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Christian McGuire
email: mcgu0127@umn.edu
Personal Web sites:
http://www.myspace.com/christianmcguire
http://www.activebass.com/members/christianmcguire/
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Research interests
Education Memberships and Affiliations
American Composers Forum Center for Medieval Studies, UofM International Musicological Society * Cantus Planus - IMS Study Group Minnesota Chorale, baritone; elected singer representative to the board 2002-2003; 2003-2004 UJIVE - webmaster Teaching Experience MUS-319 - History of Western Art Music
I: Chant to Mozart Past Teaching Assistantships: Biography
Christian McGuire holds a Master of Arts in Musicology from the University of Minnesota and a BA in Philosophy with a minor in Latin and Ancient Greek from Luther College (Decorah, IA) having spent his junior year at the University of Nottingham, UK. His musical interests however reflect a lifetime love of all kinds of music. Since moving to the Twin Cities in 1993, he has worn many hats in the musical arena as educator, performer, conductor, composer, clinician, recording artist, and music retail manager (Schmitt Music in Maplewood from 1997-2001). Born into an extended family of career musicians, farmers and ranchers, he was raised in Hudson, Iowa. He learned to read music by turning pages for his father William F. McGuire, a professional organist and Director of Music at Nazareth Lutheran Church in Cedar Falls, IA who also provided him with his first lessons in counterpoint. His mother Esther E. (Rosfeld) McGuire is a former Nebraskan ‘cowgirl’ turned career music educator. She introduced him to the horn (‘the Rosfeld family instrument’) and ensured his exposure to all sorts of music ranging from Stevie Wonder, Parliament-Funkadelic, The Beatles, Kiss, Dave Brubeck, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Strauss and of course Mozart. In 1988 he was one of five recipients awarded the Iowa Scholarship for the Arts, which was presented to him by Governor Terry E. Brandstad. As an instrumentalist, Christian has formally studied horn with Thomas Tritle at the University of Northern Iowa and voice with Harriet McCleary at Saint Olaf College. He has also studied orchestration with Judith Lang Zaimont and electronic music composition with Dr. Christopher Hopkins at the University of Minnesota. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by jr. high, high school, and college choirs in a number of states. Since 2004, he has been the musicologist and author of the Minnesota Music Listening Contest Study Guide and is currently an instructor of Music History at the McNally-Smith College of Music in St. Paul, MN. As a performer, Christian began playing electric bass in 1983. His junior high band director rightly insisted that the jazz band needed a bassist, so he gave him Carol Kaye’s How to Play Electric Bass and a recording of Jaco Pastorius and said “Learn this.” Since then he has had a steady side career as an electric bassist playing with Nero’s House Band and Green Pyramids as well as with various progressive rock, southern-rock biker bands, bluegrass ensembles, and just about anyone else who needs a bassist / vocalist.. Today he can be found in various recording studios, musical theatre orchestra pits, big bands, rock bands etc. as bassist, or on stage at Orchestra Hall where he sings in the Minnesota Chorale, the official chorus of the Minnesota Orchestra, with his wife Krista Sandstrom. They live in St. Paul with their children (Soren & Birgitta), two tabby cats (Eddy & Mercury), and German shepherd (Athena).
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| PERFORMANCES and RECORDINGS Minnesota Chorale (baritone / tenor) 2001-present; Singer Representative to the Board of Directors, Fall 2002-2003, re-elected 2003-2004. Symphony No. 9, L. van Beethoven (December 2003) with the Minnesota Orchestra and Roberto Guerrero Porgy and Bess, Gershwin (August 2003) with the Minnesota Orchestra and Andrew Litton Symphony No. 8, Gustav Mahler (May 2003) with the Minnesota Orchestra and James Conlon The Adventures of the Black Dot, Vandervelde and McGuire (March 2003) with Kathy Saltzman Romey -staged production at Ted Mann Concert Hall Recording session with Grammy award winner Steven Barnett Symphony No. 9, L. van Beethoven (December 2002) Schicksalslied, Brahms with the Minnesota Orchestra and Marek Janowski Doc's Hollidays (December 2002) Holiday Pops concert with Doc Severinsen directing the Minnesota Orchestra Alexander Nevsky Cantata, Prokofiev (November 2002) with the Minnesota Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin Garden of Light, Aaron Jay Kernis (September 2002) with the Minnesota Orchestra and Yakov Kreizburg WORLD CHORAL SYMPOSIUM VI (Summer of 2002) Symphony No. 2, Gustav Mahler (May 2002) with the Minnesota Orchestra and Eiji Oue North Meets South: A Celebration of the Americas (April 2002) with Schola Cantorum de Caracas, Maria Guinand and Kathy Saltzman Romey Daphnis and Chloe, Maurice Ravel (February 2002) with the Minnesota Orchestra and David Robertson Jingle Bell Doc (December 2001) Holiday Pops concert with Doc Severinsen directing the Minnesota Orchestra Symphony No. 9, L. van Beethoven (December 2001) a benefit for the Robert Smith Foundation with the Minnesota Orchestra Gurrelieder, Arnold Schoenberg (October 2001) with the Minnesota Orchestra under direction of Eiji Oue Elegy - a benefit concert for September 11 (October 2001) A benefit concert for the September 11 Under the joint direction of Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Andreas Delfs with a combined orchestra comprising the Minnesota Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and a combined Choir of the Minnesota Chorale, Minnesota Opera, Dale Warland Singers We are Shadows, Judith Wier (March 2001) American premier with Minnesota Orchestra Joan of Arc at the Stake, A. Honnegger (March 2001) with the Minnesota Orchestra under direction of Helmut Rilling OTHER PERFORMANCE AND STUDIO EXPERIENCE: Professional bassist for theatre, live performances,
recording sessions (1986-) click here
to view outdated pictures of these bands Nero's House Band (1993-1996) - Minneapolis, MN
- bassist, vocalist Solar Plexus (1990-91) - Nottingham, England -
lead singer, bassist, lyricist and composer Bad Manners (1991) - Northeast Iowa - bassist,
vocals Ambush (1990) - Northeast Iowa - co-lead vocals,
bassist Identity Crisis (1988-89) - Decorah, IA - bassist,
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