Dean is the Director of Music & Liturgy at St. Therese of Lisieux Parish. He attended Michigan State University where he received a Master of Music in Collaborative Piano with a focus in vocal coaching. Dean has studied piano with Dr. Derek Polischuk and Deborah Moriarty, organ with Dr. Stephen Lang, voice with Janine Novenske-Smith and Peter Lightfoot, choral conducting with Kyle Zeuch, and vocal coaching & collaborative piano with Michael Alan Nathan. He has served at multiple parishes in the Lansing Diocese including: St. Thomas Aquinas (East Lansing) as a section leader, St. John Church and Student Center (East Lansing) as an accompanist, and St. Michael Parish (Grand Ledge) as the Director of Music. Dean has served as an accompanist for the MSU Children’s Choirs, Dewitt Public Schools, and currently at various shows for Lansing Catholic High School and for Professor Richard Fracker’s Annual Summer Show. Dean enjoys collaborating with musicians all over the Lansing area and has performed in Carnegie Hall (New York), Southampton (New York), and Castelnuovo di Garfagnana (Italy).