Arts

Join us for the Puget Sound Jazz Orchestra's first performance of the season, directed by Tracy Knoop, featuring special guest artist, Wycliffe Gordon, named 2020 "Trombonist of the Year," by the Jazz Journalists Association for the 13th time, and acclaimed by audiences and critics worldwide. This concert is presented by the Associated Students of the University of Puget Sound (ASUPS) and is a ticketed event.

The School of Music is pleased to present the 2022-23 Organ at Noon Series, featuring American Concert Organist, Wyatt Smith. The first performance, A Franck Bicentenary Celebration, will include music by César Franck and Rachel Laurin.

Free and open to the public.

The School of Music and Puget Sound's Symphony Orchestra welcome the University of Stuttgart Academic Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mihály Zeke, presenting a program of romantic works by German composers Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms, paired with one of the modern repertoire's most famous concertos for the viola by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók.

This guest performance is part of the Stuttgart orchestra's 2022 North American Concert Tour and is a special collaboration with the School of Music, sponsored by the Goethe Institut and the Christian Bürkert Stiftung.

Enjoy a faculty recital featuring Alistair MacRae, cello; with Ronaldo Rolim, piano. The program will include works by by J.S. Bach, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Ludwig van Beethoven.

All are invited to a reception following the program hosted by the SAI international music fraternity.

Tickets: $20, general; $15 sr. citizen; military, Puget Sound faculty, staff, and Community Music participants.

Enjoy a performance featuring the Puget Sound Piano Trio, the School of Music's ensemble in residence composed of faculty members Maria Sampen, violin; Alistair MacRae, cello; and Ronaldo Rolim, piano.

The program combines gems of the piano trio repertoire by Haydn and Mendelssohn with the West Coast premiere of Barroqueada, a trio suite by Seattle-based composer Miguel del Aguila, who will be in attendance to introduce the premiere.

Enjoy a Sunday afternoon performance featuring the Puget Sound Piano Trio -- Maria Sampen, violin; Alistair MacRae, cello; and Ronaldo Rolim, piano.

All are invited to a reception following the program hosted by the SAI international music fraternity.

Tickets: $20, general; $15 sr. citizen; military, Puget Sound faculty, staff, and Community Music participants.

Admission is free for current Puget Sound and K-12 students. Please obtain a complimentary ticket and show your student ID at the door.

Enjoy a Sunday afternoon woodwind quintet featuring Puget Sound affiliate artists Rodger Burnett, horn; Jennifer Nelson, clarinet; Francine Peterson, bassoon; Wendy Wilhelmi, flute; and Dan Williams, oboe.

All are invited to a reception following the program hosted by the SAI international music fraternity.

Tickets: $20, general; $15 sr. citizen; military, Puget Sound faculty, staff, and Community Music participants.

The School of Music is delighted to welcome Ronaldo Rolim, Puget Sound's new assistant professor of piano, presenting: 

Brazilian Kaleidoscope
A celebration of the many facets and influences of the music of Brazil as the country celebrates the 200th anniversary of its independence and the 100th anniversary of its Modernist movement.

Please mark your calendars and join us on Oct. 21 for this Jacobsen Series faculty recital featuring Dawn Padula, mezzo-soprano with Jessica Hall, collaborative pianist; Rob Hutchinson, bass; and guests.

All are invited to a reception following the program hosted by the SAI international music fraternity.

Tickets: $20, general; $15 sr. citizen; military, Puget Sound faculty, staff and Community Music participants.

The program will include Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring and Samuel Barber's Medea, performed by faculty and students, conducted by Gerard Morris. Morris is the School of Music's director of bands, department chair of winds and percussion, and associate professor of music.

All are invited to a reception following the program hosted by the Sigma Alpha Iota international music fraternity.

Tickets: $20, general; $15 sr. citizen, military, Puget Sound faculty and staff, Community Music participants.