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Junior Assessments https://www.plu.edu/music/current-students/junior-assessments/

comprehensive output to date. Students perform a separate, semester jury in their performance medium. ORGAN BM 30 minutes of music, including at least one pre-Bach, one Bach, and one post-Bach work, excluding works already performed at the sophomore jury. The works should be at a difficulty level of the major Bach works, the larger Praeludia of Buxtehude, a Mendelssohn Sonata or prelude and fugue, Brahms Chorale preludes, etc. BA/BMA At least 15 minutes of music, with at least 2 works in contrasting style

Greg Youtz: Composing for the cannery – of boxcars, rhinos, and grapes https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2013/04/01/greg-youtz-composing-for-the-cannery-of-boxcars-rhinos-and-grapes/

Michigan B.A. and B.M., University of Washington Read Previous Student Sings way to Seattle Opera Read Next Pacific Lutheran University’s Jazz and Wind Ensembles go “Down Under” this summer 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

Lute Plays Piano ‘Up Close with the Masters’ https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2014/02/21/lute-plays-piano-up-close-with-the-masters/

Memories 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

A Flutist’s Unplanned Path to Success https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2014/08/21/a-flutists-unplanned-path-to-success/

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

Wind Ensemble’s World Premiere of Echo Chambers https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2019/03/14/echo-chambers/

College, MIT, and Harvard. Read Previous New Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna Read Next PLU Trumpet Ensemble live on KING-FM 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

Faculty Feature: Meet Dr. Richard Nance, Professor of Music and Director of Choral Studies https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2020/04/30/faculty-feature-richard-nance/

Director of Bands 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

Rhapsody in Zoom: Recap of Fall Master Classes https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2020/12/16/rhapsody-in-zoom/

, 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

Military To Medicine: Air Force, Navy veterans become nurses after second chances at college https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2023/09/05/military-navy-nursing-plu-resolute/

coasts. In Manhattan, Lopez is part of NYU Langone’s Nurse Resource Team — which was created by the hospital as a way to address the nursing shortage. There, she has the opportunity to work in a different unit every four to six weeks. “I wanted to become a well-rounded and knowledgeable nurse in all areas and I felt that the position would give me that, especially as a new graduate,” she says. “I can float to medical-surgical units, organ transplant units, clinical observation in the emergency

Senior Assessments/Graduation Standards https://www.plu.edu/music/current-students/senior-assessments/

—score, chart, lyrics or other documents as are appropriate and relevant—and then performed live or via recording. The portfolio (scores, charts, recordings) of all previous compositions created to date while at PLU. A Composition List, including dates and divided by category, showing the student’s comprehensive output to date. Students perform a separate, semester jury in their performance medium. ORGAN BM A 60-minute (minimum) recital representing at least three periods and geographical areas, one

A History of Jazz Under The Stars https://www.plu.edu/jazz/juts-first-ten-years/

style, however experimental, a chance. There is state-of-the-art sound reinforcement, coffee and bottles of cold water, and assistance with the sale of artists’ CDs. Over the years, other amenities have been added to Jazz Under the Stars. Dr. Paul Tegels, music professor and university organist, offers intermission mini-recitals on the fabulous Fuchs pipe organ in the music center’s Lagerquist Hall. Pacific Lutheran University and all the people who work so hard to present a top-rate performance and