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Church, Seattle, WA 1/1 Solo Recital at Christ the King Lutheran Church, Houston, TX 2/9 Master Class for students of University of Tennessee and American Guild of Organist Chapter, Knoxville, TN 2/10 Solo Recital at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Knoxville, TN 3/5 Duet Recital with Dana Robinson at The Lutheran Church,  Honolulu, Hawaii 3/10 Solo Recital at St Helen’s Episcopal Church, Beaufort, SC Organ Study at PLUOrgan study is alive and well at PLU. Besides weekly organ lessons, organ students

PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition Cassio Vianna, Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies, has been awarded a grant to write a 4-movement suite entitled Invisible Garden, that blends jazz, chamber music and Brazilian music. Posted by: Liza Conboy / April 18, 2024 Image: Jazz Under the Stars featuring Vianna/Bergeron Brazilian Quintet with Cassio Vianna on piano at PLU, Thursday

the summer and early fall, PLU Music faculty connected with peers and respected artists to arrange these unique connections. Our students had a whopping 63 opportunities this semester to listen to and collaborate with world class musicians and teachers. In this post we summarize just a few of the experiences for students involved in Wind and Brass, Trumpet Studio, Voice/Opera, Jazz Ensemble, and Music Education. As it looks like online learning will continue into Spring 2021, faculty are

professor of music Gregory Youtz and his faculty peers have proved to be up for the challenge.Under the recommendations of public health professionals and the guidance of the governor’s office during the COVID-19 pandemic, PLU made the decision on March 7 to transition Spring semester courses from the traditional classroom setting to a remote learning format. We discussed with Youtz the impact that decision has had on his Class Composition MUSI 326 course, how he’s adapted his teachings to meet this new

Wind Ensemble’s World Premiere of Echo Chambers Posted by: Kate Williams / March 14, 2019 March 14, 2019 By Kate Williams '16The PLU Wind Ensemble performed the world premiere of Echo Chambers on March 10, 2019. Echo Chambers came about after a conversation during a national conference in 2017 between Ed Powell, Professor of Music and Director of Bands at PLU, and Peter Van Zandt Lane, Assistant Professor of Composition and Director of the Dance Center for New Music at the University of Georgia

Horn & Fixed Media Premiere at Octave 9 in Seattle Posted by: Reesa Nelson / October 5, 2022 October 5, 2022 Professor of Music Dr. 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 Voyager 1 spacecraft as well as Carl Sagan’s prose reflecting on the image. In the photo, Earth appears as a single pixel – “a mote of dust

October 11, 2010 Music is very much alive By Chris Albert Several months ago, PLU music professor Edwin Powell began collaborating with Norwegian-born composer Ola Gjeilo. “It’s all been done over Facebook,” Powell said. The PLU Wind Ensemble, director by Ed Powell, will perform the world premiere of Ola Gjeilo’s composition. Powell, the Wind Ensemble director, asked Gjeilo for permission to adapt a chorale piece Gjeilo had done for wind ensemble. He soon found out, Gjeilo was not only

chooses you. This is essentially what happened to me. I tried to explore other majors as well as working in accounting and sales. Music was the only place I was happy. What is your favorite class to teach and why? This is in a way like asking who your favorite child is. I love conducting the Wind Ensemble. Exploring great masterworks as well as premiering new works is a very invigorating activity. During the 15 years I have been on faculty at PLU the Wind Ensemble has performed 29 world premieres and

The Lagerquist Organ, recently featured on “Pipedreams,” showcasing David Deacon-Joyner’s work, “Un poco Bud” Posted by: marshrl / July 12, 2019 Image: Fuchs organ in Lagerquist Hall of the Mary Baker Russell Music Center at PLU. (Photo/John Froschauer) July 12, 2019 Listen to the June 17th program of “Pipedreams” from “American Public Media” called “All That Jazz.” One of the pieces included in the program is David Deacon-Joyner’s composition “Un poco Bud” that was recorded in November of 2008