Join us for Puget Sound's Symphony Orchestra conducted by Anna Jensen. This event is free and open to the public.
 

Enjoy a medley of musical pieces performed in rapid succession, creating a concert experience that is fast-paced, fun, and engaging! This annual concert is an audience favorite featuring all School of Music vocal and instrument ensembles with faculty and students performing together! 

Tickets: $15, general; $10, sr. citizens, military, Puget Sound faculty and staff; $5 students. 

Tacoma prog-fusion band, Velocity, plays the groundbreaking music of Weather Report, formed in 1970 by jazz legends Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter, featuring virtuoso musicians including bassist Jaco Pastorius, drummer Peter Erskine, and others.

Jacobsen Series 2026–27 performances feature Puget Sound music faculty, renowned guest artists, and inspiring themed concerts. This year’s season kicks off with Maria Sampen, violin, joined by guests James Doyle, percussion, and Timothy Christie, viola. The program, Global Resonance: Music from Around the World for Violin and Percussion, will feature Tango, Celtic fiddling, Middle Eastern song, and 21st-century classical music.

All are invited to join us for University of Puget Sound Night at the Seattle Mariners on Saturday, September 26 at T-Mobile Park! Your specially priced ticket includes a Mariners-themed University of Puget Sound T-shirt, and $5 from every ticket sold will support University of Puget Sound Baseball and Softball Field Renovations. Tickets start at $42, with two seating options available.

The Summer Research Symposium is the interdisciplinary celebration of the tremendous research, scholarship, and creative work undertaken by Puget Sound students over the summer with the support of their faculty research advisor. Projects from over 100 students will be represented.

Celebrating 40 years in music, NEA Jazz Master and four-time GRAMMY® award-winning drummer, producer and educator, Terri Lyne Carrington started her professional career in Massachusetts at 10 years old when she became the youngest person to receive a union card in Boston. She was featured as a “kid wonder” in many publications and on local and national TV shows.

Our May Blues Vespers takes us back to the start of the school year, when Tim Lerch and Adam Levy put on a great show while in town recording their new duo record. Nine months later, they're back with us for a special end-of-the-school-year Vespers.

Historian and author Marie Vallejo shares her research into the making of her ground-breaking book “Dauntless,” an account of the heretofore untold stories of pre-WW2 Filipino-American immigrants and how men working in the fields of California and Hawaii, the canneries of Alaska and Washington, serving in wealthy homes or attending college transitioned into the First and Second Filipino Infantry Regiments, the Congressional Gold Medal American fighting force which would infiltrate their homeland, occupied by the Imperial Japanese forces immediately following Pearl Harbor.