Pelican Music Publishing would like to introduce you to our Composers   

Composers

1. Dr. Patricia D. Backhaus

2. Timothy J. Bowlby

3. Barton Cummings

4. Robert Denham

5. Erica Glenn

6. A. Oscar Haugland

7. Kenneth C. Henslee

8. Henry Hofmann

9. John Humphries

10. Mert Karabey

11. Aaron Keim

12. Steve Le Bel

13. Gregg Marolf

14. James Papanek

15. Michael Pariza

16. Kevin Petersen 

17. Lynn L. Petersen

18. Dale Pforr

19. Peter Rail

20. Daniel C. Schrader

21. Michael Sczerba, D.M.A.

22. Mort Shafer

23. Nicolas Sikaczowski

24. Charles J. Smith

25. Chris Teichler

26. Daniel Vendt

27. Robert L. Werntz Sr.

Dr. Patricia D. Backhaus

Patricia D. Backhaus is an internationally acclaimed trumpet and cornet soloist.  Pat has been a private studio teacher for over 20 years.  In addition, she has taught band music at every level.  She attended Carroll College in her hometown of Waukesha, WI where she earned her BA degree in Trumpet Performance.  She also holds a MM degree and a DMA degree, both in Trumpet Performance, from the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities.  Her most notable teachers were Dr. David Baldwin, Dr. Edgar Turrentine, Mr. Terry Bjorkland, and Elizabeth A.H. Green.  Dr. Paul E. Bierley and William H. Rehrig influenced her development as a music historian.  Byron Autrey, former Cornet Soloist of the Detroit Concert Band,  inspired her career as a cornet soloist.  Gladys Wright, Founder of Women Band Directors International, Inc. (WBDI) has been a mentor.

Dr. Backhaus has written for professional journals and magazines including “The Instrumentalist”, “Bandworld”, “The Journal of Band Research”, “The New York Brass Conference”, “The Woman Conductor”, “The National Band Association Journal”, “Windjammers” and the WMEA Journal.  She authored the method book Creative Practice.  She has presented clinics at state music educator meetings, several papers at the Great American Brass Band Festival, the Sonneck Society for American Music and WBDI.  In 2002 she was also a presenter at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic.  Dr. Backhaus is the current president of WBDI and a Council member of the Wisconsin Music Educators Association.  She is also a member of the International Trumpet Guild, National Band Association, and the Music Educators National Conference.  Pat is a National Arts Associate of Sigma Alpha Iota and the Alpha Sigma Chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society.  She is also on the Executive Board, and is a co-founder of Soli Deo Gloria Institute for the Arts, Inc. which is devoted to developing an appreciation for the arts in worship.

Patricia is an artist/clinician for the Getzen Company.  She has performed with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra, the Florentine Opera, Pamiro Symphony, Waukesha Symphony and Racine Symphony.  Along with keyboardist Valerie Floeter, she has produced 4 CD’s of outstanding hymntune based literature.   Backhaus and Floeter have toured to Germany twice and are preparing to return in August of 2003 when Pat will be the guest conductor for the Evangelical Free Church - Church Music Day held in Zwickau, Germany.  Click here for a complete list of Pat's works sold by Pelican Music.

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Timothy J. Bowlby

Timothy Bowlby  was born in Wolfville Nova Scotia (Canada) on 23 Dec. 1958. He holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Acadia University (Wolfville).Ý His principal composition teachers were Owen Stephens (Acadia), William Brooks, Morgan Powell, and Paul Martin Zonn; he has also studied with Brian Ferneyhough, Libby Larsen, Anea Lockwood, and Milton Babbitt.

Tim composes music in a number of styles for a wide variety of media, and his scores have been performed throughout the United States and in Canada.  Recent works include a trumpet ensemble piece inspired by the events of September 11 2001 which was commissioned by Ronald Romm (a former member of the Canadian Brass).  Tim is currently completing a trio for clarinet, violoncello and piano for a group in Huddersfield England.

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Barton Cummings

Barton Cummings enjoys a distinguished international musical career. Recognized as an author, composer, conductor, educator and performing artist, he has pursued these activities successfully for more than forty years.

His consistent and scholarly writing have produced three books, more than four hundred articles, scores of reviews and several editorship positions. His work is constantly citied in articles, books and dissertations by other authors.

The music of Barton Cummings has been performed throughout the world by such prominent artists and ensembles as Harvey Phillips, Mark Nelson, Mary Ann Craig, Fritz Kaenzig, Dennis Askew, Kenyon Wilson, Susan Bradley, Susan Nigro, James J. Pellerite, Jay Easton, Tony Clements, David Deason, Carson Coorman, Janet Polk, Jae Young Heo, San Jose (CA) Chamber Orchestra, Bowling Green State University Euphonium-Tuba Ensemble, Colonial Tuba Quartet, Meridian Arts Ensemble Brass Quintet, St. John’s Brass Quintet, Prima Toni, Tokyo Bari-Tuba Ensemble, University of Michigan Euphonium-Tuba Ensemble, New Castle Brass Ensemble, Harmonious Brass Choir, University of New Hampshire Concert Choir, University of the Pacific Wind Ensemble, University of Memphis Concert Band, University of North Carolina – Greensboro TubaBand, Georgia Honors Euphonium-Tuba Choir, University of Washington Wind Ensemble and The Chicago Symphonic Wind Ensemble.  Click here for a complete list of Barton's works sold by Pelican Music.

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Robert Denham

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Robert Denham holds a DMA in composition from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music CCM) where he studied with Michael Fiday, Joel Hoffman, and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon. His other degrees are from UCLA (MA Composition) where he studied with Roger Bourland, Ian Krouse, and the late Jerry Goldsmith, and Biola University (BM, Trumpet Performance). Mr. Denham managed the annual new music festival MusicX for four years, and currently teaches Theory and Composition at Northern Kentucky University.

Denham’s music includes works of every genre and has been performed across the United States and Europe by such performers and ensembles as Timothy Lees (Concertmaster, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra), the CCM Philharmonia, the Los Angeles Flute Quartet, the Orion Saxophone Quartet, the CCM Chamber Players, and the Academia Musicale di San Casciano Orchestra e Coro di bambini (Florence, Italy). Performances of his music include such notable venues as the 2006 SCI National Conference, Composers Inc., Culver City Chamber Music Series, the Pacific Contemporary Music Center (Long Beach CA), and the Ernest Bloch Festival (Newport OR). He has won numerous competitions, including the Hvar International Composition Competition (Croatia), the CCM Philharmonia Composition Competition,the Gluck Brass Quintet Composition Competition, and was the 1998 recipient of the coveted Stanley Wilson Composer’s Award (UCLA). For more information, visit the composer’s website at http://robertdenham.blogspot.com. Click here for a complete list of Robert's works sold by Pelican Music.

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Erica Glenn

Erica Glenn has composed for music ensembles ranging from brass quartets to string orchestras to musical theater choruses. As a child, she entered the BYU Composition Competition and took second place against contestants twice her age. Erica’s choral compositions have been performed by the Utah Children’s Choir, the PGHS Chamber Choir, and the Arizona State University Women’s Chorus. In 2004, her children’s musical, Between the Lines was awarded first prize in the VIP Arts Competition. One of Erica’s most recent compositions (a two piano/eight hand piece entitled Factal) was premiered on February 14, 2005, in ASU’s Katzin Concert Hall by the students of Walter Cosand (winner of the Eastman Concerto Competition). Erica is currently studying music composition at Arizona State University. Click here for a complete list of Erica's works sold by Pelican Music.

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A. Oscar Haugland

Haugland attended Drake University where he received a Bachelor of Music Education degree in 1943.  After serving three years in the 324th ASF Band, Aberdeen, MD as a French horn player, he went on to receive the Bachelor of Music degree in Composition from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL in 1947.  In 1948 Haugland received a Master of Music degree in Composition also from Northwestern University.  He studied Composition with Robert DeLaney. 

 He taught music theory, composition, and brass instruments at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WVA 1949-1952.  Attended Eastman School of Music 1952-1954 as a composition major and was a student of Howard Hanson, Herbert Elwell, and Bernard Rogers.  Awarded the Performer's Certificate on French horn in 1954.  Also held a Teaching Assistantship in music theory.  Received the DMA degree in composition in 1956. Then he returned to West Virginia University, Mogantown, WVA to teach music theory, composition, and French horn from 1956-1960.  Then he taught music theory and composition, at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 1960-1992.  Taught French horn 1960-1995.

 Haugland has composed for a great variety of musical media, both instrumental and choral.  Original works and arrangements have been published by M. M. Cole Publishing Co., Neil Kjos, Warner/Chappell, Brodt Music Company, Musikk Husett (Oslo, Norway), Willhelm Hansen Forlag (Denmark, Norway), Hoa Music Publisher, and Boosey&Hawkes.

 His works have been performed thoughout United States and in the foreign countries of Argentina, Belgium, Denmark, England, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland and Taiwan.  Click here for a complete list of Haugland's works sold by Pelican Music.

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Kenneth C. Henslee

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Henry Hofmann

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John Humphries

John Humphries was born in Sheffield, England and read musicology at Oxford University.  Subsequently he attended London’s Guildhall School of Music, where he studied the natural horn with Anthony Halstead.  His editions of horn music have been performed by many of the world’s leading horn players, including Barry Tuckwell, Michael Thompson, Eric Ruske, Anthony Halstead, Stephen Stirling and Frank Lloyd and his reconstructions of Mozart’s incomplete horn concerto movements have been praised for the “polish, authenticity, good scholarship and talent”.  He is also well known as an arranger.  One of his arrangements appears on the legendary London Horn Sound CD while others have been played worldwide.  His arrangements for young players appear on all the main examination syllabuses in the UK.  As a writer, he has contributed booklet notes for many CDs and program notes for hundreds of concerts.  He has contributed articles and reviews for The Horn Call, the Horn Magazine and Brass Bulletin.  His book, The Early horn, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2000 and has been described as “a superb book” “packed with usefulness” “Rarely can anything have been written on the early history of the horn that is quite as accessible and flowing.”  John is also a teacher and an examiner.  He lives in Surrey, England with his wife, son and daughter and his hobbies include collecting brass instruments and repairing them.  Click here for a complete list of John's works sold by Pelican Music.

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Mert Karabey

Mert was born in Ankara, in 1976.  He was encouraged by Professor İlhan Baran in his first composition studies.  Mert studied composition and orchestration with Bujor Hoinic at Bilkent University, Faculty of Music and Performing Arts (B.Mus.; 1999.) He went to England; studied composition with Martin Butler at the University of Sussex (M.A.; 2001.) He finished his proficiency in art (doctorate) studies at Bilkent University, Institute of Music and Performing Arts in May 2003.  Since September 2000, he has been teaching at Bilkent University. Apart from Turkey, some of his works were performed in Ukraine, Russia, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, USA and England

Click here for a complete list of Mert's works sold by Pelican Music.

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Aaron Keim

Aaron Keim is a hornist and double bassist living in Boulder, CO, pursuing a master's degree in Musicology from University of Colorado.  He graduated with honors from University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2002 with a degree in Music Education.  Aaron is a founding member of The Hyrus Brass Quintet, Quintette L’Etoiles and The Paradise String Band as well as a member of the Beloit-Janesville Symphony Orchestra.  Aaron’s music has been performed by faculty and students at UW-Whitewater and The Semplice Harbor School of Music as well as The Mukgwonago High School Band.  He has written chamber works for brass, winds, percussion and strings as well as works for jazz ensemble, wind ensemble and string orchestra.  Click here for a complete list of Aaron's works sold by Pelican Music.

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Steve Le Bel

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Gregg Marolf

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James Papanek

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Michael Pariza

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Kevin Petersen

Kevin Petersen graduated with a B.A. in Music Education from UW-Madison in 1982 and and continued on with Master studies in Trombone performance at UW-Milwaukee until becoming an Air Traffic Controller in 1985.  His trombone teachers were Bill Richardson and David Ruck.  Though he studied both classical and jazz styles, the last ten years have seen a definite progression towards jazz. He is a member and performs regularly with the Moonlight Jazz Orchestra (an eighteen piece Big Band jazz group, www.moonlightjazz.com), Clutch Cargo (an oldies rock band, www.clutchcargorocks.com), Opanjii (a smooth jazz group), and Bonedaddyz (a jazz trombone ensemble)  When he isn't controlling air traffic and performing, he is at home arranging or composing music.  Click here for a complete list of Kevin's works sold by Pelican Music.

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Lynn L. Petersen

Lynn L. Petersen grew up in Wisconsin and was one of five siblings in a musical family. She began piano lesson at the age of six with her mother as her first teacher, and showed an interest in composition and improvisation at an early age. While piano has always been her primary instrument, she has also studied organ, violin, and voice. She earned a B.S. in Elementary Education from Dr. Martin Luther College, a Master of Church Music degree from Concordia College-River Forest, and a Ph.D. in Music Theory and Composition from the University of Minnesota. Her composition teachers included Dominick Argento, Paul Fetler, Richard Hillert, Carl Schalk, and Richard Wienhorst. She currently holds the position of Associate Professor of music at Carroll College in Helena, Montana. Before arriving at Carroll she taught music at St. Olaf College, the University of Minnesota, and St. Cloud State University, and she held several church music positions in Minneapolis-St. Paul and Colorado Springs. In 2004 she was awarded a grant through the Myrna Loy Center Grants to Artists program to compose an original work for flute and organ for a performance in the Helena area. She was commissioned by Regions VIII & XI of the American Guild of Organists to arrange “Amazing Grace” for organ, which was performed at the Tabernacle on Temple Square during the AGO Regional Convention held in Salt Lake City in 2003. Other commissions include the University of Minnesota/Jerome Foundation and the Yavapai College Symphony Orchestra. Besides teaching at Carroll College and composing, she remains active as an organist and pianist in the Helena area, and she maintains a small studio of private piano students.  For more information on the composer please visit her website: https://www.carroll.edu/academics/arts/music/petersen/index.cc

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Dale Pforr

Dale Pforr is the Director of Music at Heritage Presbyterian Church USA in Muskego, Wisconsin. He directs the church Chancel Choir and conducts the Heritage Brass Ensemble made up of church and community members. He has worked, arranged, and written for church and school ensembles for over 45 years and has over 35 years of public school instrumental music teaching experience. He currently is active in studio teaching and vocal performance with the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus. He resides with his wife Barbara in Franklin Wisconsin.  Click here for a complete list of Dale's works sold by Pelican Music.

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Peter Rail

Peter D. Rail studied French horn and music theory with Herb Winslow (Principal horn, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra) and Kirsten Thelander (Director, Iowa school of music) at the University of New Mexico in the 1980s.  Today as a software designer, consultant and inventor with eleven patents, Pete transfers the concepts and discipline of software design to music composition and still finds time for horn choir in the Dallas area.  Click here for a complete list of Peter's works sold by Pelican Music.

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Daniel C. Schrader

Daniel Schrader is currently studying Music at Concordia University in River Forest, IL, specializing in music theory and composition.  He has studied under Dr. Jonathan Stahlke and Professor Jonathan Kohrs.  He has studied several instruments including Euphonium, French Horn, and Violin.  Students at Concordia University have performed Dan’s music since his freshman year.  He has written several pieces of music for a variety of ensembles including clarinet trio, brass choir, symphony orchestra, and is currently working on a piece for symphonic band.  Dan hopes to get his Masters and his Doctorate work done in the area of composition within the next ten years, and wishes to pursue a career teaching while he composes.  Click here for a complete list of Dan's works sold by Pelican Music.

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Michael Sczerba, D.M.A.(ASCAP)

Dr. Sczerba is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has conducted his research on the music of Stefan Wolpe and the music of India.  He enjoys writing music for a variety of ensembles, as well as music for solo instruments in jazz and non-jazz styles..  His mentors have included Charles Capwell, Guy Garnett, Erik Lund, Chip McNeill, John Melby, Pat Pace, Roland Paolucci, Morgan Powell, Nikola Resanovic, Paul Zonn and Alexander Ringer.

Recent performances of Sczerba’s work include those with the Society of Composers, Inc. in Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky, and also in recitals on the east coast (Keene State College) and at Urbana.  He has written commissions for the opening ceremony of Matthew House Chapel in Champaign, Illinois and for the Sound Speculations CD compilation of electro-acoustic music issued by the Experimental Music Studios at the University of Illinois.  Two of his compositions, Orbits for viola and Three Meditations for Tuba Alone, are published by Frank E. Warren Music Service of Sharon, MA. Sczerba's jazz saxophone ensemble arrangement of Rogers and Hart's Have You Met Miss Jones? is available from University of Northern Colorado Jazz Press.

Dr. Sczerba holds memberships with the American Composers Forum, Chicago Composers Forum, College Music Society, International Association for Jazz Education, Society of Composers, Inc., and SEAMUS.   Click here for a complete list of Michael's works sold by Pelican Music.

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Mort Shafer

Shafer’s musical career began at the age of 2 ½  by receiving a full scholarship to a new experimental class for the very young at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, IL.  He began private piano lesson at 6 and horn at 13 with H. E. Nutt at the VanderCook School of Music and then Harry Jacobs, 3^rd Horn of the Chicago Symphony.  At age 14, began playing in Chicago-area community orchestras including Olivet Institute, Garfield Park, Roosevelt College, Wilson Jr. College and First National Bank.  At age 16 began playing in the newly-reorganized Phoenix Symphony.  Entering Eastman School of Music at age 17, Mort studied with Arkady Yegudkin (“the General”).   

After Eastman, he was drafted and became a member of the 6^th Infantry Division Band at Fort Ord, CA and became 1^st horn of the Monterey Peninsula Symphony.  During this time, he began to teach horn privately.   Shafer’s performing career continued in 1953, when Shafer joined the Humanist Orchestra in Los Angeles (devoted to breaking down pattern of racial discrimination in Southern Calif. among symphony players, and drawing such talent as Ted Dale and Elmer Bernstein for conducting, Buddy Collette and Red Callendar as orchestra members, and many other regulars from the movie studio orchestras, with hornists including recently-deceased Gale Robinson, who was first horn with Universal Studios at the time.)  He then went on to join the Whittier Symphony in 1955 and the Downey Symphony and began teaching horn in 1956 in the Whittier area.  In 1965, he played under Elmer Bernstein again with the Valley Symphony in San Fernando Valley.  In 1968, he was hired to play 1^st horn in Victoria, B.C., Symphony, and returning in 1969, to play with the Santa Monica Symphony.   Shafer began playing in the Casa Italiana Opera Orchestra, in Los Angeles.  During this period, he also conducted for the Plummer Park Opera Workshop, Wilshire-Ebell Theater (Hollywood Opera Ensemble) and the Casa Italiana Opera.  In 1998, he moved to Seattle and joined the Emerald City Symphony and finally retired from performing in 1999. 

Shafer also had a successful career in teaching orchestra and band at Whaley Jr. High, Compton, CA and then Jr. High Band and Chorus in Rialto, CA with both ensembles rising to the top of their respective area

In 1969, he began his composing career.  He wrote several original compositions for full orchestra, including his “First Suite (the “Life Is” suite), “2^nd Suite”, and “Winning Number”, which is based on a telephone number of a sweetheart.  “Winning Number” was premiered in 1975 by the Pacific Palisades Symphony.  In 1976, Shafer was commissioned by the Cousteau Society to write the music for their forthcoming planned educational filmstrip, “A Day In The Life Of The Sea”, which he orchestrated for woodwind nonet.   However, the project was put aside due to objections by oil company sponsors.  Shafer was paid for the project by Jacques Cousteau himself.  The work, “A Day In The Life Of The Sea” was premiered in 1977 by players of the San Bernardino College Symphony and performed again in 2001 by the Pacific Chamber Ensemble.   In 1999, began composing horn ensemble arrangement for the Puget Sound Horn Society.  Shafer has previously been published by “The Hornist’s Nest”, but is now exclusively published by Pelican Music Publishing.  Click here for a complete list of Mort's works sold by Pelican Music.

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Nicolas Demetrius Sikaczowski

Nicolas Demetrius Sikaczowski started playing music when he was eight years old.  Though he has studied piano, saxophone and percussion, he began to study guitar, his primary instrument, at age 12.  At age 18, he began to study classical guitar.  Three months later, he received the Helen Wright Award for his classical guitar playing, and received the opportunity to perform at the Woodstock Opera House. 

Sikaczowski is currently attending Millikin University as a commercial music major, where he has studied composition with Dr. Jeff Morton, Dr. Jeremy Brunk, and Professor John Stafford, and studies guitar with Professor Manley Mallard.  Recently, he took leave from his studies at Millikin for a semester to study electronic music composition and philosophy at the University of Adelaide in Australia.

Nicolas has completed composing the full soundtracks for three Independent films, including one full-length film.  He recorded a CD, entitled “Underwater”, consisting of the soundtracks for these three films. He invites you to visit his website at  http://music_4_film.tripod.com.  Click here for a complete list of Sikaczowski's works sold by Pelican Music.

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Charles J. Smith

Charles Joseph Smith started playing the piano when he was 8 and composing music when he was ten.  His piano teachers included James Williams, Sophia Zukerman, Emilio del Rosario, Pawel Checinski, Sharon Rogers, Kenneth Drake, Gustavo Romero and William Heiles.  His composition teachers were Charlotte Lehnhoff and Sever Tipei.

Charles graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance at the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University (which is now the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts).  He also earned a Master of Music in Piano Performance and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

As a high school student, Charles was a frequently awarded musician.  For instance, in 1984, he won first place in the CAMTA (Chicago Area Music Teachers Association) piano contest.  He received the Zoltán Kodály Academy and Institute Honorary Award in 1987 at the Three Arts Club in Chicago—one of the youngest musicians to ever receive the award.  In 1988, he won first place in the Society of American Musicians (SAM) competition at Roosevelt University, in Chicago.  In the same year, he won first place in the Classical Music and Composition categories in the ACT-SO competition in Chicago.  He then represented ACT-SO in the national Competition in Washington D.C. and won second place in Classical Music.  In 1989, he took first place in the local competition in the same categories and again represented ACT-SO in the National Competition.  Then in 1990, he won the ACT-SO First Place Award in Musical Composition at the local level, and represented ACT-SO in the National Competition in Los Angeles.

During undergraduate studies at Roosevelt University, Charles earned a Franklin Honor Society Award.  In addition, he also was featured as a guest soloist with the South Side Family Chamber Orchestra on at least seven occasions, under conductors like Delano O’Banion and Terrance Gray.  They did performances of piano concertos from Beethoven, Mozart, and Edvard Grieg.  At one time, Charles and the orchestra performed outside the Daley Plaza in Chicago in July 1987.

He has also had success as a pianist abroad.  He attended the French Piano Institute in Paris in July 2000 and won an Honorable Mention in their final recital and competition.  He went to Italy in 2001 to compete in the IBLA Grand Prize International Competition in Sicily, where he won Honorable Mention for Musicianship.  In the same year, he also performed in a master class under the famous Hungarian pianist Csaba Király at the International Piano Master Class in Budapest.

In addition to his piano accomplishments, Charles also has an interest in creative writing, especially poetry.  He adores ballroom, Latin, and swing dancing, and his favorite dance is the salsa.  He also continues to compose music.  Click here for a complete list of Charles' works sold by Pelican Music.

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Chris Teichler

Chris Teichler began his musical studies at the age of 5, when he started piano lessons.  After completing high school he enrolled at the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music, where he earned a BM in composition.  He later earned an MM in composition from Northwestern University, where he is currently pursuing a Doctoral degree.

Chris' primary teachers in composition have been Howard Whitaker, Alan Stout, Steve Syverud and Jay Alan Yim.

Chris, his wife Sarah and their two sons, Daniel and Joshua, currently live in Bensenville, Illinois.  Click here for a complete list of Chris' works sold by Pelican Music.

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Daniel Vendt

Daniel Vendt is currently attending Illinois Wesleyan University, majoring in Music Composition and minoring in Computer Science.  Since starting piano at age 7, he has enjoyed performing and composing in many styles.  He has studied Trumpet under Ab Gunn and Yvonne Toll (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra) and studied French Horn under Steve Hanrahan (Illinois Symphony Orchestra), Nancy Shick, and Christine Worthing.  At Wesleyan, he enjoys studying composition with Dr. David Vayo and Dr. Mario Pelusi.

An Eagle Scout, Daniel enjoys many hobbies, including hiking, biking, building models, woodworking, blacksmithing, and reading.  Daniel is the Alumni Secretary of the Alpha Lambda chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the Treasurer of Phi Eta Sigma honor society, a co-founder of Illinois Wesleyan’s Composition Club, treasurer of IWU’s Kemp Hall (International House), and an active member of the Illinois & Indiana Antique Gas Engine and Tractor Club.