Join us for a chamber music master class hosted by School of Music guest artists Minghuan Xu, violin, and Winston Choi, piano. This event is free and open to the public.
 

Join us for a piano master class hosted by School of Music guest artist Winston Choi. Choi, a Canadian pianist, is associate professor of piano and the head of the piano program at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts. His professional career was launched when he was named Laureate of the 2003 Honens Piano Competition and winner of France’s Concours International de Piano 20e siècle d’Orléans in 2002.

Join us for a violin master class featuring guest artist Minghuan Xu. Xu is program director of strings and assistant teaching professor of violin at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts, where she has helped shape a vibrant, internationally recognized string program. Her studies were at institutions such as the Curtis Institute of Music, the Oberlin Conservatory, Northwestern University and Stony Brook University.

As part of the 2025 Puget Sound Keyboard Weekend, the School of Music is pleased to celebrate Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's 150th birthday with a concert featuring Puget Sound music faculty and students performing Coleridge-Taylor's complete Twenty Four Negro Melodies, Op.59. This concert is free and open to the public.

The School of Music invites you to the 2025 Puget Sound Keyboard Weekend: A Survey and Demonstration of Keyboard Instruments presented by Wyatt Smith, American concert organist. This event is free and open to the public. 

If you’re around for Fall Break, come by Kilworth Chapel at 5 p.m. for our monthly Blues Vespers event.  Blues Vespers combines great local blues artists, a couple of poems, and a little something to think about.  This month we’re welcoming the Cold 102s with special guests the Brian Feist Duo.  Vespers brings together folks of all ages from across Tacoma and Pierce County to celebrate the power of music in our lives.  For more information, email dwright@pugetsound.edu.  

Guest Artist William Skeen, cello, will present a masterclass on the Bach Cello Suites featuring student performers from the University of Puget Sound School of Music.  Open to the public, free admission.

Emeriti Faculty Rand Worland will be presenting on Concert Hall Acoustics. There will be audio examples and live demos!

Snacks provided. If you have dietary restrictions, please reach out to Soph Kobernusz (skobernuszgibbs@pugetsound.edu) to make sure we have something for everyone. 

Enjoy a performance featuring high school choir students from throughout the region in the culmination of the School of Music's annual Northwest High School Honor Choir Festival. The program will include an opening performance by the Adelphian Concert Choir conducted by Steven Zopfi, followed by the High School Honor Choir conducted by this year's guest clinician William C. Powell.

Mini Maestros is a music concert series designed especially for children ages 2-8 and their families.

University of Puget Sound Community Music Department partners with Symphony Tacoma to present this interactive music event which includes a narrator and an instrument petting zoo prior to the concert! 

The symphony orchestra will perform the time-honored classic, Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev. 

Come early for the instrument petting zoo at 1:30 pm in Schneebeck Concert Hall