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  • Spring is almost here. We just set our clocks forward an hour and throughout this semester students will have plenty of master classes to anticipate with an incredible variety of guest artists from disciplines. Keep reading to hear about the talented musicians, educators, and composers!…

    Fleet Forces Band and his session will be about his experiences playing around the world. Additionally, US-born, Tokyo-based Christopher Hardy, an expert in hand drums, will discuss his music and his career in Tokyo. Trumpet students will have a fantastic opportunity to work with Manu Mellaerts, professor of trumpet at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Belgium. Our PLU Professor of Trumpet and Music History, Dr. Zachary Lyman, said, “I am extremely excited to welcome Manu Mellaerts to PLU and to

  • Jodie Rottle ’10 Finds Fame Even Without a Direct Roadmap By Shunying Wang ’15 and Sandy Deneau Dunham, PLU Marketing & Communications As far as Jodie Rottle ’10 can recall, she started to play the flute because her sister randomly suggested it. Good call, Jodie Rottle’s sister. Rottle,…

    play the flute because her sister randomly suggested it. Good call, Jodie Rottle’s sister. Rottle, who lives in Brisbane, Australia, no longer just plays the flute; she has perfected it—and she’s also seriously expanded her musical repertoire: Rottle is a soloist, a chamber musician, a music teacher and a contemporary-music specialist who has premiered works by jazz and classical composers from around the world. She has performed at venues as varied as the Brisbane Festival of Toy Music, Town Hall

  • Every other year the Tamana All Girls’ High School Band travels to Washington state for an exchange with the Graham Kapowsin High School and a friendship concert at PLU. The eight-year long relationship has created bonds that stretch across the ocean. This year, three Graham…

    Music Ron Gerhardstein to participate in the New Year Concert. Gerhardstein embarked on his travel as both teacher and student. When Gerhardstein traveled to Japan this J-term, his goals were to observe, ask questions, listen and learn. The purpose: to study the cultural and musical exchange between Graham Kapowsin and the Tamana Band and the impact of it. The Tamana band holds a gold medal in marching and concert band performance in a culture where band performance is a big deal. Music education in

  • PLU experiences hit the right key By Teri Moore You do not need to be an accounting major to appreciate that an increase of 3,200 percent is staggering. Yet for Paul Scott ’04, choir director for Enumclaw Public Schools grades 6-12, that percentage represents the…

    be better team members,” said Paul Scott ’04, choir director for Enumclaw Public Schools grades 6-12. “In most classrooms, it does not matter if someone else fails. In the music environment, everyone succeeds or everyone fails.” At that time, there were two choirs; today there are five. Also, what started as an exploratory music middle school class today benefits 70 students who work together and hold choir performances throughout the year. He also works as the music director for the high school

  • Dr. James L. Brown , Professor of Music and Chair of Vocal Studies has announced the list of vocal and musical talents who will be working with voice students during Spring Semester. The presenters will be: Audrey Luna , star soprano who set a world…

    Vocal Master Classes in Spring 2021 Posted by: Reesa Nelson / February 17, 2021 February 17, 2021 Dr. James L. Brown, Professor of Music and Chair of Vocal Studies has announced the list of vocal and musical talents who will be working with voice students during Spring Semester. The presenters will be: Audrey Luna, star soprano who set a world record for highest note ever performed at the Met! Luna won a Grammy Award in 2014 for Best Opera Recording of Thomas Adès’s opera The Tempest. She sings

  • Endowment for scholarships: a direct investment in students Agnes Berge Smith graduated from Pacific Lutheran College in 1932 with a vision. During the spring of that year, she traveled with the Choir of the West to sing at the Chicago World’s Fair. The trip was…

    August 24, 2010 Endowment for scholarships: a direct investment in students Agnes Berge Smith graduated from Pacific Lutheran College in 1932 with a vision. During the spring of that year, she traveled with the Choir of the West to sing at the Chicago World’s Fair. The trip was the premier occasion of what she called many “liberating experiences” that she had while studying music here. Smith never forgot the powerful influence that the PLC experience had for her and she was determined to ensure

  • Pacific Lutheran University welcomes internationally renowned organist Nathan Laube to campus on September 11, 2016 at 3 pm. Described as one of the world’s elite organ performers, Laube will kick off the Richard D. Moe Organ Series. Laube is a Grammy-winning organist, who tours and…

    Classical Compendium in the 58th Grammy’s and his performances have been acclaimed by critics at home and abroad. Laube also serves as an Assistant Professor of Organ at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Laube will be performing on the Mary Fuchs and Gottfried organ. This is the hallmark of the Lagerquist Concert Hall, and the base for the PLU organ studies program. Laube will be the first performer of the organ series, with his contemporaries performing throughout the year. For more

  • Full of beauty and a joy to sing is how conductor Richard Nance describes Pacific Lutheran University Choral Union’s upcoming Gioachino Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle”. The performance took place Sunday, November 12 in Lagerquist Concert Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Building. The performance featured PLU…

    University Choral Union presents Gioachino Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle” Posted by: Kate Williams / November 14, 2017 November 14, 2017 By Kate Williams '16Outreach ManagerFull of beauty and a joy to sing is how conductor Richard Nance describes Pacific Lutheran University Choral Union’s upcoming Gioachino Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle”. The performance took place Sunday, November 12 in Lagerquist Concert Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Building. The performance featured PLU Music

  • The Sølvvinden Flute Ensemble’s latest project is music to our ears. Flute Choir at PLU, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) The next concert for Pacific Lutheran University’s Sølvvinden Flute Ensemble, PLU’s flute choir, will have a small but strong audience: patients at Mary…

    Sølvvinden Flute Ensemble to perform at Mary Bridge Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / October 27, 2016 Image: Flute Choir at PLU, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) October 27, 2016 By Mandi LeCompteOutreach ManagerThe Sølvvinden Flute Ensemble’s latest project is music to our ears. Flute Choir at PLU, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) The next concert for Pacific Lutheran University’s Sølvvinden Flute Ensemble, PLU’s flute choir, will have a small but strong

  • Internationally known soprano, and PLU alum, Angela Meade ’00 offered a rare opportunity for PLU students considering a career as professional vocalists. Meade along with her husband John Myers, also a professional opera singer, established the endowment that made the competition a reality. After an…

    currently performing in Seattle Opera’s production of Verdi’s Il Trovatore; as well as PLU Voice Faculty member Marlette Buchanan, soprano. PLU Faculty member Sheila Bristow, piano, was the competition accompanist.Three winners were announced. Marissa Moultrie, soprano, was awarded first place, receiving $1,000, a trip to the east coast to watch Angela in performance, and a voice coaching/lesson from Ms. Meade. Marissa Moultrie is a senior at PLU, completing her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance