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Next Brass Music & Book Review! 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

down in LA jumping right into rehearsals,” Marzano said. “We were really excited and nervous about it.” Immediately after hearing they were one of the finalists, PLUtonic members had to make arrangements to travel to Hollywood. “It was really nerve-racking to think that in two weeks we would be in Hollywood with cameras in our faces with America judging us,” Marzano said. Senior Phillip Serino, another PLUtonic member studying music composition, said it wasn’t the stage that gave him the jitters

to serve on a special panel. Funds would also go toward an in-person breakfast and trophies. Learn more: DataFest Read Previous Music professor Gina Gillie discussed her new composition and short film Read Next PLU’s culturally sustaining STEM program helped prepare Becca Anderson to be a dynamic teacher COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students

talked a lot about the technical aspects of camera work relating to dance films and dancing for the camera. I used the information I gained from the master class and applied it to my classwork, especially the dance film final project for Composition and Choreography. It helped me think about how to both choreograph and dance for a camera and how this is different than dancing on a stage. —Brooke Nelson ’23, Dance minor Though the circumstances of the year are not what any of us would have chosen, I

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

, PLU team up for free concert in honor of Music in our Schools Month 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

and is a frequent soloist with symphonies throughout the United States. Moby featured Gardner prominently on his 2009 release, Wait For Me. July 31 The Rob Hutchinson Group Hutchinson teaches music theory, orchestration, analysis, counterpoint, improvisation and composition at the University of Puget Sound. He is also a jazz bassist and organizes and appears at the Jazz in the Rotunda series at the UPS. His band, the Rob Hutchinson Group, includes Kareem Kandi on saxophone, David Deacon-Joyner on

Activities Richard Nance. “His writing is harmonically rich and it contains interesting twists and turns.” The six Christmas Concerts will also be the premiere of “December: A Meditation on Advent,” the latest piece by award-winning composer and PLU Professor of Music Gregory Youtz. The composition features a number of familiar Advent hymns that are used frequently in Lutheran and many other Christian Advent celebrations. Youtz hopes the piece will serve as a way for listeners to connect with the rich

talked a lot about the technical aspects of camera work relating to dance films and dancing for the camera. I used the information I gained from the master class and applied it to my classwork, especially the dance film final project for Composition and Choreography. It helped me think about how to both choreograph and dance for a camera and how this is different than dancing on a stage. —Brooke Nelson ’23, Dance minor Though the circumstances of the year are not what any of us would have chosen, I

, or teach a private composition lesson.  I will probably be meeting with a music faculty sometime during the day.  I meet with each full-time faculty member once a month, to get to know them, and to discuss issues and concerns that they may have.  Several times a week, I will walk over the University House to have lunch with other faculty and staff, so I can gain a wider university-level perspective.  There is always some type of group meeting during the day:  with the entire music faculty or in