Graduation and Awards 2013

Undergraduate Degrees Conferred
First Major

Nicholas James Gubbins

Jordan James Kvale Long

Cameron Allan Alvarez Thompkins
The Anne Marie Parsons Memorial Prize

For excellence in the field of jazz studies

Jenny Louise Walters
Paul Bryan Award
To recognize outstanding musicianship and exemplary service to the Duke University Wind Symphony


Second Major

Niloy Ghosh

Matthew Robert Kambic
High Distinction
Paper, “A Journey from Pianist to Saxophone Composer: The Roots of Alfred Desenclos’ Prelude, Cadence, et Finale.”
The Julia Wilkinson Mueller Prize for Excellence in Music
To a graduating senior for achievement in musical performance.


Minor

Michelle Meiqi Bao

Advait Raghavendra Ghuge

Holly Marie Hilliard
Benenson Award Winner

Mark Makanga Kagika

Andrea Elizabeth Korab

Robert Chiu-Ming Lam

Nadine Michel

Oseme-Ka Dennis Ochei

Ehizele Majiri Osehobo

Faiyam Habib Rahman

Hannah Claire Rutherford
The Henry Schuman Music Prize
To a graduating senior for an original composition or distinguished paper in music history or analysis, for her paper “never Odd Or EveN.”

Alexandra Patrice Swain

Tony Ye Yan

Ivy Zhou
The Julia Wilkinson Mueller Prize for Excellence in Music
To a graduating senior for achievement in musical performance
Benenson Award Winner


Graduate Degrees Conferred


Karen Cook, Ph.D. (Musicology)
“Theoretical Treatments of the Semiminim
in a Changing Notational World, c.1315-c.1440”

Timothy Hambourger, Ph.D. (Composition)
Dissertation piece: Last Wave Reached
Dissertation article: “Register, Harmony, and Phrase Design in Webern’s Op. 24 and Op. 27”

Angela Mace, Ph.D. (Musicology)
“Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy,
and the Formation of the Mendelssohnian Style”

Dan Ruccia, Ph.D. (Composition)
Dissertation piece: Hallmarks, Sigils, & Colophons
Dissertation article: “Reorganizing the Rock and Roll: U.S. Maple’s Musical Deconstructions”

Kelley Tatro, Ph.D. (Musicology)
“The Righteous and the Profane: Performing a Punk Ethics in Mexico City”

Elizabeth Terry-Joyner, Ph.D. (Musicology)
“The Evolution of Genre and Narrative Themes in Mahler’s Vocal-Orchestral Works, from Das klagende Lied to the Eighth Symphony”


Other awards given by the Department of Music

Bryan Christian
The William Klenz Prize in Music Composition for his composition Chain Shift

Jacqueline Sun
The Julia Wilkinson Mueller Prize for Excellence in Music
To a graduating senior for achievement in musical performance

Cinnamon Mittan and Kelly Calabrese
Paul Bryan Award
To recognize outstanding musicianship and exemplary service to the Duke University Wind Symphony