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Ricardo de la Torre Lecturer Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: delator@plu.edu Office Location: Mary Baker Russell Music Center Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Biography Education D.M.A., University of Colorado Boulder M.M., Indiana University B.M., Escuela Superior de Música, Mexico City Responsibilities Applied Piano Lessons Biography Active as a performer, teacher, adjudicator, curator, and scholar, Dr. Ricardo de la Torre has played in concert venues in Mexico, the

Ricardo de la Torre Lecturer Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: delator@plu.edu Office Location: Mary Baker Russell Music Center Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Biography Education D.M.A., University of Colorado Boulder M.M., Indiana University B.M., Escuela Superior de Música, Mexico City Responsibilities Applied Piano Lessons Biography Active as a performer, teacher, adjudicator, curator, and scholar, Dr. Ricardo de la Torre has played in concert venues in Mexico, the

pandemic. She serves as Principal Cello of the Northwest Sinfonietta Chamber Orchestra and Bellevue Philharmonic. Mara has performed with the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Cornish Chamber Series, the Silsbee Piano Trio, the Seattle International Music Festival, the Governor’s Chamber Music Series, the Bacchus Trio, the Fear No Music Twentieth Century Ensemble, and the Paley Music Festival in France. She has appeared regularly with the Music of Remembrance series since

. Ditty for Jonathan. Music currently self-published, PDF copies are available by contacting Gina Gillie. Duration: 13 minutes. To the Seasons (2012) for soprano, horn and piano. Four-movement work using poetry of William Blake: I. To Summer, II. To Autumn, III. To Winter, IV. To Spring. Published by RM Williams Publishing. Duration: 20 minutes. The Great Migration (2013) for two horns and piano. Programmatic duet that describes the migratory cycle of wildebeests through Tanzania and Kenya. Published

band and K-12 music) and Central Washington University in 2016 with a Master’s of Music in wind band conducting, where he studied with Lewis Norfleet and Mark Lane. Professor Vegh also teaches at Steilacoom High School. At SHS, he directs Wind Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, and has taught AP Music Theory. His concert bands consistently receive Superior ratings at festivals, while percussion ensemble frequently performs at the WIAA/WMEA State Ensemble Contest, and has

at LaGuardia High School where he was exposed to various forms of classical and jazz music. Ed later studied trumpet at Yale, the Manhattan School of Music, and the University of Washington. As a fan of modern and early classical music, Castro has positioned himself between genres with additional deep interests in jazz and popular music, where these myriad styles influence his compositions.  His trumpet instructors include Chris Gekker, Trumpet Professor University of Maryland, Former Member of

Immanuel Kant History and Meaning of Jazz Aesthetics American and African-American Culture and Literature German philosophy Critical Theory Theory/History of Public Sphere Alexander Kluge Biography Arthur Strum teaches interdisciplinary courses drawing particularly upon philosophy, literature, and political theory. He began his career in the field of German Studies, teaching and writing for more than a decade on 18th and 19th century German philosophy, the Bildungsroman, The Frankfurt School, Kant

Sapience Dance Collective from 2008-2016. Her work has been seen at On The Boards and Meany Hall and she has performed in the work of Pat Graney, Marlo Martin, and Wade Madsen among others. She is also a reviewer of jazz dance submissions for Young Arts. Seder earned her BA in Dance and Psychology from Bard College and her MFA in Dance from Smith College.

rocks in northern New Mexico. My undergraduate is from the University of Wisconsin, Madison where I worked as closely as an undergraduate can to Dr. Gordon Medaris on the Precambrian evolution of the Great Lakes region. Interests Design Wood Metal and Stone Work Politics Music Fun Facts The music component ranges from jazz through new wave into noise rock.

. Miho Takekawa was raised in Tokyo and currently resides in Seattle. She teaches at Pacific Lutheran University, where she heads the percussion studio and directs the school’s percussion and steel pan ensembles. During the 2010-2011 school year, she was an interim professor of percussion at the University of Washington School of Music. Miho began piano at age three and took up percussion at thirteen, ultimately graduating from Tokyo’s prestigious Kunitachi School of Music. She earned both Master’s