Spring 2020 Diploma Ceremony Program
Friday, May 15, 2020 // 10:00 a.m.
Click Here for Information About the Virtual Graduation Celebration
Virtual Graduation Order of Events
Virtual Celebration Begins at 10:00 a.m. at https://www.facebook.com/geauxlsu/
- Year in Review Video
- Grammy Winner and Louisiana Native Lauren Daigle Sings the National Anthem
- Message From Interim President Tom Galligan to Graduates
- Message From Executive Vice President and Provost Stacia Haynie
- Message From Board of Supervisors Chair Mary Werner
- Message From Dean Todd Queen
- LSU Spirit Squad Dances to "Hey Fightin' Tigers"
- Message From LSU Alumni
- World-renowned Opera Star and LSU Alumna Lisette Oropesa Sings the LSU Alma Mater
Tiger Stadium Display of Graduate Names
11:00 a.m. – College of Music & Dramatic Arts Doctoral Degrees, Master’s Degrees
*REVISED* 4:57 p.m. – College of Music & Dramatic Arts Undergraduate Degrees
The livestream of the display will be provided on the Graduation Celebration webpage—following the Facebook Watch Party.
*Graduate degrees are officially conferred by the LSU Graduate School.
College of Music & Dramatic Arts - May 2020 Graduating Class
Azha Moné Alston
Performance
Mackenzie Kay Andrews
Film and Television
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Nia Nicole Banks
Theatre Studies
Devin Louis Barnes
Design and Technology
Vincent Joseph Bianca
Performance
Physical Theatre
MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Willis Carl Brei
Film and Television
Daniel Broussard
Performance
MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Kaitlin Rose Chavers
Performance
Mary Teresa DeVillier
Design and Technology
Anthony Michael Doyle
Design and Technology
Theatre Studies
Chincia Onuekwumma Ezejiofo
Film and Television
Quincia Oguuno Ezejiofo
Film and Television
Kain Alexander Gill
Arts Administration
Design and Technology
MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Sarah Catherine Guarisco
Performance
Lindsey Marie Hutson
Theatre Studies
Haleigh Richelle Jones
Performance
Nina Samone Knowles
Film and Television
Destin Lowell Marler
Film and Television
Lindsey Elise Muscatello
Design and Technology
Francisco Javier Pazo Siero
Performance
Eamon Pettigrew
Film and Television
Stephanie Elizabeth Saucier
Film and Television
Rebecca Lynn Smith
Performance
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Erin Monique Stevenson
Theatre Studies
Angelle Mishon Thomas
Performance
John Tran
Performance
Ke’Shone Lynn White
Performance
Kiare Williams
Theatre Studies
Jaunee Danielle Young
Theatre Studies
Zoey Abigail Young
Theatre Studies
Streisand Nicole Zeno
Performance
Samatha Rae Aldridge
Voice
Daisha Christine Badon
Voice
Julia Marie Boudreaux
Academic Studies
Christopher Figueroa Coreil
Jazz Piano
Adam Boyd Fields
Voice
Christopher Lee Freeland
Voice
Garrett Anderson Howell
Jazz Electric Guitar
Aubry Dylan Procell
String Bass
Connor Brad Underwood
Experimental Music and Digital Music
Jazz Piano
Jesse Joseph Zeringue
Jazz Percussion
Rachel Punkay Blackwell
Voice
Julia Marie Boudreaux
Organ
Tyler Joseph Bourque
Clarinet
Ashby Wellington Brown
Composition
Bassoon
Zoey Carisa Cuseo
Voice
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Jonathan Michael Dufresne
Saxophone
MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Morgan Rose Easterday
Composition
Horn
Mary Grace Ellerbee
Piano
CUM LAUDE
Jenna Renee Grissom
Voice
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Seth Cain Guerra
Composition
Matthew Palmer Hrdlicka
Voice
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Jennifer Lynn McGee
Voice
Mikeila Ashley McQueston
Composition
Voice
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Leah Christian Moody
Voice
Jordan Chase Moreno
Bassoon
Leigh Anne Robichaux
Composition
Experimental Music and Digital Media
CUM LAUDE
John Forrest Robken
Bassoon
Anna Patrice Safko
Voice
Cari Alyce Sands
Clarinet
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Annellise Marie Schulze
Voice
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Savannah Drummond Scott
Voice
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Reign Zurri Washington
Voice
Benjamin Clifton Buller
Clarinet
MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Harrison David Dollar
Clarinet
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Emily Michelle Firmin
Flute
Dustin Joplin Gonzales
Voice
Summer Blair Hayes
Voice
Benjamin Robert Morgan
Voice
CUM LAUDE
Alana Brigette Scott
Voice
Lauren Joan Slay
Clarinet
Hollyn Noel Slykhuis
Trumpet
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Taylor Beth Vastbinder
Harp
Katherine Marie Vukovics
Voice
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Carley Frances West
Clarinet
Claudia Aizaga
Woodwind Performance, Flute
Ashlyn Carter
Vocal Performance
Hayoung Cho
String Performance, Violin
Claire Choquette
Vocal Performance
Emily Dirks
Vocal Performance
Nickolas Doshier
Wind Conducting
Casie Ford
String Performance, Viola
Zachary Frank
Vocal Performance
Chase Gillett
Percussion Performance
Elana Gleason
Vocal Performance
Keturah Heard
Vocal Performance
Anna Herrera
String Performance, Cello
Telly Higgins
Music Education
Sarah Jenkins
Piano Pedagogy
Andrew Kendall
Choral Conducting
Wu Ji Khoo
Vocal Performance
Katherine Mallow
Vocal Performance
Sean McLean
Percussion Performance
Roger Kyle Melton
Vocal Performance
Alisha Moore
Brass Performance, Horn
Eric Morgan
Vocal Performance
Alanna North
String Performance, Violin
Ashley Nunez
Vocal Performance
Joshua Ognenoff
Vocal Performance
Sabrina Parry
String Performance, Violin
Ronald Rodriguez Herrera
Jazz Studies
Elise Spurlock
Vocal Performance
Gordon Stricklin
Choral Conducting
Julia Tatum
Wind Conducting
Daniel Fernando Torres Salazar
String Performance, Violin
Adam Torres
Brass Performance, Tuba
Curtis White
Choral Conducting
Andrew Wood
Brass Performance, Trumpet
Nai-Chien Yo
String Performance, Cello
Centria Brown
The Use of the Alexander Technique as a Practice Tool for Horn Performance
Major Professor: Professor Seth Orgel
André Chiang
A Performance Guide to Kurt Erickson's Song Cycle Here, Bullet
Major Professor: Professor Dennis Jesse
Jaime Compton
Non-thesis portfolio of specialized research and creative activity
Major Professor: Professor Dennis Parker
Zorica Dimova
Non-thesis portfolio of specialized research and creative activity
Major Professor: Professor Espen Lilleslatten
Larry Heard
Instrument Construction: An Examination of The Effect of Lead Pipe Design Variability
on Tuba Response
Major Professor: Dr. Joseph Skillen
Chia-Shan Hsu
Non-thesis portfolio of specialized research and creative activity
Major Professor: Professor Espen Lilleslatten
Mahakit Lerdcheewanan
Non-thesis portfolio of specialized research and creative activity
Major Professor: Professor Espen Lilleslatten
Grace McCrary
A Performer's Guide to "No Man in His Right Mind," "Letter," and "Mirror Mirror" from
the opera, Dog Days
Major Professor: Professor Sandra Moon
Matthew Myers
A Conductor's Guide to Amass By Jocelyn Hagen
Major Professor: Dr. John Dickson
Mounir Nessim
Viola Fragments: Contextualizing and Interpreting Selections from Kurtag's Signs,
Games, and Messages
Major Professor: Professor Espen Lilleslatten
Dominique Petite
James Kallembach's Antigone: A Conductor's Guide
Major Professor: Dr. John Dickson
Chien-Hui Yang
A Survey of French Cello Music Dating from the Baroque Era to the 20th-Century
Major Professor: Professor Dennis Parker
Aleksandra Drozzina
Schnittke, Gubaidulina, and Pärt: Religion and Spirituality during the Late Thaw and
Early Perestroika
Major Professor: Dr. Inessa Bazayev
Sungho Kim
Symphony No.2 and the Text Setting of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas
Major Professor: Dr. Dinos Constantinides
Elizabeth Anne Knox
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, and
Nevertheless, She Composed: A Contemporary Survey of Women Composers of the Twenty-First
Century
Major Professor: Dr. Dinos Constantinides
Julius Kyakuwa
A Case Study of Two Preservice Elementary Music Teachers as Culture-Bearers
Major Professor: Dr. Ann Marie Stanley
Landon Viator
Finding Music in Chaos: Designing and Composing with Virtual Instruments Inspired
by Chaotic Equations
Major Professor: Dr. Jesse Allison
Elizabeth Wallace
Acoustic Measures of the Singing Voice in Secondary School Singers
Major Professor: Dr. Daniel Isbell
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.
*Program updated 05/15/2020 to add honors designations.
College of Music & Dramatic Arts - Faculty and Administration
James Byo | Director, School of Music, Professor of Music Education, Carl Prince Matthies Memorial Professor |
Jesse Allison | Associate Professor of Experimental Music and Digital Media |
Lori Bade | Professor of Music, Nell S. and Boyd H. McMullan Distinguished Professor |
Inessa Bazayev | Manship Associate Professor of Music Theory |
Stephen David Beck | Professor of Composition and Electro-Acoustic Music, Derryl and Helen Haymon Professor |
Hana Beloglavec | Assistant Professor of Trombone |
Edgar Berdahl | Associate Professor of Experimental Music and Digital Media |
John Bishop | Instructor of Guitar |
Michael Borowitz | Associate Professor of Opera |
Brett Boutwell | Associate Professor of Musicology, William F. Swor Alumni Professor |
Jason Bowers | Instructor of Music Education |
Griffin Campbell | Professor of Saxophone, J. Franklin Bayhi Alumni Professor |
Jane Cassidy | Professor of Music Education, Roy and Margaret Gianelloni Alumni Professor |
Deborah Chodacki | Associate Professor of Clarinet |
Dinos Constantinides | LSU Boyd Professor of Composition, Composer-in-Residence |
Cliff Croomes | Instructor, Interim Assistant Director of Bands |
Trey Davis | Associate Professor, Associate Director of Choral Studies |
Willis Delony | LSU Boyd Professor of Piano and Jazz Studies |
John Dickson | Director of Choral Studies, Edward G. and Catherine M. Galante Chair of Choral Music Education, Stephanie Landry Barineau Professor of Music |
Brett Dietz | Associate Professor of Percussion |
Mara Gibson | Associate Professor of Composition |
Andreas Giger | Louise and Kenneth L. Kinney Professor of Opera, Professor of Musicology |
Paul Groves | Artist-in-Residence, Voice |
Robert Grayson | Edith K. Kirkpatrick Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Voice |
Michael Gurt | Paula G. Manship Distinguished Professor of Piano |
Darrel Hale | Associate Professor of Bassoon |
Terry Patrick Harris | Professional-in-Residence, Voice |
Lin He | Associate Professor of Violin |
Laurence Hebert | Director of the LSU Gospel Choir |
Brandon Hendrickson | Assistant Professor of Voice |
Blake Howe | Manship Associate Professor of Musicology |
Daniel Isbell | Associate Professor of Music Education |
Dennis Jesse | Associate Professor of Voice |
Kelvin Jones | Instructor, Interim Associate Director of Bands |
Katherine Kemler | Professor of Flute, Charles and Mary Barre’ Alumni Professor |
Warren Kimball | Instructor of Music |
Elena Lacheva | Professional-in-Residence Collaborative Piano |
Espen Lilleslatten | Associate Professor of Violin |
Olivia Lucas | Assistant Professor of Music Theory |
James "Dugg" McDonough | Mary Barrett Fruehan Associate Professor of Opera |
Alison McFarland | Associate Professor of Musicology |
Sandra Moon | Associate Professor of Voice |
Patricia O’Neill | Professor Emerita of Voice |
Seth Orgel | Professor of Horn |
Ana Maria Otamendi | Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano |
Dennis Parker | Derryl and Helen Haymon Professor of Cello |
Robert Peck | Professor of Music Theory |
Johanna Pennington | Associate Professor of Oboe |
Jeffrey Perry | Paula G. Manship Professor of Music Theory |
Pamela Pike | Aloysia Landry Barineau Professor of Piano Pedagogy |
Carlos Riazuelo | Manship Director of Orchestral Studies, Associate Professor of Conducting |
Brian Shaw | Associate Professor Julian and Sidney Carruth Professor of Trumpet and Jazz Studies |
Loraine Sims | Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick Professor of Voice |
Joseph Skillen | Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Gallante Professor of Tuba and Euphonium |
Herndon Spillman | Professor Emeritus Carolyn Botkin Mattax Herndon Spillman Professor of Organ Studies |
Ann Marie Stanley | Associate Professor of Music Education |
Doug Stone | Assistant Professor of Saxophone and Jazz Studies |
Damon Talley | Paula G. Manship Director of Bands, Associate Professor of Conducting |
Matthew Vangjel | Associate Professor of Trumpet |
Yung-chiao Wei | Professor of Double Bass |
Gabriella Werries | Instructor of Harp |
Justin West | Assistant Professor of Music Education |
Kristin Sosnowsky | Executive Associate Dean, College of Music & Dramatic Arts, Professor of Arts Administration |
Jeremy Bernardoni | Assistant Professor of Costume Design |
Eun Jin Cho | Visiting Sound Designer |
Sonya Cooke | Assistant Professor of Acting |
John Michael Eddy | Professional-In-Residence, Props Master |
Nick Erickson | Associate Professor of Stage Movement |
Femi Euba | Professor of Black Drama and Playwriting, Louise and Kenneth Kinney Professor |
John Fletcher | Associate Professor of Theatre History, Billy J. Harbin Professor |
Tara A. Houston | Assistant Professor of Scenic Design |
George Judy | Professor of Acting and Directing, Gresdna A. Doty Professor |
Kyla Kazuschyk | Associate Professor of Costume Technology |
James L. Murphy | Professor of Theatre Technology, Technical Director, and Production Manager |
Susan Perlis | Co-Head of Dance |
Isaac Pletcher | Assistant Professor of Film & TV |
Claudio Ribeiro | Professional-in-Residence, Co-Head of Dance |
Rockford Sansom | Assistant Professor of Voice |
Alan Sikes | Associate Professor of Theatre History |
C. Touchet | Instructor of Entertainment, Lighting, and Media Production |
Shannon Walsh | Associate Professor of Theatre History |
Chris Wood | Professional-In-Residence, Scenic Technology |
Todd Queen | Dean, College of Music & Dramatic Arts |
Kristin Sosnowsky | Executive Associate Dean, College of Music & Dramatic Arts |
James Byo | Director, School of Music |
Joseph Skillen | Associate Dean of Graduate Studies |
Ruth Alise | Front Office Manager, School of Music |
Josh Allred | Theatre Recruiter, Office of Student Success |
Doris Butler | Business Officer, School of Music |
Leonce Clement | Creative Coordinator |
Kara Duplantier | Business Manager, Department of Bands |
Melissa Fay | Business Manager, School of Theatre |
Paloma Gonzalez | Student Services Coordinator |
Zachary Hazelwood | Director of Operations |
William Kelley | Audio Engineer |
Stephen Koivisto | Instrument Repair Technician |
Ali Leonard | Opera Production Coordinator |
Tim Love | Executive Assistant, Dean's Office |
Alexia Perez | Music Recruiter, Office of Student Success |
Ferris Peters | Front Office Coordinator, Theatre |
Lori Pilley | Director of Development |
Cullen Sadler | Marketing Coordinator |
Amy Smith | Interim Assistant Dean, Office of Student Success |
Vastine Stabler | Managing Artistic Director, Swine Palace |
Amy Trahan | Business Manager, School of Music |