
Resume
Charles Austin Piper
Baritone
Columbus OH
Cell: (740) 641-5387
E-mail: charlesaustinpiper.baritone@gmail.com
Education
Johnstown Monroe High School, 2013
Otterbein University, Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance, 2017
Kent State University, Graduate Assistant, Master of Music in Voice Performance, 2019
Training & Experience
Vocal Training
Aug. 2017- Present: Mr. Tim Culver, Kent State University
July 2018- Mr. Michael Meraw, American Institute of Musical Studies
2017: Graduate Assistant for Ms. Kishna Davis Fowler, Kent State University
Aug. 2015 - Aug. 2017: Mr. Robert Bux, Otterbein University
Aug. 2013 - Aug. 2015: Mr. Jamie Flora, Otterbein University
2012 - 2013: Ms. Stephanie Henkle, Denison University
2007 - 2011: Mr. Jeff Rings, Director of Vocal Education, JHS
Opera Theatre
July 2023 Sheriff Harry Sullivan in Ohio Light Opera’s production of Emmerich Kalman’s Arizona Lady
June 2023 Dick Deadeye in Ohio Light Opera’s production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S Pinafore
July 2022 Paul in Nightingale Opera Theater’s production of Jake Heggie’s If I Were You
July 2022 Cop in Nightingale Opera Theater’s production of Jake Heggie’s If I Were You
July 2022 Sherlock Holmes in Nightingale Opera Theater’s production of Hans Bridger Heruth’s A Certain Madness
June-August Cavalry Captain Count Kinsky in Ohio Light Opera’s production of Emmerich Kalman’s The Devil’s Rider
March 2019- Top in Kent State’s production of Aaron Copland’s The Tenderland
November 2018- Brently in Kent State’s original cast production of Scott Little’s The Story of an Hour
March 2018- Dr. Falke in Kent State University’s Die Fledermaus
January 2018- Chorus/Russian Soldier in Cleveland Opera Theatre’s Verlorene Heimat by Dawn Sonntag
November 2017- Il Commodore/Stage Manager in Kent State University’s Scenes Program production of The Stoned Guest by P.D.Q. Bach
May 2017- Chorus, Opera Columbus’s production of Carmen by Georges Bizet
March 2017- Mr. Gobineau, Otterbein University’s The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti
November 2016- Bartender, Speed Dating Tonight by Michael Ching
April 2016- Art Critic Number 3, Otterbein University’s original cast production of First Encounters, The first meetings of Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot by Dennis Davenport
April 2015- Count Robinson, Otterbein University’s Il Matrimonio Segreto by Domenico Cimarosa
November 2014 – Chorus, Otterbein University’s production of Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell
April 2014 – Town Magistrate, Otterbein University’s production of Signor Deluso by Thomas Pasatieri
November 2013- Ko-Ko, Scenes from The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan at Otterbein University’s Opera
November 2013 – Melchior, Otterbein University’s Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti
Oratorio Solo
2022- Soloist with Springfield Symphony Orchestra’s Link Up Orchestra Rocks Production.
2021: Soloist with Columbus Symphony Orchestra’s Link Up Orchestra Moves Production.
2018: Baritone Soloist in The Cleveland Chamber Choir’s production of Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen by Johann Sebastian Bach
2017: Baritone Soloist in Kent State University’s production of The Messiah by George Frideric Handel
Young Artist Programs
The Ohio Light Opera 2023 Young Artist Program
Nightingale Opera Theatre 2022 Young Artist Program
The Ohio Light Opera 2020 Virtual Young Artist Program
The Ohio Light Opera 2019 Young Artist Program
2018 American Institute of Musical Studies
Nightingale Opera Theatre 2018 Young Artist Program
Honors and Awards
2018 Harold Heiberg Liedersänger Preis Winner at AIMS in Graz Austria
2018 1st Place in Category XIV Ohio NATS
Dance
2015: Co-Choreographer for Otterbein University's production of Dido and Aeneas
2012-2013: Private Tap and Jazz instruction at Patty’s Dance Studio in Newark, OH.
Choir/Orchestral Group Experience
2018: Chorus for Cleveland Chamber Choir Performance of Fern Hill by John Corgliano and Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen by Johann Sebastian Bach
2017: Chorus for Westerville Symphony Orchestra’s production of Jose Maria Vitier’s Cuban Mass
2013: Chorus for Westerville Symphony Orchestra's Sea Symphony by Ralph Vaughn Williams
2014-2017: Section Leader for Otterbein University Concert Choir
2013-2017: Section Leader for Otterbein University’s Jazz Acapella Group