This is a comprehensive list of graduates of the University of Michigan Composition Department. Alumni are invited to provide any new resume/career information as well any missing information about other graduates. Please send comments, questions and information to pmdooley@umich.edu.
Beecher, Lembit D.M.A. 2009
NYYS First Music Commission
Fellow at the UM Institute for Humanities, 2008-2009
Biedenbender, David MMus 2009
Music composition/theory faculty of the Interlochen Arts Camp
Third Millenium Ensemble’s Composition Prize
Regional winner of the SCI/ASCAP Student Composer Commission Competition
Bilter, Raymond BMus 2009
Jarret, Greg BMus 2009
Martin, Theresa D.M.A. 2009
Detriot Symphony Orchestra, Reading of “City of Ambition”, 2009
2008 Commission from the Ann Arbor Symphony
Fellowship Recipient Aspen Summer Materclass (2007)
ASCAPlus Awards for 2008 & 2007
2007 Commission from the Barnett Foundation of Chicago
Aresty, Abigail MMus 2008
Grant from the Hanson Student Commissioning program
Itoh, Takuma MMus 2008
Currently pursuing doctorate at Cornell.
NYYS Commission
ASCAP Awards (2004, 2007)
Performances by the Haddonfield Symphony, Pioneer Valley Symphony, Bakersfield Symphony, Woodlands Symphony
2008 ACO Underwood New Music Reading
Premo, Evan BMus 2008
Has performed concertos with the Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra, Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Metropolitan Youth Symphony
Vuichard, Robert BMus 2008
Bacon, Alexis D.M.A. 2007
Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at West Texas A&M University
Bela, Marcin D.M.A. 2007
Music faculty member at Middle Tennessee State
Broderick, Victor BMus 2007
Brown, Eliza BMus 2007
Commissioned by the PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Philadelphia Sinfonia Youth Orchestra
Awards from the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, the Third Millennium Ensemble, and the Walden School.
Carey, Jeffrey BMus 2007
CD release of “Martes-Martes”
Dietz, Chris Composition and Music Theory PhD 2007
Oberlin Conservatory Visiting Assistant Professor of Theory
Hillsdale College Adjunct Professor of Composition
National Arts Centre (Ottawa) Composers Programme Fellow )
Copland House, Aaron Copland Award (residency date, June – 2009) Banff Centre (Alberta) Summer Composers Residency – July 2008 NewMusic@ECU Festival Orchestral Composition Competition Winner ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, 2007
ASCAP Plus Awards – 2005, 2006, 2007
Utah Arts Festival Commission for Orchestra, national competition Minnesota Orchestra Reading Sessions and Composer Institute
Garner, David MMus 2007
Currently pursuing doctorate at Duke
Holmes, Thomas BMus 2007
Currently pursing Masters at Ohio University
Horowitz, Andrew BMus 2007
John Lennon Fellowship (2004)
Member of Tally Hall rock band under the Atlantic Records label
Jaeger, Shawn BMus 2007
2007 Broadcast Music Incorporated Student Composer Award
BMI Award (2007, 2008)
Myers, Jeff D.M.A. 2007
Awards from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, BMI, Society of Composers, the Eastman School
Tanglewood & ASCAP fellowships
American Composers Orchestra Reading
New York Youth Symphony First Music Commission (2003)
BMI Composer Awards (1998, 2002)
Performances by L’Orchestre National de Lorraine, PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Center for New Music (IA)
Nietfeld, Lena BMus 2007
Penman, Joshua D.M.A. 2007
Commissions from the early music ensemble Lionheart, Ann Arbor Symphony, New York Youth Symphony
Performances by the Cedar Rapids Symphony, American Composers Orchestra
Pesca, Daniel MMus 2007
Romero, Manly D.M.A. 2007
Performance Librarian for the Manhattan School of Music
Awards and commissions from the American Composers Orchestra, New York Foundation for the Arts, Meet the Composer, and the American Music Center.
Tucker, Colin BMus 2007
BMI award (2006)
Dicke, Ian MMus 2006
Guest composer at the Cabrillo Festival of New Music
MetLife Creative Connections grant from the Meet the Composer Foundation
Fisher-Lochhead, Christopher BMus 2006
BMI Award (2001)
Aspen Music Festival (2003)
Kelly, Elizabeth MMus 2006
Currently pursuing Ph.D at Eastman
Performances by Ann Arbor Symphony, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Janacek Philharmonic, University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra and Concert Band, Yale Collegium Musicum, California EAR Unit
2008 ASCAP Morton Gould award
Lee, Wendy Composition and Music Theory PhD 2006
Assistant Professor of Music at the State University of New York at Binghamton
Future Assistant Professor of Composition at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Lecture-recital at the 2007 College Music Society International Conference
Guest composer residency at the University of Arkansas in February 2008
Buckles, Mark BMus 2005
Director of Music at Arlington Street Church in downtown Boston
Music Director Emeritus of Juventas, co-founded the ensemble in 2005.
Etezady, Roshanne D.M.A. 2005
Music faculty member at Arizona State
Commissioned by the Albany Symphony, Dartmouth Symphony, eighth blackbird
Grisanti, Rodney D.M.A. 2005
Music faculty member at Harold Washington College, Chicago
Henry, David MMus 2005
Lee III, James D.M.A. 2005
Assistant Professor at Morgan State University.
Premiere by Leonard Slatkin and the National Symphony Orchestra
Molina, Christopher MMus 2005
Teacher with the JET Program in Japan
Invited to the Villecroze Academy of Music and Paris Conservatory summer programs
Molina, Christopher MMus 2005
