Faculty recital featuring Tracy Doyle, flute, with special guests

Join us for a Jacobsen Series concert featuring Tracy Doyle, flute, with special guests. The program, Landscapes in Sound, will include works by Esmail, Dicke, Farr, and Harrison. This faculty recital explores the many ways composers have turned to the natural world for inspiration. From birdsong and flowing water to shifting light, open skies, and elemental forces, each work on the program reflects a different facet of our relationship with nature.

Puget Sound Piano Trio with Allison Pohl, soprano

Join us for a Jacobsen Series concert featuring the Puget Sound Piano Trio — Maria Sampen, violin; Alistair MacRae, cello; and Ronaldo Rolim, piano; featuring special guest Allison Pohl, soprano. The program will include works by Shrude, Shostakovich, and Beethoven.
 

Music of the Aids Crisis

Join us for a special Jacobsen Series performance, Music of the Aids Crisis, conducted by Gerard Morris with piano soloist Kim Davenport, joined by 41 School of Music faculty, alumni, and students. The program will include works by Kevin Oldham, Fred Hersch, and Dan Welcher, featuring Oldham's "Concerto for Piano, Opus 14A," one of his largest works, composed after learning of his HIV diagnosis at age 28.

Faculty recital: Ronaldo Rolim, piano

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.

Jacobsen Series: Duo Diorama-MingHuan Xu, violin and Winston Choi, piano

Jacobsen Series 2025-26 performances feature Puget Sound music faculty, renowned guest artists, and inspiring themed concerts. The School of Music is pleased to welcome Duo Diorama -- Winston Choi, piano, and Minghuan Xu, violin, known for bold programming and dynamic performances. The program will include music by Augusta Read Thomas, John Corigliano, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Harold Arlen/Leonard Bernstein.

Girsky String Quartet with Xiaohui Yang, piano

Jacobsen Series 2025-26 performances feature Puget Sound music faculty, renowned guest artists, and inspiring themed concerts. Join us for The Girsky String Quartet -- Natasha Bazhanov, violin; Timothy Christie, viola; Artur Girsky, violin; and Rowena Hammill, cello; with Xiaohui Yang, piano, performing the Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 by Shostakovich; and the String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2 by Beethoven

Jacobsen Series: Celebrating Leroy Ostransky Day 50th Anniversary

Join us as we celebrate Puget Sound composers on the 50th Anniversary of Leroy Ostransky Day in Tacoma! Ostransky '48 (1918–1993) graduated from Puget Sound with honors in 1948 and returned as a faculty member in 1952 after earning his Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. In 1975, People magazine named him one of the nation's 12 outstanding teachers.

Puget Sound Piano Trio

Jacobsen Series 2025-26 performances featuring Puget Sound music faculty, renowned guest artists, and inspiring themed concerts. Join us for the Puget Sound Piano Trio, the School of Music's artists-in-residence featuring Maria Sampen, violin; Alistair MacRae, cello; and Ronaldo Rolim, piano. 

The program will include music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Marilyn Shrude, and Maurice Ravel.