People | School of Music | University of Washington

Hannah Chou

Alumna, DMA, Violin Performance

hnchou@uw.edu

Music, Music Education, Strings, Violin

Jo Beth Wasicek

Graduate Student

jbwas@uw.edu

Choral Conducting

David Aarons

Alumnus

daarons7@uw.edu

African, Caribbean, Education, Ethnomusicology, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Popular Music, Race and Ethnicity, World Music

Emily Acri

Alumna

acrie@uw.edu / (847) 477-2361

Instrumental Performance, Strings, Violin

Cee Adamson

Alumna, DMA, Voice Performance

adamsonc@uw.edu

Choral Conducting, Early Music, French, German, Opera, Race and Ethnicity, Voice

Constance Aguocha

Alumna, Violin Performance

caguocha@uw.edu

Mario Alejandro Torres

Alumnus, DMA, Instrumental Conducting

torreshn@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Meany 59A

Conducting, Instrumental Conducting, Orchestral Conducting, Orchestral Instruments, Viola

Thomas Almli

Graduate Student

Choral Conducting

Matt Anderson

Alumnus

Tigran Arakelyan

Alumnus

arakelyant@gmail.com

Cameron Armstrong

Alumnus

C1m5ron@uw.edu

2013, B.M, Music Composition, Music Education, Music Technology, Popular Music, Psychology, Cornish College of the Arts

Ne Myo Aung

Alumnus

pianemyoaung@gmail.com

Burmese Music

Kevin Baldwin

Alumnus

KBald77@uw.edu

Molly Barnes

Alumna

Music Education

Caitlin Beare

Alumna

cb64@uw.edu

Clarinet, Instrumental Performance

Christopher Benfield

Graduate Student

benfield.c.t@gmail.com

19th Century, 20th Century, Aesthetics, Composition, Music Education, Music History, Opera, Voice

Michael Bennett

Alumnus, PhD, Music History

mb627@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

MUS 023 / Remote

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Classical Music, Music History, Musical Theater, Opera, Performance Studies

Joel Bevington

Graduate Student

Choral Conducting

Justin Birchell

Alumnus, DMA, Choral Conducting

jbirch4@uw.edu

Choral Conducting, Composition, Opera, South Asian, Voice, World Music

Abbey Rae Blackwell

Alumna

araeb@uw.edu

Matthew Blegen

Graduate Student

Choral Conducting

Erin Bodnar

Director, UW Concert Bands; Visiting Associate Professor; Alumna

bodnar@uw.edu

Sarah Bost

Alumna

bosts@uw.edu

Alonso Brizuela

Alumnus

William Brooke

Alumnus

william@WilliamBrooke.com

Pedagogical approach to the female voice, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Verismo

William Fletcher Bryant

Alumnus

wfbryant@uw.edu

Gary D. Cannon

Alumnus

cannonesque@gmail.com

20th Century, American, British, Choral Conducting, Composition, local composers

Ryan Carraher

Alumnus

rcarra01@uw.edu

Composition, Experimental, Guitar, Jazz, Music Theory, Orchestral Instruments, Psychology

Richard Carrick

Alumnus

rcarri@uw.edu

Choral Conducting

Alexander Chadsey

Alumnus

achadsey@uw.edu / (206) 372-6368

Composition, Improvisation, Jazz

Christopher Chapman

Alumnus

Andrew Chen

Alumnus

Elisabeth Cherland

Alumna

cherland@uw.edu

Anjali Chudasama

Alumna, Choral Conducting

anjchu13@uw.edu

Choral Conducting

Egija Claire

Alumna, MM, Choral Conducting

eungure@uw.edu

Richard Clary

Alumnus

Stephen D. Clickard

Alumnus

Nathan Cobb

Alumnus

Leann Conley-Holcom

Alumna

conleyholcol@seattleu.edu

William Coppola

Alumnus

wcoppola@uw.edu

Children's Music, Jazz, Music Education, Trumpet

Gemma Goday Diaz Corralejo

Alumna

godayg@uw.edu

17th Century, 18th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, Chamber Music, Early Music, Flute, Instrumental Performance

Clayton Dahm

Alumnus, PhD, Music Education

lcdahm@uw.edu

Ethnomusicology, Music Education, Popular Music, World Music

Steve Danielson

Alumnus

srd6of8@uw.edu / 360-742-7075

Office Hours: By appointment

Choral Conducting, Composition, Czech, Music Education, Musical Theater, Religion, Slavic, Slovak, Voice

Julia Day

Alumna

Taylor DeCastro

Alumna, MM, Violin Performance

taydec3@uw.edu

Chamber Music, Improvisation, Instrumental Performance, Jazz, Music History, Violin

Sarah Lottie Duffy

Alumna

spatter@uw.edu

Karen Dunstan

Alumna, MM, Vocal Performance

Luke Duroc-Danner

Graduate Student

ldurocda@uw.edu

MUS 337

Choral Conducting, Organ

Kaley Lane Eaton

Alumna

kaley.eaton@gmail.com

African, Composition, Computer Music, Dance, Drums, Indigenous, Music, Music Education

Anna Edwards

Alumna

osprey72@uw.edu / (206) 252-4948

Andre Elias

Alumnus

chiasm1885@hotmail.com

Ryan Ellis

Alumnus

Alex Fang

Alumnus, DMA, Piano Performance

asfang@uw.edu

Sarah Fantappiè

Alumna

sarahfantappie@gmail.com

Opera, Voice

Scott Fikse

DMA Student, Choral Conducting

sfikse@uw.edu

Jacob Finkle

Alumnus

Jackson Flesher

Alumnus, PhD, Ethnomusicology

jflesh@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Affect, Children's Music, Critical Theory, Disability, Embodiment, Ethics, Ethnomusicology, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Popular Music, Public Scholarship, Queer Studies

Limuel Forgey

Alumnus, DMA, Vocal Performance

lforgey@uw.edu

Kenneth Foster

Alumnus, MM, Vocal Performance

Adam Freemantle

Alumnus, MM, Choral Conducting

apfree73@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Choral Conducting

Anna Frisch

Alumna

Roger Wu Fu

Alumnus, DMA, Instrumental Conducting

rwufu@uw.edu

Anthropology, Culture, Ethnomusicology, Instrumental Conducting, Mental Health, Music Education, Musical Theater, Psychology

Gabriela Garza Canales

Alumna, DMA, Instrumental Conducting

ggarza1@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Meany 59A

Instrumental Conducting, Percussion, Romanticism

Deyanira Gauldron

Alumna

Lorin Green

Alumna, DMA, Woodwinds

Lorenzo Guggenheim

Alumnus

LGPG@UW.EDU

Ke (Kelsey) Guo

Alumna, PhD, Music Education

keguo@uw.edu / (310) 994-5993

Diaspora Studies, East Asian, Ethnomusicology, Jewish Studies, Music Education, World Music

Caitlin Hennessey

Alumna, MM, Vocal Performance

Lauren Hepburn

Alumna

Simon Hill

Alumnus, Choral Conducting

Choral Conducting

Ian Huh

Alumnus, DMA, Piano Performance

ianhuh@uw.edu

MUS 6

Amanda G. Huntleigh

Alumna

Kaity Cassio Igari

Alumna

kigari@uw.edu

Children's Music, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Ethnomusicology, Music Education, Professional Development, Race and Ethnicity, World Music Pedagogy

Corey Jahlas

Alumnus, DMA, Instrumental Conducting

Debi Johanson

Alumna

Hilary Johnson

Alumna

Darrell J. Jordan

Alumnus

jordad3@uw.edu

Voice

Eunjung Jung

Alumna

ej32008@yahoo.com / (206) 501-7103

Music, Music Theory, Organ, Piano

Ella Kalinichenko

Alumna, MM, Piano Performance

ellakali@uw.edu

Piano

Mia HyeYeon Kim

Alumna, DMA, Piano Performance

miahyeyeonkim@gmail.com

Office Hours: By appointment

Chamber Music, Classical Music, Performance Studies, Piano

Tyler Kimmel

Alumnus, DMA, Choral Conducting

ttkimmel@uw.edu

Choral Conducting, Composition, Drama, German, Instrumental Conducting, Music Education, Music History, Secondary Music Methods / Education / Improving performance practice in young musicians, Voice

Michael King

Alumnus

Joe Kinzer

Alumnus

joseph_kinzer@harvard.edu

Indonesian, Islamic Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Religion, Southeast Asian, World Music

Nicholas Klein

Graduate Student

njklein3@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

MUS 8

Classical Music, Keyboard, Music Education, Music History, Music Theory, Musical Theater, Opera, Voice

Andrew Koch

Alumnus

abkoch3@uw.edu

Organ

Christopher Koch

Alumnus

J. Mike Kohfeld

Alumni

jmko29@uw.edu

American, Ethnomusicology, Music Education, Performance Studies, Popular Culture, Queer Studies

Sarah Kolat

Alumna

skolat@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

20th Century, 21st Century, American, Girl Groups, Harry Partch, Japanese, Jikken Kōbō, Modernism, Music History, Musical Theater, Popular Music, Sondheim

Yiğit Kolat

Lecturer, Composition; Alumnus

ykolat@uw.edu

Aesthetics, Composition, Computer Music, Music Theory

Lidia Kotlova

Alumna

Joe Krycia

Alumnus, DMA, Composition

Lauren Kulesa

Alumna

lkulesa@uw.edu

Anita Kumar

Alumna; Former Visiting Lecturer (2022-2024)

kumarab@uw.edu

Caribbean, Education, Education Policy, Ethnomusicology, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Gesture, Instrumental Conducting, Instrumental Performance, Music Cognition and Perception, Music Education, Woodwinds

Cassandra Lear

Alumna, DMA, Woodwind Performance

clear8@uw.edu

Chloe Lian

Alumna, MM, Vocal Performance

cylian@uw.edu

Samuel Libra

Alumnus

Librsa01@uw.edu

Music Library Downstairs

Timothy Little Trần

Alumnus, Choral Conducting

tlittle1@uw.edu

Baroque, Choral Conducting, Culturally Responsive Teaching, d'Este Family Patronage, Early Music, Early Oratorio, Music History, Music Theory, Popular Music, Religion, Vietnamese

Tong Liu

Alumnus, DMA, Piano Performance

tongliu@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Room 6

Marshell Lombard

Alumnus, DMA, Choral Conducting

lombard1@uw.edu

Choral Conducting

Taina Lorenz

Alumna

tainal@uw.edu

Office Hours: By Appointment

Music 28A

Yang Lu

Alumna

yanglu0922@gmail.com

Ben Luedcke

Alumnus, Music History

Choral Conducting

Mitchell Lutch

Alumnus

Frederick Bayani Mabalot

Alumnus

fmabalot@uw.edu

Australian Choral Music, Choral Conducting, Composition, Music Composition, Piano, Sacred Music, Voice

Lisa Mansfield

Alumna

lfm250@uw.edu

Taryn Marks

Alumna, MM, Percussion Performance

tjmarks@uw.edu

Christopher V. Mathakul

Alumnus, DMA, Wind Conducting

mathakul@uw.edu

Soledad Mayorga-Maldonado

Alumna, MM, Vocal Performance

Bonnie McConnell

Alumna

Dan McDonald

Alumnus

Michael McKenzie

Alumnus, DMA, Choral Conducting

mmckenzi@uw.edu

Christopher Mechell

Alumnus

cmechell@uw.edu

Brenda Mohr

Alumna

Choral Conducting, Music Education

Jeremy Morada

Graduate Student

jeremymorada@gmail.com

Choral Conducting

James B. Morford

Alumnus, Ethnomusicology

morforjb@uw.edu

African, American, Choreography, Diaspora Studies, Drums, Ethnomusicology, Music Theory, Sound

Douglas Morin

Alumnus

djmorin@uw.edu / 206-543-0824

Instrumental Conducting

Ryan Mullaney

Alumnus

ryanmull@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

MUS 331

Celtic Music, Early Music, Historical Performance Practices, Instrumental Conducting

Sonja Myklebust

Alumna

goldcello@gmail.com

Abbie Naze

Alumna

anaze@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Meany 59A

Cello, Classical Music, Instrumental Conducting, Music, Orchestral Instruments, Performance Studies

Vu Nguyen

Alumnus

Evan Norberg

Alumnus, DMA, Choral Conducting

Stephen O'Bent

Alumnus

Choral Conducting, Composition, Improvisation, Jazz, Music History, Popular Music, Romanticism, Trombone

Taryn O'Keefe

Alumna

Memmi Ochi

Alumna, Percussion Studies

memmi@uw.edu

Barrios, Gregorian Chant, Marimba, Multi-media Arts

Eun Ju Vivianna Oh

Alumna

eunoh69@uw.edu

Children's Music, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology, Music Education, Musical Theater, Opera, Voice, World Music

Peter Joon Park

Alumnus

Antonio Patrick

Alumnus

patricka.t350@gmail.com

Office Hours: By appointment

Trombone

Graham Peterson

Alumnus

gep1@uw.edu

African American, Ethnomusicology, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Guitar, Jazz, Music History, Popular Culture, Popular Music

Brad Pierson

Alumnus

Grace Playstead

Alumna, MM, Woodwind Performance, Flute

gplays@uw.edu / (360) 791-0073

Office Hours: By Appointment

Flute, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Global and Transnational Studies, Instrumental Performance, Music History, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Leah Pogwizd

Alumna

Subhash Ram Prajapati

Alumnus

subhashp@uw.edu

Drums, Ethnomusicology, Indigenous, Percussion, Performance Studies, South Asian, World Music

Lígia Pucci

Graduate Student

Choral Conducting

Alexandra Rameau

Alumna, MM, Choral Conducting

Jay Rauch

Alumnus

Rachel Reyes

Alumna, DMA, Woodwind Performance, Flute

reyesr26@uw.edu

Flute, Instrumental Performance, Orchestral Instruments, Philippine and Filipino American, Woodwinds

Sarah Riskind

Alumna

sriskind@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Maria D. Rivera

Alumna

mriver@uw.edu

Music Education

Jennifer Rodgers

Graduate Student

jrodgrs@uw.edu

Adult Life-Learning, Choral Conducting, Classical Music, Drama, Music, Musical Theater, Psychology, Sociology, Voice, Voice Science and Pedagogy

Jonathan Rodriguez

Alumnus, DMA, Percussion Studies

Andrew Romanick

Artist-in-Residence, Opera Workshop

ajr795@uw.edu

Zachary Rude

Alumnus, MM, Voice

Monta Monique Saïd

Alumna

Jamie Sanidad

Alumna

sanidad.jamie@gmail.com

Sarah Santos

Alumna, MM, Voice Performance

Alisa Sargsyan

Alumna

Brian Schappals

Alumnus

bschappals@gmail.com

Chamber Music, Clarinet, Classical Music, Composition, Instrumental Performance, Music, Music Technology, Music Theory

Gerrit Scheepers

Graduate Student

gscheep@uw.edu / (417) 755-0125

19th Century, Choral Conducting, Music History

Max Shaffer

Alumnus, Guitar Studies

Emily Silks

Alumni, PhD, Ethnomusicology

esilks@uw.edu

applied ethnomusicology, Archives, capoeira, Drums, Electric Bass, Ethnomusicology, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Jazz, Music, Music Technology, Popular Music

Selina Siow

Alumna, DMA, Violin Performancev

nsiow@uw.edu

Eric M. Smedley

Alumnus

Wyatt Smith

Alumnus

wds5@uw.edu

17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, German, Organ, Romanticism

Victoria Solenberger

Alumna

David Solomon

Alumnus

solomondrums@gmail.com

Composition, Ethnomusicology, Improvisation, Jazz, Music Education, Percussion

Shayna Stahl

Alumna

sstahl@uw.edu

Nicole Stankovic

Alumna, MM, Piano Performance

nc1997@uw.edu

Asian American, Classical Music, Instrumental Performance, Keyboard, Master's of Public Health in Health Services and Population Health

Meg Stohlmann

Alumna

stohlie@uw.edu

Matthew Szwyd

Alumnus

MGSZWYD@uw.edu

MUS 27

Maia Julianne Thielen

Alumna

Joslyn Thomas

Graduate Student

Choral Conducting, Music Education, Voice

Steve Treseler

Alumnus

Composition, Improvisation, Jazz, Saxophone

Alexander R. Treviño

Alumnus

Mark Tse

Alumnus

marktse@uw.edu

Office Hours: by appointment

Meany 63

Improvisation, Instrumental Conducting, Instrumental Performance, Jazz, Music Education, Saxophone

Michiko Urita

Alumna

urita@uw.edu

Johann Van Niekerk

Alumnus

Ross Venneberg

Alumnus

rvberg@uw.edu

Rylan Virnig

Assistant Director for Admissions, Recruitment, & Community Outreach; Alumnus, MM, Orchestral Conducting

rvirnig@uw.edu / (206) 685-9872

MUS 124

Juliana Cantarelli Vita

Alumna, PhD, Music Education

jucv@uw.edu

28A

Ethnomusicology, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, World Music

Emerson Elias Wahl

Alumnus

emersonw@uw.edu

Meany Hall, Rm. 53

Tiffany Walker

Alumna, DMA, Choral Conducting

tfwalker@uw.edu

Choral Conducting

Melissa Wang

Alumna, MM, Composition; MM, Percussion Performance

Composition, Percussion

Madeline Warner

Alumnus

Eric Wiltshire

Alumnus

Brian J. Winnie

Alumnus

Larke Witten

Alumna, MM, Choral Conducting

Beau Wood

Alumnus, MM, Jazz Studies and Improvised Music

Helen Woodruff

Alumna, MM, Choral Conducting

helenvw@uw.edu

Chiao-yu Wu

Alumna, DMA, Piano Performance

cw3203@uw.edu

Leah Wyman

Alumna, MM, Choral Conducting

lwyman@uw.edu

Choral Conducting

Justin Zeitlinger

Alumnus, MM, Composition

jzeit@uw.edu

Office Hours: Winter '24: TBD

MUS 40

Composition, Computer Music, Music Theory, Violin

Hanyan Zheng

Alumna

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