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Graduate Commencement Ceremony Saturday, July 11, 2020 20 6:00pm CET 20 Order of Events Call to Order and Commencement Greetings María Martínez Iturriaga Executive Director, Valencia Campus Greetings from President Roger H. Brown Roger H. Brown President Greetings from the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Lawrence J. Simpson Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Provost Interim Dean of Academic Affairs / Faculty Speaker Jeanine Cowen Interim Dean of Academic Affairs Student Speaker Sharon Onyango-Obbo Degree Candidate, M.M. in Music Production Technology Innovation Nairobi, Kenya Video Salute to the Class of 2020 Presentation of the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music Lila Downs Tribute Performance “La Cumbia Del Mole” Commencement Speaker Lila Downs Graduate Student Awards and Conferral of Degrees, Class of 2020 Magdalini Giannikou Program Director, Master of Music in Contemporary Performance (Production Concentration) Emilien Moyon Program Director, Master of Arts in Global Entertainment and Music Business Pablo Munguía Program Director, Master of Music in Music Production, Technology, and Innovation Lucio Godoy Program Director, Master of Music in Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games Introduction of Candidates Catalina Millán Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts Department Pete Dyson Associate Professor, Global Entertainment and Music Business Processional and Recessional Talon - Abøn Together- Tati Rabell Like You Are - Delia Joyce Changes - Celestine & Earlybird Strange Bulería - Alba Haro Up High - Jimena Wu Optical Illusion - Luigi Tasso Disquiet - Lavender Looi Mockingbird - Lucia Vázquez Montenegro Serendipity - Chavis Chance Class of 2020 Candidates for the Master of Music in Contemporary Performance (Production Concentration) Master of Music in Contemporary Performance (Production Concentration) Omran Thabet Adrah (Damascus, Syria) Guillermo Calvillo Rosselló (Valencia, Spain) SongAh Chae (Incheon, South Korea) Mai Choma (Jerusalem, Israel) Bailey Anna Ehrgott (Washington, US) Lalit Kumar Ganesh (Singapore, Singapore) Giovanni Giusti (Firenze, Italy) Chavis Hamilton (Texas, US) Alba Haro (Barcelona, Spain) Gillian Alexandra Harwin (New York, US) Fairin Moon Hightower (Pennsylvania, US) Neff Irizarry II (Helsinki, Finland) Jung Soo Ji (Seoul, South Korea) Jon Gavin Juckette (Los Angeles, US) Natalia Gabriela Lacrete (Florida, US) Michael Lucarelli (Pennsylvania, US) Shaden Nahra (Haifa, Palestine) Sean Oliver (Maryland, US) Sung Eun Ong (Seoul, South Korea) Lauren Adah Mary Pedersen (Alberta, Canada) Estefanía Pizzi-Fernández (San Juan, Puerto Rico) Yeidimar Ramos Colón (Levittown, Puerto Rico) Jorge Salas Quesada (San Jose, Costa Rica) Michael Shanks (Texas, US) Katiana Maria Somer (California, US) Pedro Augusto Vieira de Almeida (Brasília/Distrito Federal, Brazil) Jawren Walton (Florida, US) Class of 2020 Candidates for the Master of Arts in Global Entertainment and Music Business Master of Arts in Global Entertainment and Music Business Garvit Aggarwal (Noida, India) Harold Brian Alcarraz Medina (Lima, Peru) Dan Attias (Paris, France) Louise Cartier (Arras, France) Rowanne Chang (Taipei, Taiwan) Leonardo Crabai (Milan, Italy) Manuela de Lamare (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Rose Donohue (Maryland, US) Roberto Ignacio Flores Picazo (Mexico City, Mexico) Jonathan Derrick Gangadeen (New York, US) Anny Viana Gomes (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Nicholas Graziano (Pennsylvania, US) Abderraouf Bennett Grissa (Pennsylvania, US) Eric Javier Hernández (Lima, Peru) Max Heumann (Santiago, Chile) Myra Johnson (Massachusetts, US) Joyce Kelly-Lefèvre (Dublin, Ireland) Henrike Pauline Anna Kresser (Munich, Germany) Jacob Lapidus (Maryland, US) Susan Lee (Wisconsin, US) Hui Ling Li (Yanji, China) Qiao Ya Li (Toronto, Canada) Qian Yi Lu (Shenzhen, China) Carolina Luciano (Quito, Ecuador) Meghan Elizabeth McCluskey ( Vienna, Austria) Rodney McKenzie Jr. (California, US) Alica Molito (Hanover, Germany) Alyssa Napier (New York, US) Lydia Louise Netterville (Louisiana, US) Luis Fernando Pérez Ruiz (Mexico City, Mexico) Michelle Raymond (Virginia, US) Jorge Riveros (Bogotá, Colombia) Tommaso Rocchi (Padova, Italy) Gabriela Rodriguez Bonilla (Villalba,Puerto Rico) Antoine Rousseau (Toulouse, France) James Shannon (Quebec, Canada) Martina Gabriela Verano (Manila, Philippines) Caitlin Williams (Georgia, US) Jimena Wu Crousillat (Lima, Peru) Jiang Nan Yi (Wuhan, China) Class of 2020 Candidates for the Master of Music in Music Production, Technology, and Innovation Master of Music in Music Production, Technology, and Innovation Nasir Salaheddin AlBashir (Amman, Jordan) Mónica Andrade (Monterrey, México) Joey Angus (Manitoba, Canada) Vittorio Arno’ (Milan, Italy) Jamie Blake (Washington, US) Jeanne-Marie Brigitte Blanchard (Louisiana, US) Delia Bowman (Delaware, US) Destiny Carter (Kentucky, US) Wyatt Cmar (Massachusetts, US) Mirte de Vrieze (Nieuw-Buinen, The Netherlands) Kartikeya Dixit (Pune, India) Viraj Rajendra Gandhi (Louisiana, US) Yu Hao Gao (Beijing, China) David Gilmore (Wisconsin, US) Jacob Henbest (Arkansas, US) David-James Hughes Hepburn (Vermont, US) Kaneda Nicole Kimani (Nairobi, Kenya) Shakthi Prasad Kizhikki Thara (Kerala, India) Tatiana Lamela-Rabell (Puerto Rico, US) Pei Yue Lu (Chengdu, China) Ankit Malik (West Bengal, India) Kauner Michael (North Carolina, US) Lisa Murray (Gibbstown, Ireland) Sparsh Narang (Delhi, India) Christopher Nicolosi (New Jersey, US) Serin Oh (Ohio, US) Sharon Onyango-Obbo (Nairobi, Kenya) Daniel Osterstock (Utah, US) Keana Peery (California, US) Daniel Prophete (California, US) Nicolas Ramos Oliver (Santiago, Chile) Sean Robinson (Washington DC, US) Widline Sainvil (Florida, US) Giorgio Schipani (Varese, Italy) Selina-Marisa Schmalisch (Munich, Germany) Dylan Scott (California, US) Hoi Man Shek (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Miles Shipps (Michigan, US) Carlos Andrés Sierra Castrillón (Bogotá, Colombia) Melissa Silla (Florida, US) Kshitij Singh (Bhopal, India) Andrew Skinner (Georgia, US) Luigi Tasso (Beirut, Lebanon) Elizabeth Alice Teutsch (Illinois, US) Ryan Vazquez (Hawaii, US) Jorge Vidal (Texas, US) Kieran Wallace (Wisconsin, US) Lawrence Wood (Massachusetts, US) Gan Xu (Changchun, China) Class of 2020 Candidates for the Master of Music in Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games Master of Music in Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games Aimee Jaqueline Alexander (Connecticut, US) Ivana Ancic (Belgrade, Serbia) Thomas Bingham (Saint Genis Pouilly, France) Yun Jung Choi (Seoul, South Korea) Christopher Gough (London, UK) Helen Hong (Shanghai, China) Mark Hull (Pennsylvania, US) William Gerhardt Isaacson (North Carolina, US) Sandy Jones (Massachusetts, US) Ssu-Han Liu (Taichung city, Taiwan) Lavender Looi (Malacca, Malaysia) Francisco Lorenzo Alonso (Madrid, Spain) Sanchit Malhotra (Washington, US) Yu Sze Melody Ng (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Alexander Nikoleit (Duisburg, Germany) Julia Owczarek (Dolnośląskie, Poland) Carlos Pérez Marín (Madrid, Spain) Steven Ross (Iowa, US) Rahul Shah (Ontario, Canada) Finnur Sveinbjarnarson (Reykjavik, Iceland) Claudia Torrente (Madrid, Spain) Lucie Treacher (Sutherland, Scotland) Lucía Vázquez Montenegro (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Alex Williams (Missouri, US) Luke Helder Williams (London, UK) En Hui Xia (Zhejiang, China) Jue Zhuang (Fujian, China) Class of 2020 Candidates for the Post Master’s Fellowship Post- Master’s Fellowship Laura Blasco Llopis (Valencia, Spain) Luca Bordonaro (Sicily, Italy) Elena Díaz Mateo (Madrid, Spain) Dana Fakhoury (Beirut, Lebanon) Phui Kuan Kok (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) Malena Marcase (Missouri, US) Li-Ying Ooi (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) Claudia Marcela Rada (Ontario, Canada) Erin Kelleher Ragonese (Brooklyn, US) Saria Tourbah (Beirut, Lebanon) 2020 Program Directors and Faculty Program Director, Program Director, Master of Music in Master of Music in Scoring for Film, Contemporary Performance Television, and Video Games (Production Concentration) Lucio Godoy Magdalini Giannikou Program Director, Program Director, Undergraduate and Summer Programs Master of Arts in Global Entertainment Enric Alberich and Music Business Emilien Moyon Program Director, Master of Music in Music Production, Technology, and Innovation Pablo Munguía Faculty, 2020 Enric Alberich David Nordlund Fabien Aubry Alf Olofsson Matthew Aric Baker Polo Ortí Clara Barberá Vicente Ortiz Gimeno Devon Bryant Paul Pacifico Daniel Castelar Yoel Páez Alfons Conde Albert Palau Jeanine Cowen Sergi Palau Tano Darias Alexandre Perrin Peter Dyson Viktorija Pilatovic Tim Ferrone Germán Ramos Ana Finger Olga Román Daniel Flors Perico Sambeat Jon Forsyth Israel Sandoval Laura Jean Gatzkiewicz Mangono Albert Sanz Magdalini Giannikou Marjorie Schecker Stine Glismand Pablo Schuller Lucio Godoy McKinley Short Enrique Hernandis Patrick Soria Sergio Jiménez Lacima Mariano Steimberg Timotej Kotnik Francisco Suárez Astrid Clara Maria Kroon Liz Teutsch Tsun Ju Lin Miguel Tito Nacho Marco Javier Vercher Lucas Martín Marta Verde Javier Martinez Escriba Cristóbal Vogúmil Abellán de la Rosa Sergio Martínez Díaz Nevena Vujosevic Steffen Meister Pierce Warnecke Victor Mendoza Joshua Wheatley Catalina Millán Gary Willis Emilien Moyon Elysha Zaide Pablo Munguía María Zarza Federico Nathan Lila Downs Lila Downs, a multi-hyphenate whose talents include singer, songwriter, composer and actor, is quite simply one of the most influential artists in Latin America. With one of the world’s most singular and powerful voices, she is known for her charismatic and compelling stage presence