Jacobsen Series 2025-26 performances feature Puget Sound music faculty, renowned guest artists, and inspiring themed concerts. Join us for a faculty recital featuring Ronaldo Rolim, piano. The program will include works by Mozart, Ravel, Chopin, Price, and Granados. This event is part of the 2025 Puget Sound Keyboard Weekend Nov. 14-16 featuring various events for the community listed below.

With “a special ability to present touching interpretations” (El Norte), Brazilian pianist RONALDO ROLIM has performed extensively over four continents, 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. Acclaimed for his “consummate elegance” (New York Concert Review) and “mastery of phrasing and dynamics” (Oberbaselbieter Zeitung), he has captured top prizes at numerous prestigious international competitions, including Géza Anda, James Mottram, Bösendorfer, San Marino, Lyon, and Teresa Carreño. 

Rolim is assistant professor of piano and director of keyboard studies at the University of Puget Sound. Full bio

2025 Puget Sound Keyboard Weekend

The Puget Sound Keyboard Weekend is an annual event held every fall at the University of Puget Sound campus that features concerts performed by Puget Sound students and faculty, plus activities devoted to the community. This year, the Keyboard Weekend pays tribute to the Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who was born 150 years ago and left a remarkable legacy that blazed a trail for future generations of Black composers.

FRIDAY, NOV. 14 | 7:30 p.m.
Jacobsen Series Faculty Recital 
Featuring Ronaldo Rolim, piano
Schneebeck Concert Hall, Tickets required - free for students

SATURDAY, NOV. 15 | 11 a.m.
A Survey and Demonstration of Keyboard Instruments
Kilworth Memorial Chapel, Free

SATURDAY, NOV. 15 | 6 p.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 150th birthday concert 
Kilworth Memorial Chapel, Free

SUNDAY, NOV. 16 | 2 p.m.
Annual Bethel Schneebeck Organ Recital
Featuring Wyatt Smith
Kilworth Memorial Chapel, Free

About the Jacobsen 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 in the SAI international music organization. Thank you to our many patrons whose support has benefitted students and contributed to this successful series.

The Keyboard Series, now in its third year, features a dynamic lineup of charismatic guest artists.

Learn More

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.