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  • Lutes played to more than 800 students, band directors and music lovers who packed the house at the Western International Band Clinic on Saturday, November 21, 2015. The PLU Wind Ensemble was featured during the festival’s Saturday night performance and was one of only four…

    high considering there were 80 college level musicians selected. The University Wind Ensemble will tour to Eastern Washington and Portland this spring and return for a homecoming concert on Tuesday, March 15, 2016, at 8pm in Lagerquist Concert Hall. Read Previous PLU Opera ushers you into the dark underworld Read Next ‘A Christmas Invitation’ broadcast LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition

  • Opera students spent a sunny but chilly March afternoon rehearsing under a tent in Red Square for an upcoming production of Die Fledermaus on May 21-22. Because of the ever-changing nature of the global pandemic, we won’t know for several weeks if it will be…

    recommendations. Dr. Barry Johnson leads a movement rehearsal under the tent in Red Square. Movement rehearsal. Dr. Brown conducts a section of students outside the frame of the photo. Read Previous Vocal Master Classes in Spring 2021 Read Next Springing Forward with Guest Artists 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

  • Music faculty and staff.

    Svend Rønning Professor of Music - Violin; Coordinator of String Studies Full Profile 253-535-7605 svend.ronning@plu.edu

  • School of Music, Theatre & Dance faculty and staff.

    Svend Rønning Professor of Music - Violin; Coordinator of String Studies Full Profile 253-535-7605 svend.ronning@plu.edu

  • to other colleges and universities in the South Sound area?PLU has a full-time, tenured full professor heading jazz studies that has been in the music department since 2000. Other colleges in the area use part-time jazz faculty and have had a comparatively high rate of turnover. PLU has private studio instruction in jazz guitar, piano, bass, drums, and voice, plus an advanced jazz improvisation class for all instruments. Unlike other area colleges, our jazz band regularly tours, including an

  • In Cosmosis , the final 2013 SOAC FOCUS Series Event, musicians and scientists explore how failure can empower us to pursue knowledge and success. The three-part event will take place in Lagerquist Concert Hall in the Mary Baker Russell Music Center on Saturday, May 11, 2013…

    vastness of space as well as this heroic undertaking. In The Second Night, the spider succeeds again, but is sacrificed in the process. Tickets are $8 general admission, $5 senior citizens (55+), $3 alumni, free 18 and under. Tickets available through the PLU Box Office at 253-535-7411. Read Previous Musical Memories Read Next The End of an Era 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’s annual Fall Choral Concert will feature the Choir of the West, University Chorale, University Singers, and Men’s Chorus. Each choir will present a 15-25 minute program of mixed choral literature from various stylistic eras and genres as they kick off their 2017-18 seasons. This…

    the PLU music department 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

  • Face the Music Inevitably, worried parents will arrive on music professor Greg Youtz’s office doorstep after their child has announced they want to become a composer. “Now what?” the parents ask Charged with running the university’s composition program, Youtz usually succeeds in calming the parental…

    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

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March. 13, 2016)- TEDxTacoma 2016: Healthy Future will welcome a diverse bill of local business, arts, education and nonprofit leaders to share their ideas on a wide spectrum of topics including health care, leadership, human nature and violence against women. The annual event…

    network, mingle and discuss the talks you’ve just listened to with fellow attendees, as well as the folks you’ve just listen to present on stage,” Utley said. The reception, which will include gourmet appetizers and a no-host bar, will also feature a performance by the Sound Jazz Trio (comprised of PLU Jazz faculty members).TEDxTacoma 2016: Healthy FutureLearn more about TEDxTacoma 2016, browse the archive of past talks, purchase tickets and more at plu.edu/tedxtacoma. 2016 TEDxTacoma Speakers× In

  • 11/24/2024 - Guest Artist Recital: April Clayton, Flute & Miguel del Aguila, Composer and Piano (pdf) view download