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University Chorale Tour to Include Four Performances in Oregon Posted by: Zach Powers / March 24, 2015 Image: (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) March 24, 2015 TACOMA, WASH. (March 24, 2015)-The Pacific Lutheran University Chorale’s 2015 spring tour, April 15-18, will include a performance in Longview, Washington and four performances in Oregon. The Chorale tours annually and has performed recently for conferences of the Washington Music Educators Association and American Choral Directors Association

, who’s back from a yearlong sabbatical. During his leave, Nance focused on trips to four Northern European countries to visit composers and conductors and to collect repertoire and music to bring back for possible use with his PLU choirs. While in Riga, Latvia, and Helsinki, Finland, he was able to visit with primary publishers Musica Baltica and Sulasol and, based on their recommendations, he selected pieces he thought would benefit the Choir of the West. “I came back with an immense amount of

performances at China’s most prestigious music schools like the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, to a gig on The Great Wall, audiences would “explode with cheers and applause,” Peterson recalled, once the final note sounded. “The people were really friendly and just welcomed all the Americans with open arms,” Peterson added. Often PLU performers would be asked for autographs after a concert. The students were only too happy to oblige. Sometimes that excitement

Carnegie Hall Big Band. Vincent tours frequently around the United States, Europe, Japan and China. Vincent continues to share his distinct voice and musical knowledge, as a performer and jazz educator. He is currently on staff at William Paterson University and at Manhattan School of Music. The University Jazz Ensemble, currently under the direction of Dr. Jared Hall, is a critically-acclaimed large ensemble representing jazz and creative music at Pacific Lutheran University. The ensemble performs

August 18, 2010 Contributions to Excellence By Steve Hansen Alumnae are a proud group of people. Instilled with a passion to give of themselves. Jean (Hesla ’50) Kopta is no exception. Kopta graduated from PLU in 1950 with the bachelor’s degree in education. Jean (Hesla ’50) Kopta. Later in her life, she returned to school to obtain her Master’s degree in vocal performance. Her passion was to share her love of singing and music by teaching voice lessons. She landed at PLU at the Department of

Finding a special place at PLU Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / April 21, 2010 April 21, 2010 By David Robbins It all started so simply, yet signs were there. In the spring and summer of 1969, I was looking for my first college teaching job as I completed my graduate music degree at the University of Michigan. Like so many seeking their first real job, I had cast a wide net, applying for any and all positions that vaguely aligned with my interests, training and abilities. One such position was at a

April 1, 2010 Finding a special place at PLU By David Robbins It all started so simply, yet signs were there. In the spring and summer of 1969, I was looking for my first college teaching job as I completed my graduate music degree at the University of Michigan. Like so many seeking their first real job, I had cast a wide net, applying for any and all positions that vaguely aligned with my interests, training and abilities. One such position was at a small Lutheran university in the Pacific

Greg Youtz: Composing for the cannery – of boxcars, rhinos, and grapes Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / April 1, 2013 April 1, 2013 1973, a 17-year-old Gregory Youtz departed from Sea-Tac International Airport and landed in France. Meritoriously skipping the third grade, the young composer had afforded himself the luxury of a year in limbo – graduating high school a year early and giving himself time to explore before college. “My music is essentially dramatic, it’s story telling. Because I’ve spent

Lute Plays Piano ‘Up Close with the Masters’ Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / February 21, 2014 Image: Natalie Burton ’13 plays a Bach piece on the piano for master pianist Vladimir Feltsman during Portland Piano International’s Up Close With the Masters series. (Photo courtesy of Portland Piano International) February 21, 2014 A Q&A With Natalie Burton ’13 By Sandy Deneau Dunham, PLU Marketing & Communications Music and Chinese Studies major Natalie Burton graduated magna cum laude from PLU in 2013

Prof. Gregory Youtz talks transitioning classrooms and teaching styles to distance learning Posted by: Marcom Web Team / March 19, 2020 Image: PLU professor of music Gregory Youtz teaches a distance-learning music course from his home. (Photo/John Froschauer) March 19, 2020 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardMarketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March. 19, 2020) — Switching a campus-based curriculum to a distance-learning model mid-semester in the face of a pandemic is no easy feat. Luckily, PLU