Summer 2022 Commencement Program

Ceremonies begin Friday, August 12, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. CST
Maravich Assembly Center

More information about this ceremony is available at: lsu.edu/commencement/

 

Graduating Class

Savannah Sanders

Theatre Studies

Michelle Stutes

Voice

Mark Hainey

Voice

 

David Hochkeppel

Saxophone

Percussion

Eleonora Apostolidi

Piano Performance

Graduate Portfolio: Songs, Scherzi, Preludes and Variations of the Piano Literature

 

Kara Nguyen Capell

Woodwind Performance, Saxophone

Graduate Portfolio: Saxophone Literature Recital and Audiovisual Recording Project

 

Paul Henderson

Choral Conducting

Thesis: A Conductor’s Guide to Joan Szymko’s Shadow and Light: An Alzheimer’s Journey

 

Spencer Jones

Percussion Performance

Thesis: TOYBOX: A New Approach for Auxiliary Instruments at the Elementary Level

 

Clayton Maddox

Brass Performance, Tuba

Graduate Portfolio: Diversity and Inclusion Among Tuba Recording Artists and Tuba Professors

 

Ivan Smetankin

String Performance, Double Bass

Graduate Portfolio: The Standard Double Bass Orchestra Excerpts

 

Jamey Wright

Vocal Performance

Thesis: Unifying Text and Music: Applying Shurtleff's Twelve Guidepost to Operatic Arias for Soprano

Tamyka Jordan

Music Theory

Dissertation Title: ‘Space is the Place:’ Afrofuturism in Black Popular Music

 

William Thompson IV

Experimental Music and Digital Media

Dissertation Title: Creating Musical Scores Inspired by the Intersection of Human Speech and Music through Model Based Cross Synthesis

The appearance of a name in this program is presumptive evidence of graduation, but is not to be regarded as conclusive. Students whose names are listed more than once in this program are receiving multiple degrees. The names of some students may not be listed in this program due to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974.

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