Engineer Director
Resume:
Charles E. Britt Endsley
Shreveport, LA 71101
Cell: 318-***-****
E-mail: ********@*****.***
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Composer, arranger, conductor, concert pianist, concert organist, concert vocalist, vocal coach, stage performance coach, producer
EXPERIENCE: CHURCH MUSICAL DIRECTORSHIP/ORGANIST/PIANIST/CHORAL POSITIONS:
May 2005 -January 2010 Our Savior/Christ Lutheran Church, Shreveport, LA - Organist/Choir Master
Previous Pastor, Craig BOEHLKE, Senior Pastor- Our Savior Lutheran Church, Glendale CA
December 2004- May 2005 Church of the Epiphany, San Carlos, CA. Full-time Organist
September 1999 – November 2004 First United Methodist Church, Shreveport, LA
Director of Music for Contemporary Worship, Musical Director, Organist/Pianist and Conductor.
Prepare and provide organ/piano accompaniment for three worship services (two traditional, one contemporary) including coaching soloists for each service and arranging musical scores for piano and organ. 3-year assignment: Director of Music for all theatrical productions. Direct 120 voice Chancel Choir as needed from the console of the 105 rank 5-manual Moller Pipe organ. Direct and accompany Contemporary Worship Vocalists and Band arranging all music for worship. Providing two Concerts per year. Voice Coach and musical arranger.
Duties include planning, contracting musicians, directing vocalists, and accompanying on piano/keyboard vocal ensembles and instrumental band. Worship planning for all contemporary worship services, Concerts with full-orchestra and vocals to full capacity
congregation, major musical events and professional recordings. Entertainer for various secular functions as a pianist/vocalist with a 5-piece jazz ensemble
October 1997 -August 1999 First United Methodist Church, Bossier City, LA Organist Full-Time
1990 -1991 St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco, CA Substitute Organist
1980 – 1988 Peachtree Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, GA (10,000 member congregation) Senior Organist/Director/Choirmaster (Post-Graduate Degree- presented Honorary Doctorate Degree from W. Frank Harrington, Senior Minister)
1977 - 1980 Calvary Church, Jackson, MS. (7,000-member congregation) Artist-in-Residence (full-time) Organist/Choirmaster (College Graduate Student. MM)
1975 - 1977 Temple Baptist Church, Hattiesburg, MS (5,000 member congregation) Organist (College Sophomore)
1974 – 1975 Main Street Baptist Church, Hattiesburg, MS (6,500 member congregation) Organist (College Freshman)
1970 –1974 Beech Street First Baptist Church, Texarkana, AR (4,000 members)
Organist/Youth Choir Director (Age 16)
CATHEDRAL ORGAN RECITALS (partial listing)
First Congregational Church, Los Angeles, CA
First United Methodist Church, Shreveport, LA
San Francisco Davies Hall
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Los Angeles, CA
Peachtree Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, GA (3 recitals)
Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
St. John the Divine, New York, NY
St. Thomas Episcopal, New York, NY
Coventry Cathedral, Coventry, England
First Baptist Church, Jackson, MS
Calvary Baptist Church, Jackson, MS (8 recitals)
First Baptist Church, Dallas, TX
ENTREPRENEURSHIPS
January 1990 – Present Endsley Musical Productions, San Francisco, CA Private Performances/Management, A & R search and placement and Production. Recruit, coach and promote vocalists and instrumentalists developing musical styles, including opera, musical theatre, jazz, R & B, rock, standards, classical, contemporary, and church music. Promote and coach singers and actors for stage productions, recording sessions, vocal competitions and church performances, including building repertoire and performance techniques. Producer with marketing contacts and studio engineer expertise offered with contracting artists.
June 1983 - August 1996 Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company d/b/w Endsley Entertainment Productions -Featured Entertainer, Entertainment Director and Agent Conceived a master plan for the entertainment program opening the first five Ritz-Carlton Hotels including Atlanta, Buckhead, Boston, Rancho Mirage and San Francisco. Coordinated vast entertainment orders for all catering, conference services and convention events. Responsibilities included recruitment and booking all musicians for each food and beverage outlet as well as drafting entertainment agreements between entertainers and The Ritz-Carton. Managed financial budgets with three California property accounts consecutively with a total budget of $3.1 million annually. Job required all corporate and legal licensing, accounts receivable/payable, paying of commissions and preparations of quarterly financial forecasts. Supervisors were Horst Schulze, C.E.O., Herve Humler, International V.P., Sigi Brauer, V.P., Wolfgang Baere and Marcus Bekhit.
Summer 1996 Summer Olympic Games - Atlanta, GA Entertainment Vendor for Pre-Game Shows
Duties included: Contracting of all talent including enforcing rules and regulations, disbursements of funds for each subcontractor as well as follow up evaluations for all talent requests. Extensive licensing for all Olympic musical contracts required with the use of a Controlled Access Vendor Code
ORCHESTRAL EXPERIENCE
September 1998 –Shreveport Symphony Orchestra; Shreveport, LA – Piano, Celesta, Harpsichord
September 1998 –South Arkansas Symphony, El Dorado, AR- Piano and Keyboards
May 1987 – July 1987 Boston Pops Orchestra- Principal Pianist/Accompanist - Boston Commons Summer Concerts
MUSICAL THEATER EXPERIENCE
June 1998 -July 2003 Performing Arts Center, Shreveport, LA, Music Director - Musical Theater.
Duties include: auditioning, casting and coaching musical actors, coordinating and hiring orchestral personnel, accompanying productions on piano/keyboard and directing orchestra for the following:
“Annie, Get Your Gun”
“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”
“Godespell”
“My Fair Lady”
“The Marvelous Wonderettes”
September 2003 CD Production- “Alive With The Spirit” Musical Director with 35 Symphony Musicians and 13 Professional Vocalists
July 2003 “1776,” The Musical - Marjorie Lyons Playhouse, Centenary College
September 1999 – August 2002 East Bank Theatre; Bossier City, LA Musical Director
“Forever Plaid”
“The Fantastic’s”
“The Education of Hyman Kaplan”
January 1999 – February 2001 “Jesus Christ Superstar” - Exclusive Broadway Cast- Shreveport Opera; Shreveport, LA Assistant Musical Director and Chorus Master
1990 – 1995 “Cameo Concerts” Musical Theater Concerts, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Tour:
San Francisco, CA
“An Evening of Les Miserable”
“An Evening of Andrew Lloyd Webber”
Cleveland, OH
“An Evening of Phantom of the Opera”
“An Evening of Les Miserable”
“An Evening of Gashing”
St. Louis, MO
“An Evening of Cole Porter”
“An Evening of the Best of Broadway”
Kansas City, MO
“An Evening of Broadway Music from 1900-1990
EDUCATION
1980 Master of Music Degree, (Double Concentration) – William Carey University - Church Music - Organ/Voice/Choral Conducting
1978 Bachelor of Music Degree, (Double Major) - William Carey University - Church Music- Organ/Voice
HIGH PROFILE ENTERTAINER AWARDS
Professional Private Engagements:
Paul Newman, JoAnne Woodward, Barry Manilow, Bette Midler, Phyllis Diller, James Woods, Aaron Spelling,
Dick Van Dyke, Ed McMahan, Dianne Carroll, Emma Samms,, Mrs. Lorenz Hart, President and Mrs. Gerald Ford, Norman Ackerberg (film), and Audrey Hepburn, Barbara Sinatra, George Lucas, and others.
Turner Broadcasting System; Atlanta, GA
Movie Soundtrack Composition for “Portrait of America”, TBS
Grosvenor Productions, Ltd./Lanesborough Hotel; London England
Featured Entertainer, Garden Court for British Royal Family/Queen of England
Steinway Hall, New York City, NY
Private Performance for Henry Steinway for The Steinway Society- Atlanta, Georgia Chapter
UNICEFS National Award of Artist Achievement presented by Audrey Hepburn and UNICEF’s featured entertainer – The Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, CA
MUSICAL AWARDS
Most Outstanding Performer, William Carey College (1978 and 1979)
National Award of Artist Achievement, UNICEF, presented by Audrey Hepburn (1984)
American Guild of Organist’s Student Competition Winner (1975,1978)
Southern Baptist Convention Official Pianist/Organist - Recorded Live, (1977 & 1974)
Ridgecrest Music Week, Southern Baptist Convention, Pianist/Organist- two concerts recorded live, 1975-1976
Glorietta Music Week, Organist –Southern Baptist Convention Church Music Week, 1975-1980
REFERENCES FOR CHARLES E. “BRITT” ENDSLEY
CRAIG BOEHLKE, Senior Pastor
Our Savior First Lutheran Church
Granada Hills, CA 91344
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Work Address
16603 San Fernando Mission Blvd.
Granada Hills, CA 91344
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17166 Flanders St.
Granada Hills, CA
91344
http://www.osflcs.com
KERMIT POLING, Conductor, Shreveport Symphony Orchestra
Conductor/Musical Director, South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Organist/Choirmaster, St. James Episcopal Church, Bossier City, LA
(Kermit and I directed and produced the CD recording, “Alive in the Spirit” for the FUMC, Shreveport, LA. contemporary worship concert series. He was my synthesizer/keyboard player while I was musical director conducting from the piano).
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