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Multi-talented senior and composer TJ Wheeler ’22 views music as his vocation https://www.plu.edu/admission/blog/multi-talented-senior-and-composer-tj-wheeler-22-views-music-as-his-vocation/

Multi-talented senior and composer TJ Wheeler ’22 views music as his vocation Posted by: vcraker / June 22, 2022 June 22, 2022 TJ Wheeler ’22 is a music composition major at Pacific Lutheran University. This semester, he was a valuable member of six music ensembles, including Choir of the West, Opera, Steel Band, Percussion Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, and the PLU Ringers handbell choir. We talked with Wheeler about his experiences at and before PLU, and how he became such a talented musician.How

Q&A: Meet John Paul, PLU’s new Department of Music Chair https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2015/02/04/qa-meet-john-paul-plus-new-department-of-music-chair/

, 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

Lyric Brass CD Release https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2018/12/14/lyric-brass-cd-release/

Principal with the Tacoma Symphony and has also played with the Northwest Sinfonietta, the LaCrosse Symphony Orchestra, the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra and the Beloit-Janesville Symphony Orchestra. She is a member of two faculty chamber ensembles at PLU, the Camas Wind Quintet and the Lyric Brass Quintet. In 2006, she attended the Tanglewood Music Festival as an orchestral fellow where she worked with world-class musicians such as James Levine, Elliot Carter, Bernhard Haitink, Stefan Asbury

Pacific Lutheran University’s Jazz and Wind Ensembles go “Down Under” this summer https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2013/05/21/pacific-lutheran-universitys-jazz-and-wind-ensembles-go-down-under-this-summer/

three times this May, with three different orchestras 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

Richard D. Moe Organ Recital Series https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2017/10/16/richard-d-moe-organ-recital-series/

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

Remembering Gordon Gilbertson https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2017/11/14/remembering-gordon-gilbertson/

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

Choir of the West 2019 Tour – United Kingdom and Germany https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2019/04/30/cow-tour/

, 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

Holiday Music Events https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2021/11/29/holiday-music-events/

, Sunday December 12 at 8pm in person and live streamed We hope you’ll be able to join us for a performance and wish a healthy and happy holiday season to all students, their families, and the greater PLU community. Read Previous A Magical PLU Collaboration: Songs for the Spring of Waiting Read Next PLU Represented at Jazz Education Network Conference 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

Composing for the cannery: of boxcars, rhinos, and grapes https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2013/04/01/composing-for-the-cannery-of-boxcars-rhinos-and-grapes/

, a sublime conclusion to a sometimes meditative, oftentimes unsteady, and always worthwhile leave of absence. Profile Areas of expertise Classical music composition Classical music history and theory World music traditions (Chinese, Irish, and Trinidadian in particular) Chinese history and culture Educational study tours in China Education D.M.A, University of Michigan M.M., University of Michigan B.A. and B.M., University of Washington Returning to the states with the beginning of Youtz’ exotic

The Choir of the West and Choral Union perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony three times this May, with https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2013/05/21/the-choir-of-the-west-and-choral-union-perform-beethovens-ninth-symphony-three-times-this-may-with-three-different-orchestras/

alumni Karlene Miles and John Carlsen along with professional Benjamin Harris. Tickets available throughwww.tysamusic.org Read Previous Pacific Lutheran University’s Jazz and Wind Ensembles go “Down Under” this summer Read Next PLU choral conductor winner of The American Prize for 2013 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