Music

Concerts are subject to change.
November 2009
Date	Event
1, 3pm	Student Series: Mary Baker Russell Scholars Recital Free admission, no tickets
6, 8pm & 10 pm	Student Series: HERmonics and PLUtonics Free admission with ticket
7, 8pm	Student Series: Christine Prindle, Senior BME Violin Recital Free admission, no tickets
8, 3pm	Richard D. Moe Organ Recital Series: Christa Rakich, Guest Organist Tickets: $15 general admission, $10 senior citizen, $5 PLU community, alumni
10, 8pm	Orchestra Series: University Symphony Orchestra, Jeffrey Bell-Hanson, Conductor This concert is a world premiere event, featuring the inaugural performance of Glaciers by James Romig. This work was commissioned in part by PLU along with three other universities. The composer will be on campus for the premiere. Also featured, continuing our Scandinavian theme, will be the Piccolo Concerto by Norwegian composer, Egil Hovland, with Jennifer Rhyne as soloist. Closing the program will be the dramatic Symphony No. 7 by Anton Dvorak.
11, 8pm	Regency Concert Series: Regency String Quartet The Regency String QUartet performs Quartets by Haydn, Schumann, and the world premier of String Quartet No. 1 by Gregory Youtz.
12, 13, 14, 7:30pm 15, 3pm	Opera Series: Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring PLU Opera presents Benjamin Britten's hilarious comedy, Albert Herring. Sung in the original English, this opera will be accompanied by chamber orchestra conducted by Edwin Powell with stage direction by James Brown. Eastvold Auditorium Tickets: $15 general admission, $10 senior citizen, $5 PLU community, alumni
14, 3pm	Student Series: Michael Lasfetto, Senior BME Horn Recital Free admssion, no tickets
15, 7pm	Studio Series: Guitar Ensemble, Elizabeth C.D. Brown, Director Free admission, no tickets
16, 8pm	Artist Series: Jubal Fulks, Violinist and Lorna Peters, Harpsichordist
17, 8pm	Student Series: Percussion and Steel Pan Ensembles, Miho Takekawa, Director Free admission, no tickets
20, 8pm Chris Knutzen Hall, University Center	Jazz Series: University Jazz Ensemble David Deacon-Joyner, Director
21, 12 noon	Studio Series: Solvvinden Flute Ensemble, Jennifer Rhyne, Director Free Admission, No Tickets
21, 3pm	Student Series: Brandy Lehde, Senior BME Recital Free admission, no tickets
21, 5:30pm	Artist Series: Melissa Schiel, vocalist and Nikolas Caoile, pianist
21, 8pm See Poster	Studio Series: Piano Ensemble Recital, Diana Walker, Director Free admission, no tickets
22, 3pm	Artist Series: 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."
22, 8pm	Artist Series: 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.