Six Music majors and eleven minors received their degrees on Graduation Weekend 2017. Four Ph.D. degrees were also conferred.
Jonathan Aisenberg, Highest Distinction: Composition, Filamentary, for Orchestra & Original Chamber Works
Emily Levinstone
Ying Ni
Nicole Wong
Xiating Chen
Jake Grusd, High Distinction: Composition, excerpts from his opera, A Hero's Fall
Christopher Bernt
Charles Boddie
Erina Fujino
Ilhan Gokhan
William Harris
Eric Ho
Gary Hoffman
Victoria Johnson
Melody Lin
Meghana Rao
Timothy Shu
Sarah Bereza (Musicology)
Dissertation: “The Right Kind of Music: Fundamentalist Christianity as Musical and Cultural Practice.”
Jung-Min Lee (Musicology)
Dissertation: “National Identity Formation and Musical Modernism in Post-World War II Korea.”
Paul Sommerfeld (Musicology)
Dissertation: "Scoring Star Trek’s Utopia: Musical Iconicity in the Star Trek Franchise,1966-2016."
Justin Tierney (Composition)
Dissertation piece: At the Conflux, time-lapse video and electroacoustic composition
Dissertation article: “Craft & Expression Entwined in the Music of Martin Bresnick"