Joseph Corton Balistreri — Doctor of Musical Arts, Organ, 2026 Thesis: Gregorian Chant at the Keyboard: Developments in Plainchant Accompaniment in France and Belgium from 1829 to 1930 Directors: Dr. Rebecca Maloy and Dr. Heather Wiebe
Jongsoo Hwang — Doctor of Musical Arts, Conducting, 2025 Thesis: Solesmes Chant Principles and Korean Phonology: Toward a Practical Korean Psalmody Director: Dr. Peter Jeffery
Kari Crystelle Francis — Doctor of Musical Arts, Conducting, 2025 Thesis: Not an Object but Motion: Choral Improvisation Through Vocal Painting Director: Dr. John Liberatore
Richard Riley Gress — Doctor of Musical Arts, Organ, 2025 Thesis: Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji's First Symphony for Organ: Context, Sources, and Stylistic Analysis Directors: Dr. Rebecca Maloy and Dr. Heather Wiebe
Leah Dawn Martin — Doctor of Musical Arts, Organ, 2025 Thesis: Music in Emanuel Swedenborg's Theology: Revitalizing New Church Hymnody Director: Dr. Peter Jeffery
Roshan Chakane — Doctor of Musical Arts, Organ, 2024 Thesis: The “Clazzical” Organ Works of Surendran Reddy Director: Dr. Peter Jeffery
Emmanuel Peranca De Leon, Jr. — Doctor of Musical Arts, Conducting, 2024 Thesis: Eudenice V. Palaruan: A Conductor-Composer Forging a Filipino Musical Identity Director: Dr. Christopher Chowrimootoo
Dallin Porter Baldwin — Doctor of Musical Arts, Conducting, 2024 Thesis: The Latin American Christ in Osvaldo Golijov's La Pasión según San Marcos and John Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary Director: Dr. Christopher Chowrimootoo
Daniel Edward Schwandt — Doctor of Musical Arts, Organ, 2023 Thesis: A Responsibility to God and Man: The Life and Organ Works of David N. Johnson (1922–1987) Director: Dr. Kola Owolabi
Howard Lars Eckdahl — Doctor of Musical Arts, Conducting, 2022 Thesis: Herbert Howells: Educational Music, Texture, Equal Voices, and the Gloucester Magnificat Directors: Dr. Margot E. Fassler and Dr. Alexander Blachly
Emorja Gihon Roberson — Doctor of Musical Arts, Conducting, 2022 Thesis: Donald Lawrence: The Concert Stage, the Church, the Theatrical Director: Dr. Margot E. Fassler
Joshua David Boggs — Doctor of Musical Arts, Conducting, 2021 Thesis: Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in Considering Matthew Shepard Director: Dr. Christopher Chowrimootoo
Heejin Kim — Doctor of Musical Arts, Organ, 2020 Thesis: Heinrich Scheidemann's Motet Intabulations Directors: Dr. Alexander Blachly and Dr. Paul Walker
Brandon William Hollihan — Doctor of Musical Arts, Conducting, 2020 Thesis: Rehearsal and Performance Issues in Steve Reich's Tehillim: Unlocking the Process Director: Dr. Carmen-Helena Téllez
Benjamin Anthony Stone — Doctor of Musical Arts, Organ, 2020 Thesis: The Galant Style in Chorale-Based Organ Works of Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780) and Gottfried August Homilius (1714–1785) Director: Dr. Mary E. Frandsen
Elliott Hickson Smith — Doctor of Musical Arts, Conducting, 2019 Thesis: Mozart's "Great" Mass: Sources, History, and Performance Practice Director: Dr. Paul Walker
Christopher Joel Dekker — Doctor of Musical Arts, Organ, 2018 Thesis: The Organ Works of Bert Matter Director: Dr. Craig J. Cramer
Emerson William Eads — Doctor of Musical Arts, Conducting, 2018 Thesis: Joseph Haydn’s Stabat Mater: A Question of Empathy Director: Dr. Carmen-Helena Téllez
Caleb Rahmon Wenzel — Doctor of Musical Arts, Conducting, 2018 Thesis: Sebastian Knüpfer's Super Flumina Babylonis: Dramatic and Homiletic Expressivity in the Seventeenth-Century Sacred Vocal Concerto Genre Director: Dr. Mary E. Frandsen
Michael John Accurso — Doctor of Musical Arts, Conducting, 2017 Thesis: Baroque Grandeur in the Hands of the Classical Genius: A Study of George Frideric Handel's Messiah as Arranged by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Director: Dr. Carmen-Helena Téllez
Justin Matthew Appel — Doctor of Musical Arts, Conducting, 2017 Thesis: Perspectivism in the Passions of Ēriks Ešenvalds (b. 1977) Director: Dr. Christopher Chowrimootoo
Mary Catherine Levri — Doctor of Musical Arts, Organ, 2017 Thesis: The Chant-Based Organ Works of Anton Heiller Director: Dr. Craig J. Cramer
James Joseph Wright — Doctor of Musical Arts, Conducting, 2017 Thesis: Drama and Devotion at Chiesa Nuova: Translating Anerio’s Teatro Armonico to Jazz Oratorio Director: Dr. Pierpaolo Polzonetti
Emily Marie Meixner — Doctor of Musical Arts, Organ, 2017 Thesis: The Sixth Organ Symphony of Louis Vierne (1870-1937): An Analysis Director: Dr. Craig J. Cramer
Kevin James Vaughn — Doctor of Musical Arts, Organ, 2016 Thesis: The Organ Masses of Gaston Litaize (1909-1991): The Culmination of a Twentieth-Century Liturgical Genre Director: Dr. Craig J. Cramer