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  • Every year, the University Symphony Orchestra features a Student Showcase concert for selected students to perform as soloists with the orchestra or to have their compositions premiered. This year, the concert will be performed on Tuesday, March 20th at 8pm in Lagerquist Concert Hall in…

    over 40 years after the original version.” Another student featured in the show, Dalton Rouse, was also a winner of the Student Showcase Competition for his composition, Wisp and Willow. This will be the world premiere performance. “My newest work titled Wisp and Willow, began as an experiment in non-functional chord progressions. The chords, which comprise most of the pitch material, are various four-note sonorities. The “wisps”, heard mostly in the harp and high woodwinds, arpeggiate quickly up

  • Don’t miss one of the most beloved holiday traditions in the Pacific Northwest, as the Choir of the West, University Chorale and University Symphony Orchestra present our annual Christmas concerts. This year’s theme, Winter Rose , features performances of works by Gerald Finzi, Herbert Howells,…

    purchased here No longer available Read Previous Richard D. Moe Organ Recital Series Read Next Lyric Brass CD Release LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU Music Announces Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance January 29, 2024 PLU’s Weathermon Jazz Festival to Feature Acclaimed Musician Aubrey Logan February 28, 2023 Horn & Fixed Media Premiere at

  • The University Gallery opened its fall semester’s final show with the annual Juried Student Exhibition on November 16, 2016. Works will be on display until December 14, 2016. The exhibition is open to the university community, as well as the general public. Students not only compete to…

    scale and collaborative effort distinguishes this work. 2nd place: The Pose Juxtaposed (5 panels) Artist: Jamie Dones This multi-panel painting is ambitious and intriguing. The technical skills demonstrated in this work adds to the conceptual strength. The narrative is mysterious and engages the viewer. 3rd place (a tie): Surreal Beach Dreams Artist: Lisa Moxcey This captivating portrait engages the viewer with its strong composition and beautiful quality of light. Excellent use of a shallow depth

  • On Thursday, February 20, the 2014 SOAC Focus Series on Entrepreneurship will kick off with the Black History Month Concert in Lagerquist Concert Hall. Directed by David Deacon-Joyner, the concert plays tribute to the entrepreneurship of African-Americans featuring the legacy of their music, literature, and…

    Cotton Club in Harlem where Ellington honed his craft and gained worldwide notoriety. Of his hundreds of compositions, the PLU Jazz Ensemble will feature three selections: “Stompy Jones”, an example of a swinging dance number comprised of short “riffs” and fleshed out by brief improvised solos, “I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)”, a composition inspired by and customized for members of Ellington’s band, and “Cottontail”, a piece recorded during a landmark recording session for Victor Records. The

  • 16th Annual Jazz Under the Stars Kicks Off July 10 By Sandy Deneau Dunham, PLU Marketing & Communication  As a gift to the community—and really, to everyone who attends—the Pacific Lutheran University Department of Music kicks off its free summer concert series, Jazz Under the…

    2009 release, Wait For Me. July 31 The Rob Hutchinson Group Hutchinson teaches music theory, orchestration, analysis, counterpoint, improvisation and composition at the University of Puget Sound. He is also a jazz bassist and organizes and appears at the Jazz in the Rotunda series at the UPS. His band, the Rob Hutchinson Group, includes Kareem Kandi on saxophone, David Deacon-Joyner on keyboards and Jacques Willis on drums and performs original compositions in the jazz/rock fusion style of groups

  • What do you get when you mix a poet, a composer, three musicians, and two editors? A fabulous collaboration between multiple School of Arts and Communication departments and faculty with South Sound poet and PLU alumna  Josie Emmons Turner ! These artists came together as…

    prose. She has a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Gregory Youtz, composer, Professor of MusicGregory Youtz is head of the PLU music composition program. His compositions include works for orchestra, band, choir, voice and chamber ensembles, three operas and a full-length musical theater show. He is currently at work on a fourth opera, with librettist Zhang Er, about the expulsion of the Chinese from Tacoma in 1885

  • Why Music Scholarships Matter – in students’ own words To many students, PLU is a dream, and financial aid and scholarships make it a reality. Hear students talk about their journey to PLU and how music scholarships have made the difference. To address demand for…

    composition April 18, 2024 PLU Music Announces Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance January 29, 2024 PLU’s Weathermon Jazz Festival to Feature Acclaimed Musician Aubrey Logan February 28, 2023 Horn & Fixed Media Premiere at Octave 9 in Seattle October 5, 2022

  • The 19th Annual KPLU Christmas Jazz Jam, 88.5 KPLU’s much-anticipated FREE holiday concert, features tenor saxophonist Anton Schwartz –Thursday, December 10, 2015 from noon to 1 p.m. at a new venue on the Pacific Lutheran University campus: Eastvold Auditorium in the Karen Hille Phillips Center…

    . Festive concessions will be available. Parking for the event is limited as classes are in session.Anton SchwartzTenor SaxophonistParking Download a printable campus parking pass.Parking Pass Read Previous ‘A Christmas Invitation’ broadcast Read Next PLU Chorale tours the southeast, uses music to make the world a better place LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU Music

  • A Slice of Paradise The Malick Folk Performing Company from Trinidad and Tobago will perform from 3-5 p.m. Sunday, April 22 in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for Performing Arts. Malick is the premier folk performing company of Trinidad and Tobago. The award-winning group travels…

    in Trinidad.Event Details: Time: 3-5 p.m. Date: Sunday, April 22 Place: Karen Hille Phillips Center for Performing Arts Free and open to the publicDownload Promotional Poster Read Previous University Symphony Orchestra ‘goes outdoors’ in the upcoming Student Showcase concert Read Next PLU University Jazz Ensemble’s upcoming concert LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU

  • The 2019 Jazz Under the Stars series will begin on Thursday, July 11th in the outdoor amphitheater of the Mary Baker Russell Music Center at PLU. This annual summer concert series is FREE to the public, as it is PLU’s gift to the community. The…

    Hall of the Mary Baker Russell Music Center. Learn more. Read Previous University Symphony Orchestra Spring Tour 2019 Read Next Choir of the West 2019 Tour – United Kingdom and Germany LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU Music Announces Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance January 29, 2024 PLU’s Weathermon Jazz Festival to Feature Acclaimed