PLU’s Weathermon Jazz Festival to Feature Acclaimed Musician Aubrey Logan
The Pacific Lutheran University Department of Music and the Dick and Helen Weathermon Joyful Noise Endowment for Jazz Studies will host the PLU Weathermon Jazz Festival on Tuesday, March 21. The public is invited to the festival’s evening concert showcase featuring Aubrey Logan, the PLU…
Jazz Under the Stars concert lineup announced
The 2019 Jazz Under the Stars series will begin on Thursday, July 11th in the outdoor amphitheater of the Mary Baker Russell Music Center at PLU. This annual summer concert series is FREE to the public, as it is PLU’s gift to the community. The…
PLU University Jazz Ensemble’s upcoming concert
On Friday, May 11th, the public is invited to a collaborative concert featuring the Stadium High School Jazz Band, the Pacific Lutheran University Jazz Ensemble and special guest and world renowned saxophonist, Vincent Herring. Thanks to a generous endowment established by PLU alumnus Dr. Richard…
A Slice of Paradise
A Slice of Paradise The Malick Folk Performing Company from Trinidad and Tobago will perform from 3-5 p.m. Sunday, April 22 in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for Performing Arts. Malick is the premier folk performing company of Trinidad and Tobago. The award-winning group travels…
University Symphony Orchestra ‘goes outdoors’ in the upcoming Student Showcase concert
Every year, the University Symphony Orchestra features a Student Showcase concert for selected students to perform as soloists with the orchestra or to have their compositions premiered. This year, the concert will be performed on Tuesday, March 20th at 8pm in Lagerquist Concert Hall in…
Marathon runner and musician- an interview with new music faculty member Lark Powers
In demand as a solo and collaborative artist, as well as an adjudicator and presenter, Lark Powers brings her extensive experience to the PLU music department. What is your background? I grew up in Northern California in Humboldt county, on the coast close to the…
From pre-med to classical singer, new faculty member Soon Cho’s positive impact on the PLU music department
Soon Cho has traveled throughout the country and world as a lyric mezzo-soprano. Today, you can find her teaching to music students at PLU. What is your background? I began my musical training as a pianist and a violinist and never had aspirations of being…
The upcoming Choral Concert will be music to our ears
PLU’s annual Fall Choral Concert will feature the Choir of the West, University Chorale, University Singers, and Men’s Chorus. Each choir will present a 15-25 minute program of mixed choral literature from various stylistic eras and genres as they kick off their 2017-18 seasons. This…
Richard D. Moe Organ Recital Series
The Richard D. Moe Organ Series has an exciting line up of performances planned for the 2017-18 academic year. The upcoming October 22 performance will feature duo organists, Dana Robinson and Paul Tegels. Dana Robinson is Associate Professor of Music and Organist at the University…
Three-time Grammy Award winning saxophonist Jeff Coffin joins the PLU Jazz Ensemble on stage
Musician, Composer, Educator The public is invited to a concert featuring the Rogers High School Jazz Band, the Pacific Lutheran University Jazz Ensemble and Jeff Coffin on Wednesday, April 19 at 8 p.m. in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for Performing Arts on the PLU…
Celebrated composer and PLU alumna Cindy McTee visits campus
McTee’s Symphony No. 1 – Ballet for Orchestra – performed April 11 by University Symphony Orchestra For Cindy McTee ‘75, music was ingrained in her life from the moment she was born. McTee spent her youth wandering around the PLU campus while her mom was…
New work celebrates the 500th anniversary of the Reformation
The Lyric Brass Quintet will perform “Luther, Seven Scenes for Brass Quintet” composed by PLU music professor emeritus Jerry Kracht, in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation on Sunday, April 23, at 3 p.m. in Lagerquist Concert Hall. “The piece is highly programmatic—that…
Famous flutist visits PLU this January
Internationally renowned flutist, Carol Wincenc , is giving a flute masterclass on Thursday, January 12 at 3:30 p.m. in the Jennie Lee Hanson Recital Hall in MBR. Wincenc, a Grammy-nominated artist, has changed the face of the flute repertoire with an extraordinary list of commissions…
Regency String Quartet Commemorates Hungarian Revolution
PLU’s Regency String Quartet will start the season off on the right note with two concerts commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution. PLU faculty members Svend Rønning, Mary Manning, Betty Agent and Richard Treat will perform the program at 8 p.m. on October…
KPLU Jazz Jam live from the Karen Hille Phillips Center
The 19th Annual KPLU Christmas Jazz Jam, 88.5 KPLU’s much-anticipated FREE holiday concert, features tenor saxophonist Anton Schwartz –Thursday, December 10, 2015 from noon to 1 p.m. at a new venue on the Pacific Lutheran University campus: Eastvold Auditorium in the Karen Hille Phillips Center…
A Christmas Invitation at PLU
PLU’s 125th Anniversary will come to a spectacular crescendo December 11, 2015, with a televised broadcast, a performance by opera star Angela Meade ’01 and a world premiere by an acclaimed Hollywood composer-all in one very special concert. It may just have turned to fall,…
Choir of the West wins on a global stage
Choir of the West brings back the grand prize at the International Anton Bruckner Choir Competition and Festival The Choir of the West covered a lot of ground on their recent European Tour—five countries in twelve days, multiple gold awards and the grand prize award…
The Choir of the West: PLU’s Premier Choral Ensemble Keeps Particularly Busy
By Shunying Wang ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker It’s an especially busy—and newsy—year for PLU’s renowned Choir of the West, including the return of Dr. Richard Nance, Director of Choral Activities and conductor of the choir, who’s back from a yearlong sabbatical. During…
Going for a Grammy
When you think Grammys, you might think Béyoncé and Macklemore—but you might not think Lute. It might be time to rethink the Grammys. Micah Haven, a 2009 Music Education graduate of Pacific Lutheran University and now the director of bands at Meeker Middle School in…
A Flutist’s Unplanned Path to Success
Jodie Rottle ’10 Finds Fame Even Without a Direct Roadmap By Shunying Wang ’15 and Sandy Deneau Dunham, PLU Marketing & Communications As far as Jodie Rottle ’10 can recall, she started to play the flute because her sister randomly suggested it. Good call, Jodie Rottle’s sister. Rottle,…
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