Planning News Team Univ. The tour began in Perrysburg, Ohio and continues through Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and New York over the next ten days. The group will perform a variety of music ranging from classical to folk to spirituals.
Membership is open by audition to all male students at the university.
In addition to its regularly scheduled performances on campus, the ensemble makes numerous community appearances and performs at alumni functions on and off campus. Previous tours have taken the ensemble through the Midwest and East Coast areas of the United States. And, in 1999, the men traveled to China for performances in Beijing, Suzhou and Shanghai. An associate professor of voice, Zook founded the Singing Men of Ohio in 1989. He was the Director of Music at the First Presbyterian Church in Athens and the past director of the Parkersburg West Virginia Choral Society.