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Professor of Communication | International Honors | youngam@plu.edu | 253-536-5165 | Dr.
to enable colleagues and students to claim or reclaim their roles as public agents and citizens. She is a member of the National Communication Association and the Rhetoric Society of America. Dr. Young’s work explores questions of style and public engagement. Her most recent book, Prophets, Gurus & Pundits: Rhetorical Styles & Public Engagement (Southern Illinois University Press) is available on Amazon. Her work appears in a variety of journals and books including the Quarterly Journal of
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Staff Pianist | School of Music, Theatre & Dance | aboers@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Amy Boers is well known as a collaborative pianist, music director, singer, and church musician. As pianist and collaborator, she currently holds positions at Pacific Lutheran University (staff pianist), Symphony Tacoma (principal keyboard), and Symphony Tacoma Voices (pianist and assistant rehearsal conductor).
session “The Power of Two” focused on collaborative rehearsal techniques to develop between conductor and pianist. Presented at the 2024 Northwest American Choral Directors Association regional convention, she received rave reviews and requests for repeated presentations. As a church musician, she has been a long-time voice in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. She has been contributing editor for both the keyboard and choral divisions of the Sundays and Seasons resource published by Augsburg
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Lecturer - Music History | School of Music, Theatre & Dance | nlockey@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Nicholas Lockey is a Puget Sound native whose career has spanned music performance, research, composition, education, and arts administration. As an educator, he has served on the faculty of Sam Houston State University and as a visiting faculty lecturer at Princeton University, teaching courses in music history, music appreciation, world music cultures, music performance, and interdisciplinary arts courses.
-Century Music, Studi vivaldiani, Händel-Jahrbuch, and The Princeton University Library Chronicle. He has provided scholarly reference articles for Grove Music Online and Oxford Bibliographies Online, along with multiple reviews, album notes, and interviews for publications such as Early Music, Early Music America Magazine (EMAg), Eighteenth-Century Music, Notes (The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association), and The Avid Listener (W.W. Norton blog series). Dr. Lockey has presented at
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Lecturer | School of Music, Theatre & Dance | delator@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Active as a performer, teacher, adjudicator, curator, and scholar, Dr.
United States, Canada, Spain, France, and Austria, and has appeared as soloist with orchestras in Mexico and the U.S. A finalist and prize winner in several competitions in his home country, he has also held grants and scholarships from different cultural and government institutions. Ricardo won second prize at the Eleventh Annual Competition in the Performance of Music from Spain and Latin America, sponsored by Indiana University’s Latin American Music Center and the Office of Education of the
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Pacific Lutheran University’s professor and choral conductor, Richard Nance, was named the winner of The American Prize for 2013. Richard Nance is the Director of Choral Activities at Pacific Lutheran University where he has worked since 1992. At PLU, Nance conducts the Choir of the…
based in Danbury, Connecticut, The American Prize was founded in 2009 and is awarded annually. The competitions of The American Prize are open to all U.S. citizens, whether living in this country or abroad, and to others currently living, working and/or studying in the United States of America, its protectorates and territories. Read Previous The Choir of the West and Choral Union perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony three times this May, with three different orchestras Read Next A Midsummer Night’s
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Pacific Lutheran University welcomes internationally renowned organist Nathan Laube to campus on September 11, 2016 at 3 pm. Described as one of the world’s elite organ performers, Laube will kick off the Richard D. Moe Organ Series. Laube is a Grammy-winning organist, who tours and…
has appeared in recital in the North America, England, and Scandinavia. Jonathan Wohlers, Interim University Organist – Sunday, March 5 2017, at 3pm Jonathan Wohlers is the Director of Music at Trinity Lutheran Church and Artist-In-Residence at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Tacoma; he serves as Interim University Organist at PLU for the 2016–17 academic year. Curt Sather, Guest Organist – Sunday, April 9 2017, at 3pm Curt Sather holds degrees in organ performance from Arizona State University
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Staff Pianist | Music | aboers@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Amy Boers is well known as a collaborative pianist, music director, singer, and church musician. As pianist and collaborator, she currently holds positions at Pacific Lutheran University (staff pianist), Symphony Tacoma (principal keyboard), and Symphony Tacoma Voices (pianist and assistant rehearsal conductor).
session “The Power of Two” focused on collaborative rehearsal techniques to develop between conductor and pianist. Presented at the 2024 Northwest American Choral Directors Association regional convention, she received rave reviews and requests for repeated presentations. As a church musician, she has been a long-time voice in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. She has been contributing editor for both the keyboard and choral divisions of the Sundays and Seasons resource published by Augsburg
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Lecturer - Music History | Music | nlockey@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Nicholas Lockey is a Puget Sound native whose career has spanned music performance, research, composition, education, and arts administration. As an educator, he has served on the faculty of Sam Houston State University and as a visiting faculty lecturer at Princeton University, teaching courses in music history, music appreciation, world music cultures, music performance, and interdisciplinary arts courses.
journals such as Eighteenth-Century Music, Studi vivaldiani, Händel-Jahrbuch, and The Princeton University Library Chronicle. He has provided scholarly reference articles for Grove Music Online and Oxford Bibliographies Online, along with multiple reviews, album notes, and interviews for publications such as Early Music, Early Music America Magazine (EMAg), Eighteenth-Century Music, Notes (The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association), and The Avid Listener (W.W. Norton blog series). Dr
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Lecturer | Music | delator@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Active as a performer, teacher, adjudicator, curator, and scholar, Dr.
United States, Canada, Spain, France, and Austria, and has appeared as soloist with orchestras in Mexico and the U.S. A finalist and prize winner in several competitions in his home country, he has also held grants and scholarships from different cultural and government institutions. Ricardo won second prize at the Eleventh Annual Competition in the Performance of Music from Spain and Latin America, sponsored by Indiana University’s Latin American Music Center and the Office of Education of the
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Veterans Day offers a time for reflection, thanks As the PLU brass played the unforgettable anthems of each branch of the United States Armed Services, the soldiers, sailors and airmen in the audience, stood up to applause. That was the crescendo of the PLU Veterans…
good citizen and celebrate the rights those that defend this country fight for. “This is the thanks America can give,” he said. Origin of Veterans Day Veterans Day was first called Armistice Day or Remembrance Day. It was enacted by President Woodrow Wilson on Nov. 11, 1919. The day was in recognition of those who fought in World War I. It marked the signing of the Armistice agreement by Germany that ended WWI on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. In 1954, after
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