Bio
Tyleen is a graduate of Concordia University Chicago in Church Music-Organ Performance, who has served as organist, choir director and classroom music teacher in CO, MN, MO, and IL. Her compositions for handbells and other instruments are published with Concordia Publishing House, Red River Music, From the Top Music, and Handbell Musicians of America (formerly AGEHR). She began her studies at St. Olaf College as a piano performance major, and studied organ during a Winterim exchange at CUW.
Tyleen, with husband Don and family, recently moved to the Pacific Northwest to serve Zion Lutheran Church in Snohomish, WA. She assists the Seattle Children's Chorus as the Snohomish branch accompanist, and serves as the Music Director at ZLC. She worked for 9 years as a staff pianist for the Music Department of Adams State University, also assisting with adjunct instruction. In CO, she served St. Peter's Lutheran Church, facilitating music for choir, hand chimes, and student instrumentalists. She led a K-8 music program at St. Peter's Lutheran School for 13 years, and coordinated festival service music for five years as Conference Organist at the RMD Professional Church Workers Conference. She enjoys creative hymnody, crafting service music for her family and other musicians, and hiking.
Cherished musical experiences include singing with Magnum Chorum, singing with the American Kantorei in the "Bach at the Sem" Series, and collaborating for many choral and faculty performances, including Piano 4-Hand.
Her organ professors include John Ferguson, Steven Wente, John Behnke, and Ruth Ferguson. Her piano teachers and professors include Carol Leybourn Kenney, Marilyn Davis, and David Brunell.
Tyleen's composition professors were Carl Schalk, Richard Hillert, Arnold Sherman and Charles Forsberg.
Tyleen, with husband Don and family, recently moved to the Pacific Northwest to serve Zion Lutheran Church in Snohomish, WA. She assists the Seattle Children's Chorus as the Snohomish branch accompanist, and serves as the Music Director at ZLC. She worked for 9 years as a staff pianist for the Music Department of Adams State University, also assisting with adjunct instruction. In CO, she served St. Peter's Lutheran Church, facilitating music for choir, hand chimes, and student instrumentalists. She led a K-8 music program at St. Peter's Lutheran School for 13 years, and coordinated festival service music for five years as Conference Organist at the RMD Professional Church Workers Conference. She enjoys creative hymnody, crafting service music for her family and other musicians, and hiking.
Cherished musical experiences include singing with Magnum Chorum, singing with the American Kantorei in the "Bach at the Sem" Series, and collaborating for many choral and faculty performances, including Piano 4-Hand.
Her organ professors include John Ferguson, Steven Wente, John Behnke, and Ruth Ferguson. Her piano teachers and professors include Carol Leybourn Kenney, Marilyn Davis, and David Brunell.
Tyleen's composition professors were Carl Schalk, Richard Hillert, Arnold Sherman and Charles Forsberg.
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"A ni sogoma" - Offered by From the Top Publishing, this piece was a commission for the Milwaukee Handbell Ensemble in January 2021. Featuring djembe rhythms, it uses 3 octaves bells, 5 octaves chimes, and a shaker. Level 4. Premiered in the Milwaukee area May, 2022.
"Three Christmas Chorales" - Level II pieces for 3-octave handbells on German chorales, from CPH #977902: view/listen here.
"From the Forest" Suite - Six pieces for 3 octaves of handchimes or handbells, and 6 ringers. Levels 2 and 2+. Published by From the Top publishing #20476. Titles are: Aspen I, Aspen II, Oak, Pine, Willow I & II. view/listen here.
"A ni sogoma" - Offered by From the Top Publishing, this piece was a commission for the Milwaukee Handbell Ensemble in January 2021. Featuring djembe rhythms, it uses 3 octaves bells, 5 octaves chimes, and a shaker. Level 4. Premiered in the Milwaukee area May, 2022.
"Three Christmas Chorales" - Level II pieces for 3-octave handbells on German chorales, from CPH #977902: view/listen here.
"From the Forest" Suite - Six pieces for 3 octaves of handchimes or handbells, and 6 ringers. Levels 2 and 2+. Published by From the Top publishing #20476. Titles are: Aspen I, Aspen II, Oak, Pine, Willow I & II. view/listen here.