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., Horn Performance, Pacific Lutheran University, 2004 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise French Horn Horn Choir Ear Training Classes Music Appreciation Classes Responsibilities Applied French Horn Lessons, directs Horn Choir, teaches Ear Training and Music Appreciation courses, member of the Lyric Brass Quintet and Camas Wind Quintet Accolades Three Unaccompanied Pieces for Solo Horn (2005). Three pieces for unaccompanied horn that feature several extended techniques: I. Transcension, II. Song, III

Leadership and Service Award PLU Choir of the West was invited to be a featured ensemble at the National Collegiate Choral Conductors Organization Conference in 2015 (guest conducted by Simon Carrington). Under Nance's direction, Choir of the West won gold awards at the 2011 Harmonie Festival in Lindenholzhausen, Germany, and gold awards plus the Anton Bruckner Prize at the 2015 Anton Bruckner Choral Competition in Linz, Austria. Under Nance's direction, Choral Union was awarded top prizes at the 2014

Brian Galante Associate Dean, School of Music, Theatre & Dance; Director of Choral Studies; Professor of Music he/him/his Phone: 253-535-7603 Email: galante@plu.edu Office Location: Mary Baker Russell Music Center - 206 (Music Office) Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Website: https://galantemusic.com/ Professional Biography Video Additional Titles/Roles Director of Choral Studies Conductor, Choir of the West Education D.M.A., Choral Conducting, University of North Texas, 2008

. She is equally working with instrumental and vocal ensembles conducting choirs including MSU Practicum Choir, MI, Komitas State Conservatory Choir, Yerevan, Sorayesh Choir, Iran, and conducts opera productions actively. Ms. Mahyar has been selected to participate in prestigious conducting workshops and conferences including Cabrillo Music Festival with Christian Macelaru and Octavio Más-Arocas, National Music Festival with Richard Rosenberg, Eastern Music Festival with Gerard Schwarz, Conducting

University. Mrs. Brizuela taught K-5 general music for ten years in the Sumner-Bonney Lake School District and led various before school elementary music enrichment clubs including choir, world music drumming, bucket drumming, and marimba ensemble. She pursues continuing education opportunities and has completed Orff Schulwerk Level I, II, and III from Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, two World Music Drumming courses, and most recently, was a participant in the Cascade Conducting Masterclass. Currently

author of a music curriculum using hand chimes, Dr. Miller has served as a clinician for Schulmerich.  Her research interest is in musical neuroscience and cognition as it relates to classroom teaching and learning. Dr. Miller is the director of the handbell choir, PLU Ringers.

  If We Sell You Our Land based on the famous speech by Chief Seattle was the subject of a story on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition show in 1987 and his subsequent opera Songs from the Cedar House based on the history and legends of Indian and White cultural interaction in the Pacific Northwest premiered in February of 1991 at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. His other compositions include works for orchestra, band, choir, voice and chamber ensembles, and a one-act opera

Conference: Presentation Four - Dr. Marit Trelstad "Luther’s Theology of Music and Singing with the Lutherans" Dr. Marit Trelstad, University Chair of Lutheran Studies, and "The Church's Song: Always in Reform" Dr. David Cherwien, Director of The National Lutheran Choir

member of the highly regarded Choir of the West under Dr. Maurice Skones. She has been a member of the voice faculty at Pacific Lutheran University since 1992 and is active as an adjudicator for regional and state vocal competitions throughout the Northwest.

, and in the UK, the Aldeburgh Festival and Caritas Chamber Choir. As a specialist in Baroque repertoire, she frequently performs works of Bach and Handel with regional orchestras and choral ensembles, but she also loves a good romantic art song, especially one in Russian. She is a winner of the Northwest Region of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Award Competition (NATSAA), and the Ladies’ Musical Club of Seattle Competition. She received an encouragement award from the