Puget Sound Brass Camp

At the University of Puget Sound School of Music we are excited to announce our inaugural Brass Day! Please help spread the word. This is an opportunity geared toward high school students and advanced middle school students (younger and less experienced students are also welcome to register and watch). Our concert will be free and open to the public. Save the date: November 17th, 2024. Puget Sound brass faculty, featured artist Sarah Viens of the Pacific NW Ballet Orchestra and the Pacific Coast Brass Ensemble will be the artists.

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WqjA0hi2K1bOom4dLBFSFpJF0PgFaBI3mHoEZY3Rk5Y/viewform?edit_requested=true

Event link: https://www.pugetsound.edu/events/brass-day-2024

Thanks for a great week. Come back this fall for brass day (details to follow) and next summer!

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We are really enjoying making music with this wonderful group of students!

We are getting ready for our concert on Friday(12:30). See you then! Tomorrow we are trying to wear solid colors for photos. We will wear concert black on Friday.

We are having a great second day!

We are off to a great start!
If you haven't already turned in all of your paperwork, please do so today so we can show you photos of your children playing their instruments.

We are really looking forward to camp on Monday. Campers and families: please look for email messages regarding camp and music soon!

Registration for 2024 is now open. Sign up now as we have limited availability!

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Don't miss this!

Come to Schneebeck Concert Hall next Friday, October 27th at 7:30pm for the next Jacobsen Series performance, “Euphony: An Evening of Low Brass Sounds”! This event features the SymbiosisDuo members Gail Robertson and Stacy Baker, euphonium/tuba; with Ryan Schultz, tuba; David Krosschell, bass trombone; Ilan Morgenstern, bass trombone; and Jason Gilliam, euphonium. You won’t want to miss this!

Tickets for the general public are available to purchase online at tickets.pugetsound.edu, at the Puget Sound bookstore, or at the door. The performance is free for current Puget Sound and K-12 students. You may obtain a complimentary ticket online or bring your student ID to show at the door.

University of Puget Sound

We need to close out registration for the University of Puget Sound School of Music Low Brass Day. Free lessons, side-by-side honors ensemble, master classes etc. The event is geared toward high school students but younger students are welcome as well. Registration is closing this week: https://www.pugetsound.edu/events/low-brass-music-day

Please come and spread the word!

Registration is now open for the University of Puget Sound Low Brass Day. Free lessons, side-by-side honors ensemble, master classes etc. The event is geared toward high school students but younger students are welcome as well. 9/20 deadline for registration:
https://www.pugetsound.edu/events/low-brass-music-day

Way to go, Puget Sound!

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Thank you for an amazing week! It was great to make music together!

We would love to see all of you at camp next year (with a friend!) on June 24-28, 2024 (SAVE THE DATES!). We also would love to have you come to the University of Puget Sound School of Music for our Euphony recital on the evening of 10/27 and our Low Brass Day (University of Puget Sound Euphonium/Tuba Studio. . .).

https://www.pugetsound.edu/events/low-brass-music-day

There will be updated information so check back here and on the events page!

Camp is going really well. Looking ahead--Save the dates: 10/27 recital and a day of musical activities on 10/28/2023!

Baby It’s Cold Outside - Gail Robertson (Double-bell Euphonium) Holiday Christmas Jazz Double-bell Euphonium

Facilities Services will be doing maintenance work to 15th Street between N. Alder & N. Lawrence, consisting of road resurfacing and curb work. The work is scheduled to begin at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, June 27, and is scheduled to be completed by Monday, July 10 (weather permitting).

15th Street will be closed to all vehicular traffic during this window. Please inform your vendors, staff, and visitors who may be impacted by this project.

We are super excited for PSBC 2023!!! We can't wait for Monday. Campers and families: look for an email from Ryan Schultz in a few minutes! Meet our assistant, William Lum. William just graduated from Puget Sound as a standout euphonium player and will be starting graduate school at the prestigious University of North Texas music program in the fall.

We're excited to welcome student musicians to PSYWE for the 2023-24 season! Here's audition information.

Time to register!

Registration is now open for Puget Sound Brass Camp with our partners at Metro Parks Tacoma. Sign up now!
www.pugetsound.edu/brasscamp

We were thrilled to host Steven and Misa Mead at the University of Puget Sound School of Music. It was great having PSBC/ University of Puget Sound Community Music Department alumni Cassidy back on campus for our impromptu honors ensemble!

Don't miss Misa and Steven Mead at the University of Puget Sound School of Music!!! Professor Schultz would love to hear from a few more high school euphonium and tuba players for our honors chamber ensemble (RSchultz (AT) pugetsound.edu by 11.29)! Please share widely.

https://www.pugetsound.edu/events/euphonium-residency-steven-and-misa-mead

Euphonium Residency with Steven and Misa Mead | University of Puget Sound The School of Music is pleased to welcome guest artists Steven and Misa Mead for a two-day euphonium residency. British-born Steven Mead is widely regarded as one of the most successful professional euphonium soloists of the day, performing over 75 concerts per year with some of the leading orchestr...

We have had a great week!

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We had hoped to have PSBC this summer, but we could not get all of the details in place. See you in 2022!

PSBC Co-director, Judson Scott, will be present a free masterclass through Ted Brown sponsored by Symphony Tacoma at 6:00pm, Wednesday, March 31st.

The link below will get you into the meeting.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0oceqqqTIjGdU9UTGUaOarYr1LTrCfOAH4

5:55 Meeting opens/log in, etc.
6:05 Meeting starts
6:45ish Meeting ends

You should come to this! Please tell your friends and teachers!

Please join us for a masterclass with tubist and composer Jon Hill. Jon will be joined by Affiliate Artist Ryan Schultz and Stadium High School band director Justin Ehli '10.

Jon is a composer and studio musician based in New York. On tuba, he has appeared and recorded with the Seattle Symphony, New York City Ballet, the Malaysian Philharmonic, the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, and performed on dozens of film and video game scores including The Greatest Showman, The Last Stand, I Love You Beth Cooper, Bunraku, Halo: Reach, and Destiny: Rise of Iron. On sousaphone, he has performed with Macklemore, K.Flay, Odesza, and Tubaluba.

Most recently, he co-wrote the song 'Aint Gonna Die Tonight' with Macklemore, the opening track on Gemini, which was featured in Lego:Ninjago and was the theme of the 2017 MLB World Series. He draws on his experience in a wide array of genres to craft distinctive and immersive scores for films and video games. His first feature film score, As Far As The Eye Can See, premiered at the Montreal Film Festival, won Best Texas Film at the Lonestar Film Festival, and is now streaming on Amazon Prime. Jono studied at The Juilliard School and Yale University.

The MTNA Connection
Jon is a Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) National brass solo competition winner, Justin, as a freshman in Ryan Schultz' studio at Puget Sound was a MTNA national finalist, and Ryan has been an adjudicator for MTNA, taught a national prize winner and currently has two more students in the finals. Those two students will be playing in this class: our own William Lum and a Community Music student.