Recent Graduates and Their Capstone Projects
1. Catherine Clayton (M.A.) -- The Harp Music of John Parry (Thesis, Fall 2000). Catherine earned her D.M.A. in Harp Performance (Spring 2008) from the University of Arizona, with a minor in ethnomusicology. She is a Lecturer at the University of Utah, teaching harp performance, world music, music history, and music appreciation.
2. Amber Youell-Fingleton (B.M.) --Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Soprano Concert Arias K.272, 528, 578, 582, and 583 (Thirty-page paper of original research, Spring 2004). Amber is completing her dissertation in the M.A./Ph.D. program in Musicology at Columbia University.
3. Stefano Graziano (M.A.) -- The Canti Carnascialeschi of Lorenzo de' Medici (Thesis, Spring 2004). Stefano completed a M.M. in Lute Performance at the Longy School of Music in Boston (Spring 2007) and now is in the Ph.D. program in Musicology at Boston University.
4. Jerusha Johnson (B.M.) -- Pierre Attaingnant's Chansons musicales a quatre parties (1533) for Recorder and Flute (Thirty-page paper of original research, Spring 2005). Jerusha has completed her B.M. in Music Education at Weber State University in preparation for entering a D.M.A. program in Instrumental Conducting.
5. Emily Nelson (M.M.) -- Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame (1214-1233) (Thirty-page paper of original research, Spring 2005). Emily obtained her Artist's Diploma from Indiana University's Early Music Program (Vocal Performance) in Spring 2007 and is now a professional performer working out of Salt Lake City, Utah.
6. Lydia Mayne (M.A.) -- Handel's Semele Transformed (Fifteen-page original study plus lengthy appendix, Dec. 2005) and A Gnostic Reading of Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande (Thesis, Summer 2006). Lydia is writing her dissertation in Stanford University's Ph.D program in Musicology.
7. Kara Shelton (B.M.) -- Political Context for Henry Brooke's Irish Ballad Opera, Jack, the Giant Queller, and Study of the Texts of Its Songs (Thirty-page paper of original research, Summer 2006). Kara entered the M.A. program in Irish Studies at Boston College.
8. Meladee Kirton (M.M.) -- Lisa Lehmann as a Vocal Pedagogue (Thirty-page paper of original research, Fall 2007). Meladee is a very busy teacher of piano and voice in Salt Lake City, Utah.
9. Matt Laube (M.M. in Trombone Performance, Spring 2008) -- (Fifteen-page paper of original research created with the University of Utah's German and Musicology Faculties, Fall 2008). Matt began the M.A. program in Musicology at Royal Holloway, University of London during Fall 2009.