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:
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 / 2020 dates TBD
- Music Education Summit, Linda J. Miller and Ron Gerhardstein, Directors / 2020 dates TBD
October
- Orchestra Festival, Jeffrey Bell-Hanson, Director / 2020 dates TBD
- OctOboefest, Shannon Spicciati, Driector / 2020 dates TBD
- Brass Workshop, Gina Gillie, Director / 2020 dates TBD
January
- Northwest High School Honor Band, Edwin Powell, Director / January 8-9, 2021
- Northwest Honor Orchestra for Strings, Jeffrey Bell-Hanson, Director / 2021 dates TBD
February
- Northwest High School Honor Jazz Band, Cassio Vianna, Director / 2021 dates TBD
March
- Choral Invitational, Richard Nance, Director / 2021 dates TBD
- Guitar Festival, Elizabeth C.D. Brown, Director / 2021 dates TBD
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