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Workshops and FestivalsEvery year, Pacific Lutheran University’s Department of Music hosts a variety of workshops and festivals. Many of these events bring high school students from Washington, Idaho and Oregon to the PLU campus. Members of the community have an opportunity to attend workshops and / or simply attend the beautiful performances these workshops provide. These workshops and festivals feature guest clinicians and PLU faculty clinicians and cover a wide variety of topics. The

The Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Organ Disposition of the Gottfried and Mary Fuchs OrganThrough the vision of organist emeritus David Dahl, and the financial help of many, and in particular the Fuchs foundation, a magnificent organ with three manuals and pedal was installed in Lagerquist concert hall of the Mary Baker Russell Music Center. Built by Paul Fritts and Co, it was finished in 1998. The case is Douglas Fir, a wood that grows here in the Pacific Northwest. It came from salvage logs, trees

.  The University will generally, but not exclusively, respond to off-campus behavior if an alleged violation occurs while a student is engaged in a PLU-sponsored or sanctioned event (i.e., study away, alternative spring break, athletics, music performance, outdoor recreation), the behavior raises concern for the safety of those on-campus or in the neighboring community, or the behavior jeopardizes the university’s interests in the community.  In addition, the university may follow the procedures

Fall Programs PLU IHON Oxford - Jevan Wilskey (Fall 2022) IES Abroad, Vienna (Music) - Paige Balut (Fall 2018) PLU Oaxaca, Mexico - Amanda Clendenen (Fall 2017) PLU Oaxaca, Mexico - Christa Slater (Fall 2017) PLU Chengdu, China - Chloe Dziok (Spring 2015) GEO London, England - Malena Goerl (Fall 2014)J-Term 2024 Programs HIST 289 in Italy RELI 215 in GreecePast J-Term Programs BIOL 369 in Bahamas MUSI 101/395 in Austria, Czech Republic, and Germany GLST 387/SOCI 387 in Northern Ireland MUSI 120

topics from PTSD, sexual violence, the work her great grandmother did for Lushootseed language revitalization, to loud basement punk shows and what it leans to grow up mixed heritage. With strange obsessions revolving around Twin Peaks, the Seattle music scene, and Coast Salish Salmon Ceremonies, Sasha explores her own truth of Indigenous identity in the Coast Salish territory. Her memoir Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk was published by Counterpoint Press in 2022. Her

ethnomusicology, he is also a gifted composer. He has served as a clinician at jazz festivals throughout the United States, and serves on the steering committee for The Seattle Jazz Experience. A scholar of jazz and popular music, his publications include contributions to The Cambridge History of American Music and the third edition of his history text, American Popular Music. David Deacon-Joyner Kim BondKim Bond is a senior from Kelso, Washington, with majors in History and Anthropology. Nominated as one of

Forest Was Loaded with Untold Stories: An Interview with Julie Riddle.” July, 2013: Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken (MFA ’07) was featured on National Public Radio with a 30-minute interview in The Story with Dick Gordon. You can access the interview at: http://www.thestory.org/stories/2013-07/poetry-atomic-city.Kathleen’s poetry has inspired artists in both film and music. Lou Karsen produced a 5-minute documentary for the Documentary Challenge in March 2013 which includes original