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Music

In its Honors Program the Music Department awards Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:

• Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
  Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

2024-2025

• Calder Stephens Sprinkle, (Highest Honors) 
  Sophia Serghi + David Grandis, David Garrett

2023-2024

• Evan Maly,  (Highest Honors) 
  Sophia Serghi + David Grandis, Troy Davis 

2022-2023

• Justin Michael Oei, "" (High Honors) 
  Thomas B. Payne + Jamie C. Bartlett, Alexander B. Angelov

2021-2022

• Colin Carmody, "" (High Honors)
  David Grandis + Jamie Bartlett, Brian Hulse, Eric Swartz
• Paul Hardin IV, "" (Highest Honors)
  Brian Hulse + Phaedra McNorton, Giulia Pacini

2020-2021

• Mary Shannon, "" (High Honors)
  James Armstrong + Thomas Payne, Leslie Cochrane

2019-2020

• No Honors students this year.

2018-19

• Virginia Tilley, ""
  Thomas Payne + James Armstrong, Alexadner Angelov

2017-18

• Dolan Harrington, "Metal's Illegitimate Child: An Investigation into the Music and Culture of Darksynth" (Honors) 
  Christopher DeLaurenti + David Dominique, Maria Swetnam-Burland 
• Lauren Hoak, "" (Honors) 
  Anne Rasmussen + Katherine Preston, Danielle Moretti-Langholtz

2016-17

• Cody Jones, "" (High Honors)
  Katherine Preston + James Armstrong, Leisa Meyer
  
• Kevin Kay, "" (High Honors) 
  Sophia Serghi + Brian Hulse, Gene Tracy

2015-16

• Evan Cunningham, "Voices: An Exploration of Electronics and Orchestral Instrumentation" (Highest Honors) 
  Sophia Serghi + Brian Hulse, Henry Hart

2014-15

• Emerson Sieverts, "" (Honors) 
  Jamie Bartlett + Robert Ruffin, Thomas Payne

2013-14

• No Honors students this year

2012-13

• Taylor Ashlock, (High Honors) 
  Thomas Payne + James Armstrong, George Greenia, Monica Potkay
• Fiona Balestrieri, (Highest Honors) 
  Anne Rasmussen + Max Katz, Brad Weiss, Jonathan Glasser
• Kevin Deisz, (High Honors)
  Greg Bowers + Timothy Mauthe, Paul Bhasin, Evgenia Smirni
• Patrick Dittamo, (High Honors) 
  Brian Hulse + Thomas Payne, Monica Brzezinski
• Matthew Reese, (High Honors) 
  James Armstrong + Tuska Benes, Chandos Brown, Katherine Preston 

2010-11

• Jean-Paul Wallace, "Study in Microtonality and Lutherie" (Honors)
  Sophia Serghi + Ruth Griffioen, J.C. Poutsma, Gene Tracy
• David Witkowsky, (High Honors)
  Greg Bowers + Brian Hulse, Gayle Murchison, Peter Vishton

2009-10

• No Honors students this year.

2008-09

• Jacob Charron, (Highest Honors)
  Anne Rasmussen + Brian Hulse, Arthur Knight
• Michael Johnson, (High Honors)
  Sophia Serghi + Greg Bowers, Nancy Schoenberger
• Daniel Siepmann, (High Honors)
  Brian Hulse + Sophia Serghi, Rob Leventhal
  

2007-08

• Olivia Lucas, "Creating Time: Rhythmic Processes and Metrical Forming in Schoenberg's Opus 22" (High Honors)
  Brian Hulse + James Armstrong, Jamie Bartlett, Rob Leventhal

2006-07

• Drew Colby, "In the Footsteps of Nathaniel Dett: Composing An American Mass, An Original Composition Based on African-American Spirituals" (High Honors)
• John Muniz, "Yin-Yang for 'Pierrot plus percussion'" (Highest Honors)
  Sophia Serghi + Thomas Payne, Chris Bailey, Kevin Vose
• Laura Smith, "Meghrebi Music Culture in Southern Spain: Nostalgia, Conflict, and Exchange" (High Honors)
  Anne Rasmussen + Tom Payne, George Greenia, Francie Cate-Arries

2005-06

• Cong (Tony) Sun, "Four Chinese Music Demigods and Chinese Romanticism of the Twentieth Century" (High Honors)
  Anne Rasmussen and Sophia Serghi + Christine Niehaus, Yanfang Tang

2004-05

• Derek Power
  James Armstrong + Sophia Serghi, Julie Galambush
• Bryan Wright
  Katherine Preston + Chris Scales, Anne Rasmussen, John Morreall