Jeffrey Bell-Hanson

Professor of Music; Director of Orchestral Activities

Jeffrey Bell-Hanson - Director of Orchestral Activities

Phone: 253-535-7617

Email: bellhajl@plu.edu

Office Location:Mary Baker Russell Music Center - Room 338

Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment

Website: http://www.plu.edu/symphony/

  • Professional
  • Biography

Education

  • D.M.A., University of Iowa, 1997
  • M.M., University of Notre Dame, 1980
  • B.M., University of Iowa, 1978

Areas of Emphasis or Expertise

  • Orchestra
  • Music History
  • Ear Training
  • Musical Arts

Responsibilities

Ear-training III/IV, Music History II, Research Methods

Biography

Jeffrey Bell-Hanson is in his twentieth season as Music Director of the Pacific Lutheran University Symphony Orchestra and Professor of Music. He is a familiar presence in the Pacific Northwest as a conductor, clinician, adjudicator and orchestral educator. Each year he works with school orchestras at all levels throughout the region and beyond, bringing to them the perspective of his long career as a conductor and scholar. He is a past national president of the College Orchestra Directors Association.

Dr. Bell-Hanson has conducted orchestras and wind ensembles throughout the United States and in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, including the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra, the Olympia Symphony, the Marquette Symphony Orchestra, the Vratza Philharmonic, and the Philharmonia Bulgarica. His long career on the podium and as a teacher has also included faculty appointments in Kansas, Louisiana and Michigan, where he won recognition for excellence in teaching both from Michigan Technological University and the State of Michigan. He has served as music director of both the Hutchinson Symphony Orchestra in Kansas and, for fourteen years, the Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra in Michigan.

Memberships: MENC, WMEA, Conductors Guild, College Orchestra Directors Association