Profiles - Music

Peggy graduated Portland State in 1959 with a degree in education. She had majored in music for two years singing soprano, however her parents urged her to get a teaching degree as “something to fall back on.” That had a lot to do with social conditions; it was only a year before she graduated that the first African American woman, Gloria Davy, sang at the Metropolitan Opera. During her time at Portland State, Peggy was the only African American in the music department.

Jazz Area Coordinator

Jazz Voice Instructor

Vocal Jazz Adjunct Instructor

Music History Coordinator

Saxophone Adjunct Instructor

Classical Guitar Instructor

Music Performance Major

Music Performance Major

Master of Music in Performance

Music Performance Major

Music Education and Performance Major

Music Education and Composition Major

Piano Performance with Jazz Emphasis Major

Music Composition Major

Bassoon Instructor

Operatic Artistry - Sharing the voice and vision of opera

Adjunct Piano Professor

Director of Choral Activities

Applied Trumpet Instructor

Professor of Horn

Jazz Piano Adjunct

Piano Adjunct Professor

Professor of Flute

Harp Instructor

Instructor: Basic Materials in Music, Survey of Music Literature

"I MERELY TOOK THE ENERGY IT TAKES TO POUT AND WROTE SOME BLUES" Duke Ellington

Applied Saxophone (Classical), Staff Accompanist, and Diction.

Portland's jazz history

Clarinetist, Woodwind Area Coordinator

Assistant to the School Director

Ex Africa semper aliquid novi

Tenor Carl Halvorson is well-known internationally as a concert, opera and recital artist

KEN SELDEN, Director of Orchestral Studies

Brian has taught applied jazz piano in the School of Music since 2002

Jazz Bassist and Teacher

String Techniques & Senior Capstone Teacher

"Jeff is a well-studied player with a warm . . . . "

Composer and professor

Applied Harp Instructor

Bassist, composer, bandleader, teacher

Professor of Jazz Studies

Coordinator of Music Education,

Carol Sindell combines passion, artistry, and humor in her teaching and performing. Students, friends, and concert audiences are fascinated by her unique and sometimes eccentric sense of style, though few would question her genuine zest for life!

"It's a very odd thing - As odd as can be - That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T." - W. De La Mare

Composer, guitarist, professor, and Music Department chair

A focused and experienced Director of Bands

Classical Guitar Instructor

Brad believes in the Truth of the Imagination

Dr. Ron Babcock, Professor of Trombone, Music Theory and Music Education.

PSU oboists keep the urban musical scene vibrant

Hamilton Cheifetz is a dedicated teacher and internationally known concert cellist

Susan Hinshaw loves working with singers. She combines the knowledge derived from her 30 + years as a professional singer with a "hands on" approach, employing many methods of teaching with humor and sensitivity

Dedicated to injury prevention and promoting artistic expression, Ms. Marsh teaches musicians how to play and sing with increased freedom through understanding of anatomy and movement.

Music Technology

Music Faculty

Professor of Percussion, Graduate Coordinator, Assistant Director, School of Music

An active piano soloist and chamber musician, Dr. Chan promotes music from Asia and music written by women composers.

Faculty Emeritus, School of Music

The first building on the PSU campus, Lincoln Hall was previously a high school. It is now the lively center of campus performing arts.

The Bel Canto Festival allowed PSU music students to learn through public performances with major international performers and composers throughout the Portland area.

This partnership allows PSU to host some of the finest chamber ensembles in the world on campus and provides master classes with these ensembles for PSU students.