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Meet the Expert! - Over twelve weeks, KHS students will meet a dozen music experts who have found their niches in the music world. Students will find inspiration and receive professional advice from experts, as each outlines their own music career and present musical opportunities students can find in their own lives after high school.
Today’s special guest is:
Todd Heid - March 10th
Todd Heid of Heid Music grew up watching the shop operate and found his passion for the business during his high school years. In the early years of Heid Music, the store had a large product spread including household appliances and TV sets. Todd’s father took over in 1985 with a focus on expanding the business. His sister came into business in early 1990s and Todd took over in 2008. The store currently has 5 locations and has a large focus on music education.
Here is the video link of Todd Heid discussing his role in music: (Link only opens for KHS Students)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ysDoB1nxu_TkvwKaBqhn_vpjm33pHGwB/view?usp=sharing
Matthew Arau - March 17th
Dr. Matthew Arau, founder of Upbeat Global, is the Chair of the Music Education Department and Associate Director of Bands at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin. In addition, Dr. Arau is on the faculty of the American Band College of Central Washington University and VanderCook College of Music. He also serves as a Conn-Selmer Education Clinician, and as Member-at-Large on the NAfME Council for Band Education.
Dr. Arau has guest conducted and presented on leadership, mindfulness, growth mindset, rehearsal techniques, and creating positive cultures in over 25 states and 4 continents. He has presented at the International Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the Western International Band Clinic, the NAfME National Conference and webinars, numerous State and Regional Music Education Association Conferences, and the Conn-Selmer Institute. He has conducted honor bands in Australia, Greece, Cyprus, and Malaysia, and All-State honor bands across the United States.
Dr. Arau draws on a deep reservoir of fifteen years of experience as a successful middle school and high school band director in Loveland, Colorado, where he led his bands at Walt Clark Middle School and Loveland High School to numerous honor performances and championships and pioneered the Leadership Symposium.
Here is the video link of Matthew Arau discussing his role in music: (Link only opens for KHS Students)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M0pwjQjZJMuitFvzYS96UTtcO3b8bH0z/view?usp=sharing
After viewing the video link, select this link to ask Matthew Arau any questions you have about his career in music:
Hugh McIntyre - March 24th
Hugh McIntyre is a freelance music journalist based in New York City. His byline has appeared in The Huffington Post, Billboard, Mashable, Noisey, The Hollywood Reporter, MTV, Fuse, and dozens of other magazines and blogs around the world. He loves following charts and the biggest and most successful names in the industry, and is always interested in highlighting incredible feats and discovering what's next.
Here is the video link of Hugh McIntyre discussing his role in music: (Link only opens for KHS Students)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kv7WRWjyvDBLKP55-DOyTDfF4qUO8tiH/view?usp=sharing
After viewing the video link, select this link to ask Hugh McIntyre any questions you have about his career in music:
Nathan Edwards - March 31st
Nathan Edwards is a recording engineer, musician, and songwriter from Wisconsin. As a UW Oshkosh alumni, he formerly served as
Assistant Professor of Audio Technology in the Digital Arts and Design program at Dakota State University in South Dakota, taught Audio Technology courses at the Illinois Institute of Art in Schaumburg, Illinois, and served as head recording engineer at Ark Media Group in Menasha, Wisconsin. He also specializes in live music production, digital filmmaking, and electronic music composition.
He has engineered and self-published numerous albums which have won awards including “The Year’s best Tribute EP” for his album, “The Music of Stephen Foster”. He has also presented his original compositions at a number of electro-acoustic conferences and exhibitions across the country. As a musician and songwriter, he has performed on South Dakota Public Radio, the “White Wall Sessions” television program, and Wisconsin Public Radio.
As an instructor, Professor Edwards believes in preparing students for a sustainable career in the music industry by not only instilling knowledge, but also inspiring students to deepen their passion and commitment to their discipline both in and out of the classroom. His areas of focus include real-world application, creative freedom and autonomy, and career guidance. As an active recording engineer and musician, he seeks to inspire students to commit to the intense work and dedication necessary to achieve success.
Here is the video link of Nathan Edwards discussing his role in music:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ossBS5snCAi8O4rO0NCkWi4L_jpcNThr/view?usp=sharing
After viewing the video link, select this link to ask Nathan Edwards any questions you have about his career in music:
A follow up with Nathan Edwards:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BLQ6x0gSHvmRFRbShQNrCO3Q1DXCuZCg/view?usp=sharing
Rebecca Dvorak - April 7th
Rebecca Dvorak graduated in 2003 with a degree in Music Therapy from The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She has worked and volunteered in many different aspects of music throughout the years while raising her children. She has a studio in her home where she provides different music lessons and therapies. She’s been able to be flexible with the avenues of music she provides, facilitates, and participates in while she excels in her primary role as “mom” to her children: Korbin, Kalon, Ahnya and Nyah.
She emphasizes how the role of music can be used in a music therapy career and everyday life to bring enjoyment, peace and therapy to others and self!
Here is the video link of Rebecca Dvorak discussing her role in music:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pxP-V0M6ybmuoiPNaGef03Oin9_vLEm7/view?usp=sharing
After viewing the video link, select this link to ask Rebecca Dvorak any questions you have about her career in music:
Stela Burdt - April 14th
Stela Burdt has been with the Commonweal since 2000. Theatregoers may remember her from 2016’s Souvenir. Past Commonweal work includes roles in Woody Guthrie’s American Song, Crimes of the Heart, Zombies from the Beyond, A Midnight Dreary, Harvey and Man of La Mancha. In addition to her onstage work, Stela manages the Commonweal box office and is a freelance vocalist, pianist and music director. Currently in the role of a lifetime as mom to Kieran, Stela has a degree in Theatre from Luther College.
Here is the video link of Stela Burdt discussing her role in music:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1naWn00k-HTr0HyIKvselDyZyUbSeyXW2/view?usp=sharing
After viewing the video link, select this link to ask Stela Burdt any questions you have about her career in music:
Tony Wong - April 21st
Sergeant Tony Wong grew up in Bradley, Illinois, USA and graduated from Eastern Illinois University in 2009 with degrees in Jazz Studies and Music Education. He continued his education at San Diego State University earning a master’s degree in Jazz Studies in 2011. After three years teaching general music and choir in public school, Tony won an audition with the United States Army Bands as a saxophonist. Since 2014, Tony has been assigned to the 1st Armored Division Band in El Paso, Texas; United States Army Europe Band & Chorus in Germany; and most recently won an audition with NATO’s S.H.A.P.E. International Band in Belgium. Tony has performed for key members of the United States government to include Generals, Governors, U.S. Ambassadors, and, during the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the President of the United States in Normandy, France. Sergeant Wong's performances have brought him to Mexico, Jordan, Kuwait, Eritrea, Switzerland, Bosnia, Germany, France, Turkey, Portugal, Romania, Denmark, and North Macedonia. Here at the SHAPE International Band he serves as a saxophone player in Task Force X and the NATO Jazz Orchestra as well being our social media manager.
Here is the video link of Tony Wong discussing his role in music:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LkIZbeuouuaz3-YKLvtcQT2HtmwzAmQO/view?usp=sharing
After viewing the video link, select this link to ask Tony Wong any questions you have about his career in music:
April 28th - Katie Schurk
Katie hails from the suburbs of Milwaukee, a city known as West Allis. If you find yourself passing through there, please don’t judge. She ventured to Green Bay to pursue a degree in Communications at UW Green Bay and is still in the process of pursuing.
If UW Green Bay is reading this and would like to give Katie an “honorary degree” I am sure she would happily accept. It was there she got her job as an intern of the Murphy in the Morning show. She is the only intern who has ever made a contract and forced Murphy to sign it promoting her to full time intern. Eventually she was upgraded to show cohost and has been since 2005. Murphy has been in her life longer than any other man, whether he wanted to be or not.
She likes to dabble in the lives of celebrities and sometimes forget she isn’t actually friends with them, and yes, she is as obsessed with Justin Bieber as she portrays. She lives in Kaukauna with her husband, fondly referred to as the Diesel, and son, Brody.
Here is the video link of Katie Schurk discussing her role in music:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vT0Gqtgx9qnjAchddtlCJbZ5OgHdBZcv/view?usp=sharing
After viewing the video link, select this link to ask Katie Schurk any questions you have about her career in music:
Maria Van Laanen - May 5th
Maria S. Van Laanen is the president of the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center and has been with the Center since 2001. Maria draws on her more than 25 years of experience in arts management as she brings a variety of groups together in the Fox Valley region, the State of Wisconsin and throughout the country to build programs based in live performing arts to explore the intersectionality of the arts in education, civic engagement and community building.
Maria is a Tony voting member of The Broadway League where she is a member of their Board of Governors, The National Highschool Musical Theater Advisory Board and serves on the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Government Relations committees. Locally, Maria is the vice-chair of the YMCA-Appleton, a member of Imagine Fox Cities’ Belonging Group as well as many other local boards and advisory committees.
Here is the video link of Maria Van Laanen discussing her role in music:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EO_XmaFXF0l7RoVIXmUWV2OZ4sstRNPT/view?usp=sharing
After viewing the video link, select this link to ask Maria Van Laanen any questions you have about her career in music:
Emily Baumgart - May 12th
Emily Baumgart is a PhD candidate in musicology at Indiana University and an Archives Processing Technician at the Library of Congress, Music Division. Originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she holds a bachelor’s degree in Music History and Theory from the University of Wisconsin in Whitewater, an M.M. Music Theory and M.A. Musicology from Michigan State University, and a Master’s in Library Science from Indiana University. Her research centers on relationships of aural and visual stimuli in film with a focus on audience perception and on-screen musical performance, as well as practices of appraisal and access in audio-visual archives. Her dissertation titled “Musicus Fictus: Fictional Musicians on Screen and Their Control Over Narrative through Diegetic and Nondiegetic Musics” is in-progress, and she knows how to ask if she can pet your dog in seven languages.
Here is the video link of Emily Baumgart discussing her role in music:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VVO2iFUXX45YKkMxOw0MI0Ai3R-OdwL4/view?usp=sharing
After viewing the video link, select this link to ask Emily Baumgart any questions you have about her career in music:
Kim Shefchik - May 19th
Kim Shefchik - May 19th
Kim began her music career singing to the cows at her family’s dairy farm, and then lasted a whole semester as a music major. Her “real job” is as a PA at Bellin Health Generations working in Women’s Health and primary care for nearly 20 years. She keeps her musical dreams alive by participating in an annual show and performance at the Weidner Center in Green Bay, with area non-profit Doctors In Recital. She is currently Chair of the Board of Directors for Doctors in Recital and the organization has raised over half a million dollars in the past 14 years. She also enjoys singing and playing piano with her music ministry at church. She encourages all those with a passion for music to keep at it, as it certainly brings joy to others, but also making music has been scientifically proven to improve mental health, prevent dementia, and lessen progression of brain diseases in general. Music is life!
Here is the video link of Kim Shefchik discussing her role in music:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WcrxCa1m6avB071UHPND8xjGaRqMuFll/view?usp=sharing
After viewing the video link, select this link to ask Kim any questions you have about her career in music:
C418 AKA Daniel Rosenfeld - May 26th
Composer and producer Daniel Rosenfeld is perhaps known most through Minecraft, an independent video game so popular that its original PC version registered 100 million users within two-and-a-half years. Known as C418, Rosenfeld was born in East Germany just prior to reunification and learned to make music with digital audio workstations like Ableton Live. By November 2011, when the full version of Minecraft was issued, Rosenfeld had built a modest discography. His releases, all instrumental, ranged from melodic electronic dance-pop to austere pieces that recalled the gentler output of early ambient music masters like Brian Eno and Roedelius. After self-releasing a few albums quietly to streaming services and his Bandcamp page, including Minecraft Volume Alpha and Minecraft Volume Beta, Rosenfeld partnered with Ghostly International in 2015 to reissue Minecraft Volume Alpha on vinyl and CD. The release garnered attention from proper music critics and the gaming community alike. “C418's catalog has leapt from its Javascript home straight into my heart.” shared VICE.
His latest solo effort, Excursions, contains all new original material, created with a different approach than previous releases. “All the big loud housey songs came from the idea of ‘I want to create the same song over and over again’,” shared Rosenfeld, “except that I've created each one in a different location, or a different mindset. And just purely based on that, they all turned out unique in their own way.” The album will be out digitally on July 20, 2018. Rosenfeld’s legacy does not end with Minecraft, and what’s in store next is not to be missed.
Here is the video link of C418 AKA Daniel Rosenfeld discussing his role in music:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BLQ6x0gSHvmRFRbShQNrCO3Q1DXCuZCg/view?usp=sharing
After viewing the video link, select this link to ask C418 AKA Daniel Rosenfeld any questions you have about his career in music:
YOU!
After viewing twelve wonderful careers in music, think about your own life after high school. Explore online and then write about opportunities you will have in music in the community, college, armed forces, or career that you decide. Use the following link to write your ideas.
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