Workshops and Festivals
Every year, Pacific Lutheran University’s Department of Music hosts a variety of workshops and festivals. Many of these events bring high school students from Washington, Idaho and Oregon to the PLU campus. Members of the community have an opportunity to attend workshops and / or simply attend the beautiful performances these workshops provide. These workshops and festivals feature guest clinicians and PLU faculty clinicians and cover a wide variety of topics.
The tentative workshop and festival schedule is:
2025
January
- Northwest High School Honor Band, Ron Gerhardstein, Director / January 10-11, 2025
- PLU Honor Orchestra for Strings, Asieh Mahyar, Director / January 19, 2025
March
- Guitar Festival, Elizabeth C.D. Brown, Director / March 1, 2025
- Choral Invitational, Brian Galante, Director / March 3-4, 2025
- PLU Invitational Band Festival, Ron Gerhardstein, Director / March 7-8, 2025
- PLU Weathermon Jazz Festival, Cassio Vianna, Director / March 18, 2025
September
- High School Woodwind Workshop, Jennifer Rhyne, Director / September 2025
October
- Brass Workshop, Zachary Lyman / October 2025
- Orchestra Festival, Asieh Mahyar, Director / October 2025
Summer 2026
July
- Summer Opera Workshop, James Brown, Director / July 2026
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