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PLU Music Audition Repertoire https://www.plu.edu/music/future-students/scholarships/audition-q-a/plu-music-audition-repertoire/

Keyboard Studies.Strings: Violin● Major and minor scales and arpeggios in three octaves with various bowings ● A movement of unaccompanied Bach, or an etude from the standard repertoire for violin (Mazas, Dont, Rode or similar study) ● A standard solo of the student’s choice If you have any questions regarding violin audition repertoire, please contact Dr. Svend Ronning, Coordinator of String Studies.Strings: Viola● Major and minor scales and arpeggios in three octaves with various bowings ● A movement

PLU Symphony Orchestra Audition Materials https://www.plu.edu/music/plu-symphony-orchestra-audition-materials/

String Audition Repertoire The guidelines and excerpts below are the required materials for string auditions of the Pacific Lutheran University Symphony Orchestra. Violin: A solo excerpt (concerto, sonata, other solo work) of your choice. Please keep it to 2-3 minutes. All of the excerpts listed below from Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 are required to be prepared for the audition day. The audition faculty will choose and ask for a few of them. Please note the full part for Violin is attached here

Marathon runner and musician- an interview with new music faculty member Lark Powers – Acclaim 2017- https://www.plu.edu/acclaim/2017-18/01/18/lark-powers/

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

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

Strings Professor Svend Rønning shares his teaching and his music – Acclaim 2016-17 https://www.plu.edu/acclaim/2016-17/09/30/strings-professor-svend-ronning-shares-his-teaching-and-his-music/

violin performance in 1989. He then earned degrees from Yale University — a Master of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts — studying under Syoko Aki, Sidney Harth and Jaap Schroder. Rønning serves as concertmaster of the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, as well as artistic director of the Second City Chamber Series. He previously served as concertmaster of various orchestras, including the Charlottesville Symphony, the San Jose Symphony, the Spoleto U.S.A. and the Tacoma Opera Orchestra. As soloist, he

Orchestra Clinics https://www.plu.edu/symphony/for-school-orchestras/orchestra-clinics/

(s) you have in mind. Contact Ryan Marsh to start the process.Available Clinicians: Asieh Mahyar, Visiting Instructor of Music, Interim Director of Orchestral Studies Svend Rønning, Associate Professor of Music, Chair of String Studies, Instructor of Violin Clinic InquiresFor more information about orchestra clinics at PLU, or a PLU clinician at your school, contact Ryan Marsh, Administrative and Performance Manager, in the PLU Music Department. You can help expedite arrangements for your visit

Backstage with Violinist Svend Rønning https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2018/02/23/backstage-with-violinist-svend-ronning/

Backstage with Violinist Svend Rønning Posted by: Kate Williams / February 23, 2018 February 23, 2018 By Tacoma Youth Chorus, December 2017 This week we sat down with Dr. Rønning to talk about everything from Rick Steves to Rachmaninoff. Read on! How did you first get started playing the violin? What drew you to the instrument? My mother tells me that she noticed that I loved to sing from a very early age. So, when I was five years old, she enrolled me at the Suzuki Institute in Seattle. I

Art and the Holocaust: Understanding Aesthetic Experience as Empowerment https://www.plu.edu/comm-media-designarts/news/2013/11/20/art-and-the-holocaust-understanding-aesthetic-experience-as-empowerment/

the camp. They played on decrepit instruments to an audience of fellow prisoners and guards. PLU Music faculty – Cameron Bennett, piano, Svend Ronning, violin, Craig Rine, clarinet, and Richard Treat, cello – will perform the entire monumental work and Bennett will offer some opening comments. This event is the second event in the 2013 School of Arts + Communication (SOAC) annual Focus Series, under this year’s theme: “Empowerment” and is held in conjunction with the Powell-Heller Holocaust

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

Marathon runner and musician- an interview with new music faculty member Lark Powers https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2017/11/14/marathon-runner-and-musician-an-interview-with-new-music-faculty-member-lark-powers/

violin. I attended the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California and then lived in Paris for three years studying piano. From there, I moved to Baltimore to attend the Peabody Institute for four years and finished my education with a doctorate at the University of Colorado Boulder. I’ve taught at East Central University in Oklahoma, Washington State University and now am thrilled to be working at Pacific Lutheran University. I have performed in the Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, the 92nd