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coupling the technical with the expressive and the study of music with application at the highest levels. We offer as much as you’d like: a professional degree or a minor participation in an ensemble, or just a great lesson every week. Our faculty are world-class musicians and educators, and our students have access to workshops, lessons and performance opportunities with working musicians from all over the country. We produce about 150 performances every year: choral, band, symphonic, operatic, solo

recital (30 minutes of Music) in a variety of styles and languages; students should display an understanding of foreign language translation, a growing understanding of stage deportment, and a thorough understanding of musical style. WOODWINDS BM A 60-minute recital performance of at least three works in contrasting styles from several eras, including one work for chamber ensemble Students should display a strong measure of technical proficiency on their instrument, advanced understanding of stage

Dr. Jennifer Rhyne Jennifer Rhyne serves as Associate Professor of Flute and Music Theory at Pacific Lutheran University where she also directs the Sølvvinden Flute Ensemble and performs with the Camas Woodwind Quintet. Before joining the faculty of PLU, Rhyne taught at Fort Hays State University in Kansas. The North Carolina native holds degrees in Flute Performance and in Neuroscience from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music, as well as degrees in Flute Performance from the University

Center. The annual event showcases university-wide, interdisciplinary research and creative activities of PLU students. It provides them opportunities to further explore their area of study or future career path, as well as gain valuable hands-on experience and organizational skills in a collaborative work setting. Learn more Richard and Helen Weathermon Endowment presents the Joyful Noise Guest Artist in Residence concert with the PLU Jazz Ensemble May 11 This year’s guest artist will be saxophonist

fabrication. The inscription reads: “Peace is deep in our roots, hop is high up in branches’ reach. Oh, we are not unmoved, unbuffeted unbowed – the wind and storm may leave us bend and scarred at times; we draw up strength from the richglad soil and raise ourselves up most when we bear up those trees nearby who need this strength, which is rained down as compassion and is poured out as grace on us in sunlight’s healing waves. So shall we stand, joyful, stretching forever upward to grow closer to the

South Dakota.Carl PhillipsCarl Phillips is the author of fourteen books of poetry, most recently Wild Is the Wind (FSG, 2018), and Reconnaissance (FSG, 2015), winner of the PEN USA Award and the Lambda Literary Award. He is also the author of two books of prose: The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination (Graywolf, 2014) and Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry (Graywolf, 2004), and he is the translator of Sophocles’ Philoctetes (Oxford, 2004). A four-time finalist for the

of Books. An electric guitarist as well as a writer, he has collaborated with the composer Garrett Shatzer on a blues-influenced piece in the art song tradition, At the Blinds, for which Greg wrote the text. Sung by the tenor David Saul Lee and accompanied by CityWater New Music Ensemble, with Greg on guitar, the piece premiered in November of 2014 at the Center for New Music in San Francisco and was recorded live. When he’s not teaching at PLU or at UC Davis, he lives in Creede, Colorado with

youth with the Center for Community Engagement and Service, held multiple positions in Residential Life, participated in student activism and spent two years as a dance choreographer with dance ensemble. Natalie DeFord Natalie is a recent PLU graduate on the hunt for journalism jobs. She double majored in communication and German, with a minor in Holocaust and genocide studies. While at PLU, she interned for The Olympian , KPLU, The News Tribune and Premier Media Group. She also worked extensively

Seattle offices of Adobe. PLU CSIStudents in a forensic anthropology class investigate a faux crime scene. FIRST HOME WINNew football coach Brant McAdams pumps the air after Lutes achieve victory over the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps team. MUSICAL INTERLUDEMembers of the PLU Jazz Ensemble hang loose as they prepare for a group photo with new director of jazz studies Cassio Vianna, left. Celebrating Winter GraduatesDenis Julio and her family gather with others for a reception. KALEIDOSCOPE EYESNursing

PLU: “Teaching at the university level,” he said. Taylor-Mosquera has submitted applications to Ph.D. programs in the United States and Europe. As has been true many times throughout his life, he doesn’t know where he will wind up, but knows where he will always return. “I have two families, and I have two countries,” he said. “I have no idea where I’ll be next year, in five years or in 10 years, but I know what I’ll be doing, and I know that I’ll always come home.”