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Contributions to Excellence By Steve Hansen Alumnae are a proud group of people. Instilled with a passion to give of themselves. Jean (Hesla ’50) Kopta is no exception. Kopta graduated from PLU in 1950 with the bachelor’s degree in education. Jean (Hesla ’50) Kopta. Later…
Music under David Robbins, who remains the head of the department. Kopta taught private voice lessons at PLU for 11 years. She also taught in her private voice studio while also serving as a choral director. Kopta left PLU in the spring of 2007, but not without making a positive impact on the lives of students of all ages, all levels of ability and all walks of life. Her teaching career was complimented by her career in performing. Kopta spent many years in Seattle and Rome. She was selected to be
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TACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 16, 2019) — Pacific Lutheran University is proud to welcome back one of its own, internationally known soprano Angela Meade ’00, to host a special operatic competition and performance to award cash prizes and a trip to a national destination among six…
Stephanie Pfundt. There will be three prize winners. Third prize is a $250 cash prize, second prize is a $500 cash prize, first prize will be $1000 cash prize and a trip to a national destination to hear Meade perform as well as a consultation and/or voice lesson with one of Meade’s mentors. Sing at PLU!If you love to sing, PLU is the place for you.PLU’s vibrant vocal and choral program provides singers from all academic disciplines with outstanding opportunities for performance and study. The Finale is
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Opera news for Pacific Lutheran University.
Pacific Lutheran University Choirs and Orchestra close “Passion Week” with North American premiere The Pacific Lutheran University Choir of the West, Choral Union and the University Symphony Orchestra perform the North American premiere of the “St. Matthew Passion” by Sven-David Sandström, one of the world’s best-known composers, on Tuesday, March 22 and Wednesday, March 23 at 8:00 pm… March 11, 2016 Choir of the WestOperaUniversity Symphony Orchestra
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About the Tour Choir of the West is currently on a performance tour of Scotland, England, and Germany from May 26-June 12, 2019. Cities along the way include Edinburgh, York, Cambridge, London, and Oxford in the UK – along with Marktoberdorf, Germany. Choir of the…
– University of London, and the Choir of Queen’s College, Oxford. The choir will join with the King’s Voices to present a Choral Evensong at famed King’s College Chapel in Cambridge. Following the tour of the United Kingdom, we will fly to Germany to participate in the 16th Marktoberdorf International Chamber Choir Competition. This bi-annual event is considered one of the world’s most important competitions for chamber choirs, and since its inception has drawn over 200 choirs from more than 40 countries
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If you have any questions or would like to consult regarding the process or opportunities, please reach out to AVP for Campus Life Tom Huelsbeck (tom.huelsbeck@plu.edu) directly.
$1,000 for the PLU Dance Team to allow their Winter Showcase event to be presented without charging students to attend $5,000 for equipment to launch the Water Polo Club $370 to support the KINS 384 Health & Fitness Promotion Class student project $40 to support an RA community building program $550 to support student participation in the American Choral Directors Association Northwest conference $957 to purchase two teleprompters for Late Knight $570 for student membership costs in DECA $9,935 to
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The Pacific Lutheran University Symphony Orchestra will close its concert season at PLU in May 2023 with a special event marking the end of an era, and a celebration of the orchestra’s long
the celebration and share the podium. Adding to the festivities will be the world premiere of a new work by retiring Chair of Composition, Professor Gregory Youtz. The orchestra will also preview some selections planned for its summer tour of Ireland. We invite all alumni who played in the PLU Symphony Orchestra as well as current orchestra students to join this exciting reunion, including dinner, rehearsals and a concert on May 20 and 21, 2023. Come to play if you can. Or come for the dinner to
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Associate Professor of English | Department of English | rogers@plu.edu | 253-535-7985 | Scott Rogers was born in the desert and grew up on a farm but will always call the city home.
on to earn a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing from the University of Louisville in 2011. His dissertation, called “Writing Out the Storm: Post-Traumatic Pedagogy and the Work of Composition,” examined the role and value of writing pedagogy in the wake of large-scale disasters like Hurricane Katrina. Inspired by programs designed by local citizens to serve their communities after the storm, Scott became interested in community writing and the influence of space/setting on how we make sense of the
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Dean of Assessment and Core Curriculum | First Year Experience Program | rogers@plu.edu | 253-535-7985 | Scott Rogers was born in the desert and grew up on a farm but will always call the city home.
Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing from the University of Louisville in 2011. His dissertation, called “Writing Out the Storm: Post-Traumatic Pedagogy and the Work of Composition,” examined the role and value of writing pedagogy in the wake of large-scale disasters like Hurricane Katrina. Inspired by programs designed by local citizens to serve their communities after the storm, Scott became interested in community writing and the influence of space/setting on how we make sense of the world. Having
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Associate Professor of English | Innovation Studies | rogers@plu.edu | 253-535-7985 | Scott Rogers was born in the desert and grew up on a farm but will always call the city home.
Rhetoric and Writing from the University of Louisville in 2011. His dissertation, called “Writing Out the Storm: Post-Traumatic Pedagogy and the Work of Composition,” examined the role and value of writing pedagogy in the wake of large-scale disasters like Hurricane Katrina. Inspired by programs designed by local citizens to serve their communities after the storm, Scott became interested in community writing and the influence of space/setting on how we make sense of the world. Having spent so much
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Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Jenny Johnson is the author of In Full Velvet (Sarabande Books, 2017). Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, Waxwing, and elsewhere. Her honors include a Whiting Award, a Hodder Fellowship, and an NEA Fellowship. She has also received awards and scholarships from the Blue Mountain Center, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at West Virginia University, and she is on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran University’s low-residency MFA program.
out of comfortable patterns of composition by recommending radical strategies for revision. My aim when workshopping or talking one-on-one with you about your work is for you to understand your own poems better, recognizing the sensibilities you already have craft-wise, while also spurring you to get back to work experimenting, so that you might see what your poems have the possibility to do through further risk-taking and reinvention.
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