2019 Grand Finale

Strike Up the Band: Graduate Doug Morin and wife traveled back to Seattle to celebrate his DMA in Wind Conducting.

Professor Shannon Dudley congratulates graduate Subhash Prajapati on completing his PhD in Ethnomusicology .

They did it! (left to right): Gemma Goday DíazCorallejo (DMA Woodwind Performance); Wyatt Smith (DMA Organ Performance); and Elisabeth Cherland (DMA Choral Conducting) .

Grand Finale was a win-win for grads Mo Yan (BM, Music Education, BM Orchestral Instruments); Judith Kim (BM Strings Performance) and Irene Putnam (BA Music,BA Music Theory, BM Composition) .

The School of Music honored its Class of 2019 Friday, June 14 with the annual Grand Finale celebration, providing a festive sendoff to 64 degree recipients and their families, friends, teachers and loved ones.

The UW Music Class of 2019 includes 36 students earning graduate degrees—22 masters’, 2 PhD, and 12 DMA—and 28 students earning BM or BA degrees. Half of the undergraduates earning music degrees double-majored in programs outside of music, earning second degrees in an array of programs including Physics, Business Administration, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Computer Science, and Mathematics.

Following refreshments and mingling in the School of Music Fishbowl, director Richard Karpen welcomed grads, families, and friends to Brechemin Auditorium for music, remarks, and a grad processional. DMA grads Li-Cheng Hung, piano and Gemma Goday Díaz-Corralejo, flute, performed the first movements of Bohuslav Martinů’s Sonata for Flute and Piano. Remarks by Erika Meyer (BM Voice, BA Music Theory); Abbey Blackwell (MM Jazz Studies), and performed remarks by Percussion Studies Chair Bonnie Whiting preceded the processional across the Brechemin Auditorium stage.

At left, Grads Ryan Farris (MM Strings Performance) and Isabella Kodama (BM Strings Performance) reach the finish line; at right, Nathan Lloyd graduated with honors, earning double degrees in music and math (BM Orchestral Instruments, BS Math). Erika Meyer (BM Voice, BA Music Theory) and dad after Erika’s hilarious and moving Grand Finale speech .

Congratulatory crew (left to right): Professor Shannon Dudley, Graham Peterson (MA Ethnomusicology), MA student Jackson Flesher, and Professor Christina Sunardi .

Graduate Anna Frisch (MM Choral Conducting) was flanked by supportive family members in the Grand Finale photo booth .

Piano Duo: Yu-Chi Lee (BM Piano Performance) and Li-Cheng Hung (DMA Piano Performance) .