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The School of Music is pleased to announce the 2025-26 concert season featuring our Puget Sound music faculty, renowned guest artists, and inspiring themed concerts!
Join us for a diverse array of performances in our beautiful venues on campus in Schneebeck Concert Hall and Kilworth Memorial Chapel.
Proceeds from ticket sales support the Jacobsen Series Scholarship Fund, which awards scholarships to outstanding student performers and scholars.
The Jacobsen Series was established in 1984 in honor of Leonard Jacobsen, former chair of Puget Sound鈥檚 piano department. The series features our esteemed educators in action, with the spotlight focused on Puget Sound music faculty, their guests, and themed concerts! The Keyboard Series, now in its third year, features a dynamic lineup of charismatic guest artists.
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All concerts are general seating in Schneebeck Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. Pacific time unless indicated otherwise.
Friday, Jan. 23 | Faculty Wind Orchestra conducted by Gerard Morris with soloist Kim Davenport, piano, performing Kevin Oldham鈥檚 Concerto for piano, Op. 14
Friday, Feb. 6 | Faculty recital featuring Maria Sampen, violin and James Doyle, percussion
Tuesday, March 24 | Puget Sound Piano Trio
Friday, April 3 | Faculty recital featuring Tracy Doyle, flute
Sunday, April 12 | Faculty recital featuring Alistair MacRae, cello and Ronaldo Rolim, piano
School of Music faculty are theorists, historians, musicologists, composers, concert artists, music educators, and conductors outstanding in their specialties and dedicated to teaching. They have been trained at the finest graduate schools of music and conservatories. Visit the faculty web page to learn more.
The School of Music at the 兔子先生 is unique in offering a comprehensive music program within a nationally recognized liberal arts college. Its accomplished faculty is committed to guiding students toward outstanding achievements in performance, scholarship, and teaching. Visit the web page to learn more.
This program will include works by Debussy, Villa-Lobos, Rzewski, Kendal, and Corigliano.
Ronaldo Rolim is assistant professor, music, at Puget Sound. Chinese pianist , has been hailed by the press as a "tastefully polished musician"
Ronaldo Rolim, piano
Friday, Sep. 20 | 7:30 p.m.
Maria Sampen, violin and Ronaldo Rolim, piano
With Jessica Hall, collaborative pianist; and guests Brian Smith, drums; and Rob Hutchinson, bass.
Maria Sampen is Puget Sound's director of strings and professor of violin.
Maria Sampen, violin
Sunday, Oct. 27 | 4 p.m.
Puget Sound Piano Trio
The Puget Sound Piano Trio is the ensemble-in-residence at the School of Music featuring Maria Sampen, violin; Alistair MacRae, cello; and Ronaldo Rolim, piano.
A celebration of the (sesqui)centennial of three groundbreaking composers 鈥 Luigi Nono (1924鈥1990), Charles Ives (1874鈥1954), and Arnold Schoenberg (1874鈥1951).
Friday, Jan. 31 | 7:30 p.m.
Inspirations: A Celebration of Music Teachers
A heartwarming, energetic, and inspiring program paying tribute to music educators who bring so much to students鈥 lives.
Music teacher and young student
Friday, Feb. 7 | 2 p.m.
Dawn Padula, mezzo-soprano and guests
Dawn Padulais Puget Sound's director of vocal studies and Opera Theater, and co-director of Songwriting.
Tracy Doyle is the director of the School of Music and professor of flute at 兔子先生.
Tracy Doyle
Sunday, March 2 | 7:30 p.m.
Puget Sound Piano Trio
The Puget Sound Piano Trio is the ensemble-in-residence at the School of Music featuring Maria Sampen, violin; Alistair MacRae, cello; and Ronaldo Rolim, piano.
Puget Sound Piano Trio
Thursday, March 13 | 7:30 p.m.
Guest artist David Geber, cello
Music will include works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Friedrich Dotzauer, Joseph Haydn, and Anton Arenksy.
David Gerber
Friday, Sept. 22 | 7:30 p.m.
Maria Sampen, Violin and Friends: An Evening of Chamber Music for Strings
Featuring guest artists Timothy Christie, viola and violin; Alistair MacRae, cello; and Anna Jensen, bass; performing music by Kod谩ly, Piazzolla, Montgomery, McClure, and more.
Maria Sampen is Puget Sound's director of strings and professor of violin.
Maria Sampen, violin
Friday, Oct. 6 | 7:30 p.m.
Dawn Padula, mezzo-soprano
With Jessica Hall, collaborative pianist; and guests Brian Smith, drums; and Rob Hutchinson, bass.
Dawn Padula is Puget Sound's director of vocal studies and Opera Theater, and co-director of Songwriting.
Dawn Padula, mezzo-soprano
Wednesday, Oct. 11 | 7:30 p.m.
Boris Berman, piano
Boris Berman heads the piano department of Yale University and conducts master classes throughout the world.
Berman regularly performs in more than fifty countries on six continents, is a Grammy nominee, and published author. Born in Moscow, he has established himself as one of the most sought-after keyboard performers. He presently lives in New Haven, Conn. .
Boris Berman, piano
Friday, Oct. 27 | 7:30 p.m.
Euphony: An Evening of Low Brass Sounds
Featuring Gail Robertson and Stacy Baker, founders of the SymbiosisDuo euphonium ensemble; with Jason Gilliam, euphonium; Ryan Schultz and Ilan Morgenstern, trombone; and David Krosschell, trombone.
Ryan Schultz is Puget Sound's affiliate artist, tuba and euphonium, and is principal tubist of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra and the Auburn Symphony Orchestra.
David Krosschell is Puget Sound's affiliate artist, trombone, and is involved with such varied groups as the Seattle Symphony, Tacoma Symphony, Seattle Rock Orchestra, Rat City Brass, and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
SymbiosisDuo euphonium ensemble
Thursday, Nov. 2 | 7:30 p.m.
Covert Ensemble saxophone duo
Featuring guest artists Dave Camwell and Kate艡ina Pavl铆kov谩 performing unique arrangements of popular classical music from J.S. Bach to contemporary composers such as Max Richter; blurring the lines between classical, rock, and pop worlds.
Covert Ensemble saxophone duo
Sunday, Nov. 5 | 2 p.m.
Puget Sound Piano Trio
The Puget Sound Piano Trio is the ensemble-in-residence at the School of Music featuring Maria Sampen, violin; Alistair MacRae, cello; and Ronaldo Rolim, piano.
Puget Sound Piano Trio
Friday, Jan. 26 | 7:30 p.m.
Ronaldo Rolim, piano
Brazilian pianist Ronaldo Rolim is Puget Sound鈥檚 assistant professor of piano, known for his "special ability to present touching interpretations" (El Norte); and is acclaimed for his "consummate elegance" (New York Concert Review) and "mastery of phrasing and dynamics" (Oberbaselbieter Zeitung).
Ronaldo Rolim, piano
Friday, Feb. 2 | 7:30 p.m.
Puget Sound Piano Trio
The Puget Sound Piano Trio is the ensemble-in-residence at the School of Music featuring Maria Sampen, violin; Alistair MacRae, cello; and Ronaldo Rolim, piano.
Puget Sound Piano Trio
Friday, Feb. 9 | 7:30 p.m.
Resonant Interactions
A collaboration with Puget Sound's Department of Art and Art History, featuring Striking Music, a percussion ensemble with Storm Benjamin, Rebekah Ko, James Doyle, and Benjamin Marx; with Mare Hirsch, assistant professor of art and digital media.
Striking Music percussion ensemble
Sunday, Feb. 25 | 2 p.m.
Dreaming Away the Winter Chill
An afternoon recital of lyrical music from the 20th and 21st Centuries by composers Hailstork, Wade, Bunch, and Clarke; featuring Joyce Ram茅e, viola; and Karen Ganz, piano.
闯辞测肠别&苍产蝉辫;搁补尘茅别 is a viola professor at Puget Sound with a long and varied musical career. She is a founding member of the Pacific Northwest Ballet orchestra and Auburn Symphony.
Karen Ganz freelances at Puget Sound and elsewhere and offers private studies in Seattle and Tacoma.
Dreaming Away the Winter Chill
Sunday, March 3 | 2 p.m.
Caroline Chin, violin; with Laura Melton, piano
Described by Time Out New York as 鈥淚ncisive, industrious, and creatively restless鈥︹ Caroline Chin has concertized throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia in concert halls including the John F. Kennedy Center, the White House during their Christmas Festivities, New York鈥檚 Carnegie and Weill Halls, and the Concertgebeau in Amsterdam. She gave her solo debut at age 12 and has since performed with several orchestras throughout the United States.
Laura Melton, is professor of piano and chair of music performance at Bowling Green State University. She has performed in Asia, Europe, South America, and throughout the United States. .
Caroline Chin, violin
Sunday, March 24 | 2 p.m.
Alistair MacRae, cello; with Ronaldo Rolim, piano
Alistair MacRae is Puget Sound鈥檚 Cordelia Wikarski-Miedel artist in residence, cello and chamber music.
