THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
Ronald J. Daniels, President Sunil Kumar, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
THE PEABODY INSTITUTE OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
Fred Bronstein, Dean
PEABODY CONSERVATORY ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVENTH GRADUATION EXERCISES
1868–2019
Wednesday, May 22, 2019 10:00 am Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall PROGRAM
Processional Pomp and Circumstance Edward Elgar (1857–1934) Old Bay Brass Jason Aylward, trumpet David Sayers, trumpet Scott Ullman (M.M. ’18, G.P.D. ’19, Horn), horn Sarah Lynne Lewandowski (M.M. ’17, G.P.D. ’19, Trombone), trombone Harry Oehler (B.M. ’16, Bass Trombone and Music Education; M.M. ’18, Bass Trombone), bass trombone
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Greetings
Fred Bronstein, Dean Sunil Kumar, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Johns Hopkins University
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Suite for Flute and Piano, Op. 34 Charles-Marie Widor IV. Final. Vivace (1844–1937) Andrew Jerome Dardis (B.M. ’19, Flute), flute Hui-Chuan Chen (M.M. ’06, D.M.A ’14, Piano), piano
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Induction of the 2019 Graduating Class into the Society of Peabody Alumni
Elizabeth L.K. Berman (B.M. ’05, Oboe; KSAS B.A. ’05, Romance Languages) Second Vice President, Immediate Past President, Society of Peabody Alumni
Awarding of the Azalia H. Thomas Prizes and the Peabody Alumni Award Abra Bush, Senior Associate Dean of Institute Studies
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Presentation of the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award
to Michael Kannen Sidney M. Friedberg Chair in Chamber Music Abra Bush, Senior Associate Dean of Institute Studies Bryan McMillan (Bus B.S. ’00, Business and Management; M.B.A. ’02, Business Administration), Secretary, Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association
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to Tori Amos Singer-songwriter Fred Bronstein, Dean
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Remarks to the Graduating Class
Tori Amos Singer-songwriter
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Gracias a la Vida Violeta Parra (1917–1967) Lorenzo Zapata (B.M. ’19, Voice), baritone Sean Brennan (B.M. ’14, G.P.D. ’19, Guitar; M.M. ’17, Guitar/Pedagogy), guitar
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Presentation of the Graduating Class Nilaya Baccus-Hairston, Conservatory Registrar
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Awarding of Diplomas
Abra Bush, Senior Associate Dean of Institute Studies Townsend Plant, Associate Dean for Enrollment and Student Life
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Remarks to the Graduates Fred Bronstein, Dean
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Recessional Highland Cathedral Ulrich Roever and Michael Korb Arranged by Jason Aylward Old Bay Brass Jason Aylward, trumpet David Sayers, trumpet Scott Ullman (M.M. ’18, GPD ’19, Horn), horn Sarah Lynne Lewandowski (M.M. ’17, G.P.D. ’19, Trombone), trombone Harry Oehler (B.M. ’16, Bass Trombone and Music Education; M.M. ’18, Bass Trombone), bass trombone
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The Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award presented to Michael Kannen
Michael Kannen, you have distinguished yourself creating unusual and unique interdisciplinary as a musician and teacher of extraordinary performance projects. Your pre-concert lectures accomplishment, a cellist whose celebrated have illuminated works for audiences at Shriver performance career and artistic versatility Hall, the University of Chicago, and others. profoundly inform your teaching. Your students value knowing that the guidance and advice you As director of chamber music at the Peabody offer comes from decades of performing on the Conservatory, where you hold the Sidney M. world’s greatest stages. Friedberg Chair in Chamber Music, you are known for always seeking to enhance every student’s As a founding member of the renowned Brentano chamber music experience — encouraging Quartet, you appeared in such venues as excellence through the Honors Ensemble program, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Wigmore Hall, collaborating with the Composition Department to the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and the Sydney champion new music, and seeking out meaningful Opera House. The prestigious honors accorded performance and outreach opportunities. to you with the quartet include the Naumburg Colleagues note that your commitment to Chamber Music Award, the Martin E. Siegel Award fostering the chamber music program at Peabody from Lincoln Center, and the first Cleveland has been unwavering, passionate, and gracious, Quartet award. You recently collaborated with the and that the impact of your focus on the growth of Brentanos in a live performance recording of the the individual student can be seen in every aspect great Schubert Cello Quintet. of Peabody’s artistic life.
Now a member of the Cooperstown Quartet, Students remember working with you as a joy; you have also been a member of the Apollo Trio, one saying: “Mr. Kannen helped me fall in love with which you recorded the complete piano with chamber music.” Your enthusiasm for trios of Dvořák. You have appeared at many chamber music is infectious; your knowledge prestigious chamber music festivals, including of the repertoire vast; and the high level of your those of Spoleto, Taos, Tanglewood, Prussia Cove, own playing inspiring. These qualities, combined Caramoor, and Four Seasons, and this year will with your kindness and genuine care for students, be your 20th summer mentoring students at the make them feel supported, encouraged to realize Yellow Barn Music School. Your collaborators their own interpretations, and challenged to grow have included such luminaries as Jessye Norman, in their musicianship. Your responsiveness and Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Leon Fleisher, Mitsuko personal investment in your students have made Uchida, Itzhak Perlman, Sergiu Luca, Pamela you a tremendous influence in their development Frank, Paula Robison, Kenneth Cooper, Jörg not just as musicians, but as people. Widmann, Steven Isserlis, and Michael Formanek. Michael Kannen, in recognition of your many gifts You have performed and recorded a wide range of and accomplishments, and with our profound repertoire, from music on period instruments to gratitude for all that you are and the good that works of many living composers. Performing for you do, it is our pleasure to present to you the diverse audiences without access to typical concert Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association’s experiences has always been and continues Excellence in Teaching Award for 2019. to be a priority in your career and you enjoy
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The George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America presented to Tori Amos
Tori Amos, you are among the most influential album Night of the Hunters, which pays tribute solo artists of your generation, beloved by to composers such as Bach and Chopin, Bartók millions for your emotionally honest, narratively and Debussy and which won an Echo Klassik complex, and unapologetically unconventional award. Your stage musical The Light Princess — songs. A singer-songwriter, pianist, composer, an adaptation of the George MacDonald fairy and eight-time Grammy Award nominee, you tale — premiered at London’s Royal National began your study of music here at the Peabody Theatre in 2013 and was nominated for Best Preparatory. You were performing professionally, Musical at the Evening Standard Awards. under your father’s guidance, by the age of 13, playing for lobbyists and politicians in a You and your music have inspired many official Washington, D.C., piano bar. and unofficial books in addition to your 2005 autobiography. In the Eisner- and Harvey-Award From your 1992 breakthrough album Little winning anthology graphic novel Comic Book Earthquakes to 2017’s Native Invader, you Tattoo, each of the stories is based on one of have maintained a distinctly personal voice your songs. and achieved uncommon recording industry success, with seven of your 15 commercial A longtime advocate for victims of sexual assault, albums debuting in the top 10 of the Billboard you were the first spokesperson for the Rape, 200. Written on themes of feminism, family, Abuse and Incest National Network (rainn). sexuality, politics, and religion, your string of Your semi-autobiographical 1991 song “Me and chart-topping singles has included inspiring a Gun” has become something of an anthem for and personal songs like “Crucify,” “Silent All the #MeToo movement, and you continue your These Years,” and “A Sorta Fairytale.” involvement with rainn as a member of their National Leadership Council. On your recordings and in live shows, you play not just piano, but also harpsichord, Tori Amos, you have followed the muses and harmonium, clavichord, Hammond B-3 organs, charted your own course to the pinnacle of a Rhodes piano, and Electronic Keyboards. success, speaking your truth, and attracting Devoted to your fans, you have performed more an ever-larger following with every lyric. With than 1,000 shows since your first world tour in this award, we celebrate your singular career 1992 and, in 2003, were voted fifth-best touring and outsized impact. I am proud to bestow act by the readers of Rolling Stone magazine. on you today the highest honor conferred by the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins During your most recent journey in the world University — the George Peabody Medal for of classical music, you worked with the German Outstanding Contributions to Music in America. musicologist Alexander Buhr, PhD, on your 2011
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Performer’s Certificate
Viola Guanlun Li
Bachelor of Music
Bass Trombone Jacob Niemann
Bassoon Mateen Asad Milan
Clarinet Chadwick Glenn Thomas
Composition Cameron B. Falby Atticus Jahn Hebson Christine Liu Meimei Zhu
Computer Music Composition Eric Kantor Alexander Timm Ringo Nuowen Tu-Wang
Double Bass Samuel Corrado Dugo Winston Malik Harris Rachel Elizabeth Tucker Keene Luke Morrison Reilly
Flute Andrew Jerome Dardis
Guitar Jordan D. Colquitt Ernest Alexander Green Sojourner McClure Infinity Jazz Willner
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Horn Jordan Alia Dinkins Noah Tingen
Music Education Mercy Anne Calhoun Winston Malik Harris Robert Austin Lingerfeldt
Oboe MengYing Han
Piano Yi-Chen Feng Yunhan Gu Jeremy Thomas Hassell Timothy J. Jones Doyoung Park Jung Min Suh Pirapat Tokiatrungruang Yunling Zhang
Recording Arts and Sciences Eric P. Engler Ernest Alexander Green Atticus Jahn Hebson James Benjamin Hoyt Eric Kantor Anastasia Kupstas Pirapat Tokiatrungruang Ryan Andrew Yacos
Trumpet Man Hon Ambrose Tang John Patrick Wagner Chenguang Wang
Tuba Robert Austin Lingerfeldt
Viola Madelynn Victoria Brightbill Alexandra KC D’Amico Christian Kazmierski Setareh Parvaresh
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Violoncello Marcella Jo Kolacki Xingqiao Ren Ethan W. Sandman Kahler John Suzuki
Voice Charlotte Suzanne Bagwell Rahzé Cheatham Katherine Holobinko Alyce McNulty David Brian Sexton Thomas Rousseau Swain Lorenzo Zapata
Graduate Performance Diploma
Baroque Violin Stephanie Zimmerman
Double Bass Jianze Zhang
Flute Yerim Choi Christian Paquette
Guitar Sean D. Brennan Mengyi Li
Horn Scott Campbell Marianna I. Miché Scott Ullman
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Percussion Yukiko Nakamura
Piano Chelsea de Souza Ye Jin Lee Chia-Yu Tsai
Trombone Sarah Lynne Lewandowski
Viola Mark Yeh Liu
Violin Minjin Lee Yat Sze Wong
Violoncello Najette Abouelhadi Elías Leceta Gómez-Nebreda Ethan Wagner
Voice Amelia Isabel Gil-Figueroa Anqi He Sijuan Hou Madeline Rose Huss Sarah Spivack
Master of Arts
Audio Sciences Yujung Baek Eric P. Engler Richard Frank Grouser III Ruoli Li Sharan Moses Jonnathan Andres Paris-Santana Yutong Qi Anthony J. Staiti Lin Yao
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Baroque Viola Namgon Lee Stephanie Zimmerman
Baroque Violin Brenda Siu Han Koh
Baroque Violoncello Jamie Gallupe
Bassoon Kathleen Elizabeth Beavers
Clarinet Sheng Chen
Composition Camila Marie Agosto Ryan Ayres Matteo Belli Jun An Chew Maxime Daigneault Kyle Puebla Dubin Samuel Garrett Tzu-Chin Hsu Scott Kehoe Tianrun Long Sean McFarland Jonathan F. Milord Patrick Andrew Thompson Timothy Witbeck
Computer Music Composition Erik Arthur Fredriksen Tiantian Wang
Conducting Alex Amsel Hilo Tiago Carriel da Silva Jonathan Taylor Rush Isaiah Sangwon Shim
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Flute Hongsuh Cha Amanda Christine Dame Victor Manuel Hernandez Ramirez Gyuri Kim
Guitar Connor Aidan Milstead
Guitar/Pedagogy Tobias Maxwell James Shon David Stelman
Harp Esther Yoon Chung
Historical Performance Voice Katelyn Grace Aungst William Preston Marshall Mara Alexandra Rose Yaffee
Horn Yasmeen Richards
Music Education Yangqian Hu
Music Theory Pedagogy Zachary Gulaboff Davis
Musicology Samuel Garrett Henry William Hubbard Kimberly Kong
Oboe Gabriella A. Alberico Andrea I. Copland
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Percussion Hio Man Chang Jacob J. Gutierrez Zachary A. Gutierrez Zachary Taylor Mosher-Davis Robert A. Rocheteau
Piano Rongmei An Ga Eun Ban Eugene Chan Yu Sherry Du Ian Huh Dong Yeon Kim Narae Lee Pei-Hsuan Lin Xuesong Lin Jiyoung Park Xuan Song Chelsea Wang Tong Xu
Piano/Pedagogy Soo Ji Lee Randy Ryan
Saxophone Daniel Matthew Kamon
Trombone Benjamin P. Magrowski
Viola Andrew Ji Ming Goo Carrie A. Jones Hyejin Kim Bronwyn Kure Jonathan F. Milord Amy Huimei Tan Lehan Xue Wang Ting-An Wei Yang Yang
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Violin/Pedagogy Ae-Lin Youn
Violoncello Jerram John
Violoncello/Pedagogy Soyoon Park
Voice Katherine Elizabeth Christenbury Madilyn Crossland Emma Renae Dickinson Laura Gabrielle Doyon Jared Hancock Abigail Hart Samantha Hornback HaYoung Jung Alicia Renee Lumberry Chuyan Luo Colleen Elizabeth McGonigle William D. Meinert Randa Rima Elias Melhem Emma R. Nicholson Arianna Celeste Rodriguez Brianna Grace Samuels Garrett James Sanderson Kelly Marie Timko Melanie Elizabeth Walker Shanhong Zhang Siwei Zhang
-13- Voice/Pedagogy Ricardo Garcia Erika L. Hagen Henry William Hubbard Bailey Jo Hutton Daniel Edward Sampson Maria Rosalie Servodidio
Wind Conducting Michael Carter
Doctor of Musical Arts
Composition Jin-Hwa Choi Zachary Gulaboff Davis Charles John Tim Holt IV Sun-Young Park
Guitar John Isaac Greene
Harpsichord Paula Gail Maust
Piano Iris Hsu Da-Hee Kim Kimberly Kong Meng-Sheng Shen
Violoncello Mauricio Rey Gallego
Voice Min Sang Kim
Wind Conducting Robert Joel Pippin
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*Sarah Stulman Zierler Prize in Accompanying Yunling Zhang
Bassoon Peabody Bassoon Prize Mateen Asad Milan
Chamber Music Sidney Friedberg Prize in Chamber Music Chelsea Wang Grace Clagett Ranney Prize in Chamber Music Samuel Adam Andrea I. Copland Andrew Jerome Dardis Jordan Alia Dinkins Jeremy Thomas Hassell Mateen Asad Milan Jacob Niemann Fangming Shen Chadwick Glenn Thomas John Patrick Wagner Chenguang Wang
Clarinet Martha and William Bill Memorial Prize in Clarinet Sheng Chen Sidney Jensen Memorial Prize in Clarinet Chadwick Glenn Thomas
Composition *P. Bruce Blair Award in Composition Patrick Andrew Thompson *Gustav Klemm Award in Composition Sean McFarland *Ada Arens Morawetz Memorial Award in Composition Kyle Puebla Dubin *Otto Ortmann Award in Composition Ryan Ayres *Randolph S. Rothschild Award in Composition Timothy Witbeck
Flute Clinton Lee Arrowood Memorial Prize in Flute Gyuri Kim Britton Johnson Memorial Prize in Flute Andrew Jerome Dardis Christian Paquette
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Music Education May and Martin Raila Award in Music Education Winston Malik Harris
Musicology Irving Lowens Endowed Memorial Prize in Musicology Henry William Hubbard
Organ *Bruce R. Eicher Prize in Organ Paul H. Byssainthe Jr. Jordan Wilder Prescott
*Richard Ross Memorial Award in Organ Mi Zhou
Performance James Winship Lewis Memorial Prize in Performance Marcella Jo Kolacki Arianna Celeste Rodriguez B & O Women’s Club Award in Performance Sarah Lynne Lewandowski *Richard Franko Goldman Prize in Performance Infinity Jazz Willner *Lynn Taylor Hebden Prize in Performance Olivia Castor Colleen Elizabeth McGonigle
*Harold Randolph Prize in Performance Eric P. Engler *Alice & Leary Taylor Award in Performance Katelyn Grace Aungst Mabel H. Thomas Prize in Performance Robert A. Rocheteau
Piano *Pauline Favin Memorial Award in Piano Yi-Chen Feng Sahun Hong
Lillian Gutman Memorial Prize in Piano Timothy J. Jones Frances M. Wentz Turner Prize in Piano Eugene Chan
Strings *Israel Dorman Memorial Award in Strings Carrie A. Jones Ethan W. Sandman Amy Huimei Tan
*Olga Von Hartz Owens Memorial Prize in Strings Marcella Jo Kolacki Bronwyn Kure Elías Leceta Gómez-Nebreda Mark Yeh Liu Soyoon Park Xingqiao Ren Kahler John Suzuki Lan Zhang
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Voice *George Castelle Memorial Award in Voice Charlotte Suzanne Bagwell Ricardo Garcia Jared Hancock Alicia Renee Lumberry Colleen Elizabeth McGonigle Emma R. Nicholson Arianna Celeste Rodriguez Daniel Edward Sampson Brianna Grace Samuels Maria Rosalie Servodidio Kelly Marie Timko Lorenzo Zapata
Charles M. Eaton Prize in Voice Emma Renae Dickinson Annie Wentz Prize in Voice William D. Meinert *George Woodhead Prize in Voice Katelyn Grace Aungst Madilyn Crossland Amelia Isabel Gil-Figueroa Abigail Hart Katherine Holobinko Madeline Rose Huss Randa Rima Elias Melhem David Brian Sexton
Other Presser Music Award for 2018–19 Rachel O’Connor Azalia H. Thomas Prizes Given to the graduating instrumentalist and the graduating vocalist attaining the highest average in music theory *Peabody Alumni Award Given by the Society of Peabody Alumni to the graduating student attaining the highest grade point average in the Bachelor of Music program
-17- Peabody Competitions Virginia Carty deLillo Composition Competition 2018 Yuting Tan, first prize, for Play Tzu-Chin Hsu, second prize, for Seascape Endowed through a bequest of Virginia Carty deLillo Yale Gordon Concerto Competition for Instruments Other than Piano and Bowed Strings Christian Paquette, first prize, for flute Andrew Jerome Dardis, second prize, for flute Jay Shankar, third prize, for clarinet Endowed by the Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust
Macht Orchestral Composition Competition 2018 Yuting Tan, winner, for In Fields of Wilted Flowers Endowed by the Macht Philanthropic Fund
William L. Marbury Violin Competition Zili Sha, first prize Yiqing Fu, second prize Endowed by the law firm of DLA Piper Prix d’Été Competition Scott Li, first prize,for Memoriae Jeremy Earnest, second prize, for Life Cycles Scott Kehoe, third prize, for Three Movements for Wind Trio Established by Walter Summer in 1994 to encourage student exploration of computer and electronic technologies
Harrison L. Winter Piano Competition Chengcheng Yao, first prize Eugene Chan, second prize Endowed by gifts in memory of Judge Winter given by family, friends, and former law clerks Vocal Studies Song Competition Undergraduate Division Lorenzo Zapata, first prize Katherine Holobinko, second prize David Brian Sexton, third prize Graduate Division Elise Volkmann, first prize Cierra Byrd, second prize Bailey Jo Hutton, third prize Funded by Dr. Thomas H. Powell
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Samuel Bessen Kyle Puebla Dubin Bitna Jeong Jiyoung Park Eric Black Hannah Emigh-Doyle HaYoung Jung Mauricio Rey Gallega Nikita Borisevich Robert Feng Thea Kammerling Kelsey Ross Jacob Bowman Ricardo Garcia Seo Yoon Kim Mafalda Santos Sydney Campen Wei Gu Bonghee Lee Felipe Silva Kyle Carney Zachary Gulaboff Davis Melody Leung Elijah Smith Olivia Castor Jacob J. Gutierrez Mark Yeh Liu Jessica Sudarta Jun An Chew Edwin Huet Margarita Loukachkina Samuel Torres Esther Yoon Chung Sahun Hong Jacob Lyerly Ryo Usami Kasey Cwynar-Foye Yoshiaki Horiguchi Sean McFarland Elise Volkmann Mark DeMull Samantha Hornback Jessica Moss Cameron Welke Julie Desbordes Tzu-Chin Hsu Soojeong Oh Infinity Jazz Willner Henry Dorn Tae Ho Hwang Andrew Oswinkle Steven Wyrick
Peabody’s Career Development Fund has been endowed by Loraine and Malcolm Bernstein, Caswell and Constance Caplan, The Eyer Educational Corporation, and Douglas S. Goodwin. Supplementary support is contributed by the Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust.
Student Dean’s Incentive Grants
Interdisciplinary, Innovation Maxime Daigneault Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body
Interdisciplinary, Innovation Man Hon Ambrose Tang The Sound of Peabody
Peabody Inductees into the Epsilon Omicron Chapter of the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society in 2019
Matteo Belli Henry William Hubbard Madelynn Victoria Brightbill Randa Rima Elias Melhem Cameron B. Falby Lisa Perry Jeremy Thomas Hassell Sarah Thomas Atticus Jahn Hebson
The Pi Kappa Lambda Society was established in 1918 by the Alumni Association of the School of Music at Northwestern University in order to accord particular recognition to students of outstanding musical achievement and academic scholarship.
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