High School Musicians Invited to Apply for Ohio Wesleyan Band Festival
Ohio Wesleyan’s 51st annual President’s High School Band Festival will be held Jan. 17, 2015, featuring high school musicians from around the nation performing with OWU’s Symphonic Wind Ensemble. High school students wishing to participate in the festival and workshop are able to apply online through Dec. 19. (Photo courtesy of OWU’s Department of Music)
DELAWARE, Ohio – The 51st annual Ohio Wesleyan University President’s High School Band Festival will be held Jan. 17, 2015, providing learning and scholarship opportunities for talented high school musicians from around the country. Applications to participate in the festival are being accepted through Dec. 19, 2014.
Ohio Wesleyan’s High School Band Festival creates an honors band of talented high school students hand-picked to come to campus to perform with current OWU students. The university’s Symphonic Wind Ensemble will perform with the high school students during the festival’s free community concert, scheduled for 8 p.m. Jan. 17, 2015, in OWU’s renowned Gray Chapel, 61 S. Sandusky St., Delaware.
“Holding this festival is a decades-long tradition, and I am very excited to announce the 2015 event,” said Timothy Roden, Ph.D., chair of Ohio Wesleyan’s Department of Music. “This year participants will be attending from many different states, not just central Ohio. Students performing in our festival band will more accurately experience what it is like at Ohio Wesleyan, where our music majors hail from all across the country.”
High school students are invited to learn more about the festival and to submit their online applications now through Dec. 19. Members of the Ohio Wesleyan music faculty will review all applications and select festival participants. Accepted high school seniors interested in majoring in music also will be invited to audition on the evening of Jan. 16, 2015, for Ohio Wesleyan music merit scholarships.
The festival’s honors band will be led by Ohio Wesleyan professor Larry Griffin, D.M.A., a renowned trumpeter and conductor who strives to provide students with an exciting environment in which to learn the fundamentals of music performance.
Learn more about the Ohio Wesleyan’s Department of Music, its faculty, and the upcoming festival at https://www.owu.edu/academics/departments-programs/department-of-music/. Follow festival announcements on the festival’s Facebook page.
Founded in 1842, Ohio Wesleyan University is one of the nation’s premier liberal arts universities. Located in Delaware, Ohio, the private university offers 86 undergraduate majors and competes in 23 NCAA Division III varsity sports. Ohio Wesleyan combines a challenging, internationally focused curriculum with off-campus learning and leadership opportunities to connect classroom theory with real-world experience. OWU’s 1,750 students represent 46 U.S. states and territories and 43 countries. Ohio Wesleyan is featured in the book “Colleges That Change Lives,” listed on the latest President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction, and included in the U.S. News & World Report and Princeton Review “best colleges” lists. Learn more at www.owu.edu.