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. 

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.

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.

Join us for the Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet, a genre-blending, all-female ensemble known for their innovative performances with bassoons, kazoos, melodicas, and more. Formed at the Eastman School of Music, they gained global recognition after their 2011 viral YouTube hit "Lady Gaga Saga." They’ve since performed with prestigious groups like the Eastman Wind Ensemble, West Point Band, and have been featured artists at numerous IDRS conferences, Beijing International Bassoon Festival, and various U.S. music conferences and symposiums. 

Experience the icarus Quartet performing Bartók Rebórn, a riveting program featuring and paying homage to Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, through the artistic vision of three of today's most illuminating musical minds.  

Jacobsen Series 2025-26 performances feature Puget Sound music faculty, renowned guest artists, and inspiring themed concerts. This year's season kicks off with Dawn Padula, mezzo-soprano, joined by Jessica Hall, piano, and the Peter Adams Quartet.

If you are planning to major or minor in music, are a music scholarship recipient, or are interested in playing in one of our ensembles, join the School of Music for a casual lunch and meet our community! We will have food and beverages to share while you hear more about music on campus. Join us and discover your rhythm!

Students interested in the School of Music will have individually scheduled music auditions based on their instrument throughout this timeframe. Ensemble Placement Auditions are open to all regardless of major or minor.

Please make sure that your music placement audition does not conflict with your meeting with your faculty advisor.

If you love music composed by Antonio Vivaldi, we hope you can join us for this concert featuring student violinists from the university's Community Music Department who will perform as soloists accompanied by their peers.

This energetic program will take place in Schneebeck Concert Hall at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 30, 2025.  

Admission is free. No tickets required.     

A special invitation to the Puget Sound community, alumni, friends, and neighbors:

The University of Puget Sound’s School of Music has partnered again with the Rockley Family
Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting music education. Musical
instruments will be sold at a significant discount from manufacturer retail pricing, and will
provide valuable resources for music students at Puget Sound.