Shauna Alexis Bierly
Highest Distinction for her composition MemoriALZ: A Journey Through Life, Time, and Alzheimer’s, for chamber ensemble
The Henry Schuman Music Prize to a graduating senior for an original composition or distinguished paper in music history or analysis, for her composition MemoriALZ
Sophie Olivia Caplin
The Julia Wilkinson Mueller Prize for Excellence in Music to a graduating senior for achievement in musical performance
Ania Gabriella DeJoy
Laura Jean Quillen
Helen Marie Bond
Elizabeth Mar Burnette
Patrick Ashton Cardel
Aurelio Falconi
Lisa Ishigame He
Amanda Nicole Hedgecock
Distinction Recital and thesis: “Thinking of Home: Musical Expressions of National Identity & Displacement”
Dane Kim
Distinction Recital and thesis: “1860's Vienna, Brahms, and His First Cello Sonata”
Franklin Hyunsu Lee
Hannah Wang
Albert Shi-Ming Zhu
Samantha Arten, Ph.D. (Musicology)
Dissertation: “The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Protestant Ideology, and Musical Literacy in Elizabethan England.”
Scott Lee, Ph.D. (Composition)
Dissertation piece: Through the Mangrove Tunnels, for string quartet, piano, and drum set
Dissertation article: "Musical Signification in Thomas Adès's The Tempest."
Andrew Pester, Ph.D. (Musicology)*
Dissertation: “L'Orgue fantastique: Imagination in the Organ Lofts of Paris, 1918-1939.”
*degree granted December 2017
Sid Richardson, Ph.D. (Composition)
Dissertation pieces: Red Wind for soprano, narrator, and chamber ensemble; Bass Cathedral for clarinet and wind ensemble, Red Wind (Desert Remix) for generative software
Dissertation article: "Form and Exhaustion in Pascal Dusapin’s Quad - In Memoriam Gilles Deleuze”
The William Klenz Prize in Music Composition to a graduate or undergraduate student for excellence in composition for his piece Red Wind for soprano, narrator, and chamber ensemble
Kirsten Santos Rutschman, Ph.D. (Musicology)
Dissertation: “Concepts of Folk in Nineteenth-Century Swedish Art Music.”