Casey Chlapek, Horn
Casey Chlapek, Horn

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Master of Music - Completed: December 2017

University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA

Major: Performance – Horn - GPA: 4.0/4.0


Bachelor of Music - Completed: May 2014

University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO

Major: Instrumental Music Performance – Horn (Summa Cum Laude)

Certificate in Emergency Management - Major GPA: 3.97/4.0 Cumulative GPA: 3.96/4.0


Horn Teachers

Professor Shelley Peters, William Jewell College

  • Fall 2018 to Present

Dr. Yu-Ting (Tina) Su, University of Northern Iowa

  • Fall 2015 to Fall 2017

David Sullivan, Associate Principal Horn, Kansas City Symphony

  • Summer 2014 to Spring 2015

Dr. Gary Moege, University of Central Missouri

  • Fall 2010 to Spring 2014

Professor Shelley Peters, William Jewell College

  • Fall 2005 to Summer 2010, Summers 2011 to 2013

 Ensemble Experience

2nd Horn - Cameron Municipal Band

  • Summer 2022 to Present

  • Conductor: Ms. Ann Goodwin Clark

1st Horn - Liberty Symphony Orchestra

  • Spring 2022 to Present

  • Conductor: Dr. Langston Hemenway

Horn/Co-Founder - Kansas City Wind Symphony Brass Quintet

  • Summer 2021 to Present

2nd Horn - Northland Symphony Orchestra

  • Fall 2019 to Present

  • Conductor: Mr. James Murray III

Substitute 1st Horn and Section Horn - Kansas City Wind Symphony

  • Fall 2019 to Present

  • Conductor: Dr. Langston Hemenway

Low Horn - Kansas City Horn Club

  • Fall 2018 to Present

Substitute 3rd Horn - Liberty Symphony Orchestra

  • Spring 2022 - Present

  • Conductor: Dr. Langston Hemenway

Substitute 3rd/4th Horn - Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony

  • Spring 2017 to Fall 2018

  • Conductor: Mr. Jason Weinberger

Horn/Co-Leader/Co-Founder - 5Degrees Brass Quintet (Northern Iowa Graduate Brass Quintet)

  • Fall 2016 to Spring 2018

Horn - University of Northern Iowa (UNI) Symphonic Orchestra

  • Fall 2015 to Spring 2018

  • Conductor: Dr. Rebecca Burkhardt

Horn - UNI Horn Choir

  • Fall 2015 to Spring 2018

  • Conductor: Dr. Yu-Ting (Tina) Su

Assistant Principal Horn - Waterloo Municipal Band

  • Summer 2017

  • Conductor: Mr. William Shepherd

Horn - Northern Iowa Wind Symphony

  • Fall 2016 to Spring 2017

  • Conductor: Dr. Ronald Johnson

Horn - Warrensburg Community Band

  • Summer 2014

  • Conductor: Dr. Russell Coleman

Horn - Lab Band, Summer Master’s Conducting Program, University of Central Missouri (UCM)

  • Summer 2013, Summer 2014

  • Clinician: Dr. Scott Lubaroff

Horn - UCM Horn Choir

  • Spring 2013 to Spring 2014

  • Conductor: Dr. Gary Moege

Principal Horn - UCM Symphonic Wind Ensemble

  • Fall 2011 to Spring 2014

  • Conductor: Dr. Scott Lubaroff

Principal Horn - UCM Chamber Wind Ensemble

  • Fall 2010 to Spring 2014

  • Faculty Advisor: Dr. Scott Lubaroff

2nd Horn - UCM Student/Faculty Graduate Commencement Brass Ensemble

  • Fall 2010 to Spring 2014

  • Faculty Advisor: Dr. Alan Wenger

Horn - UCM Student Brass Quintet

  • Fall 2011 to Spring 2013

  • Faculty Advisor: Dr. Alan Wenger

2nd Horn - UCM Symphony Orchestra

  • Fall 2010 to Spring 2012

  • Dr. John Rutland

Mellophone - UCM Pep Band

  • Fall 2010 to Spring 2012

  • Director: Graduate Assistant Robert Satterwhite

Third Horn - Sedalia Symphony Orchestra

  • Fall 2010 to Fall 2011

  • Conductor: Mrs. Gwen Kappelman

Mellophone - UCM Marching Mules

  • Fall 2010 to Fall 2011

  • Director: Dr. Scott Lubaroff

Second Horn - UCM Symphonic Wind Ensemble

  • Fall 2010 to Spring 2011

  • Conductor: Dr. Scott Lubaroff

Third-Chair Horn - Missouri All-State Band

  • Spring 2010

  • Conductor: Dr. Andrew Boysen, Jr.

Sixth-Chair Horn - Missouri All-State Band

  • Spring 2009

  • Conductor: Prof. Anthony Maeiello

 Featured Performances

Master’s Recital

  • November 9, 2017 at Davis Hall, Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center, University of Northern Iowa

UNI Wind Ensemble Concert, “Flourishes and Meditations” – Second Solo Horn, Konzerstück für vier Hörner by Carl Heinrich Hübler

  • November 3, 2017 at the Great Hall, Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center, University of Northern Iowa

College Band Directors National Association Conference, Southwestern Division ­– University of Central Missouri Wind Ensemble

  • March 22, 2014 at the University of Arkansas

Senior Undergraduate Recital

  • March 6, 2014 at Hart Recital Hall, University of Central Missouri

University of Central Missouri President’s Gala – University of Central Missouri Wind Ensemble

  • April 9, 2013 at Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center for Performing Arts

Junior Undergraduate Recital

  • March 21, 2013 at Hart Recital Hall, University of Central Missouri

Available Recordings

High School Horn Repertoire Project

  • Coming soon to YouTube.

Missouri All-State Horn Etudes - Set IV (Fall 2023)

Kansas All-State Horn Etudes - Set I (Fall 2023)

Missouri All-State Horn Etudes - Set III (Fall 2022)

Missouri All-State Horn Etudes – Set II (Fall 2021)

“Sing We Now Upon A Rose” by Gavin Lendt

Missouri All-State Horn Etudes – Set I (Fall 2020)

“Ad Astra per Aspera” by Gavin Lendt

Teaching Experience

Course Instructor - University of Northern Iowa - Spring 2017                            

  • Responsibilities included planning and teaching an eight-week course for undergraduate music education majors. This included lectures, assignments, written quizzes, and playing tests. The course goals were to prepare undergraduate music education majors for their role in instructing beginning through intermediate horn students, as well as maintain school-owned instruments.

Graduate Assistant - University of Northern Iowa - Fall 2015 to Spring 2017

  • Responsibilities included teaching supplemental private horn lessons to undergraduate students, providing performance feedback in studio class, leading horn choir rehearsals in the conductor’s absence, developing a curriculum for middle school participants at UNI Horn Choir Day, adjudicating auditions and contributing to lectures during university-hosted high school music festivals, and providing out-of-class guidance to undergraduate students.

Substitute Teacher - Liberty Public Schools Music Department - Fall 2014 to Spring 2015

  • Responsibilities include utilizing and supplementing pre-constructed lesson plans, advising students during rehearsals when other music educators are present, working with individual students on assignments or contest pieces, rehearsing ensembles when other teachers are absent, and maintaining a focused and healthy classroom environment.

Science Olympiad Adjudicator - Music Challenge - Spring 2013, 2014

  • Responsibilities included evaluating participants on their fulfillment of the challenge/prompt to create a musical instrument capable of playing assigned passages, administering and grading an oral examination surveying comprehension of scientific Principals of sound, and supplementing information deficiencies. (Co-Adjudicators: Christopher Short and Andrew Gascon, Graduate Assistants)

Student Assistant - University of Central Missouri Honors’ Wind Symposium - Fall 2012, 2013

  • Responsibilities included registering high school participants and parents upon arrival, advising participants during rehearsals, and performing in a concert with participants. (Supervisor: Dr. Gary Moege)

High School Horn Clinician - University of Central Missouri - Spring 2012, 2013

Responsibilities included rehearsing horn sections for two visiting high school bands, giving feedback on both technical and musical aspects of concert band pieces, and addressing any fundamental deficiencies in musicians’ technique. (Supervisor: Dr. Scott Lubaroff)

Middle School Horn Tutor - Fall 2007 to Spring 2010

  • Responsibilities included familiarizing beginning horn players with the anatomy of their instruments, basic Principal of pitch and tone production, assigned studies and concert music, as well has performing basic maintenance on school-owned horns. (Supervisor: Mrs. Cindy Svehla)

                                               

Ensemble Leadership

Substitute Director – Horn Choir, University of Northern Iowa

  • Fall 2015 to Spring 2018           

Principal Horn – Symphonic Wind Ensemble, University of Central Missouri

  • Fall 2011 to Spring 2014            

Mellophone Team Leader – Marching Mules, University of Central Missouri

  • Fall 2011

 Research Papers

A Master’s Recital in Horn - Fall 2017

  • Submitted to the University of Northern Iowa Graduate College

American Populist Music: A National Identity Enabled by European Tradition - Fall 2016

  • Submitted for MUS HIST 5150: 20th Century Music History

Joseph Leitgeb and His Influence on Mozart’s Horn Concertos - Fall 2015

  • Submitted for MUS HIST 6220: Research and Writing in Music

Mvt. 3 of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14: A Classical Foundation with Romantic Demeanor - Fall 2013

  • Submitted for MUS 4125: Form and Analysis

On the Instrumentation of Jennifer Higdon’s “blue cathedral” - Spring 2013

  • Submitted for MUS 4115: Instrumentation

Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565): An Exploration of Intercultural Changes in the Utilization of a Musical Composition - Fall 2012

  • Submitted for MUS 3211: Music History to 1800

A Brief Analysis of the Reluctant Acceptance of Past and Present Horn Innovations - Spring 2012

  • Submitted for MUS 3212: Music History 1750 - Present

A Father’s Influence on His Son’s Compositions (Franz and Richard Strauss) - Fall 2011

  • Submitted for MUS 2221: Introduction to Music Literature I

 

Arrangements

Shenandoah - Traditional - Summer 2018

  • Arranged for Horn Sextet

Fanfare for the Common Man – Aaron Copland - Fall 2015

  • Arranged for Horn Sextet

  • *Performed Fall 2015 by the UNI Horn Choir

No. 30 from Album für die Jugend, Op. 68 - Robert Schumann - Spring 2016

  • Arranged for Horn Quartet

Indiana (Back Home Again) - James F. Hanley - Spring 2013

  • Arranged for Big Band

  • Submitted for MUS 4185: Jazz-Commercial Arranging

  • *Performed: Spring 2013 by UCM Jazz Ensemble I

The Girl from Impanema - Antonio Carlos Jobim/Norman Gimbel/Vinicius De Moraes - Spring 2013

  • Arranged for Jazz Combo

  • Submitted for MUS 4185: Jazz-Commercial Arranging

  • *Performed: Spring 2013 on a UCM student recital

String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, mvt. 3 - Franz Schubert - Spring 2013

  • Arranged for Four Winds and Guitar

  • Submitted for MUS 4115: Instrumentation

Take the ‘A’ Train – Billy Strayhorn - Spring 2013

  • Arranged for Jazz Combo

  • Submitted for MUS 4185: Jazz-Commercial Arranging

 Work Experience

Freelance Musician - Fall 2013 to Present                   

  • Responsibilities include preparing and performing music with limited rehearsal time, including paid performances with the Cameron Municipal Band (MO), Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony (IA), Waterloo Municipal Band (IA), Metropolitan Chorale (IA), Wartburg Community Orchestra (IA), Sedalia Symphony Orchestra (MO), William Jewell Symphonic Band (MO). Additional substitute lists include the Des Moines Symphony (IA) and the Liberty Symphony Orchestra (MO). Non-performance tasks include engraving damaged/missing parts for ensembles, judging youth auditions, and acting as a clinician for youth ensembles.

Worship Musician, First Presbyterian Church, Cedar Falls, IA - Fall 2016 to Summer 2018         

  • Responsibilities included rehearsing and performing weekly on a variety of instruments including horn, bass guitar, and hand bells, acting as a section leader in ensemble rehearsals, and arranging sacred melodies for any available instrumentation.

Student Garden Manager, University of Northern Iowa - Summer 2017 to Fall 2017         

  • Responsibilities included planning and maintaining a student-organized garden, filing and fulfilling produce orders to food pantries and university dining centers, instructing and managing volunteer gardeners, coordinating a season-ending harvest festival, and experimenting organic solutions to a variety of garden problems through coordination with the university’s sustainability office.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Northern Iowa - Fall 2015 to Spring 2017

  • Responsibilities include planning and teaching an eight-week horn methods course, arranging pieces for horn choir, communicating with community organizations to schedule performances, assisting in organizing brass area and horn studio events, establishing a basis for middle school curriculum at UNI Horn Choir Day, editing horn studio documents and letters, and assisting in a multitude of other horn studio related tasks.

Opera Surtitle Coordinator, University of Northern Iowa - Spring 2017                            

  • Responsibilities included following vocal scores for an opera scenes program in a variety of languages, assisting in the construction of a projected slideshow and marking scores with English translations, operating the slideshow to accompany music during rehearsals and performances, and managing and maintaining projection equipment between rehearsals and shows.

Rental Consultant and Support Staff, Palen Music Company - Fall 2014 to Summer 2015         

  • Responsibilities included communicating company rental policies to customers, traveling to rental displays at various area schools, aiding customers during busy hours in-store, managing inventory and alerting store manager to shortages, filing claims for instrument repair, and supplementing a variety of staff deficiencies.

Substitute Teacher, Liberty 53 School District - Fall 2014 to Spring 2015            

  • Responsibilities included carrying out pre-constructed lesson plans, being capable of adapting to and maintaining a suitable educational atmosphere, being knowledgeable of district emergency and classroom management protocols, and leaving detailed reports for absent teachers.

Additional Education

  • Codecademy

  • Career Path - Computer Science - 80% Completed

  • Skill Path - Build Basic Android Apps with Java - Completed 7/16/2021       

  • Career Path - Web Development - Completed 3/4/2021

Academic Honors

  • UCM Outstanding Senior Brass Student - Spring 2014

  • UCM Dean’s List - Fall 2010 to Spring 2014

  • UCM Music Merit Scholarship - Fall 2010 to Spring 2014

  • UCM Music Foundation Scholarship - Fall 2012 to Spring 2013

  • UCM Red & Black Scholarship - Fall 2010 to Spring 2014

  • Missouri All-State Band - Spring 2009, Spring 2010          

Professional Associations

  • Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society

  • International Horn Society

Skills

  • Other Instrumental Training

    • Bass Guitar, Hand Bells, Piano

  • Stage Production

    • Opera Supertitle Coordination

  • Language

    • German, Basic Written Comprehension and Dialogue

  • Operating Systems

    • Microsoft Windows, Android, macOS, iOS

  • Computing Languages

    • Intermediate HTML, CSS, Javascript, Java, Python3, Ruby, Express, PHP, and SQL

  • Computer Programs

    • Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Outlook; MakeMusic Finale; Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator;  G Suite (Google), and Android Studio