Recent Composition Area Accomplishments
Explore this page to learn more about the student composers of the LSU Composition Area and their current works, recent accomplishments, and more.
Doctoral Students
- A Study of Indigenous North Vietnamese Ca Tru Music, and The Deities of the Kalachakra Mandala
- https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/5988/
- A Synthesis of Contemporary Music Composition Pedagogy Practices for the Undergraduate and Graduate Level Sequences, and An Exploration of Time, Sound, and Space: An Aleatoric Event Score in Collaboration with the LSU Museum of Art
- Nominated to represent LSU for competing in the CGS/ProQuest (Council of Graduate Schools) in the Arts and Humanities area.
- https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/5813/
- Rougarou, dissertation (cello concerto with FELX ensemble)
- The Rougarou Concerto and Initial Observations of the Felx Ensemble
- https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/5604/
- The Seven Valleys for Orchestra and a Study of Music Composition Pedagogy
- https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/5300
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Concerto for Violin and Orchestra and "Nevertheless, She Composed: A Contemporary Survey of Women Composers of the Twenty-First Century"
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https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/5162
- Symphony No.2 and the Text Setting of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
- https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/5175
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Old School for the New School: Discussing the Importance of Motown Records in American Music History
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https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/4868
- Epic Beginnings: A Symphonic Work and Aaron Copland (the American Stravinsky) versus Igor Stravinsky
- https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/4835
- Concerto for Horn and Orchestra and Sofia Gubaidulina's Serialism
- https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/4536
- Freedom Train, dissertation (for chamber ensemble and 2 singers)
- Analysis and Utilization of Hip-Hop Techniques in Classical Music, monograph
- https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/4946
- Wagner Duarte
- Treya Nash
- Aarón González
- Omar Ramirez
- Andrew Farrer
Masters Students
- Link Coming Soon
- String Quartet No. 2 – Lanterns (SQ)
- https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/5078/
- Requiem for Orchestra and Choir
- https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/4706
- Bassoon Concerto: Color & Light
- https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/5514/
- Bryan Armond
- Jalia Payne
- Kenneth Schafer
- Isabelle Temperville
Composition Minors
Devin Bureau (MM, Choral Conducting)
Tamyka Jordan (PhD, Music Theory)
Thomas Kim (DMA, Clarinet Performance)
Landon Viator (PhD, EMDM)
Shane Courville (DMA, Trumpet Performance)
Katie DeLaMare (DMA, Cello Performance)
David Walters (DMA, Choral Conducting)
Johan Pepper (DMA, Violin Performance)
Ivy Yizi Xu (DMA, EMDM)
William Thompson (DMA, EMDM)
Austin Franklin (DMA, EMDM)
Matthew Bardin (DMA, EMDM)
Mason Cox (DMA, EMDM)
Honors College Thesis Students
Conrad Foreman (in progress)
Joseph Brooks (in progress)
Graduate Program Admittances
- New York University Tisch School (Musical Theatre)
- University of Southern California
- University of Missouri - Kansas City
- Pacific Northwest (Film Scoring)
- Peabody Conservatory
- Hart School of Music
- Berklee Valencia (Film Scoring)
- Boston Conservatory of Music
- New York University Film Scoring
- University of Tennessee - Knoxville
- University of Houston
- University of Michigan
- University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
Job Positions Attained
- McNeese State University
- Louisiana Technical University
- Mississippi State University
- Mälardalen University
- University of Nebraska - Omaha
- Idaho State University
- Vassar College
- Royal College of Music, Stockholm
- Lenior Rhyne University
Summer Programs & Conferences Attended
- The American Prize
- Atlantic Music Festival
- Alba Music Festival
- Bent Frequency - underscore
- Brevard Music Center
- Carnegie Hall Performances With CNME
- Charlotte New Music Festival
- Choral Arts Initiative
- Choral Association of Japan
- Civic Orchestra of Baton Rouge
- Composer in Residence at University Presbyterain Church
- Cortona Reading Session
- Electric Four Corners New Music x CPI
- Electronic Music Midwest
- Ensemble Ipse
- Film Scoring Academy of Europe Summer Workshop
- LaTex
- Highscore
- Hypercube Composition Lab
- Iceberg New Music
- Marlboro Music Festival
- Millennium Composers Initiative
- Morton Gould Composer Award
- Mostly Modern Festival
- Multiple Commissions from Tampa Homegrown and Vermillion Duet
- National Association of Teacher's Singing
- National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Festival
- N.E.O. Voice Festival
- New Music on the Bayou
- New Music on the Point
- New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Community Partnership Grant
- New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
- NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression)
- Norfolk New Music
- NYU Screen Scoring Workshop
- ORTUS International New Music Competition
- Penn State New Music Festival
- SCI Regional and National Conferences
- SEAMUS
- Sewanee Summer Music Festival
- Sofia Symphonic Summit
- Sound/Sight Art Collaboration
- Splice Music Festival
- UMKC Summer Composition Workshop
- Versipel New Music
- Viva 21st Century 50/50 Marathon
- Walden Creative Musicians Retreat
- Web Audio Conference