Mark Alan Bilyeu [email protected] ■ www.markbilyeu.com ■ www.sourcesongfestival.org ■ 708.954.6639 EDUCATION Master of Music in Collaborative Piano and Vocal Coaching Degree Completed: May 2013 University of Minnesota Twin Cities – Minneapolis, MN Bachelor of Arts in Music – Major: Piano Degree Completed: December 2008 Emphases in German and Humanities Chicago College of Performing Arts of Roosevelt University PIANO STUDIES Primary Instructors: Current: Mary Sauer - Chicago Symphony Orchestra Timothy Lovelace - University of Minnesota Previous: Noriko Kawai - University of Minnesota Meng-Chieh Liu - Roosevelt University Festival Instructors: Malcolm Martineau – Crear Scholar - Scotland Roger Vignoles – Roger Vignoles Mentoring Program Susan Manoff – Musique sur Mer en Acadie Rita Sloan – Aspen Summer Music Festival and School Das Lied International Song Competition, Berlin, Germany 2015 Finalist • Only American pianist selected as a finalist International Vocal Competition s’Hertogenbosch, Netherlands 2014 • One of 20 duos invited worldwide to compete at the inaugural duo competition. The Transmodernist Troubadour Navona Records 2017 • Music of Nicholas Vines, with baritone Aaron Engebreth FESTIVAL STUDIES (SELECTED) Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme Aldebugh, England – Snape Maltings | 2017 Crear Scholar - Song Masterclass Crear Space to Create – Scotland | 2017 Roger Vignoles Mentoring Program Vanderbilt University - Nashville, Tennessee | 2016 Françis Poulenc Academie Tours, France | 2013 Aspen Music Festival and School Aspen, Colorado | 2009 MASTERCLASSES (SELECTED) Irwin Gage 2014 Roger Vignoles 2014 Warren Jones 2014 Graham Johnson 2013/14 Susan Manoff 2013 Martin Katz 2012 Margo Garrett 2012 Sir Thomas Allen 2012 University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, Iowa 2017 Visiting Artist – Vocal Coaching and Accompanying Viterbo University LaCrosse, Wisconsin 2015- 2016 Faculty Instructor, Vocal Coach Source Song Festival Minneapolis, Minnesota 2014- present Founding Artistic Director • Responsible for curating a week-long Art Song festival bringing in artists from around the world to give workshops, master classes, lectures and performances. Serving vocal, piano and composition students from across the country University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota Spring 2016 Guest/Substitute Lecturer • Taught MUS 5242 Section: Vocal Literature II (Graduate Level Course), for a month-long leave of absence COMPETITIONS/AWARDS RECORDINGS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE