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or Expertise Flute Sølvvinden Flute Ensemble Music Fundamentals Camas Wind Quintet Responsibilities Applied Flute Lessons, Directs Solvvinden Flute Ensemble, Teaches Music Fundamentals, Member of Camas Woodwind Quintet, Director of the Summer Flute Workshop Selected Publications Two Muses Biography Jennifer Rhyne is Associate Professor of Flute and Music Theory at Pacific Lutheran University. She holds degrees from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music, the University of Michigan, and Stony

Council Auditions and the San Francisco Merola Opera Program Auditions, her repertoire includes many roles. In 1983 she won an apprenticeship with the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists and was an active participant in the Chicago opera community. She was a member of both the Chicago Lyric Opera Chorus and the Chicago Symphony Chorus under the direction of Margaret Hillis, and a recipient of the Margaret Hillis Fellowship. In 1992 she made her debut with Tacoma Opera as Pamina in The Magic Flute

the Regiment), Pamina (The Magic Flute), Lucy (The Telephone), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), and Papagena (The Magic Flute). During her apprenticeship with the Seattle Opera Young Artist’s Program in 2004, Ms. Milanese performed the role of Pamina in the Young Artist’s production of The Magic Flute and returned as a guest artist the following season to sing the role of Barbarina in their production of Le Nozze di Figaro. On the concert stage, Ms. Milanese has performed as a

, Opera Colorado, Anchorage Opera, Portland Opera, Vashon Opera, Stockton Opera, Central City Opera, and Las Vegas Opera. Notable roles in his repertoire include the title role in The Marriage of Figaro, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Marcello in La Boheme, Dancairo in Carmen, Sharpless in Madame Butterfly, Masetto in Don Giovanni, Prince Ottokar in Der Freischutz, Angelotti in Tosca,  Papageno in  The Magic Flute, Don Alfonso in  Cosi Fan Tutte, Fleville in Andrea Chenier,  Frank in Die Fledermaus

designs at PLU include both Costume and Set Design for Twelfth Night, Costume Design for Cabaret, Company, and The Fantasticks, as well as Puppet and Costume Design for The Floating World. Kathleen has also designed for the PLU Music Department, including Set Design and Scenic Artistry for several of the annual Christmas Concerts, and Costume Design for The Magic Flute and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Kathy has designed extensively for Tacoma Opera and for Harlequin Productions in Olympia, among others

grant from the Kurt Weill Foundation in New York City for a production of Street Scene. James has directed stylistically diverse operas for PLU Opera such as Handel’s Semele, Die Fledermaus, and Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen. For ten years, he has been the conductor and stage director for Vashon Opera in Washington State in diverse repertoire such as Britten’s Albert Herring, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Carmen, Così fan tutte, Eugene Onegin, La Traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor, The Magic Flute

University of Michigan in 1987. His principal teachers have included Leslie Bassett, William Bergsma, William Bolcom and William Albright. He was awarded a Charles Ives Award in 1984 from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and has received annual awards from ASCAP since 1990.  His Scherzo for a Bitter Moon for band won the 1984 National Bandmasters Association contest and in 1990 his Fire Works for wind ensemble won the American Bandmasters Association Ostwald Award.  A choral work

performing with her own projects KO SOLO and KO ELECTRIC, and as a collaborator with the Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble and Electric Circus (led by Wayne Horvitz), Birch Pereira and the Gin Joints, Battlestar Kalakala (formerly West Seattle Soul/the Pulsations) and with such Seattle staples as the Seattle Men’s and Women’s Choruses and cabaret producers Can Can Presents and Verlaine & McCann. Kate has a BA in Music (Jazz Emphasis) from the University of Wyoming and an MM in Improvisation from the

and Jazz Studies Brazilian Music Responsibilities Conducts University Jazz Ensemble, teaches jazz classes. Selected Publications See website for a complete list of original compositions Accolades Outstanding New Instrumental Composition Award: "Baião Moderno," International Society of Jazz Composers and Arrangers (2017) Winner composition: "For the Rise of a New Day," Jazz Education Network Young Composer Showcase (2017) Winner composition: "April Song," National Band Association Jazz Composition

Miho Takekawa Lecturer - Percussion Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: takekama@plu.edu Office Location:Mary Baker Russell Music Center - Room 323 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Biography Education D.M.A., Percussion Performance, University of Washington M.M., University of Washington M.Ed., Kunitachi School of Music, Tokyo B.M., Kunitachi School of Music, Tokyo Responsibilities Applied Percussion Lessons, Directs Steel Pan Ensemble and Percussion Ensemble Biography Dr