2023 Spring Sing

OBU is pleased to welcome you to the inaugural Spring Sing Week, March 6–10. Spring Sing is a conference with lectures, student presentations, faculty presentations, and two masterclasses with Mary Saunders Barton.

• 5:00-6:15 p.m. – Event check-in and hotel check-in
  
• 6:30-6:45 p.m. – Meet and greet
  
• 6:45-8:30 – Dinner, welcome, introductions, explanation of schedule, questions answered
  

• 9:30-9:55 a.m. – Student Presentation I
  
• 10:00-10:45 a.m. – Faculty Presentation I
  
• 11:00-11:50 – Auditioning Tips
  
• 12:00-1:15 p.m. – Lunch
  
• 1:30-3:00 p.m. – College Masterclass (Mary Saunders Barton)
  
• 3:15-4:30 p.m. – Russian Diction
  
• 4:45-6:00 p.m. – Dinner
  
• 6:15-7:45 p.m. – Q&A (Mary Saunders Barton)
  

• 8:30-9:00 a.m. – Check-in for high school directors and students
  
• 9:15-10:45 – High School Masterclass (Mary Saunders Barton)
  
• 11:00-11:50 a.m. – Picking Musicals for Strange Combinations of Students
  
• 12:00-1:15 p.m. – Lunch
  
• 1:30-3:00 p.m. – Faculty Presentations II and III
  
• 3:15-4:30 p.m. – Vocal Health and Body Mapping
  
• 4:45-6:30 p.m. – Dinner
  
• 7:00 p.m. – Night of Worship (optional), led by OBU students
  

• 9:30-9:55 a.m. – Student Presentation II
  
• 10:00-11:50 a.m. – Audiologist, Teresa Mazza
  
• 12:00-1:15 p.m. – Lunch
  
• 1:25-2:10 p.m. – Faculty Presentation IV
  
• 2:15-3:00 p.m. – Faculty Presentation V
  
• 3:15-4:30 p.m. – Movement/Gesture Influencing Sound
  
• 4:45-5:10 p.m. – Student Presentation III
  
• 5:15-6:45 p.m. – Dinner
  
• 7:00 p.m. – Choral Pops Concert
  

• 9:30-9:55 a.m. – Choral Breathing Warm-Ups for Early Classes
  
• 10:00-10:50 a.m. – Mock Interviews
  
• 11:00-11:25 a.m. – Student Presentation IV
  
• 11:30-11:55 a.m. – Student Presentation V
  
• 12:00-12:15 a.m. – Exit survey and dismissal
  

Host or Publisher OBU Division of Music