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The PLU Wind Ensemble tours Tennessee this month https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2015/01/12/the-plu-wind-ensemble-tours-tennessee-this-month/

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

PLU opera opens Handel’s ‘Alcina’ this January https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2015/01/13/plu-opera-opens-handels-alcina-this-january/

+) and PLU Alumni, and $5 for PLU community, students, and 18 and under. Read Previous The PLU Wind Ensemble tours Tennessee this month Read Next Pacific Northwest high school students visit PLU for Northwest High School Honor Bands 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

Studying Strings at PLU https://www.plu.edu/strings/studying-strings-at-plu/

Studying Strings at PLU Outdoor amphitheater at the Mary Baker Russell building. (Photo by Chris Tumbusch) PLU’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance exists inside a comprehensive liberal arts university and is central to the mission of Pacific Lutheran University. It provides a rich number of happenings at PLU, in Tacoma, and around the Puget Sound.Pursuing the DreamHow Justin Heurtas combined theater and the celloPLU’s “Mascot” You may know that we at PLU are known as the “Lutes,” and whatever

A Christmas Invitation at PLU https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2015/10/06/a-christmas-invitation-at-plu/

, 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

A cross-culture band exchange teaches both student and teacher https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2017/02/09/a-cross-culture-band-exchange-teaches-both-student-and-teacher/

develop with their students and how music binds us together. This crosses culture and helps us realize that people around the world really are all the same.” Read Previous Famous flutist visits PLU this January Read Next A Symphony of Light 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

Senior Assessments/Graduation Standards https://www.plu.edu/music/current-students/senior-assessments/

contrasting pieces. Performance quality must be at or approaching a pre-professional level. One or two years away from achieving a professional standard of tone, phrasing, endurance, range, articulation, technique, facility, etc. COMPOSITION BM A 30 minute presentation during Finals Week of: A significant composition or compositions that demonstrate the student’s current abilities and breadth of exploration since the Junior Jury. This will be presented in verbal analysis using whatever handouts are useful

PLU choral conductor winner of The American Prize for 2013 https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2013/09/16/plu-choral-conductor-winner-of-the-american-prize-for-2013/

1992. At PLU, Nance conducts the Choir of the West, Choral Union, and teaches classes in choral conducting. Nance holds bachelors and masters degrees from West Texas State University and the Doctor of Musical Arts from Arizona State University. He has studied conducting with Hugh Sanders, Douglas McEwen and David Stocker, and composition with Joseph Nelson and Randall Shinn. Nance is an active member of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and has held many state and divisional offices

A Midsummer Night’s Dream first opera set in the Karen Hille Phillips Center https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2014/01/02/a-midsummer-nights-dream-first-opera-set-in-the-karen-hille-phillips-center/

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

Choir of the West wins on a global stage https://www.plu.edu/music/news/2015/06/15/choir-of-the-west-wins-on-a-global-stage/

wins Seattle competition 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

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

well, and as young as possible. So many of the opportunities in music come when you are very young—make the most of those years you’ve got to practice and improve! Read Previous Travel with our music students in the footsteps of the Masters. Read Next PLU’s Wind Ensemble upcoming CBDNA performance 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