Joseph M.F. Kriz
email: jkriz@maestrotek.com   phone: 309/ 369-6366

PROFILE
Experienced singer, musician, music director and desktop music publisher.

• Voice: Baritone
  Instruments (in order of primacy):
  
• Guitar (classical, acoustic, electric)
• Bass (guitar, upright)
• Banjo
• Mandolin
• Recorders
• Keyboards
• Flutes

EXPERIENCE

• Guitarist/Vocalist, Cross-Country Dinner Show ('00-'04).
• Bassist, Forever Plaid, Peoria Players ('04).
• Bassist, Footloose, Limestone High School ('04).
• OrchExtra Operator, Les Miserables, Eastlight Theater Company ('03).
• Bassist, Once On This Island, Peoria Players ('03).
• Bassist, JC Superstar, Corn Stock Theater ('03).
• Bassist, Copacabana, Eastlight Theater Company ('03).
• Guitarist, Bye Bye Birdie, Peoria Community Theater Company ('03).
• Bassist, Sugar Babies, Corn Stock Theater ('03).
• Bassist, 42nd Street, Peoria Players ('03).
• Bassist, Gypsy, Peoria Players ('03).
• Bassist, Baby, Corn Stock Lab Theater ('02).
• Bassist, Guys and Dolls, Peoria Players ('02).
• OrchExtra Operator, Les Miserables, Eastlight Theater Company ('02).
• Bassist, Big River, Corn Stock Theater ('02).
• Bassist, Chicago, Eastlight Theater Company ('02).
• Guitarist, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Eastlight Theater Company ('96-'00).
• Bassist, Nuncrackers, Peoria Players ('00).
• Guitarist/Banjoist, Assassins, Corn Stock Theater ('00).
• Bassist, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Corn Stock Theater ('00).
• Bassist, Singing In The Rain, Peoria Players ('00).
• Guitarist/Vocalist, Spoon River Anthology, ICC Theatre ('99).
• Guitarist, Cyrano, Peoria Players ('99).
• Bassist, State Fair, Eastlight Theater Company ('99).
• Choir Director, St. Mark's Church, Peoria, IL ('96-'99).
• Bassist, Camelot, Corn Stock Theater ('99).
• Guitarist, A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline, Eastlight Theater Company ('99).
• Bassist, The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd, Corn Stock Theater ('98).
• Bassist, Big River, Eastlight Theater Company ('98).
• Guitarist, Godspell, Eastlight Theater Company ('98).
• Bassist, Guys and Dolls, Eastlight Theater Company ('97).
• Bassist, Oliver!, Eastlight Theater Company ('97).
• Guitar Instructor, Park District Classes, Peoria, IL ('97)
• Choir Director, Mary, Seat of Wisdom Church, Park Ridge, IL ('83-'96).
• Guitarist/Vocalist, for Up All Night, a wedding and dance band ('92-'96).
• Banjoist, Oklahoma!, a community theatre production ('95).
• Publisher, Michael G. Sinshack’s Symphony No. 1, producing the conductor and orchestral scores ('94).
• Tenor II, Apollo Chorus of Chicago ('93-'94).
• Guitarist, Godspell, a community theater production ('92).
• Guitarist, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a high school production ('86).
• Music Director, Sugar, a high school production ('85).
• Professor of Music, Quigley North Preparatory Seminary ('84-'85).
• Bass I Section Leader, Trinity Episcopal Church, Chicago ('84-'86).
• Bass I, St. Chrisosdom’s Episcopal Church, Chicago ('82-'83).
• Music Director, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, a University of Illinois at Chicago production ('79).
• Music Director, The Rover, a University of Illinois at Chicago production ('77).
• Tenor II, Grant Park Symphony Chorus, Chicago ('75-'77).
• Banjoist, Three Penny Opera, , a University of Illinois at Chicago production ('76).
• Music Director, Sing-Out Newman, a show choir at the University of Illinois at Chicago Newman Center ('75-'76).
• Guitarist/Band Director, Up With People!, Sing-Out Queens Cast ('69-'73).
• Guitarist/Vocalist/Arranger, Triad, a Peter, Paul & Mary Tribute ('70-'72).

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