PERFORMANCE
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Big Shot |
Piano Lounge & Restaurant
Free-form piano bar - jazz,
rock and roll, & showtunes
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Feb 08 - present |
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Howl At The Moon
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Dueling Piano Bar, Chicago & Cleveland
High energy sing-along, rock
and roll, & comedy
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2002-2009
1992-1995
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“Chicago Voice Exchange”,
"The Hi Tops"
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A cappella groups (singing bass-baritone)
Five-part vocals, some of my own arrangements
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Aug 95 - present
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Marriott's Lincolnshire Theatre
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Pump Boys & Dinettes
On-stage: singing, acting, tap-dancing, playing piano & accordion
Also played in Marriott's orchestra pit for several shows |
May 00 - Aug 00
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Also various solo (“piano bar”) and group (“dueling pianos”) entertaining (all
with vocals), including:
Davenport's, Billy Berk's, DaddyO's, The Drake, Cucina Roma,
Magnum's, Improv Olympic,
Tinseltown,
and several “singing-server” restaurants
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DIRECTION
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Harmony Sweepstakes
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Annual
a cappella
competition - Skokie, IL
Producer
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2000 - present
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Five Guys Named Moe
, Equity
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Drury Lane Evergreen Park, Chicago
Music director, also played show
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Mar 02 - May 02
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Colleen McHugh
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Cabaret performer, Chicago & New York
Music director & accompanist
Appeared on her demo CD
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Apr 02 - present
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"Navy Pier Players"
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A cappella group on Navy Pier, Chicago
Directing 8 voices, mixed, using my own arrangements
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Apr 97 - Apr 01
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Many Cleveland area
productions
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Music-directed Forever Plaid, Once On This Island,
Cabaret, 1940’s Radio Hour, Nunsense, and others |
1990 – 1995
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SKILLS
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Sight-reader
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Auditions, lessons, session work, anything you can put in front of me
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Music By Computer
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Full notation and sequencing capabilities, using Finale and Cakewalk for PC
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Vocal Arranger
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Group vocals, creative arrangements of standards or originals
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Conductor
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Baldwin-Wallace College Choir, Beck Center Orchestra
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Educator
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Baldwin-Wallace College Preparatory Department
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Member of
American Federation of Musicians, Actors Equity Association,
and Chicago Cabaret Professionals
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