Join us for a student recital featuring Avi Graf '25, cello, with Isabella Jie, piano. Avi is a student of Alistair MacRae pursuing a Bachelor of Music in performance. The program will include works by Tobias Hume, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Prokofiev, Kaija Saarahio, and Giovanni Sollima. 
 

“Cowboy Boots” explores the intersection of accepting one’s sexual identity and trying to find the community in which it can reside. It is at once a dive into the longings and desires of a young, rural recently-out cowboy from Nebraska and the realities of being a newcomer in San Francisco, entering a gay bar for the first time, and looking at the interactions and relationships within underground queer culture. A world that he doesn’t know or understand. While the story is queer in nature, the themes of finding one’s place, and the discomfort that comes along with doing so, are universal.

The Northwest Sinfonietta performance, Immortal Beloved, conducted by Mei-Ann Chen with Denise Dillenbeck, violin, will feature the School of Music's Puget Sound Piano Trio -- Maria Sampen, violin; Alistair MacRae, cello; and Ronaldo Rolim, piano, performing Beethoven's Triple Concerto for violin, cello, and piano.

The School of Music Opera Theater is thrilled to present The Magic Flute, an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder, directed and produced by Affiliate Artist Alexander Adams '14.

Performances are scheduled for Friday and Saturday, April 4 and 5 at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, April 6 at 2 p.m.

Tickets: $18 general admission; $10 senior citizen, Puget Sound faculty, and staff; $8 students.

Join us for the Puget Sound Jazz Orchestra directed by Jeff Chang featuring two-time Grammy award winner Howard Levy.

Levy is a favorite performer with audiences worldwide and a recording artist sought after by Kenny Loggins, Dolly Parton, Paquito D'Rivera, Styx, Donald Fagen, Paul Simon, and many others. Frequently touring with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Levy has appeared on hundreds of CDs and several movie soundtrack as a pianist and virtuoso harmonica player and called, "one of the most important and radical harmonica innovators of the 20th century."

Join us for a joint concert featuring the Adelphian Concert Choir, conducted by Steven Zopfi, featuring the Puget Sound Piano Trio -- Maria Sampen, violin; Alistair MacRae, cello, and Ronaldo Rolim, piano; and the Puget Sound Singers, conducted by Jonah Heinen with Jieun Yun, piano. The program will include the Puget Sound Piano Trio performing Alex Berko's Sacred Place, and the Puget Sound Singers performing a world premiere of The Sound of Courage by local composer Michelle Bruski-Dumpert, and more.

Blues Vespers is a 26-year Tacoma tradition, a series of Blues concerts paired with poetry and a short reflection. Vespers has been hosted at Kilworth Memorial Chapel since 2019. Our Spring 2025 series starts early with a visit from Rod Cook and Toast. The series is hosted by the University Chaplaincy in collaboration with Blues Vespers' founder, Dave Brown.

Vespers is always free to attend, and campus folks and local community members are all enthusiastically welcome!

The Adelphian Concert Choir, conducted by Steven Zopfi, with Jinshil Yi, piano, performs a home concert following a week-long mini tour. The Curtis High School A Capella Choir and Dorian Singers, conducted by Bella Garcia y Lauer with Kaiden Skinner, piano, will participate in the program. Admission is complimentary.

March 2025 Tour (concert times at 7 p.m.):

Join us for the Puget Sound Jazz Orchestra presenting "Women in Jazz," directed by Jeff Chang featuring music by innovative female composers Tracy Yang, Megan Vinther, Renee Rosnes, and Mary Lou Williams.

Enjoy a variety of short performances by Puget Sound music students. Recitals are on select Wednesdays at noon, free and open to the public. 

The program for April 16 will include performances by Iraniel Gonzalez Molina '25 with Jinshil Yi, piano; vocalists Lucy Ferguson '27, Amelia Stiles '27, Abby Jennings '27, and Ruby Gunter '26; and Precious Wilson '26, with Jinshil Yi.

Spring 2025 Schedule