2020 CFA School of Music Student Awards Ceremony

BU COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

SCHOOL OF MUSIC

STUDENT AWARDS

CEREMONY

MONDAY, MAY 11, 2020

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 Daniel Doña, Chair Ruth Debrot Samuel Headrick Pavel Nersessian Barbara Raney

BRASS, WOODWINDS, AND PERCUSSION Olivia Iverson (BM flute) Alyssa Primeau (MM flute) Jacky Ho Yin Li (DMA horn) Jisun Oh (DMA flute) VOICE Madison Mackey (BM soprano) Julianne Wolfe (MM soprano) OPERA PROGRAMS Elizabeth Finnen (BM mezzo-soprano) Crystal Haynes (MM mezzo-soprano) COMPOSITION & MUSIC THEORY Izabel Austin (MM composition) Tak Cheung Hui (DMA composition) COLLABORATIVE PIANO Celeste Johnson (DMA) PIANO Chengcheng Ma (DMA) MUSICOLOGY AND ETHNOMUSICOLOGY Anna Carolina Pelaes (BM voice) Jason McCool (PhD musicology) HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE AND ORGAN Michael Garrepy (MM organ) Charles Iner (MM historical performance) Patrick Walker (MM composition/organ) Dolores August (DMA historical performance) MUSIC EDUCATION Sab Scotti (BM) Madeline Bucci (MM) Amanda Tumbleson (MM) Darryl Singleton (DMA) Michael Sundblad (DMA) CONDUCTING Tamara Dworetz (DMA)

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

STRINGS AND HARP Freya Liu (BM violin) Deberly Kauffman (MM viola) Noelle Marty (MM bass) Ji Hye Choi (DMA violin)

2020 PI KAPPA LAMBDA INDUCTEES EMMA CHRISMAN+

BM, Violin Performance & Music Education CELIA GRACE DAGGY+

BM, Viola Performance HEATHER HAVENS+

BM, Flute Performance & Musicology ETHAN HOBSON*

BM, Theory & Composition HANNAH HOOVEN*

BM, Music Education KEL CADENCE KIM+

BM, Music Education ESTHER F. BENJAMIN

MM, Cello Performance GORDON FOSTER ENGELGAU

MM, Music Education JADE ESPINA

MM, Voice Performance MICHAEL GARREPY

MM, Organ Performance DEBERLY KAUFFMAN

MM, Viola Performance ANDREW GUSTAV LARSON

MM, Music Education

YONSUNG LEE

MM, Viola Performance HUIYING MA

MM, Violin Performance ALYSSA DANIELLE PRIMEAU

MM, Flute Performance COURTNEY REGESTER

MM, Flute Performance AMANDA TUMBLESON++

MM, Music Education PATRICK R. WALKER

MM, Composition, Organ Performance SHU-PENG WANG

MM, Piano Performance JIANI ZHU

MM, Piano Performance HYUN JEE CHUNG

DMA, Violin Performance NATHANIEL EFTHIMIOU++

DMA, Conducting ERIC GOODE

DMA, Tuba Performance PAULINE JUNG

DMA, Flute Performance

DMA, Tuba Performance TAI OMEGA ONEY

DMA, Music Education FABIO SILVA PEIXOTO

FACULTY LELAND OWEN CLARKE

Musicology & Ethnomusicology RUTH ANN DEBROT

DMA, Violin Performance

Music Education

ANN SCHAEFER

AARON GOLDBERG

DMA, Collaborative Piano Performance JIE SONG

DMA, Piano Performance JACOB WITTKOPP

DMA, Music Education

Director of Athletic Bands MICHAEL BIRENBAUM QUINTERO

Musicology & Ethnomusicology TAWNYA D. SMITH

Music Education KINH TIEN VU

Music Education

* Junior + Senior ++ Transferred membership from other school

PI KAPPA LAMBDA INDUCTEES

JOSE MARTINEZ

2020 SCHOOL OF MUSIC AWARDS BU AT CARNEGIE HALL

CAROLINE BOURG (BM soprano) studio of Lynn Eustis OLIVIA IVERSON (BM flute) studio of Linda Toote FREYA LIU (BM violin) studio of Bayla Keyes OWEN DODDS (MM piano) studio of Gila Goldstein ELENI KOTZABASSIS (MM soprano) studio of Sharon Daniels PIERRE-NICOLAS COLOMBAT (DMA piano) studio of Pavel Nersessian MICHAEL DUFFETT (DMA violin) studio of Dana Mazurkevich CELESTE JOHNSON (DMA collaborative piano) studio of Javier Arrebola DANIEL NEYMAN (DMA piano) studio of Pavel Nersessian JISUN OH (DMA flute) studio of Linda Toote FABIO SILVA PEIXOTO (DMA violin) studio of Peter Zazofsky ZHUQING ZHANG (DMA viola) studio of Michelle LaCourse

STRING DEPARTMENT BACH COMPETITION

MICHAEL FRONTZ (BM), Undergraduate Cello Prize - Co-Winner studio of Michael Reynolds SEAN LEE (BM), Undergraduate Violin Prize studio of Peter Zazofsky SOFIA PUCCIO (BM), Undergraduate Cello Prize - Co-Winner studio of Michael Reynolds DEBERLY KAUFFMAN (MM), Viola Prize studio of Michelle LaCourse HUI-YING MA (MM), Graduate Violin Prize studio of Dana Mazurkevich

SOLOISTS’ COMPETITION

JACKY HO-YIN LI (DMA horn) studio of Eric Ruske CHENGCHENG MA (DMA piano) studio of Boaz Sharon TIANHONG YANG (DMA piano) studio of Pavel Nersessian

JOSEPH SEDARSKI (BM) studio of Rodney Lister

WAINWRIGHT AWARD

“for a composed song about nature” ZOFIA GORNICZ: Hej, ty Wisło (a song for the Vistula river) studio of Ketty Nez “for a composed sonnet on any theme” JEREMY FEININGER: Ozymandias studio of Rodney Lister

PHYLLIS CURTIN ARTISTS

MEGAN CALLAHAN (OI mezzo-soprano) studio of Penelope Bitzas ASHLEE LAMAR (OI soprano) studio of Penelope Bitzas REBECCA PRINTZ (OI mezzo soprano) studio of Penelope Bitzas

ELLALOU DIMMOCK VOCAL HONORS AWARD

TARA DOUGHERTY (BM soprano) studio of Lynn Eustis

TARA PALAZUELOS (BM mezzo-soprano) studio of Penelope Bitzas

KAHN CAREER ENTRY AWARD FINALISTS

ERIC CAREY (OI tenor) Faculty sponsor: Penelope Bitzas

TAK-CHEUNG HUI (DMA composition) Faculty sponsor: Joshua Fineberg

PRESSER SCHOLAR AWARD

JEFFREY SAGURTON (BM percussion)

SCHOOL OF MUSIC AWARDS

COMPOSERS' COMPETITION

SCHOOL OF MUSIC FACULTY STRINGS Steven Ansell viola * Edwin Barker double bass * Heather Braun violin Lynn Chang violin Hye Min Choi viola Carolyn Davis Fryer double bass Daniel Doña viola, chamber* Franziska Huhn harp Mihail Jojatu cello Bayla Keyes violin * Hyun-Ji Kwon cello Michelle LaCourse viola *++ Warren Levenson guitar Benjamin Levy double bass Lucia Lin violin * Dana Mazurkevich violin Yuri Mazurkevich violin * Richard Nangle guitar Michael Reynolds cello * Rhonda Rider cello Todd Seeber double bass Klaudia Szlachta violin Lawrence Wolfe double bass Peter Zazofsky violin * Jessica Zhou harp PIANO Victor Cayres Tanya Gabrielian * Gila Goldstein * ++ Linda Jiorle-Nagy * Pavel Nersessian * Boaz Sharon * COLLABORATIVE PIANO Javier Arrebola * ++ Shiela Kibbe * Robert Merfeld ORGAN Peter Sykes *++

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Full-time faculty

VOICE Penelope Bitzas * Sharon Daniels * James Demler * ++ Gary Durham Lynn Eustis * Phyllis Hoffman Betsy Polatin Douglas Sumi vocal coaching and repertoire *++ WOODWINDS, BRASS & PERCUSSION Kenneth Amis tuba Jennifer Bill saxophone Kyle Brightwell percussion Geralyn Coticone flute Terry Everson trumpet * John Ferrillo oboe Timothy Genis percussion Nancy Goeres bassoon Ronald Haroutunian bassoon John Heiss 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 Elizabeth Ostling flute 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 Richard Stoltzman clarinet Linda Toote flute *

++ Department Chairs

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 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 *

C FACULTY & STAFF MUSIC EDUCATION Alexandre Abdoulaev Mark Berger Diana Dansereau * André de Quadros * John Genovese Andrew Goodrich * Karin Hendricks *++ Fred Kersten David Kjar Ronald Kos * Tavis Linsin * Ulrike Präger Tawnya Smith * Katharine Stuffelbeam Kinh T. Vu * John Wriggle

ENSEMBLES Jennifer Bill Leland Clarke * Joshua Gersen Aaron Goldberg * William Lumpkin * David Martins * ++ Mark Miller Mariah Wilson

Emily Ranii Nathan Troup Allison Voth *

OPERA INSTITUTE Rita Cote Gary Durham Angela Gooch Melodie Jeffrey-Cassell Matthew Larson * William Lumpkin * Jim Petosa

STAFF PIANISTS Michelle Beaton voice Anna Carr voice Siu Yan Luk strings Clera Ryu voice Lorena Tecu * strings Chelsea Whitaker voice

EMERITUS Mark Kroll historical performance Sandra Nicolucci music education

STAFF ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Oshin Gregorian Jill Pearson Cami Sylvia Lynn Eustis Diana Dansereau ADMISSIONS AND STUDENT SERVICES Laura Conyers Megan Anthony Barbara Raney Gilberto Cruz Benjamin Court

Managing Director, Opera Institute & Opera Programs Business Manager Staff Assistant Director of Graduate Studies Director of Undergraduate Studies

Director of Admissions Admissions Coordinator Student Services Manager Administrative Coordinator, Composition/Theory, Music Education, Musicology and Ethnomusicology Administrative Coordinator, Performance & Applied Studies, and Ensembles

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

Director, Production and Performance Librarian, Music Curriculum Library 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.