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  • Soon Cho has traveled throughout the country and world as a lyric mezzo-soprano. Today, you can find her teaching to music students at PLU. What is your background? I began my musical training as a pianist and a violinist and never had aspirations of being…

    universally applicable. It takes courage to be a unique individual and to live out one’s love and passions. Read Previous The upcoming Choral Concert will be music to our ears Read Next Marathon runner and musician- an interview with new music faculty member Lark Powers 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

  • Barry Johnson has performed in over 25 roles in the Seattle and Tacoma Operas, while also teaching voice and opera lessons at PLU for over 20 years. Today, you can find him teaching full-time to music students at PLU. What is your background? I was…

    dedication and desire to succeed. I also love the growth that I see in students throughout their PLU careers. Any fun facts about you? I love to go crabbing with my family. Read Previous University Choral Union presents Gioachino Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle” Read Next Concert web streaming of PLU’s annual Christmas Concert, Gloria 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

  • 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…

    Michigan B.A. and B.M., University of Washington Read Previous Student Sings way to Seattle Opera Read Next Pacific Lutheran University’s Jazz and Wind Ensembles go “Down Under” this summer 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

  • The PLU Wind Ensemble performed the world premiere of Echo Chambers on March 10, 2019. Echo Chambers came about after a conversation during a national conference in 2017 between Ed Powell, Professor of Music and Director of Bands at PLU, and Peter Van Zandt Lane,…

    College, MIT, and Harvard. Read Previous New Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna Read Next PLU Trumpet Ensemble live on KING-FM 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

  • TACOMA, WASH. (June 24, 2016)- As Hannah Park poses for a few quick photos outside the main office of Franklin Pierce High School, it seems she is well-liked by everyone in the close-knit community. “Hey Hannah, should you be in class?” a staff member playfully…

    are solar panels on top of buildings – I’m really excited about that,” Park says. 253 PLU BOUND SCHOLARSHIPPark and Gutierrez are two of the 37 students in PLU’s first class of 253 PLU Bound Scholarship recipients. The cadre of first-year students will hail from 10 area school districts and boast an average weighted GPA of 3.89. Of the scholarship class, 57 percent are students of color and 84 percent are first generation college students.A jazz musician, an aspiring nurse and now a LuteJoining

  • The Pacific Lutheran University Choir of the West, Choral Union and the University Symphony Orchestra perform the North American premiere of the “St. Matthew Passion” by Sven-David Sandström, one of the world’s best-known composers, on Tuesday, March 22 and Wednesday, March 23 at 8:00 pm…

    offers masterclass to faculty-nominated students 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 Octave 9 in Seattle October 5, 2022

  • 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…

    develop with their students and how music binds us together. This crosses culture and helps us realize that people around the world really are all the same.” Read Previous Famous flutist visits PLU this January Read Next A Symphony of Light 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

  • 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…

    think PLUSO has ever done much Bruckner, so this year I thought we MUST do some of his music!” Tickets are available on Eventbrite. $10 – general admission, $5 – seniors (60+), military, alumni, PLU community (faculty, staff, families) and free – PLU students and 18 and younger. Read Previous PLU’s Wind Ensemble upcoming CBDNA performance Read Next A Slice of Paradise LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending

  • Music Professor Emeritus Jerry Kracht (conductor, University Symphony Orchestra, 1967-2001) was ready and waiting to celebrate two significant anniversaries in the Department of Music at PLU: ready since 2013 when he composed Fanfare, Fantasia and Finale (On a locally familiar tune) , and waiting until…

    , University Chorale, and University Wind Ensemble Spring Conference Appearances Read Next Horn & Fixed Media Premiere at Octave 9 in Seattle 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

  • Going for a Grammy! Micah Haven ’09 is in his fifth year as band director at Meeker Middle School in Tacoma. (Photo: Tacoma School District) Micah Haven ’09 is 1 of 25 semifinalists for the 2015 Music Education Award By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing…

    semifinalists, some of whom I know and look up to,” said Haven, who’s in his fifth year as band director at Meeker, where he teaches 260 students at the elementary and middle-school levels, along with a before-school jazz band. At PLU, Micah played with the Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band, brass quintet and Trumpet Ensemble—and even then, he made quite an impression. “It makes me very proud to know that he is getting this well deserved recognition,” said Edwin Powell, PLU Associate Professor of Music and Director