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on a full scholarship- an opportunity I never imagined possible. I had never seen an opera until I was in one my freshman year. I took music classes, but also many dance and acting classes too as I was a music theater major for a time. I ended up getting my degree in Music Education and taught high school and junior high for a year before starting a graduate program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. I started teaching on the voice faculty at PLU as an adjunct lecturer in 1989, immediately

October 1, 2012 Imagine hundreds from the PLU community spelling-out PLU – with candles – on Foss Field Nov. 1 as part of the PLU Christmas video. (Photo by John Froschauer) Do you like cookies? Cocoa? Coffee? Music? Do you like Christmas and cool Christmas videos? If you’ve answered yes to all of the above, please gather at Foss Field at 5:15 pm on Nov. 1, and we’ll supply the cookies, cocoa, music and candles – did I mention candles – to do a neat stop action portion of the PLU Holiday video

Lute’s creative background in broadcast and music production is ‘the straw that stirs the drink’ Posted by: Kari Plog / May 29, 2018 Image: Ken Morrison ’79 May 29, 2018 By Eric Zayas '18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (May 29, 2018) — Ken Morrison ’79 has a storied career — quite literally.Four decades after studying broadcast journalism at Pacific Lutheran University, Morrison has amassed 40 regional Emmy Awards for his work producing “Front Runners,” a Seattle-based magazine show

October 30, 2012 Carolyn Hylander ’12, Caitlin Walton ’12, Mycal Ford ’12 and Gretchen Elyse Nagel ’12 received Fulbright Student Fellowships. (Photo by John Froschauer) PLU named top producer of Fulbright by The Chronicle of Higher Education Pacific Lutheran University was named as a top producer of U.S. Fulbright students for 2012-13 as a master’s institution by The Chronicle of Higher Education. This past year, four PLU students were awarded Fulbright Student Fellowships. That makes 91 PLU

Tracye Ferguson ’94 brings her principles to work at state education agency Posted by: Silong Chhun / August 24, 2022 Image: Tracye Ferguson ’94 is an assistant superintendent for early learning at ESD 113, a Washington state agency that helps ensure that students in Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific and Thurston Counties receive an excellent and equitable education. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) August 24, 2022 By Debbie CafazzoPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterTracye Ferguson ’94

PLU alumna Jenifer Leavens ’18 leads elementary education at Chief Leschi Schools Posted by: Zach Powers / March 20, 2023 Image: Jenifer Leavens is the elementary assistant principal at Chief Leschi. (Photo by Sy Bean/PLU) March 20, 2023 By Debbie CafazzoPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterJenifer Leavens was an experienced educator when she decided it was time to pursue a master’s degree in education. A transplant from California, she wasn’t sure which Puget Sound area university had

the library, cafeteria and commons closest to the center. Classrooms are located on the outer perimeters. Chief Leschi is one of the largest tribal schools funded by the federal Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), and it operates under both a BIE Tribally Controlled Grant and a Washington state Tribal Education Compact. Read Previous Tacoma Opera’s ‘Tacoma Method’ takes on city’s expulsion of Chinese residents (composed by PLU music professor Gregory Youtz) Read Next PLU to host environmental

18 and under---------------------- Tuesday, March 22, 2016 Wednesday, March 23, 2016FEATURED ARTISTS Sven-David Sandström, ComposerNo composer has made such an impression on contemporary Swedish musical life as Sven-David Sandström. His catalogue of works, which includes some 300 compositions, gives proof not only of an impressive productivity, but also contains an amazingly wide range: everything from magnificent operas and oratorios to intimate choral and chamber music. With his unlikely

, Guest Organist Iain Quinn is Assistant Professor of Organ and Coordinator of Sacred Music at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. April 8, 2018, Gregory Peterson, Guest Organist Gregory Peterson is Head of the Music Department, Associate Professor and college organist at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa where he teaches applied organ and church music. Read Previous Choral Union Tour Preview Concert Read Next The upcoming Choral Concert will be music to our ears LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director

American Choral Directors Association National Conference, held in Dallas. “I had long admired Ēriks’ work, and wrote to him about the possibility of composing a piece that we could perform on our ACDA program,” music professor Richard Nance said. “He generously composed Northern Lights for us, and we performed it to great acclaim at the conference–it was THE piece that everyone in attendance talked about.” In April 2013 Nance visited the composer in Latvia while on sabbatical. It was then Ešenvalds