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valign="top" height=380 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>Andrew Markus Bishko, MM</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Curriculum Vitae</B></I></div> <div> <B>A Peek into my Life in Music:</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2b801010.png" border=0 width="1" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Education:</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">MM, The New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, 1995</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">BA, Northwestern University, Chicago, 1982</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">American Association for Music Therapy Supervision, 1992-1994</div> <bR> <div> <B>Teaching:</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Private Studio Instructor since 1985</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Adjunct Faculty, Ozarks Technical Community College, Springfield, MO,</div> <div>       2005-present</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.matsu.alaska.edu/pfmab" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.matsu.alaska.edu/pfmab"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Adjunct Faculty, University of Alaska, Mat-Su College</U></A>, 1997-2005</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Instructor, Alaska City Folk Arts, since 1998</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Instructor, Yiddish Institute of Folk Arts, New York, since 1995</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ensemble Instructor, The New England Conservatory, 1994-95</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Instructor, Boston Music Educational Collaborative, 1994-95</div> <bR> <div> <B>Workshop and Festival Presentations:</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Home School Field Trips: Piano, Flute, Saxophone, Native American Flute,</div> <div>       Music Theory, Southwest Missouri, 2005-present</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Native American Flute, Alaska, Missouri, 2004-present</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.anchoragefolkfestival.org/schedule.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.anchoragefolkfestival.org/sch"><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Anchorage Folk Festival, Anchorage, Alaska</U></A>, 1993-present</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Improvisation for Everybody, Europe & USA, 1983-present</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Yiddish Music, Europe, New Zealand, & USA, 1993-present</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Bilingual Multi-Educational Conference, Anchorage, 1997</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">American Association for Music Therapy, Pocono, NJ, 1993</div> <bR> <div> <B>Primary Instruments:</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Flute</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Saxophone</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Recorder</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Native American Flute</div> <bR> <div> <B>Secondary Instruments:</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Piano</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Accordion</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Voice</div> <bR> <div> Andrew Markus has extensive experience performing and teaching on all his primary and secondary instruments.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Performance:</B></div> <div> Andrew Markus has performed professionally on several instruments in many musical </div> <div> genres for more than 25 years. He has performed Classical, Jazz, Blues, Reggae, Salsa, Brazilian, Greek, Free Improvisation, Japanese, Celtic, Folk, East European, Klezmer and Native American Flute in Europe, Asia, the South Pacific, and the</div> <div> United States.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Performance Highlights:</B></div> <div> Here are three of Andrew Markus' favorites out of his long and varied performance career:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The Alaska Klezmer Duo & Native American Flute, Thorncrown Chapel,</div> <div>       Eureka Springs, Arkansas, 2005</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">National Flute Association, Gala Opening Concert, Atlanta, 1999</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Satta Reggae World Beat, Iwo Jima, 1989</div> <bR> <div> <B>Recording:</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.markusbishko.com/audio.htm#freylakhs_for_two" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.markusbishko.com/audio.htm#fr"><U><I><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Freylakhs for Two</I></U></A><A HREF="http://www.markusbishko.com/audio.htm#freylakhs_for_two" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.markusbishko.com/audio.htm#fr"><U>-The Alaska Klezmer Duo (2003) </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.markusbishko.com/audio.htm#first_cd" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.markusbishko.com/audio.htm#fi"><U><I><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Markus Bishko and The Alaska Klezmer Band </I></U></A><A HREF="http://www.markusbishko.com/audio.htm#first_cd" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.markusbishko.com/audio.htm#fi"><U>(1996)</U></A> </div> <div> <I><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Two as One-Songs of Japan </I>(2001) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Andrew Markus recorded two Reggae albums with Satta, and has made numerous</div> <div>       guest appearances on other recordings as a studio musician. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Upcoming Recording Projects:</B></div> <div> <I><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Affirmation:</I> spiritual Jazz songs</div> <div> <I><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Holobinko:</I> Native American Flute</div> <bR> <div> <B>Composition:</B></div> <div> Andrew Markus performs and records many of his own compositions.  The Anchorage Civic Orchestra and the Mat-Su Community Band have performed his large ensemble works.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Contact Information:</B></div> <div> Andrew Markus Bishko, MM</div> <div> 73 Infinity Lane</div> <div> Buffalo, MO 65622</div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:markus@markusbishko.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:markus@markusbishko.com"><U>markus@markusbishko.com</U></A></div> <div> 417-733-3776</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>Please Contact us for References, Product Orders, Booking,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Lessons, Classes, or Information</B></I></div> <div> The Music Studios of Andrew Markus Bishko, MM</div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:markus@markusbishko.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:markus@markusbishko.com"><U><B>markus@markusbishko.com</B></U></A></div> <div> Locations in Buffalo, Bolivar, Lebanon and Springfield</div> <div> 417-733-3776</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>