Chris Olka has won the position of Principal Tuba with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He will begin playing with the CSO in September 2016 under the baton of Music Director Louis Langree. His duties will include performing with the Cincinnati Symphony, Opera, Ballet, and Pops ensembles. Prior to his appointment in Cincinnati, Chris has been the Principal Tubist of the Seattle Symphony and Opera since 1999 and the Tuba Artist Faculty at the University of Washington since 2001. Additional orchestral experience includes Guest Principal Tuba with the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Cincinnati, and New Jersey Symphonies as well as principal positions with Maestro Seiji Ozawa’s Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra and Gerard Schwarz’s All-Star Orchestra and Aspen Festival Orchestra. From 1989 to 1996 he was a staff musician for the Walt Disney World Company in Orlando, Florida, where he was a member of many of the bands there, including the TUBAFOURS tuba quartet, the world’s only full-time professional tuba quartet. His education includes a B.M. from the University of Central Florida and an M.M. from the Juilliard School. Chris is proud to be a Yamaha Performing Artist.
Thursday, June 16, 2016
New Hire: Chris Olka, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Chris Olka has won the position of Principal Tuba with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He will begin playing with the CSO in September 2016 under the baton of Music Director Louis Langree. His duties will include performing with the Cincinnati Symphony, Opera, Ballet, and Pops ensembles. Prior to his appointment in Cincinnati, Chris has been the Principal Tubist of the Seattle Symphony and Opera since 1999 and the Tuba Artist Faculty at the University of Washington since 2001. Additional orchestral experience includes Guest Principal Tuba with the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Cincinnati, and New Jersey Symphonies as well as principal positions with Maestro Seiji Ozawa’s Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra and Gerard Schwarz’s All-Star Orchestra and Aspen Festival Orchestra. From 1989 to 1996 he was a staff musician for the Walt Disney World Company in Orlando, Florida, where he was a member of many of the bands there, including the TUBAFOURS tuba quartet, the world’s only full-time professional tuba quartet. His education includes a B.M. from the University of Central Florida and an M.M. from the Juilliard School. Chris is proud to be a Yamaha Performing Artist.
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