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