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:
2020-2021
All in-person events and workshops have been postponed to the 2021-2022 academic year. The following is provided for information only. Dates and details will be updated in Spring 2021.
- 2020 Virtual Horn Workshop, hosted by Gina Gille / October 25, 2020
2021-2022
July
- 2021 Summer Opera Workshop, 10th Year Anniversary, James Brown, Director / July 12-25, 2021 (By audition only)
- Fully furnished traditional and apartment-style housing options are available for this event.
August
- Summer Cello Workshop, Rowena Hammil, Director / August 2021
- Fully furnished traditional and apartment-style housing options are available for this event.
September
- All-State Preparation Workshop / Postponed to 2021
- Music Education Summit, Linda J. Miller and Ron Gerhardstein, Directors / Postponed to 2021
October
- Orchestra Festival, Jeffrey Bell-Hanson, Director / Postponed to 2021
- Brass Workshop, Gina Gillie, Director / Postponed to 2021
January
- Northwest High School Honor Band, Edwin Powell, Director / Postponed to January 7-8, 2022
- Northwest Honor Orchestra for Strings, Jeffrey Bell-Hanson, Director / Postponed to 2022
February
- Northwest High School Honor Jazz Band, Cassio Vianna, Director / Postponed to 2022
March
- Choral Invitational, Richard Nance, Director / Postponed to 2022
- Guitar Festival, Elizabeth C.D. Brown, Director / Postponed to 2022
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