o Vocal Methods MUSC 140 o Choral Conducting MUSC 357 o Advanced Choral Conducting MUSC 561 o Choral Literature MUSC 416 o Chamber Music Groups MUSC 277 o Special Topics MUSC 399 o University of North Dakota Honor Choir o Recruiting Committee o Masterworks Concert § Chichester Psalms – Leonard Bernstein § Rejoice in the Lamb – § Duruflé – Maurice Duruflé § Messiah – G. F Handel Dean Jilek 2 University of North Texas, 2013-16 • Teaching Fellow, Men’s Chorus Director, 2014-present • Teaching Assistant, University Singers, 2015-present • Men’s Chorus Associate Director, 2013-14 • Choral Librarian, 2013-15 • Fauré Requiem – Gabriel Faure with small orchestra o Self prepared orchestra and choir, 2015

Roseville Area High School, Roseville, MN, 2004-13 • Director of Choral Activities • Conductor of Masterwork’s Concerts o Vivaldi Gloria – Antonio Vivaldi with orchestra o Missa Brevis in G – Wolfgang A. Mozart with orchestra o Chichester Psalms – Leonard Bernstein with chamber orchestra § Self prepared orchestra and choir • Cantus Certus: selective audition of Juniors and Seniors; 60 members o National ACDA Performance, State, Regional, and Local performances o Annual national tours • Concert Choir: mixed choir of grades 9-12; 80-90 members • Men’s Choir: choir of grades 9-12; 25-35 members • Women’s Choir: choir of grades 9-12; 80-90 members • Chamber Choir: selective auditioned mixed choir of grades 10-12; 16-18 members o 15-20 community wide concerts in the month of December o International Travel • Instructor of Applied Voice • Vocal Coach and Pit Orchestra Conductor for Musical productions o You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Les Miserables, The Secret Garden, Chicago, Seussical

North Dakota State University, 2001-04 • Teaching Fellow, Introduction to Music Analysis and Appreciation, 2003-04 • Teaching Fellow, Applied Voice, 2001 • Teacher Assistant, University Choir • Teacher Assistant, Women’s Choir • Teacher Assistant, Madrigal Choir • Teacher Assistant, Opera Workshop • Box office student manager

Trinity High School, Dickinson, ND, 2000-01 • Concert Choir: mixed choir of grades 9-12 with initial enrollment of 20 members. By week 2 a total of 73 members. • 8th grade choir: mixed choir began with 8 members. By mid semester a total of 34 members. • 7th Grade Choir: mixed choir with 30-40 members • Chamber Choir: selective auditioned mixed choir I initiated consisting of high school students from neighboring high schools. • Music Liturgy

L.B. Williams Elementary, Mitchell, SD, 1998-2000 • K-5 General Music • Morning Choir: mixed show choir of grades 4 and 5. Dean Jilek 3 Hazen School District, Hazen, ND, 1995-98 • Concert Choir: mixed choir of grades 10-12. By the third year it became a selective auditioned mixed choir of grades 10-12 with 60-70 members. • 8-9 Choir: mixed choir with 70-80 members • 7th Grade Choir: mixed choir of 90-100 members • 4–6 General Music • Chamber Choir: selective auditioned mix choir

NATIONAL/REGIONAL/STATE PERFORMANCES

2013 Cantus Certus, Roseville Area High School, blind audition performance, National Conference, American Choral Directors Association, Dallas, TX 2013 Cantus Certus, performance for Dorian Music Festival at 2013 Cantus Certus, performance for Concordia College of Moorhead Music Festival 2012 Cantus Certus, blind audition performance, Minnesota Music Educators Association State Conference 2011 Cantus, blind audition performance, Minnesota Choral Directors Association Conference 2011 Cantus Certus, blind audition performance for Chorale Arts Finale at Orchestra Hall, Minnesota American Choral Directors Association 2006 Cantus Certus, blind audition performance, Minnesota Choral Directors Association Conference 2005-2013 Cantus Certus won superior ratings in the Large Group - Category I, Minnesota State Music Contest

DISTINGUISHED GUEST CONDUCTING

2017 60th Anniversary Northern Plains Music Festival, Dickinson, ND 2015 North Dakota All-State Women’s Chorus, Bismarck, ND 2014 Northern Plains Music Festival, Dickinson, ND Glencoe Regional Music Festival, Glencoe-Silver Lake, MN 2003 Minnesota Regional Music Festival, Moorhead, MN

GUEST CLINICIAN/ADJUDICATOR

2016 Crookston Choir Festival, Crookston, MN 2016 Fargo Choir Festival, Fargo, ND 2015 Heritage Festivals of Gold, Dallas, TX 2003 Minnesota Large Group Music Festival, Perham, MN

DISTINGUISHED MASTER CLASS/LECTURER

2016 Lecturer, Building the High School Choral Voice, Grand Forks, ND 2016 Lecturer, Vocal Pedagogy, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 2014 Master Class Conductor, Dickinson State University Concert Choir, Dickinson, ND Lecturer, The Conductor in the Mirror: Do You See What I Hear?, Dickinson, ND

Dean Jilek 4 SECTION LEADER

2014-15 A Cappella Choir, University of North Texas 2013-15 St. Monica Catholic Church, Dallas, TX 2012 American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota 50th Anniversary Dr. René Clausen Honor Choir 2008-09 Maternity of Mary Catholic Church, St. Paul, MN 2006 Cathedral of St. Paul Catholic Church, St. Paul, MN

SINGING/CONDUCTING EXPERIENCE

Grand Forks Chorale, Grand Forks, ND Artistic Director Grand Forks Master Chorale, Grand Forks, ND Artistic Director St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church Music Director Schola Performer and Director United Lutheran Church, Grand Forks, ND Cathedral Choir Director A Cappella, University of North Texas Dr. Jerry McCoy, conductor Collegium Singers, University of North Texas Dr. Richard Sparks, conductor Magnum Chorum Civic Choir, St. Louis Park, MN, 2011-13 Dr. Christopher Aspaas, conductor St John Paul II Catholic Church, Denton, TX Music Director Queen of Peace Catholic Church, Dickinson, ND, 1994 Choir Director

MEMBERSHIPS/SERVICE

American Choral Directors Association National Association for Music Education National Collegiate Choral Organization International Federation for Choral Music Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Student Advisory Council, University of North Texas

Dean Jilek 5 MASTERWORKS PREPARED/MASTER CLASS Bach B Minor Mass St John Passion BWV 245 Nun komm der Heiden Heiland BWV 61 Lobe Den Herrn, Meine Seele BWV 69 Beethoven Mass in C Missa Solemnis Benjamin Britten Rejoice in the Lamb Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem Carissimi Jephthah Duruflé Requiem Handel Messiah Haydn Creation Mass in Honor of St. Nicholas Mozart Solemn Vespers Missa C minor Coronation Mass Requiem Morten Lauridsen Mid-Winter Songs

MASTERWORKS PERFORMED WITH ORCHESTRA Bernstein Chichester Psalms Duruflé Requiem Fauré Requiem Handel Messiah Mozart Missa Brevis in G Vivaldi Gloria

MIXED CHORUS Lydia Adams Mi'Kmaq Honour Song Christopher Aspaas Oba Se Je Adriano Banchieri Jubilate Deo Ysaye M. Barnwell Wanting Memories Derek Bermel Kponlongo Rick Bjella Idumea In Stiller Nacht Der Abend Benjamin Britten Ceremony of Carols

William Byrd Ave Verum Corpus Sing we merrily unto God Salve Regina

Bob Chilcott Buffalo Gals MLK

F. Melius Christiansen Wake, Awake Praise to the Lord Psalm 50 Mv II & III

Dean Jilek 6 René Clausen Canticle of Praise In Pace Prayer O My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose Set Me as a Seal There is a Balm in Gilead What a Wonderful World

Aaron Copland Las Agachadas Simple Gifts Zion's Walls

Robert de Cormier Let Me Fly Emily Crocker The Little Beggarman Eleanor Daley In Remembrance Dan Davison Rytmo

David Dickau Laughing Song If Music be the Food of Love

Norman Dinerstein When David Heard Maurice Duruflé Ubi Caritas Notre Pere Daniel Elder Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Edward Elgar Spanish Serenade Bradley Ellingboe Be, Music Night James Erb Shenandoah David Fanshawe Kyrie: A Call to Prayer John Farmer Fair Phyllis

Edwin Fissinger Battle of Jericho Dakota Dawn In Paradisum Love Came Down at Christmas Make We Joy Prairie Scenes: A Choral Cycle Three Portraits by Stephen Foster Silent Night What is this Fragrance? What Wondrous Love is this? Witness

Dan Forest Good Night, Dear Heart Pinto Fonseca Muie Rendera Stephen Foster/arr. Mark Keller Hard Times Come Again No More Jacobus Gallus Regem Natum Alexander Gretchaninoff Otche Nash Handel Music Spread Thy Voice Around Zadok the Priest

Tina Harrington Ajde Jano Howard Helvey O Lux Beatissima George G Hernandez Rosas Pandan Dean Jilek 7 Moses Hogan Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel I Can Tell the World The Battle of Jericho

Ivan Hrusovsky Rytmus Kenneth Jennings The Lord is the Everlasting God

Walter Kittredge Tenting on the Old Camp Ground

Orlando di Lasso Qui Seuitur Me O occhi manza mia

Morten Lauridsen Amor de Mi Alma O Magnum Mysterium Sure on this Shining Night

Marcos Leite Tres Cantos Nativos

Norman Luboff All My Trials Red River Valley

Ko Matsushita Karimatanu Kuicha

Felix Mendelssohn Richte Mich Gotte There Shall a Star of David

Claudio Monteverdi Cantate Domino

Mozart Lacrymosa Regina Coeli

Knut Nystedt Cry Out and Shout Be Not Afraid I Will Greatly Rejoice

Gyorgy Orban Daemon Irrepit Callidus

Palestrina Sicut Cervus Sitivit Anima Mea Agnus Dei from Missa Aeterna

Alice Parker Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal Arvo Pärt Bogoroditse Djevo

Stephen Paulus Pilgrim's Hymn The Road Home

Tom Porter O Nata Lux Valts Puce Augu Nakti Henry Purcell Hear My Prayer, O Lord Jonathan Quick Loch Lomond

Dean Jilek 8 Blagoslovi, dushe moya, Gospoda Bogoroditse Devo

Imant Raminsh Put, Vejini Josef Rhienberger Abendlied Sid Robinovitch Sensemaya Gioachino Rossini Il Gondolieri Robert Scholz Nunc Dimittis Thomas Sevier Precious Lord Joshua Shank Where is Love John Sheppard In Pace Ethan Sparry DESH

Z. Randall Stroope Conversion of Saul Homeland How Can I Keep from Singing

Emilio Sole Duerme Negrito Georgy Sviridov Magpie Chatter Fred Squatrito Bright Morning Star Thomas Tallis If Ye Love Me Jing Ling-Tam Magnificent Horses John Tavener Song of Athene Brian Tate Yanaway Heyona Randall Thompson Choose Something Like a Star Frank Tichelli Earth Song Veljo Tormis Kihnu Island Wedding Songs Antonin Tucapsky Ci jsou to knicky? Gary Kent Walth Two Japanese Proverbs

Eric Whitacre A Boy and a Girl Animal Crackers Her Sacred Spirit Soars i thank you god for most this amazing day This Marriage With a Lily in Her Hand Water Night Seal Lullaby

WOMEN’S CHORUS Johannes Brahms Zwölf Lieder und Romanzen, Opus 44: 7,8,9,12 Michael McGlynn Mariam Matrem Virginem Nicola Porpora Magnificat a 4: Sicut erat Stephen Chatman In the Glow of the Moon René Clausen Psalm 100

MEN’S CHORUS J.S Bach Der Herr Segne Euch Eric Barnum A Red, Red Rose Marshall Bartholomew Little Innocent Lamb William Boyd Fight the Good Fight with All Thy Might Maurice Duruflé Messe Cum Jubilo, Opus 11 with Organ Edvard Grieg Brothers, Sing On! Dean Jilek 9 Kenneth Jennings Rise Up, You Men of God Dale Jergenson Alleluia! John Kassen Whoa, Haw, Buck and Jerry Boy! Shawn L. Kirchner Wana Baraka Michael C. Kregler Soldier’s Elegy Norman Luboff Red River Valley There is a Balm in Gilead

Michael McGlynn Dulaman Media Vita

Felix Mendelssohn Beati Mortui Thomas Morley Say Dear Will You Not Have Me Carl Orff In Taberna Quando Sumus Alice Parker Avenging and Bright Alice Parker/ Viva L’Amour Francis Poulenc from Quatre Petites de Saint François d’Assise Leland Sateran Do You Fear the Force of the Wind Ruth Elaine Schram/Walt Whitman Song of the Open Road Peter Sozio El Yivneh Hagalil

Randall Thompson The Last Words of David The Pasture Tarantella

Robert Volkmann Abendlied Wendell Whalum/arr. Brooks Betelehemu Richard Wagner Pilgrim’s Chorus

Mack Wilberg Awake My Soul, To Joyful Ways! Cindy