Sample work · 2005–2019
Media.
A sampling — performance, arranging, conducting, drill design, and teaching — pulled from across the work. Click any thumbnail to play.
Athletic bands
Drill on the field, charts in the gym.
The actual deliverables of small-college athletic-band leadership — drill written for the field and arrangements written for the group in front of me.
Uptown Funk · Volleyball Band arrangement
2016
Original arrangement for the UF Gator Volleyball Band — the “World's Most Dangerous Volleyball Band.” Named team MVP that season.
“Get It On” · UF vs. Ole Miss halftime
2015
Pyware drill design for the University of Florida Gator Band · halftime · Ben Hill Griffin Stadium · Oct 3, 2015 · UF vs. Ole Miss.
Conducting
Score in hand, ensemble in front.
Sample conducting work — guest podium and rehearsal lab — drawn from graduate-school and professional contexts.
Schoenberg · Theme and Variations, Op. 43a
Guest conductor sample
Guest conducting clip — Schoenberg's Theme and Variations for Band, the cornerstone twelve-tone wind work.
Rehearsal Sample · UF Symphonic Band
Working rehearsal footage from the University of Florida Symphonic Band. Unedited; how I actually run a room.
Solo performance
Behind the horn.
Solo performance work — corps and concert literature — back to my own student years.
Andy's Grace
2005
Solo performance with the Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps · Three Rivers Summer Music Games · Baldwin High School, Pittsburgh, PA · August 2, 2005.
Andy Persichetti
Solo performance from the Persichetti repertoire.
Teaching demonstrations
What it actually looks like in the room.
Sample lessons from the elementary general-music classroom — kindergarten through fifth grade.
Sample of Elementary Music Lessons
2019
Composite of K, 2nd-, and 4th-grade lessons · Hickory Tree Elementary School · St. Cloud, FL · February 2019.
Basics by Bajorek
Short pedagogy explainers.
Bite-size video explanations of fundamentals I keep returning to in methods classes and rehearsals.
Basics by Bajorek · Extending Chords
How to teach extended-chord voicings without losing the room.
Basics by Bajorek · Dem Low Notes
Tone production and projection in the low brass register.
More samples in the works — newer rehearsal footage, recent conducting, and "Basics by Bajorek" entries are queued for upload. Reach out if there's something specific you'd like to see.