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  • students are awarded music scholarships, which are renewable for four years and are granted to students regardless of their choice of major.PLU Choral Ensembles Choir of the West (Brian Galante, Conductor): The university’s “flagship” ensemble, this choir is comprised of approximately fifty singers. Members are primarily upper classmen, and come from a variety of academic disciplines. The choir meets four days each week for a ninety-minute rehearsal, and sings many times each year, in concerts, tours

  • renewable for four years and are granted to students regardless of their choice of major.PLU Choral Ensembles Choir of the West (Brian Galante, Conductor): The university’s “flagship” ensemble, this choir is comprised of approximately fifty singers. Members are primarily upper classmen, and come from a variety of academic disciplines. The choir meets four days each week for a ninety-minute rehearsal, and sings many times each year, in concerts, tours, campus ministry events, and university-wide

  • prose. She has a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Gregory Youtz, composer, Professor of MusicGregory Youtz is head of the PLU music composition program. His compositions include works for orchestra, band, choir, voice and chamber ensembles, three operas and a full-length musical theater show. He is currently at work on a fourth opera, with librettist Zhang Er, about the expulsion of the Chinese from Tacoma in 1885

  • , Mexico and Canada, including performances at the International Festival of Spanish Keyboard Music in Almería, Spain, the Simón Bolívar Amphitheater in Mexico City, and the Bibliothèque de Dinan, in Brittany, France. Pursuing a dual career as pianist and harpsichordist, Dr. Powers has performed with ensembles including the Washington Idaho Symphony, the Fort Collins Symphony, the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, Boulder’s Seicento Baroque Ensemble, and the Peabody Chamber Players (under the

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  • and builds a sense of community amongst the diverse group of students studying composition. Each semester, the composition studio produces two concerts: The Composers Forum Concert showcases acoustic music performed live on Lagerquist stage in the Mary Baker Russell Music Center. Usually focusing on chamber music, it sometimes includes works for choir and chamber orchestra. This concert is recorded, providing students with archival recordings for their portfolios.  The second is The Songwriter’s

  • , Mexico and Canada, including performances at the International Festival of Spanish Keyboard Music in Almería, Spain, the Simón Bolívar Amphitheater in Mexico City, and the Bibliothèque de Dinan, in Brittany, France. Pursuing a dual career as pianist and harpsichordist, Dr. Powers has performed with ensembles including the Washington Idaho Symphony, the Fort Collins Symphony, the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, Boulder’s Seicento Baroque Ensemble, and the Peabody Chamber Players (under the

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  • two credits from the following: DANC 252: Beginning/Intermediate Contemporary (2) DANC 255: Beginning/Intermediate Hip Hop (2) MUSI 325: Class Composition I (2) MUSI 326: Class Composition II (2) MUSI 360-363: Choral Ensemble (1, repeatable for credit) MUSI 381: Chamber Ensemble (1, repeatable for credit) MUSI 445: Conducting III (1) K-12 Instrumental (Orchestra Emphasis) Music Core (33) Ensembles (8) Choose from large ensemble: MUSI 370-371, 380 (8) Applied Lessons (16) Choose from: MUSI 202-219

  • Information for the 2024 Orchestra Festival is still being updated. Check back soon for more details! 26th Annual PLU Invitational High School Orchestra Festival October 25, 2024Mary Baker Russell Music Center | Asieh Mahyar, DirectorFor over twenty years, the PLU Orchestras have hosted up to a dozen of the finest high school orchestras and chamber orchestras from around the region for a day of music making and sharing. The Annual PLU Orchestra Festival offers your ensemble an opportunity early

  • graduating from Oklahoma City University with his Bachelor of Music degrees in Music Education and Vocal Performance with Dr. Randi von Ellefson and Judith Willoughby. His ensembles have sung with the Houston Symphony, Houston Chamber Choir, at Carnegie Hall, on the balcony of the Colorado State Capitol for the inauguration of Governor Jared Polis, and alongside RuPaul’s Drag Race season 11 winner, Yvie Oddly. Raul lives in the beautiful Tacoma, WA area with his wonderful husband Kevin and their two cats

  • Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Dr. Won-Bin Yim.  In 2014, she moved to Houston, Texas, to explore further teaching and performing opportunities and is currently an orchestra director at Dobie High School, where her ensembles have consistently received superior ratings at the Texas UIL Concert and Sightreading Contests.   Christine also teaches private lessons and enjoys performing with the Clear Lake Chamber Ensemble and taking advantage of the many freelance gigs