Events
Pacific Lutheran University presents more than 150 concerts every year featuring students, faculty artists and exciting guest performers in an incredible array of musical styles and media. All music concerts are held in Lagerquist Concert Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Center at 8:00 pm unless otherwise noted.
Tickets: $8 General Admission, $5 Senior Citizens (55+), $3 Alumni, Complimentary 18 and under unless otherwise noted. All Ticket Sales Are Final - No Refunds or Exchanges.
Questions: E-mail: music@plu.edu (in the subject line indicate concert tickets) or call concert information line at 253/535-7787 during office hours.Interested in Other PLU events. Please visit the PLU Web Calendar at http://events.plu.edu/
 
Artist Series
PLU proudly presents musical events featuring PLU faculty members as well as guest artists from the Pacific Nothwest and throughout the U.S.
Concerts are subject to change.
Artist Series 2009/2010
Date
 Event
September 9, 8pm
 Knut Erik Jensen, Guest Pianist
Norwegian pianist presenting the history of Norwegian music from 1900-1950 written by such composers as Grieg, Monrad Johansen, Sæverud Sinding, Harum and Geirr Tvett.
September 17, 8pm

A Tribute to Felix Mendelssohn
In celebration of Mendelssohn's 200th birthday, students and friends of PLU vocal instructor, Janeanne Houston, will perform songs and share information about the composer. Sheila Bristow, pianist, organist and musical director of PLU's Opera Workshop, will perform an organ work by Mendelssohn.
September 19, 8pm
Collaborative Artist / East West Performing Group
Program of multi-pianist pieces including Blue Danube, tunes from Bizet's Carmen and some Asian gems. Featured pianists include Regina Yeh (Chair of PLU Piano Studies), Erin Chung (PLU faculty member), and guest artists Nancy Jang, Tien-Yin Chen, Mari Corpuz, Siu-Yin Mak, and Jeongwon Hyun.
September 20, 3pm
Music in the Age of Thomas Jefferson: Early and Baroque Concert, Kathryn Habedank, Director
September 26, 8pm
Artist Series: Richard Treat, Faculty Cellist with Sandra Bleiweiss, Pianist
Music of Debussy, Britten and Brahms
October 4, 8pm
Erik Steighner, Faculty Saxophonist
October 10, 3pm

Bei der Wiege: Songs for and abut children: Holly Boaz, Soprano

November 16, 8pm
Jubal Fulks, Violinist and Lorna Peters, Harpsichordist
November 21, 5:30pm
Melissa Schiel, vocalist and Nikolas Caoile, pianist
November 22, 3pm
Art Song Recital with Guest Vocalist Jennifer Gorham and Amy Grinsteiner, Pianist
Ms. Gorham and Ms. Grinsteiner will perform a program of American composers including Aaron Copland's "Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson" and songs by Leonard Bernstein with the Shaw Road Elementary Choir."
November 22, 8pm

Europa Chamber Music Ensemble
EUROPA specializes in chamber music from Western and Eastern Europe including Russia and is based in Seattle. Its members include: Violinist Leonid Keylin, Seattle Symphony member and concertmaster of numerous New York based ensembles, trained in St. Petersburg, Russia and the Juilliard School; Cellist Mara Finkelstein, principal cellist with the Northwest Sinfonietta, trained at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, Russia; Pianist Jane Harty, Director of Music Northwest and long-time PLU faculty member; trained at L'Ecole Normale de Musique, Paris, France and the University of Southern California. Repertoire will include: Sonata in F Minor for Violin and Piano by Sergei Prokofiev Piano Trio in E Minor by Antonin Dvorak and more to be announced.
January 18, 7:30pm
 Lutheran College Nordic Choir
Tickets through PLU Concierge Desk: Prices To Be Announced
February 10, 8pm
 Tim Smith, Guest Pianist
Tim Smith is Professor and Chair of Piano from the University of Alaska at Anchorage.
February 14, 3pm
 Composers of the Great American Songbook
David Deacon-Joyner, pianist and Director of Jazz Studies at PLU, is kicking off an annual Valentine's Day concert event, "Composers of the Great American Songbook". Joined by PLU jazz faculty and special guest artists, Dr. Deacon-Joyner will feature the music of two songwriters each year, familiar writers such as Cole Porter and George Gerswhin, and less famous but no less notable songwriters such as Ray Noble and Johnny Mandel. Join David Deacon-Joyner and friends for the evening of romantic, swinging, and timeless songs from the Golden Age of the American popular song.
February 17, 8pm

Music from the Age of the Harlem Renaissance, David Deacon-Joyner, Director

February 20, 8pm
Rami El-Farrah, Guest Saxophonist
February 23, 8pm
Mooncoyne Irish Band
February 24, 8pm
John Pickett, Guest Pianist
John Pickett is Professor and Chair of Piano from Central Washington University.
February 26, 8pm
An Evening of Music Written for the Euphonium with Jason Gilliam
March 6, 8pm

Hillary Herndon, Guest Violist and Regina Yeh, Facilty Pianist
Hillary Herndon is Professor of Viola from the University of Tennessee and Regina Yeh, Chair of Piano Studies at PLU. This performance features Brahm's Sonata for Viola and Piano along with unaccompanied pieces performed by both Dr. Herndon and Dr. Yeh.

March 7, 3pm
Early and Baroque Concert, Kathryn Habedank, Director
March 7, 8pm
Jennifer Rhyne, Faculty Flautist with Oksana Ezhokina, Guest Pianist
March 8, 2010
Crystal Chinese Children's Chorus
Ticket information to be announced.
April 18, 1pm
C 306
Flute Masterclass with Alison Brown Sincoff
Free admission, no tickets
April 18, 8pm
Alison Sincoff, Guest Flautist and Gail Berenson, Guest Pianist
Free will offering accepted at the door.
April 19, 5:15pm
MBRC 306
 Enrichment Series: Performance Anxiety Class with Gail Berenson
Free admission, no tickets
May 8, 8pm
Regina Yeh, Faculty Pianist
Regina Yeh, Chair of Piano Studies performs this concert featuring music from Taiwan.
May 23, 7pm

Artist Series: Tacoma Philharmonic Beatrice Hermann Recital
Artist to be announced. Tickets to be announced

School of Arts + Communication
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Music Department
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