Music

Faculty & Staff

Steven Zielke

Director of Choral Studies
Conductor, OSU Chamber Choir
Department of Music
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
Phone:541-737-5584
Fax:541-737-4268
E-mail: szielke@oregonstate.edu

Brief Vita

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Steven M. Zielke, director of choral studies at Oregon State University, directs the OSU Chamber Choir and teaches choral conducting and choral music pedagogy. He earned his doctoral and master's degrees in choral conducting from The Florida State University where he studied with Andre Thomas and Rodney Eichenberger, and held the prestigious Clayton Krehbiel Fellowship, funded through the generous efforts of the late Robert Shaw.

Prior to his graduate work, Zielke received a BME from Friends University (Wichita, KS) and taught middle and high school choral music in the Kansas public schools. Following his graduate work, Zielke was the associate director of choirs at the University of Arizona where he conducted the Symphonic Choir and worked as a colleague with the late Dr. Maurice Skones.

Zielke is a frequent clinician and guest conductor, and has recently worked in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California, Nebraska, Missouri, Nevada, and Kansas. He also guest conducted the Academic Orchestra of the University of Stuttgart and the University of Tübingen Chamber Singers in Tübingen, Germany. Choirs under his direction have appeared at the Oregon Music Educators Association, the Arizona American Choral Directors Association, the Northwest Division Conference of the Music Educators National Conference, the Festival of Light in Bulgaria, and the Prague Musica Ecumenica concert series, and the Music Educators National Conference. This winter, the OSU Chamber Choir will perform in Vancouver B.C. at the Northwest American Choral Directors Association meeting. Zielke is also the current president of the Oregon Music Educators Association, serves on the Governmental Relations National Task force for the Music Educators National Conference, and is a contributing editor to Walton Music.

Zielke is also the founder and music director of the Corvallis Repertory Singers, a semi-professional ensemble devoted to exemplary performances of the finest in choral literature and serves as the Director of Music at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Corvallis. Despite an exhilarating schedule, he enjoys playing with his children, watching college football, and gardening with his wife Nicola.