Crew Bios
Dean Calin
[Member 2003 – Present]
Dean Calin is the founder of Bounding Main, having assembled a group of talented environmental theater performers in 2003. Dean invited members based on showmanship and personality, not being musically skilled enough to assemble a group by vocal range. This has forced the music director to wrestle complex arrangements out of two tenors, two altos and a baritone for a bulk of their years together – a talented and hard-working group, indeed. All of the members are skilled improvisationalists so in addition to their well-known arrangements they are a humorous group between songs, too.
Dean performed at both environmental and conventional theaters and theme parks in the Chicago area from the 70s through the 00s as an actor, writer and director, with a smattering of experience in costuming and stage combat. While he had previously sung for acting roles, his departure as a vocalist with Bounding Main was a welcome opportunity.
As a sales and marketing professional in the commercial aerospace industry he was able to apply his skills to develop and maintain the Bounding Main website and to identify and book most of the group’s gigs since 2003.
Until his retirement after the death of his wife, Dean was a consultant in the commercial aerospace industry, developing distribution lines, designing maintenance platforms for aircraft and managing the company’s marketing. He also did freelance marketing and IT work. His current project is building the Maritime Music Directory International, a web portal that aggregates information about the world’s maritime music groups and the venues at which they perform.
Christie Dalby
[Member 2003 – Present]
Christie Dalby is a founding member of Bounding Main and sings as both an alto and soprano for this group. She serves as both the project manager and logistics coordinator for Bounding Main and along with Dean Calin and Gina Dalby, forms the Art Team designing CD artwork, logos, etc. She continues to perform throughout the United States and in Europe with Bounding Main.
Christie has been a performer all her life and has performed as both an award-winning actor and as a member of the original 50s rock-and-roll quartet, The Tombtones at Great America. She also worked with raptors (falcons, eagles, hawks, owls, vultures) for eight years assisting in the care, training, and handling of the birds of prey and appearing in educational demonstrations handling the birds in front of audiences numbering in the hundreds. Christie credits her love of music to her mother. She also credits her minor bouts of stage fright to her mother as well!
Christie’s first love is Bounding Main but she also enjoys performing with other groups as the opportunities arise. In 2023, she began performing regularly with the group, Old Goat Skiffle Band.
Additionally, Christie holds a BA in Business Administration (Magna Cum Laude) and a MA in Bioethics (Magna Cum Laude). She is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds other certifications in animal sciences. With degrees in Business Administration and Bioethics, she has worked in research & development in the bio-medical field with a focus on microscopy and particle sciences.
Television
Fox Thing in the Morning − Live Musical Performance
Up and Running − Interview and Raptor Demonstration
Renaissance Entertainment Corporation (REC) − National Commercial
Girls Next Door − “Surely, You Joust!”, clip from REC National Commercial used in episode
Print
Renaissance Entertainment Corporation − National Print Ads
Miscellaneous
Regal Cinemas − Midwestern United States, REC National Commercial aired in theatres
TeamKat Martial Arts − Promotional video
Original Music
Pass the Mug (lyrics and music)
Cadgwith Anthem (lyrics)
Awards
“Figurehead 2020 Award”, Shanties 2020 Festival, Krakow Poland (shared with Gina Dalby)
Gina Dalby
[Member 2003 – Present]
Gina Dalby is a founding member of Bounding Main and sings as both an alto and soprano with the group. She is also responsible for inventory management, live event social media, captures many of the group’s antics on film, and is the author of the group’s newsletter, Note in a Bottle. She participates on the Art Team with Dean Calin and Christie Dalby. She continues to perform throughout the United States and in Europe with Bounding Main.
Gina has been a performer all her life and has performed at venues including one of Great America’s theme parks as both an award-winning actor and as a member of the original 50s rock-and-roll quartet, The Tombtones. She also worked with raptors (falcons, eagles, hawks, owls, vultures) for eight years both handling the birds and narrating demonstrations in front of audiences numbering in the hundreds. Gina shares a love of music with her mother who sang with one of the top female barbershop choirs in the country.
Gina’s current performance calendar is dedicated to Bounding Main but in 2023, she also began performing with the Old Goat Skiffle Band. Gina continues to write music which has been sold internationally on Bounding Main CDs and licensed through AudioSparx.
Additionally, Gina holds a BA in Business Administration (Magna Cum Laude) and a MA in Bioethics (Magna Cum Laude). She is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds a certification in Post Acquisition Integration (CPMI). Her non-musical professional life has been devoted to health care operations with a focus on clinical integration and value-based care.
Television
Fox Thing in the Morning − Live Musical Performance
Up and Running − Interview and Raptor Demonstration
Renaissance Entertainment Corporation (REC) − National Commercial
Girls Next Door − “Surely, You Joust!”, clip from REC National Commercial used in episode
Print
Renaissance Entertainment Corporation − National Print Ads
Miscellaneous
Regal Cinemas − Midwestern United States, REC National Commercial aired in theatres
TeamKat Martial Arts − Promotional video
Original Music
Pass the Mug (lyrics and music)
Cadgwith Anthem (lyrics)
Roll Call (lyrics and music)
Awards
“Figurehead 2020 Award”, Shanties 2020 Festival, Krakow Poland (shared with Christie Dalby)
Patrick Knapp, Jr.
[Member 2024 – Present]
Patrick Knapp, the newest member of Bounding Main, has diverse music interests and many years of music performance experience. Patrick has devoted the majority of his music career to (French) Horn performance with several ensembles around the Midwest including: Wisconsin Horn Quartet; Racine Symphony; Waukesha Area Symphonic Band; Kettle Moraine Symphony; Festival City Symphony; Sheboygan Symphony; Wisconsin Wind Orchestra; Concord Chamber Orchestra; South Dakota Symphony; Sioux City Symphony; Wisconsin Intercollegiate Honor Band; Waukesha Park and Rec Band; and Milwaukee Police Band. Patrick studied Horn with Don Mallette, Don Neau, Henry Canitz, Bob Hallat, Harry Clausen, Barry Benjamin, Bill Barnewitz, Wes Hatch, and Dr. Larry Harper.
Outside of music, Patrick is a dentist teaching full-time at the Marquette University School of Dentistry. Patrick also has a Master’s Degree in Dispute Resolution (and is more than happy inserting himself into most sword fights usually with little regard for the size and style of sword).
Patrick loves all things sea and, more often than not, misses the sea (and a few C’s from time to time). Should Patrick go missing there’s a good chance you’ll find him somewhere in Wisconsin’s Door County gazing lovingly upon Lake Michigan.
Jon Krivitzky
[Member 2003 – Present]
Jon Krivitzky is a founding member of Bounding Main and is the group’s musical director, purser and also sings tenor. Jon has been involved in other musical projects, notably a widely recognized acapella adaptation of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, called Voices on the Dark Side; Dark Side of the Moon – A Cappella. Additionally he has participated in projects featuring Barbershop Music, Madrigal Music and Contemporary Pop and Folk Music. With Bounding Main he has performed at music festivals in the United States, Quebec (Canada), Cornwall (England), the Netherlands, Brittany (France), Germany and Poland.
With dual degrees in music and computer science, Jon works on the IT team for a major medical supply distributor outside of Chicago.
As the Bounding Main musical director he works the group through rehearsals and provides transcriptions of songs that the group has organically arranged. Jon also provides sometimes very complex arrangements of existing, traditional maritime music. Because of his dedication and intuitive musical talent Bounding Main has become internationally recognized for its beautiful harmonies and clever arrangements.
Jon is an enthusiastic follower of American and international politics. He also remains an active supporter of his Washington University acapella group, Mosaic Whispers. This group recently released this video to honor their anniversary in 2020.
David Yondorf
[Member 2003 – 2023]
David Yondorf was a founding member of Bounding Main and passed away on May 17, 2023, at the very young age of 43. You can read his obituary here. The group will not be the same without him.
David Yondorf was a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors and adjunct faculty member at Columbia College, Chicago. He also sang baritone (and in his words, “occasionally attempted bass”) for Bounding Main.
David learned an appreciation of folk music singing along on road trips with his mother, a folk-music aficionado who is a big supporter of our shanty shenanigans. When he wasn’t joining his family singing in the car (Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Kingston Trio) he was busy belting out rock songs in his bedroom (Metallica, Guns N Roses, Nine Inch Nails). Perhaps his family preferred the road trips.
Despite a near-allergic reaction to anything on moving bodies of water, David was delighted to continue singing near ships and about ships for as long as his Dramamine® stores held out.