Music and Dance Graduates
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Class of 2008

BACCALAUREATE DEGREES
Fall 2007
Melena Rose Bronson, B.A., Dance, Eugene, OR
John Heer, B.Mus., Composition, Placentia, CA
 
James Jianping Hsui, B.S., Dance, New York, NY
Evan Howard, B.Mus., Composition, cum laude, Hillsboro, OR
Ian Tornay, B.S., General Music, Bend, OR 
Mika Linette Watanabe, B.A., Dance, Los Angeles, CA

Winter 2008
Ehren Ebbage, B.A., General Music, Creswell, OR
Eraclis Economou, B.A., General Music, Limassol, Cyprus
Grace In-Ae Park, B.A., Dance, Beaverton, OR
Todd Tucholke, B.S., General Music, La Bolt, SD

Spring 2008 
Eliesebeth Allen, B.A., General Music, Hillsboro, OR
Kirsten Arbogast, B.Mus., Voice Performance, Grants Pass, OR
Justin Armstrong, B.Mus., Composition, Cottage Grove, OR
Jason Aulicino, B.S., General Music, Portland, OR
Moses Barrett, B.S., General Music, Forest Grove, OR
Derek Bondy, B.Mus., Trombone Performance, Gresham, OR
Andiel Brown, B.S., General Music, Portland, OR
Nisha Calkins, B.A., General Music, Eugene, OR
Hasina Cohen, B.A., Music History & Literature, summa cum laude, Corvallis, OR
Kevin Congleton, B.Mus., Jazz Studies, Eugene, OR 
Emily Cox, B.Mus., Violin Performance, Portland, OR  
Tavis M. Crocker, B.S., Dance, Corvallis, OR
Gregory Davis, B.S., General Music, Verona, WI 
Patrick DeGiovanni, B.A., General Music, Portland, OR
Elizabeth Erenberg, B.Mus., Flute Performance, Studio City, CA
Logan Fowler, B.Mus., Music Education, Jacksonville, OR
Melanie Garrett, B.Mus., Trumpet Performance, Salem, OR
Dylan Girard, B.Mus., Trumpet Performance, cum laude, Bend, OR
Cory Goldman, B.S., General Music, Lake Oswego, OR
Sara Hamilton, B.A., Music History and Literature, Ashland, OR
Timothy Harrington, B.Mus., Music Education, Missoula, MT
Graham Jacobs, B.Mus., Jazz Studies, Bend, OR 
Kameron Johnson, B.S., Music Technology, Portland, OR
Jacob Kenyon, B.Mus., Composition, Grants Pass, OR
Samantha Marie Ketcherside, B.S., Dance, Eugene, OR
Margaret Lieberman, B.Mus., Voice Performance, Grants Pass, OR
Ashley Michelle Long, B.S., Dance, Clackamas, OR
Mark Maricle, B.Mus., Jazz Studies, Springfield, OR
William Marsh, B.Mus., Jazz Studies, Beaverton, OR
Laura Elise McClendon, B.S., Dance, Lake Oswego, OR
Justin Medlen, B.A., General Music, Lowell, OR 
Esther Megargel, B.Mus., Composition, Springfield, OR
Jaclyn Moses, B.A., Music History and Literature, Grants Pass, OR
Jose Murillo, B.Mus., Voice Performance, Panorama City, CA
Ashley Nation, B.A., Music History and Literature, Casper, WY
Eric Passarge, B.S., Music Technology, Eugene, OR 
Evelisa Perezselsky, B.Mus., Clarinet Performance, McMinnville, OR
Steve Perot, B.S., General Music, Beaverton, OR 
Alex Poole, B.Mus., Music Education, Springfield, OR
Kaeli Porter, B.Mus., Music Education, magna cum laude, Portland, OR
Stephanie Ellen Reisfeld, B.A., Dance, magna cum laude, Burlingame, CA
Katherine Rogers, B.Mus., Viola Performance, summa cum laude, Phoenix, AZ
Scott Ruby, B.Mus., Jazz Studies, Beaverton, OR 
Erika Rudnicki, B.Mus., Music Education, Sunnyvale, CA
Jonathan Schilling, B.Mus., Jazz Studies, Eugene, OR 
Kieran Schnabel, B.Mus., Voice Performance, cum laude, Eugene, OR
Bryan Schuster, B.Mus., Percussion Performance & Music Education, Wenatchee, WA
Keemun Senff, B.Mus.,
Trumpet Performance, Bend, OR 
Zachary Tendick, B.Mus., Trumpet Performance, Creswell, OR  
Lia Thomas, B.Mus., Clarinet Performance & Music Education, Boulder, MT
Po-Yu “Gordon” Tsai, B.Mus., Violin Performance, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Kirstin Veltman, B.A., General Music, magna cum laude, Eugene, OR
Megan Williams, B.Mus., Voice Performance, Corvallis, OR
Rosemary Woodward, B.A., General Music, magna cum laude, Eugene, OR
Peter Yurkovich, B.Mus., Horn Performance, Newburg, OR

Summer 2008
Laura Daum, B.Mus., Viola Performance, Fairbanks, AK
Kanako Ishihama, B.Mus., Piano Performance, Tokyo, Japan
Desiree Marie Townley, B.S., Dance, Eugene, OR

MASTER'S DEGREES
Fall 2007
Chiao-Yin “Pauline” Huang, M.Mus., Piano Accompanying, Sanchung City, Taipei, Taiwan
Jesse Benjamin Jones, M.Mus., Composition, La Grande, OR
Thesis: Piano Concerto No. 1
Tze-Wen “Julia” Lin, M.Mus., Piano Performance, Taichung City, Taiwan

Winter 2008
David Joseph Heyer, M.A., Music Theory, Eugene, OR
Thesis: An Analysis of the Chorales in Three Chopin 
Nocturnes: Op. 32, No. 2; Op. 55, No. 1; and the Nocturne in 
C-Sharp Minor (without opus number)
Marie Ann Landreth, M.Mus., Choral Conducting, Redmond, OR
I-Yi Pan, M.Mus., Piano Accompanying, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Spring 2008
Gina Marie Bolles, M.F.A., Dance, Chula Vista, CA
Douglas Andrew Detrick, M.Mus., Jazz Studies, West Linn, OR
Jonathan Theodore Glawe, M.Mus., Music Education, Waterloo, IA
Caroline June Goodnight, M.F.A., Dance, Federal Way, WA
Lauren Elise Green, M.Mus., Voice Performance, Anchorage, AK
Gregory Patrick Guenther, M.Mus., Voice Performance, Bozeman, MT
Jeremy Frederick Heaven, M.Mus., Cello Performance, Ferndale, WA
Juli Ann Herbert, M.Mus., Flute Performance, Sheridan, WY
Amy Lynn Kerker, M.Mus., Flute Performance, Elizabethtown, PA
Dennis Edward Linsley, M.A., Music Theory, Atlanta, GA
Thesis: Melodic Inversion in J. S. Bach’s Keyboard Suites
Scott Austin Miller, M.Mus., Bassoon Performance, Tallahassee, FL
Vu Quach Nguyen, M.Mus., Wind Conducting, Dublin, CA
Sarah Elizabeth Nommensen, M.Mus., Horn Performance, Park Ridge, IL
Christopher Scott Olin, M.Mus., Choral Conducting, Moraga, CA
Sayer English Palmer, M.Mus., Violin/Viola Performance and Pedagogy, St. Albans, VT
Daniel Nathan Sedgwick, M.Mus., Clarinet Performance, Santa Barbara, CA
Alexander Jay Singer, M.Mus., Percussion Performance, Troutdale, OR
Rebecca Ann Springstead, M.Mus., Piano Pedagogy, Corvallis, OR
David Pescar Swigart, M.Mus., Jazz Studies, Fresno, CA
Joshua Hawkins Tower, M.Mus., Jazz Studies, Acton, MA
Heidi Kristina Wait, M.Mus., Flute Performance, Port Angeles, WA
Brett Alan Woods Wartchow, M.Mus., Intermedia Music Technology, Grand Rapids, MN

Summer 2008
Emily Kathleen Fish, M.Mus., Voice Performance, Veneta, OR
David Nyman Gustafson, M.Mus., Voice Performance, Eugene, OR
Amanda Christine-Pearl Herman, M.F.A., Dance, Federal Way, WA
Luke J. MacSween, M.Mus., Music Education, Bend, OR
Tara MacSween, M.Mus., Music Education, Bend, OR
Darren Gene McCoy, M.Mus., Music Education, Salem, OR
James Sansom “Sandy” Miller, M.Mus., Voice Performance, Eugene, OR
Andrea Rose Recek, M.A., Music History, Albany, Oregon
Thesis: The Aquitanian Sacred Repertoire in Its Cultural 
Context: An Examination of Petri clavigeri kari, In hoc anni 
circulo, and Cantu miro summa laude
Juliann Elizabeth Surface, M.Mus., Music Education, Portland, OR
Thesis: The Effects of Rote Teaching Methods on Kindergarten 
and First Grade Students’ Song Retention Accuracy

DOCTORAL DEGREES
Fall 2007
Kalin S. Kirilov, Ph.D., Music Theory, Vidin, Bulgaria
Dissertation: Harmony in Bulgarian Music

Winter 2008
Jennifer Sullivan, D.M.A., Violin Performance, Boise, ID
Lecture-Document: From Vivaldi’s Four Seasons: A Comparison 
of Performance Practice in the Last Sixty-Five Years on the 
 
Largo from Concerto No. 4, Op. 8, L’Inverno, RV 297 in F Minor
Yoichiro Etsuki, D.M.A., Violin Performance, Okazaki, Japan
Lecture-Document: Filling the Void in 19th Century Viola and 
Piano Literature: Transcription of Brahms Sieben Lieder, Op. 95

Spring 2008
Mio Merrie Aoike, D.M.A., Piano Performance, Portland, OR
Lecture-Document: 88 Settings of Heidenröslein: Cultural and 
Social Influences on the Composition
Jason G. Britton, Ph.D., Music Theory, Spokane, WA
Dissertation: Harmony, Voice Leading, and Motive in 
Beethoven’s Last Quartet
Rachel A. Cornacchio, Ph.D., Music Education, Millinocket, ME
Dissertation: Effect of Cooperative Learning on Music 
Composition, Interactions, and Acceptance in Elementary School Music Classrooms
Betty Acheson Alison Mann, Ph.D., Music Education, New Port Richey, FL
Dissertation: The Effect of Vocal Modeling on Student 
Achievement and Attitude
Blake McGee, D.M.A., Clarinet Performance, Minneapolis, MN
Lecture-Document: An Examination of Commercial Reed 
Properties with Regard to Design and Materials
Matthew Lynn Strauser, D.M.A., Music Education, Salem, OR
Dissertation: The Classification of Language of High School 
Choral Directors

Summer 2008
Cara Sayo Okano, D.M.A., Piano Performance, Honolulu, HI
Lecture-Document: Alexander Scriabin’s Sonata-Fantasy