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Eric Skalinder

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Professional A Cappella Experience

Eric's eleven years of involvement in professional a cappella includes eight years of full time touring and credits as vocalist, arranger, composer, recording engineer, adjudicator, lecturer, conductor, artistic director, and producer. For more detailed information you can download my formal resume.

Education and Professional Teaching

Eric has offered numerous workshops at colleges, high schools, and community events on the topics of performance, composition, songwriting, vocal arranging, digital and pro audio, music theory, and how to create college and professional a cappella groups. On temporary hiatus from professional performance, he is in the final stages of a Master of Music Education degree at Northwestern University. A strong believer in public schools, Eric's emphasis is on choral music education. But he is especially interested in portfolio assessment, technology and multimedia applications in music education, high school vocational studies in recording technology, composition as a teaching tool, popular music performance for young people, comprehensive musicianship, and expansion and improvement of music education curriculum through non-performance course offerings. He recieved his Bachelor of Arts degree from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN.

Music Preferences and Other Interests

Eric especially values creativity, individuality and personalized storytelling in the popular music to which he listens. His musical preferences lean away from a cappella towards P-Funk, Lyle Lovett, Ani Difranco, Peter Gabriel, Vance Gilbert, Sting, various bluegrass groups, a wide range of classical choral ensembles, early vocal music from before 1600, vocal jazz, Greazy Meal, Steeplejack, Punsapaya, Knee Deep Shag, and any number of other interesting but obscure bands. Eric also has a special affinity for National Public Radio. Other interests include motorcycling, science fiction, learning to code PHP, cooking, songwriting, dogs, Magic the Gathering, and the wonderful world of the Internet.

Recommended Readings

  • Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky
  • Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
  • Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
  • The Power of Portfolios by Elizabeth Hebert
  • Eric Skalinder can be reached at:
    eskalinder@rarb.org

    Reviews by Eric Skalinder

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    Divisi (University of Oregon) - RED HOT [17 Dec 2004]

    Twisted Measure (Elon University) (Elon University) - Barefoot & Beautiful [16 Nov 2004]

    Bucks County Motet Singers - Music of Holy Week [13 Oct 2004]

    The UNCG Spartones (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) - BULLETPROOF [20 Sep 2004]

    Clockwork - Clockwork [01 Sep 2004]

    The Buffalo Chips (State University of New York at Buffalo) - Vowel Movements [30 Jul 2004]

    Tat Tong - Evocations [28 Jul 2004]

    The Sirens (University of Southern California) - Tied to the Mast [03 Jun 2004]

    Mass Transit (New York University) - Mass Transit [14 Mar 2004]

    The Magnets - Another Place [10 Mar 2004]

    The Dartmouth Subtleties (Dartmouth College) - Irony [04 Feb 2004]

    Rhythm & Blue (Duke University) - Adios, Kansas [20 Jan 2004]

    Eclipse - Three Kings [10 Jan 2004]

    Duwende - Sounds Like This [11 Dec 2003]

    The Rhythm Method (Binghamton University) - Unsound Syncopaths [03 Dec 2003]

    Clefhangers (Columbia University) - 47 Doors [14 Nov 2003]

    No Strings Attached (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - One Night Stand [10 Nov 2003]

    Last Call (Cornell University) - Vestosterone [09 Nov 2003]

    Hyannis Sound - Cape Standard Time [04 Oct 2003]

    The House Jacks - Unbroken [16 Aug 2003]

    Compulsive Lyres (University of Michigan) - 12 Step Program [24 Jul 2003]

    Octopodes (Johns Hopkins University) - Octopussy [20 Jul 2003]

    Cappella Gloriana - O Holy Night - Christmas with Cappella Gloriana [21 May 2003]

    The Princeton Footnotes (Princeton University) - Purple Tides [02 Apr 2003]

    The Princeton Footnotes (Princeton University) - Footnote Jam 2000 [30 Mar 2003]

    WHS Octets (Winchester High School) - Something Good [28 Mar 2003]

    Moosebutter - see dee [13 Mar 2003]

    The Nylons - Play On [31 Dec 2002]

    The Sirens (University of Southern California) - Nectar and Ambrosia [26 Dec 2002]

    Rescue - The First Christmas [31 Oct 2002]

    Boston College Dynamics (Boston College) - No Service [26 Sep 2002]

    31 total reviews

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