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  • Lark Powers Associate Professor of Music - Piano; Advising Associate for Music Phone: 253-535-7647 Email: powerslm@plu.edu Office Location: Mary Baker Russell Music Center - 115 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Biography Education D.M.A., Piano, University of Colorado Boulder M.M., Piano Performance, Peabody Institute M.M., Harpsichord Performance, Peabody Institute M.M., Theory Pedagogy, Peabody Institute G.P.D., Peabody Institute D.E.M., Conservatoire National

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  • Lark Powers Associate Professor of Music - Piano; Advising Associate for Music Phone: 253-535-7647 Email: powerslm@plu.edu Office Location: Mary Baker Russell Music Center - 115 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Biography Education D.M.A., Piano, University of Colorado Boulder M.M., Piano Performance, Peabody Institute M.M., Harpsichord Performance, Peabody Institute M.M., Theory Pedagogy, Peabody Institute G.P.D., Peabody Institute D.E.M., Conservatoire National

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  • Oksana Ezhokina Associate Professor of Music - Piano; Coordinator of Keyboard Studies Phone: 253-535-7604 Email: ejokinoa@plu.edu Office Location: Mary Baker Russell Music Center - 114 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Biography Video Education D.M.A., Piano Performance, Stony Brook University, 2004 M.M., Northern Illinois University, 1999 B.M., Walla Walla University, 1997 Responsibilities Piano Studies Chair, Applied Piano Lessons, Advanced Keyboarding Lessons

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  • Oksana Ezhokina Associate Professor of Music - Piano; Coordinator of Keyboard Studies Phone: 253-535-7604 Email: ejokinoa@plu.edu Office Location: Mary Baker Russell Music Center - 114 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Biography Video Education D.M.A., Piano Performance, Stony Brook University, 2004 M.M., Northern Illinois University, 1999 B.M., Walla Walla University, 1997 Responsibilities Piano Studies Chair, Applied Piano Lessons, Advanced Keyboarding Lessons

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  • orchestral pieces start playing in their heads. Inspiration can come from just about anything, from another song, the revving of an engine or wind howling through the trees.  It’s also a rather odd craft to explain. When pushed, many composers stall as they try to translate how an initial idea becomes an orchestral or a jazz piece. “It’s a lot of staring out the window for hours before you finally start writing something,” said David Joyner, PLU’s director of jazz studies. “Then you just have to reach

  • October 6, 2008 PLU music major decides to jazz up his life For Bryan McEntire, choosing to be a jazz player wasn’t much of a choice. In fact, the Pacific Lutheran University junior feels the craft chose him. He remembers his grandfather had an old saxophone in his Marysville, Washington home. So at 9 years old, he picked it up and started to play it. “I think my grandfather played it in high school, and then my uncle, and then they both stopped, so I picked up where they left off,” McEntire

  • , happy family. We completed the 3,000-mile journey by returning along the Pacific Coast Highway, singing in Lutheran churches, visiting towns and having picnic lunches on warm beaches. All too soon, we were back in Washington. Home again at PLC, all we could say was, “Wow. What a trip!” Read Previous Lute Plays Piano ‘Up Close with the Masters’ Read Next Cosmosis: combining the art of music with the inquiry of science LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the

  • Oksana Ezhokina Vice-chair of the Faculty Phone: 253-535-7604 Email: ejokinoa@plu.edu Website: https://www.plu.edu/music-theatre-dance/staff/oksana-ezhokina/ Professional Additional Titles/Roles Professor of Music Education D.M.A., Piano Performance, Stony Brook University, 2004 M.M., Northern Illinois University, 1999 B.M., Walla Walla University, 1997 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Piano Studies, Applied Piano Lessons, Advanced Keyboarding Lessons, Accompanying

  • formation in the background. Text flashes on screen reading, “Brian Galante, Professor of Music; Chair, Department of Music.” Cut to a new screen reading “Major Minute.” A visual countdown from three flashes on the screen in yellow and black colors. A countdown clock appears on the left side of the screen counting down from 60 seconds after Man claps a film clapper in the foreground. Dr. Galante is leaning his left arm on a piano in a music classroom] Dr. Galante: So, at PLU music, we believe in

  • By Genny Boots ‘18 and Kate Williams ‘16 Lark Powers joins the music faculty as the new piano instructor at PLU. She will be teaching the keyboarding sequence as well as piano lessons for students. What is your background? I grew up in Northern California in Humboldt county, on the coast close to the Oregon border.  Growing up, I studied both piano and violin. I attended the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California and then lived in Paris for three years studying piano. From there, I