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  • Dr. Youtz has been part of the Trinidad Gateway Program since its beginning in 1993 and he began taking students to Trinidad and Tobago in 1999. This jewel of a country in the Southern Caribbean has a rich diversity of the world’s peoples and a…

    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

  • Something I thought I’d never do: Sing for 12 million people! By Kari Plog ’11 John Marzano never thought he would be on live television singing in front of millions of people – but that’s exactly what he did alongside nine other close friends over…

    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

  • Pacific Lutheran University is pleased to announce the winners of The Carol Sheffels Quigg Award for Excellence and Innovation, established by alumna and regent Carol Quigg, whose endowment funds the awards. The Quigg Awards provide support for faculty, staff, and students who have demonstrated unusually…

    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 Caitlyn Babcock ’25

  • The Fall 2020 semester had its challenges for PLU students and faculty alike. However, one of the bright spots to lift our spirits has been learning virtually from guest artists who graciously shared their wisdom and knowledge with Theatre and Dance students over the course…

    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

  • PLU Music Professor Gregory Youtz teams up with prominent Chinese poet Zhang Er, Professor at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, to create this new work around the life of an extraordinary woman poet of ancient China, Cai Yan. In this new opera, Fiery Jade:…

    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

  • Free Summer Jazz Series Brings Stars—and the Community—to PLU A crowd enjoys the music at a 2013 Jazz Under the Stars concert at PLU. (Photo: PLU student John Struzenberg ’15) 16th Annual Jazz Under the Stars Kicks Off July 10 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU…

    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

  • Rae Linda Brown, Ph.D., succeeds Steven P. Starkovich, Ph.D., as PLU’s chief academic officer TACOMA, WASH. (May 9, 2016) – Rae Linda Brown, Ph.D., will join Pacific Lutheran University as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs on Aug. 1, 2016. Brown comes to…

    programs reporting to the provost’s office, including Asian American Studies, African American Studies, Women’s Studies, Latin American Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies, History of Philosophy, Transportation Science, and Global Peace and Conflict Studies. She is a noted scholar of Florence Beatrice Price, the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra. × "We are delighted to welcome Rae Linda to PLU, and we look

  • The Fall 2020 semester had its challenges for PLU students and faculty alike. However, one of the bright spots to lift our spirits has been learning virtually from guest artists who graciously shared their wisdom and knowledge with Theatre and Dance students over the course…

    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

  • Meet John F. Paul, the new Chair of the Department of Music and Associate Professor at Pacific Lutheran University. Before joining the PLU family at the start of the 2014-15 school year, Dr. Paul served for 13 years as Chair of the Department of Music…

    , 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

  • This week we sat down with Dr. Zachary Lyman to talk about everything from recording issues and Bach, to the new Lyric Brass CD and everyone involved in this project. Read on! What can we find in this CD? The CD contains 4 works by…

    appeared in period performances with the Madison Bach Musicians playing repertoire including Bach’s Mass in B Minor. Dr. Gillie’s doctoral dissertation is entitled “Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Music for Soprano, Horn and Piano: an Original Composition, Professional Recording, and Research of Significant Pieces.” Information and recordings from the project are featured on Dr. Gillie’s website. Rebecca Good, trombone, is Lecturer of Trombone at Pacific Lutheran University where she teaches