The School of Music honored its Class of 2019 Friday, June 14 with the annual Grand Finale celebration, providing a festive send-off to 64 degree recipients and their families, friends, teachers and loved ones.
The UW Music Class of 2019 includes 36 students earning graduate degrees—22 master’s, 2 PhD, and 12 DMA—and 28 students earning BM or BA degrees. Half of the undergraduates earning music degrees double-majored in programs outside of music, earning second degrees in an array of programs including Physics, Business Administration, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Computer Science, and Mathematics.
Following refreshments and mingling in the School of Music Fishbowl, director Richard Karpen welcomed grads, families, and friends to Brechemin Auditorium for music, remarks, and a grad processional. DMA grads Li-Cheng Hung, piano and Gemma Goday Díaz Corralejo, flute, performed the first movements of Bohuslav Martinů’s Sonata for Flute and Piano. Remarks by Erika Meyer (BM Voice, BA Music Theory); Abbey Blackwell (MM Jazz Studies), and performed remarks by Percussion Studies Chair Bonnie Whiting preceded the processional across the Brechemin Auditorium stage.
Photos from the celebration may be viewed on the School of Music’s Facebook page.
Congratulations to the School of Music Class of 2019!
Doctoral
LAURIE CAPPELLO
DMA Choral Conducting
ELISABETH CHERLAND
DMA Choral Conducting
STEVEN DAMOUNI
DMA Piano Performance
STEVE DANIELSON
DMA Choral Conducting
GEMMA GODAY DIAZ CORRALEJO
DMA Woodwind Performance
PEI-JUNG HUANG
DMA Piano Performance
LI-CHENG HUNG
DMA Piano Performance
CORY MEALS
PhD Music Education
DOUGLAS MORIN
DMA Instrumental Conducting
SUBHASH PRAJAPATI
PhD Ethnomusicology
JOHN RUTHERFORD
DMA Voice Performance
WYATT SMITH
DMA Organ Performance
SHAYNA STAHL
DMA Instrumental Conducting
ROSS VENNEBERG
DMA Brass Performance
Masters
NATALIE BARTELS
MM Organ Performance
ABBEY BLACKWELL
MM Jazz Studies & Improvised Music
ALONSO BRIZUELA
MM Choral Conducting
NATHAN COBB
MA Music Theory
EDWARD CUNNEEN
MM Percussion Performance
RYAN FARRIS
MM Strings Performance
ANNA FRISCH
MM Choral Conducting
LOGAN HAMILTON
MM Organ Performance
TASHA HAYWARD
MM Voice Performance
LAUREN HEPBURN
MA Music Education
YOUNGJIN JOO
MM Organ Performance
LAUREN KULESA
MM Voice Performance
STUART MACDONALD
MM Jazz Studies & Improvised Music
ANTONIO PATRICK
MM Brass Performance
GRAHAM PETERSON
MA Ethnomusicology
MONTA SAID
MA Music Education
CHRISTINE SASS
MM Brass Performance
VICTORIA SBARRO
MM Piano Performance
BRIAN SCHAPPALS
MM Woodwind Performance
SOLMAZ SHAKERIFARD
MA Ethnomusicology
MAIA THIELEN
MM Voice Performance
LUCAS WINTER
MM Jazz Studies & Improvised Music
Bachelors
TREVOR AINGE
BM Voice Performance
BS Speech & Hearing Sciences
MONICA ANNA ROSE BERNDT
BM Music Education
BA History
EMILY CALLAN
BM Music Education
NICOLE CHANG
BM Composition
BM Orchestral Instruments
YEN-CHU CHIU
BM Music Education
MARILEE CLOBES
BM Music Education
AUDREY CULLEN
BM Orchestral Instruments
LOGAN ESTERLING
BM Orchestral Instruments
AIDAN GOLD
BM Composition
BS Computer Science
SAMUEL KARTUB
BM Music Education
JUDITH KIM
BM Strings Performance
ISABELLA KODAMA
BM Strings Performance
MEGAN LARSON
BM Music Education
YU-CHI LEE
BM Piano Performance
NATHAN LLOYD
BM Orchestral Instruments
BA Mathematics
ISAAC MCDONALD
BA American Music Studies
ERIKA MEYER
BM Voice Performance
BA Music Theory
DANIEL OLIVER
BA Music
REBECCA IRENE PUTNAM
BA Music
BA Music Theory
BM Composition
TIEMA QIAN
BA Music
BS Physics
YINJIE SHI
BA Ethnomusicology
BA Communications
MICHAEL STONE
BM Music Education
VALENTINA TSYGANKOVA
BM Music Education
KYLE UELAND
BA Music
BA Business Administration
ANDREW VARNESS
BA American Music Studies
KEN WELLER
BM Music Education
MO YAN
BM Music Education
BM Orchestral Instruments
BLAIRE ZIEGENHAGEL
BA Music History
BA Music Theory