The School of Music invites you to the 2026 Puget Sound Keyboard Weekend featuring a variety of activities for students, teachers, and the community. The schedule will include an informal tour and discussion of the piano department, demonstrations, a keyboard "petting zoo," a master class featuring a special guest artist, and a showcase concert featuring Ronaldo Rolim, piano, assistant professor of music.

RONALDO ROLIM holds degrees from the Magda Tagliaferro School in São Paulo, the Peabody Institute in Baltimore and the Yale School of Music in New Haven. Rolim resides in Tacoma, Wash., where he is assistant professor of piano and director of keyboard studies at the University of Puget Sound. He has performed extensively over four continents as a soloist and chamber musician in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Zurich’s Tonhalle, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Great Hall of the Liszt Academy in Budapest, and Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts. Ronaldo Rolim bio

Keyboard Weekend Schedule -- Mark Your Calendar: 
(Please check back for details and registration.)

Friday, Nov. 13 at 7:30 p.m.: Opening concert in Schneebeck Concert Hall
Saturday, Nov. 14 from 2–6 p.m.: Tour, informal discussions, master class, piano showcase
Sunday, Nov. 15 at 2 p.m.: Bethel Schneebeck Organ Concert featuring Wyatt Smith, organ

About the Series

The Jacobsen Series was established in 1984 in honor of Leonard Jacobsen, former chair and professor of Puget Sound’s piano department. Ticket sales support the Jacobsen Series Scholarship Fund, annual music scholarships awarded to outstanding student performers and scholars. Thank you to our many patrons whose support has benefitted students and contributed to this successful series.

The Keyboard Series, now in its fourth year, features a dynamic lineup of charismatic guest artists. Visit pugetsound.edu/jacobsen or call the School of Music at 253.879.3741.

Tickets

Tickets are available online at tickets.pugetsound.edu, at the Logger Store located in the Wheelock Student Center, or at the door.

• $25 general admission
• $20 sr. citizen, student, military, Puget Sound faculty/staff, Community Music participants
• Admission is free for current Puget Sound and K-12 students. Please present your student ID to the ushers at the door.