4/25/2023 0 Comments Dean butlerFriday, May 12th, 7:00 pm at Rancho Campana Performing Arts Center in Camarillo.Sunday, May 7, 2017, 3:00 pm, at First United Methodist Church of Ventura in Ventura.He currently teaches Special Education at Rancho Rosal Elementary, and serves on Pleasant Valley School District’s Special Education Leadership Team.ĭean is appearing with Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra in two performances of Mozart’s Requiem Mass and Bach’s Motet Singet dem Herrn. Video Clips Interview from Little House on the Prairie season 9 dvd collection Interview with Melissa Sue Anderson and Dean Butler at Laura Ingalls Wilder. Butler is a recent graduate of California State University, Channel Islands, receiving his teaching credential as an Education Specialist. In 1996, he conducted the commissioned musical, David, based on the life of the biblical king, at the Citadel of David in Jerusalem, in honor of that city’s 3000th anniversary, and returned to Israel in 2000 for an encore performance in honor of Bethlehem’s 2000th anniversary.Ĭurrently living in Camarillo with his wife, a biology teacher at Rancho Campana High School, and young son, Mr. Butler toured the world for over 15 years conducting choirs throughout Europe, the Caribbean, Chile, and New Zealand for the nonprofit music organization, Continental Singers. Holding a bachelor’s degree in conducting and vocal performance from Carson-Newman University in Tennessee, as well as, a master’s degree in vocal pedagogy from Southern Theological Seminary in Kentucky, Mr. He is privileged to have performed many premier choral works under the batons of Robert Shaw, Michael Tilson Thomas, John Rutter and Jester Hairston along with the symphony orchestras of Knoxville, Louisville, Cincinnati, and Tampa. Butler has enjoyed his participation with several outstanding opera and choral repertory companies throughout the U.S., including the Knoxville Choral Society, Kentucky Opera, the Stephen Foster Drama Association, Louisville Master Chorale, Cincinnati May Festival Chorus, and Master Chorale of Tampa Bay. Butler equally shares a great love for musical theater having honed his craft performing principal roles in summer stock productions of Little Shop of Horrors, Annie Get Your Gun, Godspell, and Gilbert and Sullivan’s, The Pirates of Penzance. Butler’s operatic repertoire consists of Figaro in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Figaro in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Don Pizarro in Beethoven’s Fidelio. John Passion, Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Dubois’ Seven Last Words of Christ. Butler has been a featured oratorio and opera soloist with several regional programs and orchestras in multiple cities throughout the country with repertoire consisting of Bach’s St. To the family, please visit our floral store.Dean Butler has enjoyed singing baritone in oratorio, opera and musical theater since the age of 19. Tributes may be shared on the obituaries page of To send flowers Dean was preceded in death by his parents. He is survived by his wife, Sheila children, Kimberly McCarney, Robert (Manda) Butler, Eric (Dianne) Butler grandchildren, Alisia, Susan, Oriana, Robert, Michael, Alexander, Paisley, Alexis, Ray, Rebekah, Noah 2 great-grandchildren, Jamieson and Adriel sisters, Gayla Butler, Sherry (Jerry) Allen. He was an avid science fiction fan of all types. Dean loved to keep his mind engaged by doing crossword puzzles and Sudoku. He loved nature and gardening and was very interested in history and archeology. Dean worked for General Motors for 33 years before retiring in 2006. Dean was born Februin Flint, the son of Gaylord and Hope (Minzey) Butler. Visitation will be held 12-5 PM Thursday, December 22 at Sharp Funeral Home & Cremation Center 6063 Fenton Rd. Age 70, of Burton, died December 20, 2022.
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