Canzon Bergamasca

Tim Olt is originally from Dayton, Ohio and completed his Bachelor’s of MusicEducation at Wright State University. He has since earned his Master’s of Music Performance at Miami University, and then attended Florida State University for doctoral work.  His music career has developed in several areas including performing, teaching, conducting and arranging.  Starting in 2015 Tim became a stay-at-home dad to take care of his twin 4-year-old daughters.  With this came a career direction change.  Focusing first on arranging and orchestration, he has now started dabbling in composition. As an educator, Tim taught for three years for Versailles Schools before moving on to collegiate teaching.  He has served on the faculty of Bowling Green State University, Northern Kentucky University, God’s Bible College, Adrian College, Wittenberg University, Miami University, and Ohio Northern University.  In addition, he has served as an instructor for the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp.  He has also given masterclasses at Indiana University/Purdue University of Fort Wayne, Nazareth College, Edinboro University, the Tubonium Conference in Minnesota, and recently returned for his fourth masterclass at the Eastman School of Music.  .

An extremely active tubist, Tim has performed with numerous orchestras, including the Lima, Columbus, Springfield, Middletown, Toledo, Kentucky, Tallahassee and Hamilton-Fairfield Symphonies, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and Cincinnati Opera Orchestra.  He has recorded with the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops Orchestras.  As a chamber musician, he can be heard with various faculty brass quintets, the Queen City Brass, and All the King’s Tubas, a professional tuba quartet.  He regularly tours with the Ambassador Brass Quintet and Keith Brion’s New Sousa Band.  He is also often called upon as a tuba soloist, and has performed throughout the United States and in Scandinavia and Asia. 

To add to an already daunting schedule, he is often called upon to serve as conductor/music director for various ensembles.  In the past Tim has led ensembles for Theatre Under the Stars, Bowling Green State University, Florida State University, Northern Kentucky, the Dayton Ballet Orchestra, Miami University, and Ohio Northern University.  He has also been called upon to serve as a rehearsal conductor for the Lima Symphony and Springfield Youth Symphony and interim conductor of the Miami Valley Symphony Orchestra.  

Tim can be contacted at his website:  http://www.timolt.com