2024-2025 Season

Fall 2024

• September 29 – Student Recital
  Location: Sanborn Hall's Jemison Auditorium
• October 3-6 – "Helen"
  A play adapted from "Euripides" by Ellen McLaughlin. Directed by Brian Granger.
• October 18 – "Scenes!": A Directing Class Presentation
  Location: Chappelear Drama Center's Main Stage
• October 24 – Symphonic Wind Ensemble Concert
  Conducted by Richard Edwards
• November 1-2 – Musical Theatre Scenes
  Directed by Jennifer Whitehead
• November 3 – Faculty Recital
  Featuring Dr. Mariko Kaneda, piano
• November 10 – Choral Art Society / Chamber Choir Concert
  Conducted by Jason Hiester
• November 11 – Ohio Wesleyan Honor Choir Festival Concert
  Location: University Hall's Gray Chapel
• November 14 – Chamber Orchestra Concert
  Conducted by Deborah Price
• November 15-16 – Fall Dance Concert: Orchesis 24/25
  Presented by the OWU Dance Company, directed by Janet Schroeder.
• November 17 – Composition Students' Recital and Juries
  Location: Sanborn Hall's Jemison Auditorium
• November 19 – Park Avenue Jazz Ensemble
  Directed by Kevin Turner
• November 20 – Guest Recital: Jake Smith Quartet
  About the Quartet
• November 22 – 'Songs at the Center' Taping with Eric Gnezda '79
  The nationally distributed "Songs at the Center" television show, created and hosted by OWU alum Eric Gnezda '79, taped an episode with guest artists Amythyst Kiah, Nicole Witt, and Sarah Darling.
• December 3 – Student Recital
  Location: Sanborn Hall's Jemison Auditorium
• December 6 – Directing Class One-Acts
  Mentored by Lusie Cuskey

Spring 2025

• January 11 – OWU Chamber Music Invitational
  Directed by Deborah Price
• February 14 – OWU Honor Band Festival Host Concert
  Featuring OWU Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Conductors: Richard Edwards and Samuel Nemeth)
• February 15 – OWU Honor Band Festival Small Ensembles Concert
  Featuring Brass Ensemble, Woodwind Ensemble, and Percussion Ensemble. (Conductors: Sarah Grosse, Adrienne Lape, and Ben Shaheen)
• February 15 – OWU Honor Band Festival Grand Finale Concert
  Featuring the Bishop MS Honor Band, Red & Black MS Honor Band, and Senior HS Honor Band (Conductors: Diana Wightman, Ryan Alexis, and Avious Jackson)
• February 27 - March 2 – "Doubt: A Parable"
  A play written by John Patrick Shanley. Directed by Bradford Sadler.
  
• March 21-22 – Senior Project Production: "for intramuscular use only'
  Written by Callie Staley '25 and directed by Maja Todorović '25
• March 23 – Senior Recital
  Featuring Aubrey Gerhardt '25, clarinet
• March 27 – Choral Art Society Concert
  Guest-conducted by Rachel Parfenchuk
• March 29 – Senior Recital
  Featuring Haleigh Stover '25, flute, and Semira Hill '25, double bass
• March 30 – OWU Percussion Ensemble with guest artists Ben & Kelsey Shaheen
  Directed by Chris Lizak
• April 6 – Guest Artist Performance
  Featuring jazz vocalist Jasmine Spitzer '21
• April 8 – Chamber Orchestra Concert
  Conducted by Deborah Price
• April 10-12 & 18-19 – "The Spitfire Grill"
  Musical based on the film by Lee David Zlotoff. Music direction by Jennifer Whitehead. Stage direction by Lusie Cuskey.
• April 12 – Oboe Oh-Wooo!: Mastering the Fundamentals Oboe Recital and Master Class
  With Dr. Nermis Mieses
• April 13 – Composition Studio Recital
  Featuring students of OWU lecturer EunSeok Park, DMA
• April 15 – Departmental Student Recital
  Location: Sanborn Hall's Jemison Auditorium
• April 17 – Symphonic Wind Ensemble Concert
  Conducted by Richard Edwards
• April 22 – Park Avenue Jazz Ensemble Concert
  Conducted by Kevin Turner
• April 25 – Dance Concert: Terpsicorps 24/25
  Location: Chappelear Drama Center's Main Stage
• April 26 – Senior Recital
  Featuring Emily Clausing '25, voice, and Maja Todorović '25, composition
• May 11 – Delaware Youth Wind Symphony Concert
  Location: University Hall's Gray Chapel