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Doctor of Musical Arts (continued) Fang-Fang Shi Inouye, Performance, B.M., M.M., University of Southern California
Jennifer Lynne Penner, Performance, B.M., Columbia Union College; M.M., University of Southern California
Daniel Benjamin Keller, Choral Music, B.M., Northern Arizona University; M.M., University of Oklahoma Dissertation: Refined Gold from along the Royal Highway: Musical Training in the California Missions as a Model for Present-day Pedagogy
Benjamin Isak Pila, Performance, B.M., Florida State University; M.M., Juilliard School
Seong-Ah Kim, Performance, B.M., California State University, Northridge
Alexander Jay Singer, Performance, B.M., M.M., University of Oregon
Michael Philip Kudirka, Performance, B.M., University of Southern California Sergey Kuznetsov, Performance, B.M., Moscow State Conservatory, Russia
John S. St. Marie, Choral Music, B.A., Loyola University of Louisiana; M.M., California State University, Fullerton Dissertation: A Model of Construction for Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. John Passion”: Theological Foundation as the Basis for the Calculations of Phi
Sun Jung Lee, Performance, B.M., Seoul National University, Korea; M.M., Dipl., New England Conservatory of Music
Timothy Justin Tesh, Performance, B.A., Mars Hill College; M.M., University of Kentucky, Lexington
Lesley Leighton, Choral Music, B.A., Loyola Marymount University; M.M., University of Southern California Dissertation: Howard Swan, Charles Hirt and Roger Wagner: their Influences and the building of choral culture in Southern California
Lisa C. Thelen, Performance, B.A., Loyola Marymount University; M.M., New England Conservatory of Music
Rafael Liebich, Performance, B.M., State University of Campinas, Brazil; M.M., Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Virginia Jung-Kim Trent, Performance, B.M., The Pennsylvania State University; M.M., University of Southern California
Arthur Joseph McCaffrey, Composition, B.M., B.A., Rice University; M.M., Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Dissertation: Thank You for Waiting Diana Kay McConnell, Music Education, B.M., M.M., University of Texas at El Paso Dissertation: High School String Orchestra Students’ Perceptions of Wellness and Its Implications on Musical Performance John McDaniel Morgan, Jazz Studies, B.M., University of Cincinnati; M.M., University of Southern California Aki Nishiguchi, Performance, B.M., State University of New York, Potsdam; M.M., University of Southern California
John Gunter Reynolds, Jazz Studies, B.A., Point Loma Nazarene College; M.M., San Diego State University
Stirling Austin Trent, Performance, B.M., Juilliard School; M.M., University of Southern California
Edward Richard Trybek, Performance, B.M., M.M., University of Southern California Sarah Michelle Vendsel, Performance, B.M., Southern Methodist University; M.M., New England Conservatory of Music Nancy Miyuki Woo, Performance, B.M., M.M., University of Southern California Jesse Erin Wright-Fitzgerald, Composition, B.M., Susquehanna University; M.M., Syracuse University Dissertation: String Quartet No. 2 Tian Zhou, Composition, B.M., Curtis Institute of Music; M.M., Juilliard School Dissertation: “Cliffs in Splendor” for Full Orchestra
Haesung Park, Performance, B.M., Korean National University of Arts; M.M., Boston University
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