Under
the direction of Professor Richard Blatti, the OSU Symphonic
Band has earned an enviable reputation through its performances
for the College Band Directors National Association, Ohio Music
Education Association Conferences, on tour, for the OSU Contemporary
Music Festival and through its recordings of new wind literature
for Ludwig Music and the Boosey and Hawkes Windependence Series.
The Symphonic Band is comprised of approximately sixty-five
talented instrumentalists, most of whom are undergraduate and
graduate music majors. This ensemble performs six campus concerts
each year and, since 1990, has premiered eleven new works for
concert band. Students in the band have had the opportunity to
work with such notable conductors and composers as Frederick
Fennell, Frank Ticheli, H. Robert Reynolds, Gunther Schuller,
Jennifer Higdon, John P. Paynter, Steven Bryant, David Gillingham,
Daniel Bukvich, Nancy Galbraith, Jonathan Newman, Col. Timothy
Foley, John Mackey, Elizabeth Green, Roger Cichy, and Warren
Benson.
Membership is open to all Ohio State University students and
auditions are held in the beginning of Autumn and at the end
of Winter Quarter each academic year.
