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, Whitman College Music Building, Walla Walla at 7:30pm (free admission) Friday, April 19 Ferris High School exchange, Spokane Repertoire being performed will include works by Verdi, Borodin, Mozart, Enescu, Schend, and Janáček. Read Previous PLU Trumpet Ensemble live on KING-FM Read Next Jazz Under the Stars concert lineup 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

program and Dance Ensemble were created by Professor Katherine Beckman during the 1976-77 academic year. Near the beginning of its creation, famous dance groups and artists such as the Joffrey Ballet, Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane hosted summer workshops here at PLU. The program is currently led by Visiting Assistant Professor Rachel Winchester, after the retirement of Associate Professor Maureen McGill, who entered phased retirement after 38 years. In the wake of the anniversary, Winchester praised

Simon Carrington to guest-conduct PLU’s Choir of the West Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / November 2, 2015 November 2, 2015 By Mandi LeCompteOutreach ManagerPacific Lutheran University’s Choir of the West will perform under the direction of Simon Carrington, one of the world’s foremost choral conductors, as the featured ensemble for the National Collegiate Choral Organization (NCCO) Conference, to be held in Portland, November 12-14. The choir will give Tacoma fans an opportunity to hear the

Taube. Concerto competition winner Laura Hillis will perform the first movement of the Korngold Violin Concerto, and a work by student composer, Emilio Gonzalez will receive its world premiere, Obsession. Gonzalez studies music composition and has written pieces covering a wide range of mediums, from percussion solos to wind ensemble pieces. Obsession is his first time writing for symphony orchestra. “I have always been fascinated with movie music and this piece is my interpretation of movie music

New Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna Posted by: Kate Williams / March 14, 2019 March 14, 2019 By Mackenzie Cooper '19PLU’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 the University Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos, as well as teaching History of Jazz

Dancing to new levels: PLU’s Dance minor program celebrates 40 years Posted by: Kate Williams / November 14, 2017 November 14, 2017 By Zoey Mohammady, guest writer PLU Mast MediaSome say dance is a universal language. At Pacific Lutheran University, that concept is growing further through the opportunities that its Dance minor program offers. This fall 2017 semester marks the 40th anniversary of the program. The Dance minor program and Dance Ensemble were created by Professor Katherine Beckman

Regency Voices on KING FM’s NW Focus Live Posted by: Reesa Nelson / November 6, 2019 November 6, 2019 Liederabend: An Evening of SongTune your radio dial to 98.1 FM or listen online this Friday, November 8 at 8 PM as the PLU Regency Voices ensemble performs live on air for KING FM’s NW Focus Live weekly radio program. Regency Voices has assembled a program featuring the music of Johannes Brahms. See below for roles and to learn more about the performers.Soon ChoMezzo-SopranoOksana

Directed by James Brown. Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) opens the last weekend of  January- 24, 25 and 26 at 7:30pm; January 27 at 3pm in Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are $17 general admission; $10 seniors citizens (60+), military, alumni, PLU community; $5 PLU students, 18 and under. Tickets can be purchased on Eventbrite. Read Previous Concert web streaming of PLU’s annual Christmas Concert, Winter Rose Read Next PLU Wind Ensemble travels to Hawaii LATEST

year as band director at Meeker, where he teaches 260 students at the elementary and middle-school levels, along with a before-school jazz band. At PLU, Micah played with the Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band, brass quintet and Trumpet Ensemble—and even then, he made quite an impression. “It makes me very proud to know that he is getting this well deserved recognition,” said Edwin Powell, PLU Associate Professor of Music and Director of Wind Ensembles. “Micah was part of a five-student cohort who were

semifinalists, some of whom I know and look up to,” said Haven, who’s in his fifth year as band director at Meeker, where he teaches 260 students at the elementary and middle-school levels, along with a before-school jazz band. At PLU, Micah played with the Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band, brass quintet and Trumpet Ensemble—and even then, he made quite an impression. “It makes me very proud to know that he is getting this well deserved recognition,” said Edwin Powell, PLU Associate Professor of Music and Director