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Community Meals brings people together and feeds souls Posted by: Ava Edmonds / December 1, 2023 Image: PLU and Trinity Lutheran Church are partnering up for a new collaborative dinner series, Community Meals. Community members gather around a table enjoying October’s meal and company. (All photos provided by Rev. Jen Rude) December 1, 2023 By Britt BoardUniversity RelationsLooking at the packed tables, “the smiles on their faces, the sense of community, and the appreciation they express are

English we encounter the German loan word “Geist” in the term Zeitgeist, which describes the spirit of a particular historical juncture.) German speakers have become household names in the fields studied by humanities scholars, whether in literature (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the brothers Grimm, Franz Kafka), film (Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders), music (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven), art (Caspar David Friedrich, Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter), philosophy

. 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

served for many seasons as a chamber music performer and coach at the Victoria International Festival in Victoria, Canada, and as staff accompanist at The Juilliard School. He has taught previously at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and has given master classes at the Beijing Central Conservatory, Shanghai Conservatory, and the Chinese Cultural University in Taipei, Taiwan. He continues to be in great demand as a collaborating pianist. Bennett will join the PLU faculty this summer. Read Previous

will also appear in the Discovery Channel series “Machines of Malice” in a program that focuses on Rome, which will air at 10 p.m., Sept. 14. For Storfjell the experience was fun and offered another way to spread knowledge and appreciation for a historical sense of the world to a wider audience then an academic journal. “I think it’s really important,” he said about opening up that experience to people who probably will never read a scholarly journal. “Having some sort of historical sense is

degree in Jazz Studies at the University of Northern Colorado. I am a jazz composer and pianist, and I love to teach! I have taught at many music academies in Rio de Janeiro, and since I arrived in the U.S., I have taught at Western Oregon University, Umpqua Community College, and as a teaching assistant at the University of Northern Colorado. Here at PLU, I direct the jazz ensemble and the jazz combos, and I teach a variety of jazz classes. What made you choose PLU? My first contact with PLU was

alumnus Dr. Richard Weathermon ’50, the Richard and Helen Weathermon Joyful Noise Endowment for jazz studies created an annual two-day artist-in-residence program to bring a renowned jazz artist to campus to perform with the University Jazz Ensemble and a select local high school jazz band, to lead rehearsals and public master classes, and participate in other educational and performance activities. Last year, the University Jazz Ensemble featured tenor saxophonist, Jeff Coffin. This year, alto

had arrived in the U.S.Upon returning home, Brizuela, who majored in music education at PLU, had two in-classroom days with his Clover Park School District students before classes were suspended. “It was a rapid-fire shut down of everything,” he remembers. Two states away, Sarah Lord ’00 was teaching high school biology and environmental science at Billings Senior High School in Billings, Montana. While inconvenienced by the immediate shutdown, she didn’t realize the scope until several weeks

corridor for performances and masterclasses throughout the week. His tour repertoire will include much of the music he won the competition with.The tour will kick off a busy season for Steighner. Classes resume at PLU and he’ll be busy teaching lessons, chamber music, and ear training in addition to maintaining his private studio. He’s also starting a South Sound Saxophone Ensemble comprised of local saxophonists (including several PLU alums). Finally, he is organizing an “unconference” for music

University Jazz Ensemble while teaching classes in jazz composition, arranging and functional jazz piano. Jazz students at PLU will take her masterclass with a focus on band, composition and arranging for jazz. www.lawrence.edu/conservatory/faculty/patty_darling Read Previous Faculty Feature: Dr. Jeffrey Bell-Hanson, Professor of Music and Director of Orchestral Activities Read Next Introducing New Music Faculty Kate Olson LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from