DMA Students & Alumni

MM: Bowling Green State University
BM: Oberlin Conservatory

Website: www.carolynsoprano.com/
Member: PACEM

Document Topic: “Opera-Films of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States: A Look at Production Practices for Opera Singers”

MM: University of California, Los Angeles
BM: Manhattan School of Music

Website: www.rachelconstantino.net
Member: PACEM

Document Topic: “New Sounds, New Sources: Building Electronic Instruments for Indeterminate Composition & Improvisation”

MM: Bowling Green State University
BM: Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Orchestra Personnel Coordinator for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Artist Diploma: Cleveland Institute of Music
MM: Cleveland Institute of Music
BM: Oberlin Conservatory of Music

Website: www.shellyduharp.com

Document Topic: “Twenty-First Century American Pedal Harp Music: Analyzing Non-traditional Works by American Female Harpist Composer-Performers”

AD: University of Ottawa
MM: Piano Performance, University of Ottawa
BM: Piano Performance with honors, minor in Composition, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Website: www.stepheneckertpianist.com

Member: Spectra Trio
Member: Ensemble Allure
Member: Duo Aequalis

Ensemble Sales & Operations Manager for the Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts

MM: Louisiana State University
BM: University of Missouri - Columbia

Document Topic: “Defining and Teaching Vocal Distortion Techniques”

MM: University of Hartford
BM: Lawrence University

Member: PACEM

Document Topic:  “Massive Forces: A Cognitive and Historical Study of Contemporary Maximalist Works”

MM: California State University, Sacramento
BM: California State University, Sacramento

Website: www.14christopherh9.wixsite.com/chris-harris
Member: Asterix Trio

BM: Eastern Illinois University
MM: Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

MM: Bowling Green State University
BM: Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas

MM: University of Oklahoma
BM: Vienna Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Arts

Member: Asterix Trio

MM: Carnegie Mellon
BM: Eastman School of Music

Document Topic: “Mari Kimura’s Artistic Vision Through Catalog of Works and Musical Innovations”

MM: Bowling Green State University
BM: University of Southern Mississippi
Member: Iris Collective Artist Fellow
Fellowship: Aspen Contemporary Ensemble (2022-23)
Member: Aspen Contemporary Ensemble (2021-23)

Website: www.otaviomk.com

Document Topic: “Integrating the Brazilian Viola and the Cello: A Deep Look into Creative Processes in Cross-Cultural Collaborations”

MM: Kent State University
BM: University of Toledo

MM: University of Nebraska
BM: University of Texas at Arlington

Website: www.lottiflute.com 
Member: Spectra Trio

Adjunct Instructor of Cello: Bluffton University

MM: Bowling Green State University
BM: Eastern Michigan University

Member: Spectra Trio
Member: PACEM

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MM: Bowling Green State University
BM: Virginia Commonwealth University

Member: Newphonia
Member: Diverge Trio

Document Topic: “‘Friends of Dorothy’ in the 21st Century: Musical Constructions of Gay Male Identity in Post-Brokeback Mountain Films”

Assistant Professor of Voice: Bowling Green State University

MM: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
BM: The University of Iowa

Member: Newphonia
Member: Mezzo-Soprano and Double Bass Duo

Website: www.katherinepracht.com

Document Topic: “Factors That Affect Career Trajectories of Professional Opera Singers Over the Age of Forty”

Assistant Professor of Voice: Northern Michigan University

MM: University of South Carolina
BM: University of Central Florida

Member: Deux Saisons
Member: PACEM

Website: www.kerileesoprano.com

Document Topic: “Practicing Collaboration: A Comparative Study of Music Entrepreneurship Programs in Higher Education”

MM: Kent State University
BA: Kent State University

Document Topic: “Three Strikes: Modern American Orchestras and Their Communities”

MM: University of Missouri-Kansas City
MM: Northwestern University
BM: University of Miami
Artist's Certificate: University of Missouri-Kansas City

Professional Studies Diploma: Brooklyn College
MM: Manhattan School of Music
BM: Tel Aviv University

Document Topic: “The Honest Journey to Musical Growth: Strategies to Improve Inner Thinking in Music Practice”

Website: www.claudiaaizaga.com
Member: Newphonia
Member: Diverge Trio

DMA Document: “Hidden Gems from Latin America: People, Pedagogy and Literature of the Festival Internacional de Flautistas en el Centro del Mundo (1991-present)”

Member: Ensemble Dal Niente and Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble
Founder: Omaha Under the Radar

Website: www.amandadeboer.com

DMA Document: Ingressive Phonation in Contemporary Vocal Music

Website: www.henriquembatista.com

DMA Document: "Africa! Africa! Africa!" Black Identity in Marlos Nobre's Rhythmetron

Adjunct Instructor: Snow College

Website: www.curtistrombone.blogspot.com

Member: Radium Duo

DMA Document: The Pedagogy of Norman Bolter as Examined through the Frequency Bone Summer Music Connection

Website: www.hongdachin.com

Assistant Professor of Theory/Composition: Western Illinois University, Fall 2018

DMA Document: The Music of Marc Battier, Kee Yong Chong and Gene Coleman: Compositions for Traditional Asian Instruments and Electronics in the Twenty-First Century

Adjunct Instructor: Bluffton University; Bowling Green State University

Website: www.markcookpercussion.com

DMA Document: Telematic Music: History and Development of the Medium and Current Technologies Related to Performance

Freelance Pianist: Northwest OH/ Southeast MI

Website: www.arielmagnodacosta.com

DMA Document: Basque and Modernist Influences in Gabriel Erkoreka's Works for Solo Piano (1994-2019)

Website: www.sandracoursey.com

DMA Document: “Portraits of a Wonderful Musician: Exploring the Intersection of Graduate Music Student Experiences and Mental Health Through Poetic Inquiry”

Freelance Conductor: Munich, Germany

Website: www.mercedesdiazgarcia.com

DMA Document: The Shaping of Time in Kaija Saariaho's Émilie: a Performer's Perspective

DMA Document: “Composing for Emotional Literacy: Music for Speech Prosody and Emotional Self-Regulation in Children's Television”

Box Office Associate for the Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts
Freelance Clarinetist: Northwest OH/ Southeast MI

DMA Document: Pathways to the Practice of Free Improvisation

Lecturer and Head of Woodwinds-Rowan University
Co-Founder and Executive Director: Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project (CUSP)
Member: Ogni Suono
Member: Patchwork

Website: www.noaevenmusic.com
DMA Document: Examining François Rossé's Japanese-Influenced Chamber Music with Saxophone: Hybridity, Orality, and Primitivism as a Conceptual Framework

Adjunct Instructor of Percussion: Bowling Green State University

MM: Northern Illinois University
BM: University of Wisconsin Whitewater

Member: Altered Sound Duo

Document Topic: “Utilizing Unconventional Percussion Instruments in Solo Electroacoustic Composition: A Literature Survey and Performance Guide”

Saxophone Lecturer and Director of Athletic Bands: Wayne State University

DMA Document: The Theatrical Saxophone: Visual and Narrative Elements in Contemporary Saxophone Music

DMA Document: Contemporary Piano Works by Three Azerbaijani Composers

Website: www.ioanagalu.com

Assistant Professor of Violin/Viola: University of South Dakota
Member: Rawlins Piano Trio

DMA Document: The Solo Violin Works of Samuel Adler, Chen Yi, and Shulamit Ran: A Performer's Perspective

Senior Lecturer of Piano: Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris
Graduate Coordinator: Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris
International Coordinator/Pianist: Ge Gan-ru Ensemble
Youtube Channel
OneBeat 2018 Fellow

DMA Document: Reimagining the Story of Lu You and Tang Wan: Ge Gan-ru's Wrong, Wrong, Wrong! and Hard, Hard, Hard!

Website: www.adamharzvi.com

Member: Newphonia
Member: Mezzo-Soprano and Double Bass Duo

DMA Document: A Goat, a Dog, and a Turkey Walk Into a Cantata: Text-Setting in Charles Wuorinen and James Tate's It Happens Like This

Website: www.heaneymusic.com

Saxophone Instructor & Recruitment Coordinator: Oklahoma City University                   
Program Director Assistant: Snow Pond Music Festival

DMA Document: The Development of Luciano Berio's Sequenza IX and Its Implications for Performance Practice

Website: www.oakland.edu/smtd/faculty-staff/jeffrey-heisler

Associate Professor of Saxophone: Oakland University
Member: Assembly Quartet

DMA Document:  Anatomy and Evolution of Morton Subotnick’s In Two Worlds for Alto Saxophone and Interactive Computer

Website: www.gunnarowenhirthe.com/

Adjunct Instructor of Clarinet: College of Wooster
Adjunct Instructor of Clarinet: Cleveland State University

NO EXIT New Music Ensemble

DMA Document: Identity in the Clarinet Music of Michael Finnissy and Evan Ziporyn

United Airlines B777 First Officer
Freelance Percussionist

DMA Document: A Study of the Relationship Between Traditional Peking Opera and Contemporary Western Percussion Music in Mu Kuei-Yin in Percussion by Chien-Hui Hung

Website: www.soundcloud.com/aaron-hynds

Manager of Audio Operations at Indiana University
Lecturer of Music Business and New Media: University of Kentucky

DMA Document: The Composer's Guide to the Tuba: Creating a New Resource on the Capabilities of the Tuba Family

Website: www.coryryancomposer.com

Lecturer of Music: York College (CUNY)

DMA Document: Found Composition: Ecological Awareness and its Impact on Compositional Authority in Music Employing Electronics

Website: www.katherinekilburn.com

Assistant Director of Orchestras: Michigan State University

DMA Document: Pedagogical Approaches to Conducting Gesture in Contemporary Music

Assistant Professor of Flute: Mokwon University
Principal Flute: Seoul Royal Symphony Orchestra
Founding member: Contemporary Ensemble Trois C

DMA Document: Hybridity in Flute Music of Four Contemporary Composers

Website: www.unwsp.edu/bio/garrett-krohn

Adjunct Instructor: University of Northwestern, St. Paul, MN

DMA Document: Horn and Live Electronics A Survey of and Performance Guide for a Neglected Repertoire

Website: Youtube

Professor of Percussion: Federal University of Mato Grosso (Brazil)
Freelance Percussionist: Singapore

DMA Document: Self-Actualization: Transcendentalist Discourse in the Work of Stuart Saunders Smith

Website: www.karllarsonpiano.com/

Brooklyn-based Freelance Pianist (chamber, collaborative, solo)
Co-Founder and Pianist, Bearthoven
Co-Founder and NYC Curator, Permutations
Company Manager, Bang on a Can Summer Institute
Karl Larson and Ashley Bathgate EXCELcast: Making New Music in the Jungle
Youtube

DMA Document: The Solo Piano Music of David Lang

Website: www.hillarylabonte.com

New Voices Essay Contest First Place Winner

DMA Document: Analyzing Gender Inequality in Contemporary Opera

Website:  www.jeff.manchur.com

Assistant Instructor of Piano: Heidelberg University

DMA Document: But why is it so Long?: Eschatology and Time Perception as an Interpretation of Morton Feldman's 'For Philip Guston'

Director of Orchestras: Michigan State University

DMA Document: Fearless Programming: Invigorating the American Orchestral Tradition through New Music

Website: www.moldoveanoctavian.wixsite.com/website

Freelance Musician: Bucharest, Romania

DMA Document: Contextualizing Traditional Influences within Romanian Contemporary Music: Stylistic Elements in Selected Works for Solo Flute by Doina Rotaru, Violeta Dinescu, and Carmen Carneci

Member: Altered Sound Duo
Director of Bands: Maumee City Schools

DMA Document: Mindfulness and Metacognition: A Guide to Implementing Beneficial Mental Habits in Music Teaching

Minister of Music: Faith United Church
Piano and Voice Faculty: 5th Music Studio
Katz 22

DMA Document: Heartening Folk: Frederic Rzewski's North American Ballads as an Extension of Folk Culture

Website: www.jonathandeoliveira.com

DMA Document: Student Perceptions of Contemporary Music: Learning and Performing Commissioned Piano Works

Website: www.lizpearse.com

Lecturer of Music: University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire
Adjunct Instructor of Voice: Winoa State University
Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble
Damselfly Trio

DMA Document: "Because there is no basis for comparison": The Self-Accompanying Singer and Roger Reynolds' Sketchbook for The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Website: www.olmanpiedra.com

Associate Professor of Percussion/Jazz: University of Toledo

DMA Document: Creative Musical Improvisation in the Development and Formation of NEXUS Percussion Ensemble

Website: www.popean.com

Vice-Dean of Research/
Director of the Music and Transdisciplinary Research Center:West University of Timisoara (Romania)

DMA Document: The Stillness of the Silent Sound: A Tantric Analysis of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Aus den sieben Tagen

Website: www.spencerprewitt.com

Assistant Professor of Clarinet: Austin Peay State University
Principal Clarinet: Gateway Chamber Orchestra
Clarinet: Nashville Scoring Orchestra
Substitute Clarinet: Nashville Symphony
Clarinet Faculty: Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp

DMA Document: A Comparison of Teacher-Guided Instruction and Self-Guided Student Practice Strategies

Website: www.michikosaiki.wordpress.com

Freelance pianist/artist: Leipzig, Germany
(con)temporary (in)sights
YouTube Performance

DMA Document: The Vocalizing Pianist: Embodying Gendered Performance

Website: www.andrewmartinsmith.com

Senior Adjunct Instructor: State University of New York at Fredonia
Instructor of Music Theory/Composition: Interlochen Summer Arts Camp
General Manager: Society of Compoers, Inc.
Co-owner: ADJ•ective New Music, LLC
Head of Institute Database Management: Institute for Composer Diversity

DMA Document: Continuity, Motion, and Energy through the Spectrum: An Analysis of Philippe Leroux's Un Lieu Verdoyant - Hommage à Gérard Grisey

Course Director of Topics in Music Theory
Dean of Music Production: Full Sail University

DMA Document: A Cultural Analysis of Chen Yi's Si Ji (Four Seasons) For Orchestra

Website: www.stephanietitus.weebly.com

Adjunct Instructor of Music Education: Music Theory: Ohio Northern University
Instrumental Accompanist: University of Findlay
Adjunct Instructor of Piano and Music Theory: Bowling Green State University

DMA Document: Japanese Contemporary Piano Music: Cultural Influence and Identity

Website: www.oakland.edu/smtd/faculty-staff/i-chen-yeh

Applied Instructor: Oakland University
Adjunct Instructor: Bowling Green State University

DMA Document: The Piano Etudes of David Rakowski

Website: www.mattyounglove.wixsite.com/mattyounglove

Assistant Professor of Saxophone: Tennessee Tech University
Member: Assembly Quartet

DMA Document: The Saxophone Music of Alex Mincek and Eric Wubbels: Uses of Form, Repetition, and Extended Technique

Website: www.nickzoulek.com

Sole Proprietor: NZ Media

DMA Document: Analyzing the Intersections of Saxophone and Digital Media Through Media Theory