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  • Music professor Gina Gillie discussed her new composition and short film https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2022/11/21/gina-gillie/

    Music professor Gina Gillie discussed her new composition and short film Posted by: Silong Chhun / November 21, 2022 Image: Professor of Music, French Horn Gina Gillie (PLU photo/John Froschauer) November 21, 2022 By Zach PowersMarketing & Communications Professor of Music Gina Gillie recently premiered her first electroacoustic music composition at Seattle Symphony’s Octave 9. Titled “Pale Blue Dot for solo horn and fixed media,” the piece is inspired by the 1991 photograph taken by the

  • 1999 – Rejoice and Sing https://www.plu.edu/multimedia-recordings/recordings/1999-rejoice-and-sing/

    Rejoice & Sing Choir of the West, University Chorale, University Singers – Richard Sparks and Richard Nance, Conductors Steeped in rich tradition, the PLU Christmas Festival Celebrations are held each year before enthusiastic crowds in Seattle, Portland and on the campus of PLU. We are proud of this new recording made to capture the seasonal beauty of PLU’s choral excellence. Featured is the premiere recording of the wonderful composition Hodie Christus natus est, composed by our own Dr

  • 1996 – Rachmaninoff’s Vespers https://www.plu.edu/multimedia-recordings/recordings/1996-rachmaninoffs-vespers/

    Rachmaninoff's Vespers Choir of the West – Richard Sparks, Director Vespers is a masterpiece that combines Sergei Rachmaninoff’s own deep faith, his talents as a composer and centuries-old traditions from the Russian Orthodox church. Experience this wonderful master work, not just for its purely musical virtues, but for its expression of the spiritual life of one of the world’s great traditions. It was recorded in the richly reverberant acoustics of Lagerquist Concert Hall in the Mary Baker

  • Upcoming Opera, Le Nozze di Figaro https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2019/01/14/upcoming-opera/

    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

  • 1997 – In Praise of the Nativity https://www.plu.edu/multimedia-recordings/recordings/1997-in-praise-of-the-nativity/

    In Praise of the Nativity Choir of the West, University Chorale, Singers, & Men’s Chorus, Trinity Handbell Ensemble – Richard Sparks, Richard Nance, James Holloway, Conductors This, our first Christmas CD, was recorded over the 1995 and 1996 Christmas seasons. Enjoy the beauty and pageantry of these concerts in this digital recording captured in the wonderful acoustics of Lagerquist Concert Hall in the Mary Baker Russell Music Center at Pacific Lutheran University. This music has been carefully

  • Education Career Fair Brings Major Employers to Campus—and Results in Immediate Jobs https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2015/04/06/education-career-fair/

    colleagues get interviewed on the spot. I am so grateful for this career fair.” PLU’s undergraduate program produces 40-50 teachers every year. Bree Van Horn, assistant director of recruitment in the Education Department, said employers look to hire PLU Education students because of the students the program attracts in the first place. “School districts recognize the quality of our candidates,” said Van Horn. “They’ve had wonderful experiences [with previous PLU students]. If you want a teaching job

  • Articles Posted by https://www.plu.edu/music/news/author/williake/

    Choir of the West 2019 Tour – United Kingdom and Germany Visits to some of United Kingdom’s most beautiful cities, concert exchanges with important chamber choirs around the world, and participation in a renowned choral competition are all features of the Choir of the West 2019 tour. The itinerary will include stops in Edinburgh, York, Cambridge,… April 30, 2019

  • 2009 – Wondrous Child https://www.plu.edu/multimedia-recordings/recordings/2009-wondrous-child/

    Wondrous Child - A Christmas Celebration From Pacific Lutheran University Choir of the West & University Men’s Chorus – Richard Nance, Conductor University Chorale & University Singers – Stefen Zopfi, Visiting Conductor (2007), Brian Galante, Conductor, (2008) University Symphony Orchestra – Jeffrey Bell-Hanson, Conductor, Jonathan Pasternak, Visiting Conductor (2008) This is our first double-disc Christmas CD. This album contains highlights from the 2006, 2007 and 2008 Christmas concert

  • Sociology major Allen Tugade ’24 has been a dynamic researcher and student leader at PLU https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2024/05/28/allen-tugade-sociology-asplu-music-research/

    Sociology major Allen Tugade ’24 has been a dynamic researcher and student leader at PLU Posted by: Zach Powers / May 28, 2024 Image: (Photo by Sy Bean/PLU) May 28, 2024 By Fulton Bryant-Anderson ’23PLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer As a student, Allen Tugade ’24 engaged in academic and applied sociological research on the student population of Pacific Lutheran University. Tugade was a member of Choir of the West and a well-known student leader on campus, serving as a Wild Hope Fellow

  • Norway and PLU Exhibit https://www.plu.edu/scancenter/exhibitions/norway-plu-exhibit/

    in England during WWII, and Crown Princess Märtha and her three children lived in the United States during that time.) Cultural ExchangesPacific Lutheran University has sent performers to Norway on a regular basis. The Choir of the West’s 1937 tour to Norway was followed by a 1963 tour that marked a high artistic attainment, as demonstrated by the reviews in many Scandinavian and German newspapers. The Choir of the West has returned to Norway several times since then, and the Choral Union Alumni