OWU Dept. of Music

10/12/2026

All are welcome to a free public concert offered by the OWU Symphonic Wind Ensemble on Thursday, October 22, at 8 PM in Gray Chapel. Featuring band works by John Philip Sousa, Jan Van der Roost, Omar Thomas, Jennifer Jolley, and Katahj Copley.

10/12/2026

Please join us Sunday, October 18 at 3 p.m. in Jemison Auditorium for a lovely afternoon of saxophone and piano works featuring senior Ryleigh Jones and accompanist Dr. Anita Chiu. This recital will feature works by Astor Piazzolla, Alexander Glazunov, and Fernande Decruck.
Admission is free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!

10/05/2026

Please join us on October 16th and 17th at 8 p.m. in Jemison Auditorium Sanborn Hall for SING! a Musical Theatre Scenes Cabaret Featuring a collection of solos, duets, trios, and ensembles from the musical theatre genre. Including selections from favorite musicals such as RENT, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, MAMMA MIA!, GUYS AND DOLLS, ANNIE, PIPPIN, and many more!
Admission is free and we hope to see you there!

09/22/2026

Join the OWU Performing Arts Department on October 2 at 8 p.m. in Jemison Auditorium in Sanborn Hall for an alumni recital featuring Ann Johnson ‘04, Annie Moosa ‘11, Lauren Spavelko ‘11,
Gavin Abrams ‘23, and Rachel Fitzgerald ‘18 welcoming back alumni from multiple disciplines.
Admission is free and we hope to see you there!

09/14/2026

Please join us for a lovely afternoon of chamber music featuring OWU music faculty member Adrienne Lape (clarinet) with guests Julie Ellis (cello) and Suzanne Newcomb (piano) on Sunday, September 20th at 3p.m. in Jemison Auditorium located in Sanborn Hall. They will be presenting performances of the great Clarinet, Cello, & Piano Trios by Johannes Brahms & Robert Muczynski.
Admission is free and we hope to see you there!

09/10/2026

Ohio Wesleyan's creative performing arts group Exposure Ensemble will be performing September 24th at 8p.m. in Jemison Auditorium, located inside Sanborn Hall. Exposure Ensemble specializes in the performance of improvised/experimental music from the 20th/21st century. Composed of OWU students and faculty, sophomore Dylan Craft acts as the ensemble's artistic director. The concert will feature small group improvisations as well as works by composers John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Admission is free and we hope to see you there!

08/28/2026

Please join Mariko Kaneda, piano, and Alexander Goldberg, violin, for the opening concert of the 2026-2027 Performing Arts season in Sanborn Hall's Jemison Auditorium.

Mariko and Alexander will present a recital of two titans of the violin-piano duo repertoire, Franz Schubert’s "Grand Duo" sonata in A major, D. 574, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47—the “Kreutzer Sonata.” Despite sharing the key of A major, the two works present very different emotional worlds. Schubert, ever the Lieder-writer, combines melancholy cantilenas with folkish dance; Beethoven, firmly in his heroic period, conjures firy virtuosity, spinning an epic sonata of symphonic scale from a primordial introduction deceiving in its simplicity.

This performance is free to attend, and we hope to see you there!

05/12/2026

CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2026!

04/23/2026

Join us on Sunday, April 26 at 7 p.m. for a senior recital featuring seniors Abby Bennett, soprano, and Morgan Vaughn, piano and organ. This recital will feature works by Wolf, Chopin, Prokofiev, Powell, and more.
Admission is free and we hope to see you there!

04/20/2026