Ballard received his musical training from Chicago Musical College in Voice (B. Mus.) and Theory (M. Mus) and Northwestern University in Music History and Literature (Ph.D). His experience as a Director of Choral Activities have been extensive. He served as Director of Choral Organizations and Asst. Prof. of Choral Literature at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, from 1954-1970, was Head of the Music Department and Director of Sixth Form Studies at Ely High School, Ely, Cambridge, England, and from 1970-71, Director of the Centenary College Choir and Associate Prof. of Music History and Conducting at Centenary College of Louisiana from 1972-74. Following this he was the Music Director of the San Francisco Boys Chorus from 1974-85 and then formed a new choir, The Singing Boys of San Francisco Bay, in 1985-1988. During these years, he also served churches as Director of Music in Waukegan, Chicago, Evanton, and Glencoe, Illinois, and founded The Tudor Singers (1946-1970), a professional ensemble and directed community choral organizations as well the Commonwealth Edison Choraliers (1954-64) and the Elgin Choral Union (1962-70).

Dr. Ballards assiduous study has produced editions of early music for modern performance of 6 major works by Italian mastersVecchi, Banchieri, Striggio, Gagliano, Monteverdi, Janequin and Marenzio, four of which have also been translated for singing in English. Published articles may be found in The Choral Review, The School Musician, and Choristers Guild Letters.

Available LAmfiparnaso Editions from API 

Full Score AP-1705English and Italian texts
L'Amfiparnaso CD Recording AP-0086 CD
The Tudor Singers directed by William J. Ballard

Separate L'Amfiparnaso Selected Titles

A Tender Madrigal - sattb AP-1710
Come Here, Zannico - sattb AP-1707
I Want Your Daughter - sattb AP-1706
Knick Knack Knick Knock - sattb AP-1711
Lets Arrange the Wedding - ssatb AP-1709
Lifes Dearest Treasure - ssatb AP-1712
My Dear Captain - sattb AP-1708

His father, Christian Godfried Belcke (1767-1838), bassoonist and flutist, was the Town Musician in Lucka for thirty-six years until his death. Friedrich was the pupil of his father and of Sachse, the Town Musician of Altenburg whose successor he became in 1811-1815. Friedrich joined the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in 1815 and then obtained a permanent post in the Royal Orchestra in Berlin, where he remained from 1816 to 1858 until his retirement at the age of 63.

Upon retiring from the Berlin Royal Orchestra, he traveled extensively as a trombone virtuoso with his brother, Christian Gottlieb Belcke (1796-1875), flutist, who in 1841 had already become a pensioner from the Chamber Orchestra in Altenburg. He had played with them from 1834-1841. Prior to that, he too, was with the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig from 1819-1832, a shorter period than Friedrich whose tenure with them was forty-three years. One can only imagine the enjoyment these two musicians had traveling around making music in their golden years. Both brothers are known for having composed many good compositions for their respective instruments.

CONCERT DUETS (Suite for Trombones) arr. Joel Blahnik
AP-348 Bass Clef $15.
AP-348 Bass/Tenor Clef $15.

Ever since his student years, he has been interested in instrumentation and has devoted himself intensively to improving his skill in making arrangements and composing. Of the well-known concert music he has orchestrated are the Overture to the Bartered Bride by Bedrich Smetana, Ravel’s Bolero, and the Symphonic Dances from Bernstein’s West Side Story. His works are frequently performed at brass band concerts in the Czech Republic as well as in other countries. As conductor, he has made many concert band recordings for the radio and recording companies. His compositions appear on programs of many world-famous wind ensembles.

While principal conductor of the Czech Central Army Band from 1987 until 1999, Be“lohoubek increased its repertoire substantially and took part in its many successful tours to foreign countries. With this magnificent symphonic wind band, he performed annually at the internationally renowned Prague Spring Music Festival held in May. Under hisguidance, ever new and different composers and harmonizations have gained acceptance into the repertoire for concert winds. Since 2000, he continues to be a freelance composer and director enjoying the opportunity of guest conducting in many countries.

BATTALIA FOR BAND (1673), arr. Joel Blahnik
AP-609 Set $50.
AP-609 Score $10.

On May 28, 1999, Marilyn completed the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Minnesota, where she was a Brown/Hutchinson Scholar. She began working on her DMA in 1994 at the University of Connecticut where she was in the conducting/theory program, finishing as an organ performance major. She holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in organ performance from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Marilyn’s professional positions include being Region VI Coordinator for Professional Concerns for the American Guild of Organists and being Director of the AGO National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance. Her music/texts are published by Oregon Catholic Press, GIA, MorningStar and Alliance Publications, Inc.

Gentle Grace is a work for a cappella choir written by Marilyn Biery which is compelling and beautifully expressive. It utilizes one of her favorite Early American tunes, TENDER THOUGHT. Composed and written from the heart, it is a text which needs to be felt to be authentic and musically convincing. The change in ms. 43 to duple-meter surges with dancelike feelings and brings joy and confidence filled with hope—a buoyancy to anyone’s spirit.

On weekends she went into Chicago to study under Professor Videk at the American Conservatory in Chicago. After fourteen years, she was the first woman and first religious sister to receive degrees in music and music theory. Her work was highly esteemed at this time and from 1921-1931, a number of her compositions were published by the Clayton F. Summy and Boston Music companies.

At this time, the head of the American Conservatory sent some of her manuscripts to Ottorino Respighi in Rome. Under his tutelage she was the recipient of the American Scholarship for a 3-year study of orchestration and symphonic composition in Rome (1933-36). Respighi, a master linguist, also, who spoke 14 languages, assessed her work as ‘very, very sensitive.’

Along with four male students, Sister Edward , at the age of 46, was among Respighi’s private students meeting in his home three days each week. (She met Horowitz during this residency and noted his eccentricity). Respighi invited her to conduct in her ‘white costume’ (Dominican Sisters wore white habits and black veils), but Sister Edward declined the invitation, feeling not fully qualified. When Respighi died in 1936, Nadia Boulanger, aware of Sister Edward as one of his students, invited Sister to join her Studio in Paris at the Ecole Normale de Musique. Through Boulanger, Sister Edward met Igor Stravinsky who invited her to join his 5 male students who dined with him every noon and developed a life-long friendship. Later, Stravinsky’s son, Soulima, maintained their friendship ’til the time of Sister’s death at Sinsinawa in 1987.

Sister Edward was a faculty member at Rosary College (1923-32,1936-41) and Edgewood College in Madison (1943-1950). In 1944, she hosted Stravinsky for a presentation entitled “Composing, Performing, Listening”. Mermbers of the Madison Pro Arte Quartet participated in his presentation. It is said that Stravinsky asked her to conduct the Chicago Symphony but she declined, preferring to sit with Mrs. Rockefeller, Sr. in her box.

From 1941 until 1944 while Nadia taught at Radcliffe, Harvard, Indiana University, or Stanford during the academic year, she came to Sinsinawa Mound each summer to teach music to the Sisters.

Sister Mary Edward was a woman with a unique charisma as well as a very artistic temperament. Stravinsky indicated that she had made a great impact upon the spiritual life of Nadia Boulanger. By her forthrightness, she ‘had reached her’ and Nadia chose to return to the Church after an absence of 35 years. From then on, no matter where Nadia was in the world, she wrote to Sister Edward every 3 weeks up until her own death in 1979.

Sister Edward came to teach and live at Sinsinawa Mound in 1950. This 63-year old Sister traveled extensively for at least 10 years, giving Fine Arts lectures in high schools staffed by the Sinsinawa Dominicans. She was able to hold a class spell-bound by her poetic and philosophical insights, gleaned from her deep acquaintance with the humanities. One such statement was: “We face death with none of our business accomplished, for living is distraction disguised as important actions.” She died at the age of 100 on January 7, 1987, and is buried in the Sinsinawa Mound Cemetery.

Mary Edward Blackwell’s music needs no apologies—it stands firmly on its own merits as being unique during an era when the music compositional world was male-dominated. This fact may also give a partial explanation for the unique relationship of Sister Edward with Nadia Boulanger. It is a distinct honor for Alliance Publications, Inc., with its publishing studio at Sinsinawa, to bring to light the music of this talented composer and teacher. We look forward to bringing other compositions of this eccentric, totally artistic woman, into print. In conjunction with this publication, we enclose a few poems of hers. As we move from one generation to another, the legacy of Sister Mary Edward Blackwell is being transmitted by one of her grateful piano students, Anita Smisek, O.P., Co-Founder and Editor of Alliance Publications, Inc., and Sinsinawa Studios Productions.

THE SPANISH GUITAR, Vladislav Bla;ha, Guitarist (de Falla, Albeniz, Rodrigo, Llobet, Granados) 59:50 AP-022 CD $15. PeHY Records

VLADISLAV BLAHA PLAYS SUITES BY BACH AND WEISS, (Bach-Suite #3, A minor; Weiss-Suites #1-D minor, #14 D Major) AP-023 CD $15. Pronto 0 008 Guitarist from Brno, Czech Republic

Originally scored for three violins as a Christmas nocturno, this musical gem was edited by Joel Blahnik for different instrumental trios because of its adaptability, musical challenge and beauty.

NOCTURNO, Zdenek Blaha AP-433 Violin Trio / String Trio $5.

NOCTURNO, Zdenek Blaha, arr. Joel Blahnik AP-232 Clarinet Trio $5. AP-321 Flute Trio $5. AP-440 Mixed String Trio $5. AP-202 Sax Trio $5. AP-347 Trombone Trio $5. AP-201 WW Trio $5.

As a composer, his works have been featured at national composer symposiums and international festivals, and appear on state and international music education selected lists. His works have been recorded by state, national and foreign radio and TV. As an author, his writings have appeared in state, national and international journals.

As a conductor, his student ensembles have distinguished themselves at state convention events including three performances at the celebrated Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic. He has served many years as a clinician for state adjudication workshops, related-arts festivals, music camps and other music activities from elementary schools to world professional ensembles.

Since 1988, he has been called to a great deal of musical activity in the Czech Republic. This includes guest conducting student, amateur, and professional ensembles, co-founding the Prague Youth Wind Ensemble Festival, and networking with Czech musical artists and composers.

The counter melody to his teaching is the water where he has served 41 years as a U.S. Coast Guard licensed skipper on the Great Lakes. Since 1975, he has also been the Chambers Island Lighthouse caretaker and historian. He and his wife, Mary Ann, have a family of three children.

His collaborative endeavors with various colleagues have been applauded, including the formation of the Czech Music Alliance, a professional partnership with Anita Smisek of the Sinsinawa Dominicans. In 1989, they established Alliance Publications, Inc., a desk-top music publishing company for the furtherance of old and new Czecho-Slovak music, as well as educational and religious music of contemporary composers. Since 1993, Blahnik has embarked upon a career as a free-lance composer/clinician and music publisher, often drawing inspiratiion from his musical heritage.

AIR - Bach/arr. Blahnik AP-200 Woodwind Choir $20.

ANTIPHONAL FANFARE, V. Leisring/arr. Joel Blahnik AP-320 Dbl Br Qt $10. AP-219 Dbl Sax Qt $10.

ARIA PASTORALIS - M. Linha/arr. Blahniik AP-125 Sop/Ten Solo & Stg Trio & Cont $14.95 AP-234 Oboe Solo, Strings, Continuo $14.95

BATTALIA FOR STRINGS Set AP-409 $40 Score AP-499 Sc $10.

BATTALIA FOR BAND AP-609 Set $50. AP-609 Score $10.

BOHEMIAN MARCH - Brass Quintet AP-314 $7.

BOUND FOR THE PROMISED LAND, Dan Krunnfusz/arr. Blahnik AP-341 Br Duet $8.95 AP-233 Clnt Duet $4.95 AP-236 Sax Duet $5.00

CELEBRATION OF PRAISE - BAND AP-608 rental Gr 4 (10:00)

CEREMONIAL HORNS, Jan Zelenka/arr. Blahnik AP-361 F Hn Qt/Timpani $15.

CHRISTMAS RHAPSODY FOR BAND AP-607 Rental Gr 4 (12:00)

CONCERTINO FOR PERCUSSIONIST & CHAMBER WINDS AP-700 Set $50. Sc $15. (15:30)

CZECH AND SLOVAK NATIONAL ANTHEMS AP-163 Pno Score $3. Voc .75 AP-603 Band Set $15.

CONCERT DUETS (Suite for Trbns), Belcke/arr.Blahnik AP-348 Bass Clef $15. AP-348 Bass/Tenor Clef $15.

CZECH HYMN (GAUDEAMUS PARITER) Brass Qt AP-324 $7.

CZECH SUITE AP-207 Flute Trio $15. AP-221 Sax Trio$12. AP-414 String Trio $12. AP-312 Trombone Trio$12. AP-323 Trumpet Trio$12. AP-403 Violin Trio $12. AP-224 Woodwind Trio $12. AP-311 Tuba Trio $12.

CZECH TROMBONE TREASURES - 33 Trbn Qt pieces from Prague Trbns, New Prague Trbns, and Encore! Prague Trbns collections recorded by St. Olaf College Trombone Choir, Paul Niemisto, conductor AP-003 CS $10.

DIALOGUE AP-251 Al & Ten Sax Duet $6. AP-252 Bb Clnt & Al Sax Duet $6. AP-356 Bb Trp & Trb Duet $6. AP-250 Fl & Bb Clnt Duet $6. AP-360 Fl & Bb Trp Duet $6.

DIE WEIHNACHT, Brass Quintet AP-321 $7.

EASTER FANFARE AP-139 SATB/Org &/or Br Qt $1.10 AP-1069 2-part Voc/Org/Br Qt $1.10

ELEGY for ORCHESTRA AP-418 $65. Sc $15. (6:30)

ENCORE! PRAGUE TROMBONES - Trombone Quartet AP-300 Set $20.

FANFARE & MARCH - Duet AP-354 Trp & Trb/Org $5. AP-253 Sax Duet $5.

FANFARE AND PROCESSIONAL - Symphonic Band AP-623 Set $60. Sc $15. Gr 3 (2:30)

FINALE, Zdenek Lukas - Symphonic Band AP-617 $50. Gr 5 (4:30)

FROM TENDER STEM - Symphonic Band AP-626 Set $80. Gr 2 & 4 Sc $15. (8:55)

FUNERAL MARCH - Brass Quintet AP-304 $7.

GOD REST YE MERRY, GENTLEMEN AP-317 Fanfare and Prelude for Brass Quintet $15.

GOIN' HOME, Antonin Dvorak AP-227 Bb & Eb Instr $4.95 (Trpt, Clnt, Tenr Sax & Eb Sax & Bari Sax) AP-410 Cello Qt $5. AP-337 Cello and Piano $4.95 AP-336 French Horn and Piano $4.95 AP-411 Mixed String Quartet $5. AP-124 SATB a cappella $1.25 AP-316 Trombone Quartet $ 5. AP-337 Trbn, Bsn, Bari or Tba & Pno $4.95 AP-425 Violin and Piano $4.95 AP-162 Vocal Solo and Piano $4.

GOOD LAND - WAU TOMA for Band AP-614 Set $70. Sc $15.

GREEN BAY PACKERS' FIGHT SONG - Band AP-624-2 Gr 2 Band $25. AP-624-4 Gr 4 Band $25.

HAIL TO ALL THE SAINTS - SATB/Br Qnt/Pcn/Org AP-140 V oct. $2.25 AP-140 Pts - Instl Set $15. AP-140 Sc Conductor Sc $10.

HALLMARK - Symphonic Band, J. Marsik AP-627 Set $85. Sc $15. (4:30)

HARMONIA ROMANA-1669, P. Vejvanovsky/arr. Blahnik AP-306 Br Quintet/Org $12.

HEJ, KOLEDA! HEY, HEY, CHRISTMAS DAY! Voc/Pno AP-130 $4. Br Qnt AP-307 $15. WW Qnt AP-206 $15.

HOSANNA AP-137 SATB/2 Trpt/Organ $1.10 AP-1070 2-pt Vocal/Org/Br $1.10

I AM A FINE MUSICIAN - Band/Orch AP-622 Set $25.

I AM THE GLAD EARTH, Harmon/arr. Blahnik AP-621 Set for Band $50. Sc $5.

INVENTION NO. 1 for Band AP-610 Set $50. Sc $10.

INVENTION NO. 2 for Band AP-611 Set $60. Sc $15.

INVENTION NO. 3 for Band AP-604 Set $50. Sc $15.

KVAPIK-GALOP AP-305 Tuba Trio & Drum Set, opt $8. AP-322 2 Trbn & Tuba/Trb & Drum Set $8. AP-326 2 Trp & Tuba/Trb & Drum Set $8.

KYRIE, Marie Antoinette Hogan/arr. Blahnik AP-189 SSA/org $1.10

LARGO AND FINALE, Antonin Dvorak AP-618 Band Set $40. Sc $5. AP-331 Brass Choir and Percusn, opt. $20. AP-319 Brass Quartet $8. AP-407 Orchestra Set $30. AP-211 Saxophone Quartet $8. AP-408 String Choir $15. AP-302 Trombone Quartet $8. AP-226 WW Quartet $8.

LENTEN HYMNS FROM OLD CZECH TUNES (4) AP-173 2-4pt Voc/Org $3.

MISSISSIPPI: TONE POEM FOR BAND AP-602 Set $45. Sc $8. Gr 2-3 (8:40)

MORNING SUNRISE (12-part instl based onVictimae Paschali laudes) AP-345 Brass Choir $30. AP-208 Flute Choir $30. AP-442 Violin Choir $30.

NEW PRAGUE TROMBONES - Trombone Quartet AP-328 Set $15.

NEW PRAGUE TRUMPETS, Jan Zelenka/arr. Blahnik AP-333 Bb Trp Qt/Timpani $15.

NIGHTINGALE (Slavicek, Pastorella, 18th c.), J J Ryba/ed. Blahnik AP-126 Sop/Flute/Violin/Piano (Eng & Cz wds) $6. AP-235 Solo Bass Clef Instr/Fl/Violin/Piano $8.

NOCTURNO, Zdenek Blaha, arr. Joel Blahnik AP-232 Clarinet Trio $5. AP-321 Flute Trio $5. AP-440 Mixed String Trio $5. AP-202 Sax Trio $5. AP-347 Trombone Trio $5. AP-201 WW Trio $5.

PASTORALE FOR FRENCH HORN & WW CHOIR, Jiri Pauer/arr. Blahnik AP-334 F Hn Solo/WW choir $30.

PEACE, I ASK OF THEE, O RIVER AP-1139 SATB .85

PRAGUE TROMBONES - Trombone Quartet AP-327 Set $15.

PRELUDE AND FUGUE FOR PERCUSSION QUARTET, Ed Doemland/ed. Blahnik AP-703 Pcn Qt $15.

QUARTET NO. 3 Weber/arr. Blahnik AP-325 Fr Hn Qt $12.

QUIET THE NIGHT - Noc Tichounka, Tomas Hynek/arr. Blahnik AP-104 Voc duet /Fl &Pno (Cz & Eng wds by A Smisek) $6.

REGINA COELI - Dbl SATB Choir, Cello, Stg Bass, Organ AP-100 Score and Instl Parts $12. AP-100 V SATB Choir score $2.50

RHAPSODY - WW, Stgs, Harp, Mary Edward Blackwell/ed. Blahnik AP-427 $65.

SIX CEREMONIAL FANFARES for BAND AP-612 $12.

SLAVA FANFARE - Trp Qt AP-330 $8.

SLAVA! A CELEBRATION FOR BAND AP-619 Set $80. Sc $15.

SLAVA! A CELEBRATION FOR SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA AP-400 Set $80. Sc $15.

SLAVIC MINIATURES FOR SYMPHONIC BAND AP-615 Set $95. Sc $20. (15:20)

SLEEP, LITTLE JESUS BOY - Voc, Fl, Gtr/Kybd AP-103 $1.25

SLINGIN' ALONG - Elem Band AP-606 rental Gr 2 (3:00)

STAR-SPANGLED BANNER - in Concert Eb - Band AP-625 Gr 3-4 $25.

SYMPHONIA DE NATIVITATE for Orchestra AP-416 Set $40. Sc $10.

THREE SLAVONIC DANCES, Antonin Dvorak Brass Quartet AP-309 $15. Cello Quartet AP-412 $15. Mixed String Quartet AP-413 $15. Saxophone Quartet AP-331 $15. Trombone Quartet AP-308 $15. Woodwind Quartet AP-225 $15.

TRIPHONICS for Double Br Qt & Organ, Czernohorsky, arr. Blahnik AP-303 $15.

TRIPHONICS for Symphonic Band, Czernohorsky, arr. Blahnik AP-605 $60. Gr 3-4 (2:40)

TWO BEAUTIFUL COUNTRIES AP-601 Band $25. AP-423 Orch $25. AP-1131 SATB oct .85

TWO PATRIOTIC HYMNS AP-362 Trbn Qt $8.

His melodic style is characterized by repetition of short phrases, the use of triadic or scalic figures, the symmetry of rthythmic structure, and above all , the delicate detail, with finely moulded lines elaborated with trills or appogiaturas.

This was a composer of uncommon ingenuity and enterprise in the handling of musical materials.

She taught at the Janacek Academy in Brno and, in the 90s, at the CCM in Cincinnati, Ohio as Composer in Residence from 1994-95 and 1995-96.

Since the early 80s, her works have been performed on all the continents, even in the Antarctic where her Homage to Columbus for guitar was heard in 1997. She has received several competition prizes (Mannheim, Czech Radio Prague) and many prestigious commissions, the latest from the Warwick Festival —Terezin Ghetto Requiem - Kampa Quartet - 1998, Ama me for Baritone and Piano - 1999, from Buenos Aires for Concierto de Estío for Guitar and Orchestra 1999, Saturnalia for Orchestra, Bochum, 1999. After the great success of Terezin Ghetto Requiem, the International Festival Prague Spring commissioned from her the oratorio, Judas Maccabeus, for a performance in St.Vitus Cathedral (Prague) in 2002.

Concerto dei fiori for Violin and Strings was premiered at Prague Spring Festival 1997 , then performed in USA in 1998/ and in the PONTES Festival, Prague 1998/. Terezin Ghetto Requiem for Baritone and String Quartet was performed at the Warwick and Leamington Festival in July 1998, Wigmore Hall in London in October 1998, again in Warwick in July 1999, at other festivals in UK, in Berlin 8.XI. 1999, in Halle, Theresienstadt, at the Prague Spring Festival 2000, Coventry and Huddersfield /UK, November 2000/.

Sylvie Bodorova is member of Quattro, a group of four prestigious Czech composers—Otmar Macha, Lubos Fiser, and Zdenek Lukas. She is involved in the restoration project of the Gustav Mahler birthplace in Kaliti.

She has composed and arranged many compositions for children. Her attention is often drawn by Johann Sebastian Bach’s music quotation of his chorale Schmulke dich o liebe Seele at the end of Concerto dei fiori and transcriptions of Preludium c moll from the Well-Tempered Clavier and Toccata d minor, as well as by Gypsy and East European rhythms of her Hungarian ancestors.

Laugaricio is the Latin name of a town in Slovakia of the contemporary city of Trencin. It was one of the most northern Roman fortresses behind the Limes Romanus which means behind Danube. The Roman soldiers made a very big inscription on a rock there in the second century. It has remained to this day with the words describing the Roman situation and the number of roman army etc. If you visit Slovakia, you can see it for yourself. This is probably one of the most important memorials and witness of Roman influence in the teritory of Slovakia at the beginning of the first millenium.

SELECTED WORKS Orchestral and Concerto works Plankty Passion Plays, Music for viola and symphony orchestra (1982) Struggle with the Angel, a melodrama for a male voice and strings on poems by Jaroslav Seifert (1982) Pontem video, Concerto for organ, strings and percussion (1983) Tre canzoni da suonare for guitar and strings (1985) Messaggio, Concerto for violin and symphony orchestra (1989) Dona nobis lucem for soprano, violin, guitar and strings (1994) Concerto dei Fiori, Concerto for violin and strings (chamber version with piano) (1996) Concierto de Estío for guitar and strings(1999) also version for guitar and string quartet Saturnalia per orchestra grande (1999/) Chamber music Summer Scents, Mini attacca for Flute and Piano (1976) Gila Rome, Meditation for Viola Solo (1980) Dignitas homini, String Quartet No 1 (1987) Homage to Christopher Columbus - Elegy for Guitar Solo (1988) Sostar mange, Gypsy ballad for Guitar Solo (1991) Ancora una volta primavera for violin and piano (1992) Ventimiglia for Trumpet (Soprano) and six Percussion Players (1992) La Speranza for Clarinet, Cello and Piano (1993) Terezin Ghetto Requiem for Baritone and String Quartet (1998) Ama me, Song cycle for Voice and Piano or Harp (1999) Shofarot, String Quartet (2000) Musica dedicata di Due Boemi di Praga (1980) Saluti da Siena per clarinetto solo (1981) Fade Outs: Fresque for Piano Trio (1983) Anvils, Meditation for Due Boemi di Praga and wind Quintet (1984) Panamodes for flute and piano or string orchestra (1986) Magikon for oboe and piano or string orchestra (1987) Lethe, Flute Solo (1989) Dala more, Gypsy Ballad for Violin Solo (1990) Rosa triste per violino solo (1993) Laugaricio per fagotto solo (1994) Helios per flauto, oboe, fagotto, violoncello e cembalo also flauto, violino, violoncello e pianoforte (1994) web site: www. arcodiva. cz//see quattro website: http://www.bodorova.cz/ e mail: arcodiva@login.cz

While he was an organist and choir director, he maintained an active life in professional organizations—AGO, ACDA, ALCM, and Hymn Society of America—and actively contributed his leadership and gifts to staffing Lutheran worship conferences and workshops for children’s choirs. Throughout his life, composer Bouman created choral and organ compositions which have been published by Concordia, Augsburg, Boosey & Hawkes, GIA, MorningStar, Selah Music, Earthsongs, and Chorister’s Guild.

Tenderly Mary Sings to Sleep is a mixed choir and organ arrangement created during the summer of 1998 of a beloved Czech Christmas carol, Chtic aby spal. J. Michael Thompson requested it from Bouman for a CD recording published by Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN—Light from the East: Carols from Central and Eastern Europe which was performed by the Schola Cantorum of St. Peter’s in the Loop, Chicago, under his direction. The tune was written by 17th c South Bohemian church musician, Adam Michna, and is one of the most famous carols of the Czech people. Its English text was taken from the Give Glory hymnal of new hymns from Czech sources edited and compiled by Anita Smisek published by Alliance Publications (AP-118).

THREE PIECES, Pachelbel-Brahms-Bach / arr. Ray Ostwald
AP-339 Low Brass Ensemble $25.
AP-366 No. 2 for Br Qnt $10.

Dr. Brandvik joined the faculty of Bemidji State University in Bemidji, Minnesota in 1967, as Director of Choral Activities. He has conducted the Bemidji Choir in performances for the North Central and Northwest Division Conventions of the American Choral Directors Association as well as the National ACDA Convention in San Antonio; the Music Educators National Conference in Atlanta, Georgia; the Europa Cantat in Austria, France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Spain; and the Zimriya, World Festival of Choirs, in Israel.

The Burlington Northern Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award was awarded to Dr. Brandvik in 1991. Two years later, in 1993, he was named "Friend of the Arts" by the Bemidji Community Arts Council. In 1994, The American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota presented him with their highest honor, the “F. Melius Christiansen Award,” for lifetime achievement in choral music. Upon his retirement in 1998, he was named Professor Emeritus of Music at Bemidji State University. In 1999, he was inducted into the Minnesota Music Educators Association Hall of Fame.

He has conducted the Minnesota, Arkansas, and Montana All-State Choirs, the Nebraska Honors Choir, and has presented lecture- demonstrations for the state and national conventions of the Music Educators National Conference, the American Choral Directors Association, and the international convention of the International Society for Music Education. He has guest conducted at over 100 festivals and workshops in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, New York, Florida, Indiana, Alaska, Virginia, England, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, France, Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Spain, and Israel. For eight summers he taught at the International Choir Conductors Course in Belgium.

In addition to his conducting activities, Dr. Brandvik has composed, edited, or arranged over fifty works for choirs, is president of Knight-Shtick Press, has published twenty-two Madrigal Dinner Scripts, a book on Madrigal Dinners entitled, The Compleet Madrigal Dinner Booke, and was a contributing author for the book, Up Front: Becoming the Complete Choral Conductor.

Dr. Brandvik's biography appears in the International Biographical Dictionary, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Music: Classical, The International Who's Who in Music, and Who’s Who in Entertainment.

MISSA DOMINICALIS in C for Mixed Choir, Soloists, Organ and Orchestra
AP-151 Vocal $3.
AP-153 Organ $4.
AP-153 Score $12.
AP-153 Set of Score & Instrumental Parts $46.

SCAPULIS SUIS -SATB Choir Motet
AP-154 $2.