Graduate Students
Composition
Dayton Louise Kinney
Student
Office: 046 Biddle Music Building
Office Hours: by appointment
Massachusetts-native, Dayton Kinney, creates music that has won and has been recognized for numerous competitions at the international, national, and state levels. Performed in the U.S. and abroad, Dayton’s music has had notable performances by the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Merce... Full Profile »
Owen Sidney Richardson
Student
Office: 047 Biddle Music Building
Office Hours: By Appointment, 047 Biddle Music Building
Composer Sid Richardson (b. 1987) writes concert music that imbues modern idioms with emotional grit and cerebral wit. He has collaborated on projects with artists such as Conrad Tao, The Da Capo Chamber Players, Deviant Septet, Ensemble Amarcord, and yMusic. Sid’s arrangement of the Bach Double... Full Profile »
Musicology
Jon Churchill
Student
Research interests include Ralph Vaughan Williams, semiotics, and the intersection of music and trauma.
Karen Elaine Hovey Messina
Student
Office Hours: Office: Biddle 044
Karen's research interests center on the analysis and interpretation of operatic and vocal music in an effort to determine how these genres express, support, and augment their texts. Her dissertation project, titled “Dramatic Impulse: Diegetic Music in the Operas of Giacomo Puccini,” delves into... Full Profile »
