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teaching and as a mentor, he also gets to collaborate with students in the ensemble he directs, the University Concert Band. “We’re really trying to grow and develop the Concert Band. To make it a feeder group to the wind ensemble, which is our ultimate goal,” Gerhardstein says. “The group is doing really great, and I’m really proud of their efforts and improvement.” The band serves as an important resource for student teachers. Every semester Gerhardstein has a student helper who works with the band

livestreaming the performances on our website! Read Previous Simon Carrington to guest-conduct PLU’s Choir of the West Read Next The University Wind Ensemble featured at the Western International Band Clinic 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

July 15, 2009 China: Tour like a rock star By Chris Albert While touring China this June, Luke Peterson ’10 felt something a jazz drummer doesn’t normally get to experience. Jazz students touring china this summer found they generated excitement no matter where they performed. He was treated like a rock star. Actually, it’s something more than 60 PLU wind and jazz ensemble students felt at every one of their five official concert stops this summer and a number of collaborative workshops. From

Portland for two sold-out Portland Piano International recitals, listened to Burton play Bach’s Prelude & Fugue in E-flat Major, BWV876. We caught up with Burton, recipient of the PLU Music and Bertha Gilbertson Endowed Piano Scholarships, during gap year in her hometown of Camas, Wash. What did you do right after graduation? I spent most of my summer doing Chinese translation work and researching graduate piano programs in China online. In the end, I had tennis elbow from all the computer time and an

excited. I like to make people happy, provide entertainment and provide resources to people. Seeing people face-to-face, even having a conversation like this in-person, is making me super excited. At the same time, we’re going to keep thinking about how we can move forward and break down some of these barriers — see if we can work together to progress further than RHA has been in the past. Read Previous Major Minute: Andrea Munro on Chemistry Read Next PLU Wind Ensemble: Musica Ignota LATEST POSTS

+) 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

universities (that are using it),” Ebbinga said. “There are high schools and grade schools using it. “Learning the program can take you into any field. There are endless opportunities,” he said. Read Previous Vote for the first Hebrew Idol Read Next Civil War love letter inspires wind ensemble COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships

April 6, 2009 ‘Lofty’ is just a word to crush For as far as the eye-can see white follows the landscape, lightly bleeding into a calm blue sky. Wind can make or break success and even determine survival here. There are no animals and the conditions often make any adventure silent amongst its travelers. This is Antarctica and in 2001 Liv Arnesen, from Norway, and Ann Bancroft, from Minnesota, became the first women to make the trip across the continent through the South Pole. On March 31, the

season of “Storm Chasers.” Since then, Timmer has taken it one step further and developed the “TVN Dominator,” an armored radar vehicle that measures the vertical wind speeds of strong tornadoes. He is currently working towards a PhD in meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, and plans to continue storm chasing: “I’ll be storm chasing until the day that I die!” Timmer’s keynote address will be at 6 p.m. on Feb. 22 in the University Center, Chris Knutzen Hall. Other highlights of Meant to Live 2010

Lagerquist Concert Hall and Eastvold Auditorium are streamed on our website. (Some exceptions apply.)Tune in March 23 Read Previous A Christmas Invitation – Photo Recap Read Next PLU Wind Ensemble tours eastern Washington and Portland, Oregon 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