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  • Save the date for Tacoma Passion Week, March 13-23 PLU’s Choral Union, Choir of the West and University Symphony Orchestra will join forces to present the United States premiere of Sven-David Sandström’s St. Matthew Passion (Matthäuspassion) on Tuesday, March 22 and Wednesday, March 23 at…

    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

  • The Pacific Lutheran University Symphony Orchestra will close its 2015-16 season with a blend of brand new works and twentieth-century masterpieces. The concert on Tuesday, May 10 at 8pm, features violinist Laura Hillis ’17 and composer Emilio Gonzalez ’16, and will be conducted by Jeffrey…

    announced 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

  • Soon Cho has traveled throughout the country and world as a lyric mezzo-soprano. Today, you can find her teaching to music students at PLU. What is your background? I began my musical training as a pianist and a violinist and never had aspirations of being…

    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

  • Barry Johnson has performed in over 25 roles in the Seattle and Tacoma Operas, while also teaching voice and opera lessons at PLU for over 20 years. Today, you can find him teaching full-time to music students at PLU. What is your background? I was…

    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 prestigious all-girls high school band from Japan, Tamana Girls High School, will once again visit Pierce County this June in a friendship concert with Graham-Kapowsin High School (GKHS). Their message: friendship through music. This year, the Friendship Concert performed by Tamana Girls High School…

    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’s music faculty welcomes their newest hire, Cassio Vianna. The native of Brazil brings with him an extensive resume of teaching, composing, and performing jazz music. This year, he’ll begin a new journey channeling his passion into educating and inspiring PLU students as director of…

    family! Read Previous Snapshot of the recent Honolulu trip Read Next Wind Ensemble’s World Premiere of Echo Chambers 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

  • PLU grad receives national journalism award The Society of Professional Journalists honored PLU graduate Breanne Coats ’08 with the 2008 Julie Galvan Outstanding Graduate in Journalism Award. The national award recognizes one graduate who is considered the most outstanding on the basis of character, community…

    -editor and editor-in-chief, and she was an active member of the student chapter of SPJ. During her junior year, while serving as editor-in-chief, PLU’s administration asked the Mast to remove an advertisement for a local pub due to its promotion of alcohol. A strong advocate of the First Amendment, Coats claimed the move was censorship. What resulted was a yearlong struggle between the two sides, with media students and SPJ members staging protests, editorializing their concerns and submitting

  • Diplomat explores Jewish-German relations By Chris Albert More than 150 people showed up to hear the Consul General of Germany (based in San Francisco) Rolf Schuette talk about Jewish-German relations today. Before a crowded room last week in the UC, Schuette said he would dive…

    most important in shaping the mindset of Germans and Jews,” Schuete said. It is a past that can’t be left behind or forgotten, he said. In everyday German life it isn’t talked about much, but it is always present. “Most Germans know past quite well,” Schuette said, often times form school, television, film and other forms of media. Many of the concentration camps in Germany still remain, well maintained, as a tribute and reminder of the Holocaust. There is one Holocaust Memorial in Berlin that had

  • Busy dad envisions healthy ‘Plan B’ for parents Just like so many other families, Peter Gradwohl ’90 and his wife, Andrea, once struggled to balance busy work schedules with the stress of providing healthy food for their three kids. So, three years ago, with people…

    values is its ability to supply nutritious lunches to children who have special dietary needs. “It’s great to know I can order a lunch that’s safe,” said Dulaney. Gradwohl grew up in Edmonds, graduated in 1986 from Woodway High School, where he played football. He also played football at PLU. In addition to sports, Gradwohl also participated in PLU’s student media. He wrote for the Mooring Mast and hosted a radio show. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication. Reflecting on his

  • During a ceremony of remembrance in Red Square, the Norwegian Flag is raised for the victims of the terror attacks this summer. (Photo by John Froschauer) PLU professor remembers Norway’s peaceful response to attacks of terror By Katie Scaff ’13 The dignity and resolve of…

    Norway teaching at an international school on the day a right-wing extremist bombed government buildings in Oslo and, a short time later, massacred young people attending a political party youth camp on the island of Utøya. Berguson shared photos and video from the moments and days following the attacks to help recap what happened from a firsthand perspective. “What perhaps could not be fully captured in the media was the profound silence,” Berguson said. “Violence of innocent people at the hands of