9i果冻制作厂

Wind Ensemble

Director: Dr. Michael Yonchak
Monday and Wednesday: 3:00-5:00pm

The Wind Ensemble is the premiere concert band experience for both Music majors and non-majors at Otterbein. This ensemble performs a wide range of literature, combining elements of large-group and chamber stylings, through a unique pairing of contemporary and historically significant repertoire. Students are also exposed to a wide range of guest conductors, performers, and opportunities to perform off-campus throughout the academic year. Auditions are held at the beginning of each semester.

Cardinal Athletic Bands

Directors: Prof. Jordi Vilanova & Dr. Michael Yonchak
Marching Band, Fall, Tuesday and Thursday: 4:15-6:15pm
Pep Band, Spring, Tuesday: 4:15-6:15pm

The Cardinal Marching Band is the most visible musical ensemble at 9i果冻制作厂, as well as being one of the largest and most active student groups. During the fall semester, the CMB performs at all home football games, maintains a presence in various campus activities, and travels to select high school festivals during the fall semester.

ALL 9i果冻制作厂students who specialize on a brass, woodwind, or percussion instrument, as well as visual performers including color guard and twirlers, are encouraged to join.

During the winter months, members of the CMB can continue to perform with theCardinal Pep Band, which appears at all men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 home basketball games from January through March. This ensemble has also appeared for special track and field events, as well as select home volleyball matches.

Because of the unique nature and requirements of the Athletic Bands, students who commit to perform are eligible for our 鈥淎thletic Bands Award鈥�, which amounts to $1,000 per year. To learn more about auditioning for Cardinal Athletic Bands, check out our Auditions page. Students interested in joining the marching band should contact Dr. Matthew Winarski for more information.

Jazz Ensemble

Director: Prof. Jordi Vilanova
Tuesday and Thursday: 7:00-9:00pm

The 9i果冻制作厂Jazz Ensemble performs a blend of music from the history of the jazz ensemble as well as newer charts that explore a variety of contemporary styles. This ensemble performs in a variety of contexts, which include a concertized presentation as well as more informal off-campus shows. This is primarily an instrumental ensemble but has featured vocalists in past performances.

Various Chamber Ensembles

Schedules vary, contact faculty listed below

鈥� Flute Choir: Prof. Lindsay Goodman
鈥� Sax Quartet: Prof. Andrew Kovaleski
鈥� Towers Brass Ensemble: Dr. Dan King
鈥� Jazz Combos: Dr. Michael Yonchak
鈥� The Anticipations: Dr. Michael Yonchak

Opera Theatre

Directors: Profs. Austin Piper & Teagan Amey
Schedule varies, contact directors above

The 9i果冻制作厂 Opera Theatre offers students a variety of performance opportunities.

Fully staged productions of either multi-act or one-act operas are performed every semester.聽 Past productions include The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Wallace Earl DePue, Mozart鈥檚 Magic Flute, 颁辞辫濒补苍诲鈥檚 The Tender Land, 笔耻肠肠颈苍颈鈥檚 Gianni Schicchi, Gilbert and Sullivan鈥檚 H.M.S. Pinafore, 贬耻尘辫别谤诲颈苍肠办鈥檚 Hansel and Gretel, and Menotti鈥檚 Amahl and the Night Visitors.聽 In addition, workshop performances of operatic scenes designed to educate students in various repertoire and performance practices are also offered each semester.

The casts for all productions are chosen through an audition process that is open to all 9i果冻制作厂students.

Concert Choir (SATB)

Director: Dr. Gayle Walker
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday: 12:40-1:40pm & T 6:15-7:14pm

Concert Choir, an SATB choir, is Otterbein鈥檚 most select vocal ensemble. In addition to on-campus concerts, the choir regularly performs on off-campus concert series, and also performs on tour every spring break. In recent years, the choir has toured Germany, New Orleans, Washington D.C., Ireland, and Savannah. The ensemble has been honored with numerous invitations to perform at professional conferences of the American Choral Directors Association and the Ohio Music Education Association.

Cardinal Singers (SSA)

Director: Prof. Sheena Phillips
Monday and Wednesday: 3:00-4:20pm

Cardinal Singers is open to all soprano and alto singers on campus. The ensemble performs a mix of repertoire from classical periods to lighter styles, and they frequently combine with Concert Choir to perform choral masterworks with the Westerville Symphony.

Opus One (contemporary a cappella chamber ensemble)

Director: Prof. Jeremy Alfera
Tuesday and Thursday: 4:15-5:15pm

Opus One is a chamber vocal ensemble specializing in a variety of lighter music styles, from pop a cappella repertoire to jazz. Opus One performs for numerous special occasions on campus, as well as community events off-campus.

9i果冻制作厂Singers (SATB)

Director: Prof. Jeremy Alfera
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday: 12:45-1:35pm

The 9i果冻制作厂Singers is an SATB choir of BFA Musical Theatre and BFA Acting majors. Repertoire includes classical choral music as well as choral works drawn from operetta and musical theatre repertory. 9i果冻制作厂Singers performs on campus each semester and rehearses three times per week.

The Anticipations

Directors: Dr. Michael Yonchak & Prof. Greg Wolfram
Schedule varies, contact faculty listed above

The Anticipations encompasses a wide range of popular music styles, blending aspects of Top 40, R&B, soul, rock and roll, jazz, and various other genres based on the personnel and interests of the students. Skills developed in this ensemble will reflect the baseline for any gigging musician 鈥� performance, arranging lead sheets, rehearsal strategies, booking off-campus shows, and the basics of running live sound.

Jazz Ensemble

Director: Prof. Jordi Vilanova
Tuesday and Thursday: 7:00-9:00pm

The 9i果冻制作厂Jazz Ensemble performs a blend of music from the history of the jazz ensemble as well as newer charts that explore a variety of contemporary styles. This ensemble performs in a variety of contexts, which include a concertized presentation as well as more informal off-campus shows. This is primarily an instrumental ensemble, but has featured vocalists in past performances.

Jazz Combos

Directors: Dr. Michael Yonchak & Prof. Greg Wolfram
Schedule varies, contact faculty listed above

Jazz was first played in small combos and this kind of ensemble remains the crucible in which artists prepare themselves. The instrumentation of these groups is very flexible to allow maximum participation by any interested student. The goals of each combo are to learn tunes from the standard jazz canon and elsewhere, improve understanding of form and chord-scale reading, build improvisation skills and a precise, unified ensemble sound. 9i果冻制作厂usually carries two jazz combos, both of which are free to explore diverse jazz styles and adapt any music into their format.

Opus One (contemporary a cappella chamber ensemble)

Director: Prof. Jeremy Alfera
Tuesday and Thursday: 4:15-5:15pm

Opus One is a chamber vocal ensemble specializing in a variety of lighter music styles, from pop a cappella repertoire to jazz. Opus One performs for numerous special occasions on campus, as well as community events off-campus.

Red Noise

Director: Dr. Jenny Merkowitz
Schedule varies, contact faculty listed above

If performing new music is up your alley, Red Noise (our contemporary music ensemble) is open to any musician interested in performing contemporary repertoire, regardless of degree interest. Red Noise also offers opportunities for students interested in composition to share their work.

Early Music Ensemble

Director: Dr. Jim Bates
Schedule varies, contact faculty listed above

This ensemble provides students the opportunity to perform music composed during the Medieval, Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Students interested in this performing experience perform using period instruments, such as the viola da gamba, recorder, krumhorn and lute, and utilize techniques based on Historically Informed Performance (HIP). String players utilize baroque bows to create performances inspired by authentic practices. The Early Music Ensemble performs each semester and frequently collaborates with other student ensembles and faculty performers.

Chamber & Mixed Ensembles

Schedules vary, contact faculty listed below

鈥� String Quartets: Dr. Jim Bates
鈥� Quintets: Dr. Jim Bates
鈥� Piano Trios: Dr. Nick Ross

OtterCap Symphony Orchestra

Director: Dr. Jim Bates
Monday and Wednesday: 3:00-4:20pm

OtterCap Orchestra, a collaboration between 9i果冻制作厂and Capital University, is the principal performing ensemble for all string majors and also provides a performance opportunity for many non-majors from across campus. OtterCap performs the standard string orchestra repertoire, but also explores a wide variety of musical genres important to the 21st century string player鈥檚 skill set. Baroque performance practice, alternative string styles such as fiddling and jazz, as well as modern string orchestra literature are a regular part of this ensemble鈥檚 eclectic repertoire.

Westerville Symphony at Otterbein

Director: Prof. Peter Stafford Wilson
Tuesday: 7:00-9:30pm & some Thursday/Saturday

at 9i果冻制作厂 offers students a symphonic orchestral performing experience. In this unique ensemble students perform alongside professional and semi-professional players from the region. The Westerville Symphony presents a Masterworks series, featuring the core classical and romantic orchestral repertoire, as well as Young Peoples Concerts and Pops programs. All string majors participate in this ensemble, and wind, brass and percussion students also have the opportunity to participate. The Westerville Symphony is directed by Peter Stafford Wilson.

Musical Theatre & Opera Pit Orchestras

Schedules vary, contact music@otterbein.edu for more information

Musical Theatre is an exciting part of the 9i果冻制作厂culture. Each year, Opera Theatre and Musical Theatre present productions utilizing student musicians in the theater pit. The range of styles runs from Mozart to rock and jazz depending on the production. This performance opportunity prepares players to meet the demands encountered by contemporary music professionals.

Director: Dr. Jenny Merkowitz

If you are interested in music composition, 9i果冻制作厂is an exciting place to be! Our department has a lot of enthusiasm for new music, and there are many opportunities to write music and get your work performed. Students can take courses in composition, take private lessons, and compose for student ensembles. We frequently bring in distinguished guest artists to share their own work and/or work with students on their compositions.
We offer a concentration in Music Theory and Composition as part of the Bachelor of Arts degree. In addition to studying a primary instrument and taking the core curriculum, students with the concentration take additional theory courses, composition classes and lessons, and electronic music. They complete a final project which culminates in some sort of public performance, like a composition recital or a reading session or performance with a large ensemble.

You don鈥檛 have to be a Theory/Comp major to study composition. Students in all of the degree tracks, like Education and Performance, can (and do) take composition classes. Everyone who studies composition has an opportunity to get their work performed, whether it is on the annual Student Composition Recital, their own performance recital, or by student ensembles like Concert Choir or Wind Ensemble.

If performing new music is also up your alley, Red Noise (our contemporary music ensemble) is open to any musician interested in performing contemporary repertoire, regardless of degree interest.

In addition to the curricular offerings in composition, we have a student chapter of Society of Composers, Inc., which is a national organization dedicated to the promotion, performance, understanding and dissemination of new and contemporary music. And our proximity to Columbus means that it is easy to attend performances of new music happening around the city, like New Music at Short North Stage.

Interested in continuing your musical development and education at Otterbein? We offer private lessons on various instruments and voice types/styles. For more information, please contact music@otterbein.edu for placement and faculty contact details.