Congratulations to our Ph.D graduates: Spring 2022 & Fall 2021

Headshots of 5 graduate students who earned PhDs in 2021-2022
Top row, l to r: Maximiliano Amici, Ka Man Misty Choi, Jonathan Henderson Bottom row, I to r: Dayton Kinney, Jon Churchill

Graduate Degrees Conferred


Maximiliano Amici, Ph.D. (Composition) -- FALL 2021
Dissertation piece: “The Pit and the Pendulum, Dramatic Cantata for Baritone, Chamber Ensemble, Male Choir and Electronics."
Committee Chair: Stephen Jaffe

Ka Man Misty Choi, Ph.D. (Musicology) -- SPRING 2022
Dissertation: "In Pursuit of a Utopia Between Sound and Sense: Luciano Berio's 'Linguistic Projects' of Meta-Music."
Committee Chair: Jacqueline Waeber

Jon Churchill, Ph.D. (Musicology) -- SPRING 2022
Dissertation: "Form, Continuity, and Disjunction in Vaughan Williams’s Symphonies."
Committee Chair: Philip Rupprecht

Jonathan Henderson, Ph.D. (Ethnomusicology) -- FALL 2021
Dissertation: "Mande Music in the Black Atlantic: Migration and the Affordances of World Music Record Production."
Committee Chair: Louise Meintjes

Dayton Kinney, Ph.D. (Composition) -- FALL 2021
Dissertation piece: “Of My Own, for wind quintet and string quartet."
Committee Chair: John Supko