Dean M. Estabrook

Reunion Advisor

 Dean Estabrook received his B.M. degree from the University of Arizona in 1964 and his M.A. in Music Theory and Composition from California State University at San Jose in 1966. He did post-graduate study at  Occidental College, as well as the California State Universities at Fullerton, Sacramento, San Jose,  and Chico.

 Dean has conducted workshops and directed honor choirs as well as having adjudicated CMEA (California Music Educators Association) and ACDA Festivals (American Choral Directors Association)  throughout Northern California.  He has served on the State Board of both ACDA    (National Federation Interscholastic Music Association) as an Area Representative and CMEA, State Choral Representative. His articles have been published in the National ADCA's, Choral Journal, CMEA News,  California ACDA's Cantate, and the NFIMNA Journal, and his choral compositions and arrangements are published by  Voice of the Rockies Publishing Company.  In 1995, CMEA honored him as "Outstanding Music Educator  for Northern California."

 Dean could often be seen around the music wing of  Yuba City High School, in the sixties.  He was a Yuba City Unified School District Music Staff person who worked under Barrie Wells, the Music Coordinator at the time.  Mr. Estabrook composed certain works for the band.  One of the most memorable being, a “12 Tone” composition that Symphonic Band played at the CMEA Conference in L.A., in 1968.  Symphonic Band was unanimously chosen one out of four, top high school bands in the state of California by CMEA judges.  Dean has most recently written a new arrangement of the YCHS Alma Mater, which was dedicated on the 80^th Anniversary of Yuba City High School, on April 9^th, 2003.

 Mr. Estabrook has taught choral music, music theory, and instrumental music in Yuba  City for thirty-one years, before retiring in 1997.  He presently directs a fifty-five voice adult choir for St. Andrew Presbyterian Church in Yuba City, and is a Supervisor of Directed Teaching for  a Chapman University campus in that same city.  He lives with his wife,  Christy, who is a music educator in  the Yuba City Unified School District,  and his daughter Adrian, who is  a music major at California State University, Chico.

written by Dean Estabrook and Neva Nix
approved by Dean