Mary Manning has served as a lecturer in violin at Pacific Lutheran University since 2008. She is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio where she studied both modern and baroque violin performance. Her extensive work as a baroque orchestral musician has included being a member of the Seattle, Portland, and Pacific (Vancouver BC) Baroque Orchestras as well as appearing with San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Washington DC’s Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, and the Carmel Bach Festival in California. Her performance of chamber music on baroque instruments includes many appearances on the Gallery Concerts Series in Seattle, the classical instrument Tomasini String Quartet, and the Puget Sound Consort. She has recorded for Wildboar, Centaur, and Virgin Veritas. On modern violin Mary has played with the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, and the Tacoma Symphony. She served as concertmaster for the Northwest Sinfonietta during the 2005-2006 Season. She also served as concertmaster for Seattle Pro Musica’s performance of the Mozart Mass in c minor in May 2005.
Mary Manning is currently principal second violin with the Northwest Sinfonietta and the Tacoma Opera Orchestra. She is a member of the Northwest Sinfonietta String Quartet and Chinook Trio.
Bryan Boughten is an Affiliate Artist at PLU where he serves as violinist with the Regency String Quartet. He was a member of the former Northwest Chamber Orchestra and currently performs with the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra. Previously he held the position of principal Second Violinist of the Spokane Symphony and also performed as a member of the Spokane String Quartet,
which is in residence at Eastern Washington University. He
appears regularly in recital and is an active chamber musician.
Bryan Boughten is on leave from the Regency String Quartet during the 2006-07 academic year. Violinist John Scanlon is currently serving as second violinist of the Regency String Quartet.
Hovered above the stage of PLU's Lagerquist Concert Hall is the Fuchs Organ, the largest mechanical action (tracker) organ on the west coast of the United States. Built by Paul Fritts and Company of Tacoma, the instrument has become the most sought after recording instrument in the Puget Sound since its installation in 1998. It is also in frequent use as an ensemble instrument to many of PLU's ensembles, including the University Symphony Orchestra.
Svend Ronning
Svend Ronning is Chair of the String Division at Pacific Lutheran University and Associate Professor of Music.
Dr. Ronning is a native of the Pacific Northwest and holds his own
undergraduate degree in violin performance from PLU, which he earned in
1989. He subsequently earned a Master of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University.
He is of the
most active violinists in the region, serving as Concertmaster of the
Tacoma Symphony Orchestra as well as frequent soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and recording
artist. Dr. Ronning is also Artistic Director of the Second City Chamber Series, Tacoma's award winning producer of chamber music concerts and chamber music educational programs.
Svend Ronning has appeared in venues around the world, including the
Aspen, Eastern, Harkness, Jerusalem, Methow, Pacific, Rhode Island,
Spoleto and
Wintergreen Music Festivals and has served as Concertmaster of various
orchestras including the Charlottesville Symphony, the San Jose
Symphony, and the Spoleto U.S.A. Chamber Orchestra. As soloist,
he has appeared with numerous orchestras, including the Charlottesville
Symphony, the Prague Radio Symphony, Orchestra Seattle, and the Tacoma
Symphony. His prior teaching appointments have included
faculty positions at the Eastern Music Festival, the Shenandoah
Conservatory, and the University of Virginia.
Dr. Ronning's teachers include Syoko Aki, Sidney Harth, Jaap
Schroeder,
and Ann Tremaine. His own students have gone on to other music
programs at Indiana University, the North Carolina School for the Arts,
Western Washington University, the University of Virginia, the
Manhattan School of Music, and the Yale School of Music as well as a Fulbright Fellowship. Several
students now occupy positions in such organizations as the Virginia
Symphony, the Lexington Philharmonic, the Roanoke Symphony and the
Tacoma Symphony as well as holding music faculty positions at Centre College
and Ashbury College. Others teach Music in public and private
schools around the country while many others are employed in diverse non-music careers from
Film Direction to Law to Medicine.
Mary Manning
Hovered above the stage of PLU's Lagerquist Concert Hall is the Fuchs Organ, the largest mechanical action (tracker) organ on the west coast of the United States. Built by Paul Fritts and Company of Tacoma, the instrument has become the most sought after recording instrument in the Puget Sound since its installation in 1998. It is also in frequent use as an ensemble instrument to many of PLU's ensembles, including the University Symphony Orchestra.