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Beginning in Fall 2024, PLU will be welcoming Dr. Justin Murphy-Mancini as the Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance . Murphy-Mancini began organ study at age 10, beginning his journey in church, “quite literally as soon as I was tall enough…
added. Murphy-Mancini is looking forward to sharing his passion for early music and music by living composers. Murphy-Mancini will join PLU from the University of Southern Maine, where he currently serves as organ faculty in the Osher School of Music. He also brings his experience as director of church music at First Religious Society, Unitarian Universalist, in Massachusetts. He holds a Ph.D. in composition from the University of California, San Diego, an M.M. in historical keyboards from Oberlin
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Choir of the West & University Men’s Chorus, Kathryn Lehmann, Conductor University Chorale & University Singers, Richard Nance, Conductor Members of the University Symphony Orchestra,
Silent Night, Noche de Paz. Also included are O Yule Full Of Gladness by Caroline Jennings, Eric Whitacre’s Lux Aurumque, and the CD’s title composition, Light Everlasting, by Olaf Christiansen. And we are especially pleased to present the premiere recording of PLU alumnus, Michael Dailey’s, beautiful composition Ave Maria. Compact Disc – 2007 PLU Multimedia Recordings — Pacific Lutheran UniversityProgram
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Pacific Lutheran University’s own Cassio Vianna , Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies , has been awarded a grant from the City of Tacoma. This grant, part of the Tacoma Artists Initiative Program (TAIP) , encourages artistic engagement in the city by…
PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition Cassio Vianna, Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies, has been awarded a grant to write a 4-movement suite entitled Invisible Garden, that blends jazz, chamber music and Brazilian music. Posted by: Liza Conboy / April 18, 2024 Image: Jazz Under the Stars featuring Vianna/Bergeron Brazilian Quintet with Cassio Vianna on piano at PLU, Thursday
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The PLU Wind Ensemble performed the world premiere of Echo Chambers on March 10, 2019. Echo Chambers came about after a conversation during a national conference in 2017 between Ed Powell, Professor of Music and Director of Bands at PLU, and Peter Van Zandt Lane,…
Wind Ensemble’s World Premiere of Echo Chambers Posted by: Kate Williams / March 14, 2019 March 14, 2019 By Kate Williams '16The PLU Wind Ensemble performed the world premiere of Echo Chambers on March 10, 2019. Echo Chambers came about after a conversation during a national conference in 2017 between Ed Powell, Professor of Music and Director of Bands at PLU, and Peter Van Zandt Lane, Assistant Professor of Composition and Director of the Dance Center for New Music at the University of Georgia
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Music is very much alive By Chris Albert Several months ago, PLU music professor Edwin Powell began collaborating with Norwegian-born composer Ola Gjeilo. “It’s all been done over Facebook,” Powell said. The PLU Wind Ensemble, director by Ed Powell, will perform the world premiere of…
October 11, 2010 Music is very much alive By Chris Albert Several months ago, PLU music professor Edwin Powell began collaborating with Norwegian-born composer Ola Gjeilo. “It’s all been done over Facebook,” Powell said. The PLU Wind Ensemble, director by Ed Powell, will perform the world premiere of Ola Gjeilo’s composition. Powell, the Wind Ensemble director, asked Gjeilo for permission to adapt a chorale piece Gjeilo had done for wind ensemble. He soon found out, Gjeilo was not only
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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.
Nicholas Lockey Lecturer - Music History Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: nlockey@plu.edu Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Education Ph.D., Musicology, Princeton University, 2013 M.A., Musicology, Princeton University, 2009 M.A., Musicology, University of Victoria, 2005 B.M., summa cum laude, Piano Performance, Pacific Lutheran University, 2002 Biography Nicholas Lockey is a Puget Sound native whose career has spanned music performance, research, composition, education, and arts
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News for Pacific Lutheran University.
PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition Pacific Lutheran University’s own Cassio Vianna , Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies , has been awarded a grant from the City of Tacoma. This grant, part of the Tacoma Artists Initiative Program (TAIP) , encourages artistic engagement in the city by… April 18, 2024 FacultyMusic
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● Only one musical selection is needed, though you may prepare more than one provided it fits into the 5 minute audition time.
the above. ● Percussionists should perform on at least two different instruments. If you have any questions regarding brass, woodwinds and percussion audition repertoire, please contact: Dr. Zach Lyman, Coordinator of Wind, Brass, and Percussion Studies.CompositionThose interested in studying in composition should perform in their primary medium, using the guidelines provided on this page. Students may also submit a portfolio of original works for review by the composition faculty. If you have any
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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.
Nicholas Lockey Lecturer - Music History Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: nlockey@plu.edu Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Musicology, Princeton University, 2013 M.A., Musicology, Princeton University, 2009 M.A., Musicology, University of Victoria, 2005 B.M., summa cum laude, Piano Performance, Pacific Lutheran University, 2002 Biography Nicholas Lockey is a Puget Sound native whose career has spanned music performance, research, composition, education, and arts administration. As an educator
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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…
Pacific Lutheran University where he has worked since 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
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