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:
Dates for workshops that are scheduled for 2021-2022 are listed below. Workshop page details will be updated in the near future. Please check back soon if the workshop you are looking for has not been updated yet.
2021-2022
July
- 2021 Summer Opera Workshop, 10th Year Anniversary, James Brown, Director / July 12-25, 2021 (By audition only)
August
- Summer Cello Workshop, Rowena Hammil, Director / Postponed to August 2022
- Fully furnished traditional and apartment-style housing options are available for this event.
September
- All-State Audition Preparation Workshop / September 11, 2021 (CANCELED)
- Music Education Summit, Linda J. Miller and Ron Gerhardstein, Directors / Postponed to 2022
October
- Orchestra Festival, Jeffrey Bell-Hanson, Director / October 15, 2021
- Brass Workshop, Gina Gillie, Director / October 24, 2021 (CANCELED)
January
- Northwest High School Honor Band, Edwin Powell, Director / January 7-8, 2022
- Northwest Honor Orchestra for Strings, Jeffrey Bell-Hanson, Director / January 15-16, 2022
March
- Choral Invitational, Richard Nance, Director / March 3-4, 2022
- Band Invitational, Edwin Powell, Director / March 11-12, 2022 (check back for more details)
- Guitar Festival, Elizabeth C.D. Brown, Director / March 19, 2022
- PLU Weathermon Jazz Festival, Cassio Vianna, Director / March 22, 2022
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