Summer 2022 Commencement Program
Ceremonies begin Friday, August 12, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. CST
Maravich Assembly Center
More information about this ceremony is available at: lsu.edu/commencement/
Graduating Class
Savannah Sanders
Theatre Studies
Michelle Stutes
Voice
Mark Hainey
Voice
David Hochkeppel
Saxophone
Percussion
Eleonora Apostolidi
Piano Performance
Graduate Portfolio: Songs, Scherzi, Preludes and Variations of the Piano Literature
Kara Nguyen Capell
Woodwind Performance, Saxophone
Graduate Portfolio: Saxophone Literature Recital and Audiovisual Recording Project
Paul Henderson
Choral Conducting
Thesis: A Conductor’s Guide to Joan Szymko’s Shadow and Light: An Alzheimer’s Journey
Spencer Jones
Percussion Performance
Thesis: TOYBOX: A New Approach for Auxiliary Instruments at the Elementary Level
Clayton Maddox
Brass Performance, Tuba
Graduate Portfolio: Diversity and Inclusion Among Tuba Recording Artists and Tuba Professors
Ivan Smetankin
String Performance, Double Bass
Graduate Portfolio: The Standard Double Bass Orchestra Excerpts
Jamey Wright
Vocal Performance
Thesis: Unifying Text and Music: Applying Shurtleff's Twelve Guidepost to Operatic Arias for Soprano
Tamyka Jordan
Music Theory
Dissertation Title: ‘Space is the Place:’ Afrofuturism in Black Popular Music
William Thompson IV
Experimental Music and Digital Media
Dissertation Title: Creating Musical Scores Inspired by the Intersection of Human Speech and Music through Model Based Cross Synthesis
The appearance of a name in this program is presumptive evidence of graduation, but is not to be regarded as conclusive. Students whose names are listed more than once in this program are receiving multiple degrees. The names of some students may not be listed in this program due to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974.
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