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Annual KPLU Christmas Jam, 88.5 KPLU’s much-anticipated FREE holiday concert, will feature jazz vocalist Gail Pettis and her trio. Gail will perform Christmas selections with the University Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Dr. David Deacon-Joyner. Gail’s trio includes bassist Clipper Anderson and drummer Mark Ivester. The event will be hosted by KPLU’s Kevin Kniestedt and broadcast live on KPLU. Free to the public.       German Advent Dec. 11 at 5 p.m. Scandinavian Cultural Center The Department

underlying concepts, like showing musical expression through movement. She also played a video of Dr. T. André Feagin, director of bands in the department of music at Central Washington University, conducting an ensemble. “I wanted to show them someone who looks like them doing a job that they could never have thought of having access to,” Delos Reyes says. Though the video is five minutes long, “They were in a trance. The whole time they were just staring right at him and just saying, ‘Teacher, he looks

’ house. “I had no idea I needed special permission,” Tegels said. “It was a learning process for me and for Parkland Light & Water.” According to an article in Ruralite, a publication distributed by Parkland Light & Water, net metering allows customers to get credit for the electricity they generate with solar, wind or water and send it back through their utility meter. Tegels said if he produces more energy than he uses, that electricity cycles through the grid which powers houses served by Parkland

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

. He auditioned for a role in “Camelot” at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theater, and got a part in the ensemble in only his junior year. After graduation, he worked in various productions in Seattle, Olympia and Issaquah, in plays such as “West Side Story,” “Miss Saigon,” “Evita” and “Cabaret.” In 2003, a young artistic associate at the Village Theater asked him to read through a script he was working on called “Feeling Electric.” The music was amazing, Hobson thought, but the script needed work. The

believe that a person who has experienced and truly felt the magic of a Picasso painting or the emotional depth of a Beethoven symphony will become a more compassionate person with an expanded appreciation for what it means to be fully human.” Read Previous New work celebrates the 500th anniversary of the Reformation Read Next Three-time Grammy Award winning saxophonist Jeff Coffin joins the PLU Jazz Ensemble on stage LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the

. “His rehearsal style is a perfect balance of cutting edge pedagogy and inventive setup, sequencing, and scheduling,” Galante says. “His compositions are tailor-made for the Jazz Ensemble and he, seemingly effortlessly, showcases the strengths of the group.” And while Vianna enjoys the accolades his work has earned him, and the challenges it presents, his true passion is to help others. His mother, who learned to play the organ to fill a need for a musician at her church, told him music can do just

far northwestern end of St. Lawrence Island. It sits in the middle of the Bering Straight, a mere 38 miles from Siberia. There Stephen met his wife, Shelley, a member of the Siberian Yup’ik tribe that has inhabited the cold, wind-blown island for hundreds of years. Zach lived in Gambell until age nine when the family moved to Naknek, a town of some 700 people situated on Bristol Bay on the southwest coast of mainland Alaska. Stephen, who had taught high school biology in Gambell, took a job as a

distributed by Parkland Light & Water, net metering allows customers to get credit for the electricity they generate with solar, wind or water and send it back through their utility meter. Tegels said if he produces more energy than he uses, that electricity cycles through the grid which powers houses served by Parkland Light & Water. “PLU could be using some of my electricity,” Tegels said. “But I don’t know how that goes.” In addition to generating his own power, and even a little bit more than he needs

venues across the country. Wendy is also an in-demand church musician and choral singer, and sings with the finest professional ensembles in the city, including the Concert Chorale of New York, Voices of Ascension, Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, Vox Vocal Ensemble, and the New York Choral Artists. The Choral Artists perform regularly with the New York Philharmonic, and with them, Wendy has performed many of the major classical masterworks under the direction of such luminaries as Alan Gilbert