Olt Music

Tim Olt is originally from Dayton, Ohio and completed his Bachelor’s of Music Education 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, conducting, teaching, arranging and composing.  

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 performed 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 and Butler Philharmonics, and Cincinnati Opera Orchestra.  He has recorded with the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops Orchestras.  As a chamber musician, he can be heard with the Mad River Brass.  He has toured 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.

In addition to classical performing he is well-versed in numerous other styles of music and is very at-home improvising and playing solely by ear.  He can be heard with various Dixieland/Traditional Jass bands as well as ethnic music groups.  A regular performer at the HofBrauHaus Newport (KY), he is often seen with the Bass-ic Instinct Tuba Quartet, Polka Cola, The Royal Klobasneks, and the Nermin Begovich trio.

Tim is also a prolific arranger and composer of music, with numerous published works for various chamber ensembles and solo instruments as well as a series of studies designed to prepare tuba players for orchestral auditions.  He currently has over 700 works published by SMP Press, Solid Brass Publications, Cimarron Music Press, Tuba-Euphonium Press, and Pinnacle Brass.  Tim has been commissioned to write arrangements and compositions for numerous professional ensembles, including Seraph Brass, Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass, Venice Symphony, Owensboro Symphony, Kentucky Symphony and the Cincinnati Pops among many others.

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 Muse Machine, Theatre Under the Stars, Bowling Green State University, Florida State University, Northern Kentucky University, 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.