BU College of Fine Arts School of Music Student Awards Ceremony Program 2021

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C I S U M F O L S O D O R H A C W S A T 1 N E 2 D 0 2 Y ST U N O M E CER 1 2 0 , 2 7 AY M , Y A D I R F

PRESENTERS GREGORY MELCHOR-BARZ, Ph.D. Director and Professor Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Music MARTIN AMLIN President Alpha Kappa Chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda MEMBERS OF THE STUDENT LIFE AND HONORS COMMITTEE Ruth Debrot, Chair Samuel Headrick Pavel Nersessian Barbara Raney Rachana Vajjhala Steven Weigt

BRASS, WOODWINDS, AND PERCUSSION GRACE HELMKE BM, flute

First Prize, Pappoutsakis Competition

PAULINE JUNG DMA, flute Second Prize, Pappoutsakis Competition MATTHEW LEE DMA, flute Finalist, Pappoutsakis Competition YIBING WANG DMA, percussion VOICE JILLIAN AGONA BM, soprano JESSICA HETRICK MM, soprano OPERA PROGRAMS TARA DOUGHERTY BM, soprano OMAR RODRIGUEZ MM, baritone GABRIELLE BARKIDJIJA OI, mezzo-soprano COMPOSITION & MUSIC THEORY GEORG HILMARSSON DMA, composition MADELYN STEPHENSON BM, theory/composition COLLABORATIVE PIANO REGAN RUSSELL DMA PIANO ANRAN QIAN DMA MUSICOLOGY AND ETHNOMUSICOLOGY RACHEL LEO BA BRETT ANDREW KOSTRZEWSKI PhD HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE AND ORGAN LEE RANG HWANG DMA CHING YI DENISE FAN DMA MUSIC EDUCATION HANNAH HOOVEN BM EMMA CHRISMAN MM KATJA KLEYENSTEUBER MM KRISTA WILLIAMS DMA TROY DAVIS DMA

D E PA RT M E N TA L AWA R D S

STRINGS AND HARP MICHAEL FRONTZ BM, cello FREYA LIU MM, violin XINYUAN WANG MM, violin SUSAN BENGSTON DMA, viola

I KAPPA LAMBDA INDUCTEE

UNDERGRADUATES ISAAC BOLL+ BM, Music Education

SARAH WAGER+ BM, Double Bass

ZOFIA GÓRNICZ* PEYTON BERNING* BM, Music Theory & Composition BA

* Junior

+ Senior

MASTERS HARRISON DAVIS Music Theory KATJA KLEYENSTEUBER Music Education & Ethnomusicology JOHN DEMARTINO Double Bass JOOGWANG LIM Composition MAURYA DICKERSON Viola JESSICA DOYLE

KATERINA MIDDELDORP Voice CHRISTOPHER MORETTI

Music Education

Saxophone

RYAN DYMEK Clarinet

JACOB O’SHEA Voice

ISABELLA HANREITER Voice

VIVEK PATEL Music Education

MADELINE HORVAT Flute

ALEXANDRU PRIGALO Piano

HIROMI INOMATA Piano

SARAH ROGERS Voice

JULIAN IRALU Trumpet

ZHIZHI XIANG Piano

DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS ESTELLE BANG Piano

ALLYN PHELPS Music Education

SUSAN BENGSTON Viola

DEVON RUSSO Voice

TAMARA DWORETZ

MINJIA XU Violin

Orchestral Conducting

TIANHONG YANG Piano

NA YEON KWON Cello

EUNHYE YOON Composition

CHENGCHENG MA Piano

ZHUQING ZHANG Viola

DANIEL NEYMAN Piano

2021 SCHOOL OF MUSIC AWARDS BU AT CARNEGIE HALL COMPETITION WINNERS

listed in concert order

SAEJIN YOO (BM, Piano) studio of Prof. Gila Goldstein JILLIAN AGONA (BM, Soprano) studio of Prof. Penelope Bitzas AND JING-FANG HUANG (DMA, Collaborative Piano) TIANHONG YANG (DMA, Piano) studio of Prof. Pavel Nersessian HYOJIN KIM (DMA, Viola) studio of Prof. Michelle LaCourse JESSICA HETRICK (MM, Soprano) studio of Prof. Sharon Daniels AND ANN SCHAEFER (DMA, Collaborative Piano) XINYUAN WANG (MM, Violin) studio of Prof. Bayla Keyes SARAH ROGERS (MM, Soprano) studio of Prof. Penelope Bitzas AND REGAN RUSSELL (DMA, Collaborative Piano) CHENGCHENG MA (DMA, Piano) studio of Prof. Boaz Sharon

STRING DEPARTMENT BACH COMPETITION

listed in concert order

MICHAEL FRONTZ (BM) - CELLO PRIZE studio of Prof. Michael Reynolds CLARA MONTES (BM) - VIOLIN PRIZE studio of Prof. Dana Mazurkevich RAYNA CHOU (DMA) - VIOLA PRIZE studio of Prof. Michelle LaCourse

2021 SCHOOL OF MUSIC AWARDS SOLOISTS’ COMPETITION MILOS BJELICA (Clarinet) Concerto for clarinet and orchestra in A major, K. 622 (Mozart) • studio of Prof. David Martins FREYA LIU (Violin) Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz.112 (Bartók) studio of Prof. Bayla Keyes SARAH ROGERS (Soprano) Sieben Frühe Lieder (Berg) studio of Prof. Penelope Bitzas

COMPOSERS' COMPETITION

EUNHYE YOON (DMA), for her piece titled Abyss studio of Prof. Joshua Fineberg

WAINWRIGHT AWARD “for a composed song about nature” WILLIAM PEACOCK (MM) studio of Prof. Rodney Lister

PHYLLIS CURTIN ARTISTS MAUREEN BRABEC (Soprano) studio of Prof. Penelope Bitzas KAILEIGH RIESS (Soprano) studio of Prof. Penelope Bitzas

ELLALOU DIMMOCK VOCAL HONORS AWARD CAROLINE CHUNG (Soprano) studio of Prof. Penelope Bitzas HANNAH YOUNG (Soprano) studio of Prof. James Demler RYAN VAN FLEET (Baritone) studio of Prof. James Demler

KAHN CAREER ENTRY AWARD FINALISTS

XUERONG “KYRA” ZHAO (DMA, Piano) Faculty sponsor: Prof. Boaz Sharon JISUN OH (DMA, Flute) Faculty Sponsor: Prof. Linda Toote

PRESSER SCHOLAR AWARD

ALEXANDER STEPHAN (BM, MUSIC EDUCATION)

CLARE HODGSON MEEKER FELLOWSHIP AWARDS AVA FIGLIUZZI GABRIEL HARRISON SPENCER HART-THOMPSON GRACE HELMKE JACK HUMPHREY PABLO KENNEDY

DAVID ORTIZ SOFIA PUCCIO AMANDA SATTERFIELD ALEXANDER STEPHAN CAITLIN THOMPSON JENNIFER ORTIZ VALVERDE

GRADUATE TRAVEL AWARDS ESTELLE BANG RODION BELOUSOV ISABELLA HANREITER ANDREW LIN SARAH ROGERS MATTHEW LEE DEVON RUSSO JACQUELINE BARTLING-JOHN

ADAM HANNA CHENGCHENG MA INGA LIU JASON LEONHARD KATERINA MIDDELDORP SAVANNAH PANAH STEPHANIE PFUNDT REGAN RUSSELL

SCHOOL OF MUSIC AWARDS

RICHMOND PIANO COMPETITION

FIRST PRIZE: TIANHONG YANG (DMA) studio of Prof. Pavel Nersessian SECOND PRIZE: XIAOPEI XU (DMA) studio of Prof. Boaz Sharon SPECIAL PRIZES FOR BEST PERFORMANCE OF A BLACK COMPOSER: ALEXANDRU PRIGALO (MM) studio of Prof. Pavel Nersessian ANRAN QIAN (DMA) studio of Prof. Tanya Gabrielian

SCHOOL OF MUSIC FACULTY STRINGS Steven Ansell viola* Edwin Barker double bass* Heather Braun violin Lynn Chang violin Carolyn Davis Fryer double bass Daniel Doña viola, chamber Franziska Huhn harp Mihail Jojatu cello Bayla Keyes violin * Michelle LaCourse viola*++ Warren Levenson Benjamin Levy double bass Lucia Lin violin * Dana Mazurkevich violin Yuri Mazurkevich violin * Michael Reynolds cello * Rhonda Rider cello Todd Seeber double bass Klaudia Szlachta violin Peter Zazofsky violin * Jessica Zhou harp PIANO Tanya Gabrielian Gila Goldstein * ++ Linda Jiorle-Nagy * Pavel Nersessian * Boaz Sharon * COLLABORATIVE PIANO Shiela Kibbe *++ Robert Merfeld ORGAN Peter Sykes * ++ VOICE Penelope Bitzas * Sharon Daniels * James Demler * ++ Gary Durham Lynn Eustis * David Guzman* Betsy Polatin Douglas Sumi *++ vocal *

Full-time faculty

coaching and repertoire WOODWINDS, BRASS & PERCUSSION Kenneth Amis tuba Jennifer Bill saxophone Kyle Brightwell percussion Rachel Childers horn Geralyn Coticone flute Terry Everson trumpet * John Ferrillo oboe Timothy Genis percussion Nancy Goeres bassoon Ronald Haroutunian bassoon John Heiss flute Elizabeth Klein flute Renee Krimsier flute Gabriel Langfur tenor/bass trombone Kai-Yun Lu clarinet Don Lucas trombone* ++ David Martins clarinet * Mark McEwen oboe Toby Oft trombone Rob Patterson clarinet * Margaret Phillips bassoon Andrew Price oboe Kenneth Radnofsky saxophone Mike Roylance tuba/ euphonium Eric Ruske horn * Robert Sheena English horn Samuel Solomon percussion Linda Toote flute * HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE Aldo Abreu recorder Sarah Freiberg cello Greg Ingles sackbut Laura Jeppesen viola da gamba Christopher Krueger baroque flute Catherine Liddell lute Robinson Pyle natural trumpet Gonzalo Ruiz baroque oboe

++ Department Chairs

Aaron Sheehan voice Jane Starkman baroque violin/viola Peter Sykes harpsichord *++ MUSICOLOGY AND ETHNOMUSICOLOGY Marié Abe * Michael Birenbaum Quintero*++ Victor Coelho * Brita Heimarck * Miki Kaneda * Gregory Melchor-Barz * Director, School of Music Joshua Rifkin * Andrew Shenton * Rachana Vajjhala * Jeremy Yudkin * COMPOSITION AND THEORY Vartan Aghababian Martin Amlin *++ Deborah Burton * Justin Casinghino Richard Cornell * Joshua Fineberg * Samuel Headrick * David Kopp * Rodney Lister * Mary Montgomery Koppel Ketty Nez * Andrew Smith John H. Wallace * Steven Weigt * Jason Yust * MUSIC EDUCATION Alexandre Abdoulaev Mark Berger Kelly Bylica * Diana Dansereau * Ruth Debrot * André de Quadros * John Genovese Andrew Goodrich * Karin Hendricks *++ Brian Kellum *

C FACULTY & STAFF Fred Kersten David Kjar Ronald Kos * Tavis Linsin * Ulrike Präger Gareth Smith * Tawnya Smith * Katharine Stuffelbeam Kinh T. Vu * John Wriggle ENSEMBLES Jennifer Bill James Burton * Leland Clarke * Aaron Goldberg * William Lumpkin *

David Martins * ++ Mark Miller Mariah Wilson OPERA INSTITUTE Rita Cote Gary Durham Angela Gooch Melodie Jeffrey-Cassell Matthew Larson * William Lumpkin * Jim Petosa Emily Ranii Nathan Troup Allison Voth * Ryan Winkles EMERITUS

Mark Kroll historical performance Sandra Nicolucci music education STAFF PIANISTS Michelle Beaton voice Anna Carr voice Siu Yan Luk strings Clera Ryu voice April Sun Lorena Tecu * strings Noriko Yasuda

STAFF ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Oshin Gregorian Jill Pearson Cami Sylvia Daniel Doña Diana Dansereau ADMISSIONS AND STUDENT SERVICES Laura Conyers Megan Anthony Barbara Raney Benjamin Court

Managing Director, Opera Institute & Opera Programs Business Manager Staff Assistant Director of Graduate Studies (Spring 2021) Director of Undergraduate Studies

Director of Admissions Admissions Coordinator Student Services Manager Administrative Coordinator, Performance & Applied Studies, and Ensembles

PRODUCTION AND PERFORMANCE Christopher Dempsey Mary Gerbi Alexander Knutrud Xiaodan Liu Daniel Vozzolo

Director, Production and Performance Ensembles Manager Stage Manager Senior Piano Technician/Restorer Administrative Coordinator

UNIVERSITY ENSEMBLES Michael Barsano Sharif Mamoun

Director, University Ensembles Assistant Director, Athletic Bands

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BOSTON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS SCHOOL OF MUSIC Founded in 1872, Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Music combines the intimacy and intensity of traditional conservatory-style training with a broad liberal arts education at the undergraduate level, and elective coursework at the graduate level. The school offers degrees in performance, conducting, composition and theory, musicology, music education, and historical performance, as well as artist and performance diplomas and a certificate program in its Opera Institute.