Congratulations to the Dewberry School of Music graduates of the Class of 2025! On behalf of our entire music faculty and staff, I want to offer our sincere congratulations to our 76 outstanding graduates of the Reva and Sid Dewberry Family School of Music of George Mason University! 


The Class of 2025 includes 58 Spring graduates and 18 Fall graduates earning music degrees at the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels. To each of our 76 Dewberry School of Music graduates in the Class of 2025, we wish you every success as you help make this world a better place through the sharing of your extraordinary gifts of music.

Dr. Linda A. Monson, Director

Reva and Sid Dewberry Family School of Music

Congratulations Spring 2025

Music Graduates!

Dewberry School of Music


Spring 2025 Graduates



Bachelor of Arts (Music)


Christopher Joseph Arnhold (Music Technology)

Ainsley Carroll Doughty

Mary Morgan Elizabeth Elder

Laura K Hanson

Rachel Antonia Hartman (Music Technology)

Gage Alexander Jones (Music Technology)

Alexander R. Keitt-Saenz (Pedagogy)

Jonathan O. Ogebe

Ian Russell Takacs (Music Technology)

Ann Hung Tran (Music Technology)


Bachelor of Music


Andrew Christian Bell (Performance)

Nareg Harout Boghosian (Jazz)

Ross Benjamin Calvin (Performance)

Sarah Calvino (Performance)*

Mira Jane Carpenter (Jazz)

Treyvien Samuel Clark (Music Technology)

Samuel Waterton Debold (Performance)

Nicole Duchaine (Music Education)

Leigh Melyssa Eggleston (Music Technology)

Benjamin P. Freedman (Music Technology)

Michael John Frost (Jazz)

Telah Meshay Harper (Music Education)

Stellan Kristofer Hinz (Composition)*

Elaine Kelly Hopkins (Music Education)

Anna Kate Meiying Koumbis (Music Education)

Alexandra I. Kowalski (Music Education)

Annette Hana Lee (Performance)

David Maeng (Performance)

Martha C. Molinaro (Performance)

Sandy Nguyen (Music Technology)

Sonja Victoria Phillips-Thomas (Music Technology)

Nicolette Polifonte (Music Education)

Livingston Edward Rampey (Music Technology)

Marcos Alexander Sonnenberg-Nieves (Music Education)

Emma F. Stewart (Performance)

Jessica D. Taylor (Music Technology)

Wilfredo I. Zuniga (Music Technology)




Master of Music


Natalie Beal (Music Education)

Olivia Margaret Blashford (Music Education)*

Sheir E. Clark (Music Education)

Grace Terry Coberly (Music Education)

Abigail deVries (Music Education)*

Yitong Huang (Jazz)

Zoey Trixie Lamb (Multiple Instrument Performance)

Parker Joseph Neal (Music Education)

Nathaniel Jeffers Plapinger (Performance)

Samira Plummer-Brown (Performance)

Ya-Chi Tang (Performance)

Deirdre A. Tyler (Music Education)

Julianna Danielle Wedding (Music Education)*

Derik Jerod Wright (Conducting)



Graduate Certificate Music Education

Licensure for PK-12


Mehrnoush Aghagholizadeh

Sophanit A. Yohannes



Doctor of Musical Arts


Calvin Duane Evans Jr. (Composition)

Quincy Jones: Film Composer


Yiran He (Performance)

A Musical Expression of the Traditional Chinese Calendar Through

Yang Kai’s Piano Suite: The TwentyFour Solar Terms


Ga Young Lee (Performance)

Theological Themes in Shinuh Lee’s Chorale Fantasy for Piano,

No.1: “Comfort, Comfort My People” (2007/2009)

 

William F. Rosenfeld (Conducting)

Edward Elgar’s Part-Songs in the Secondary Choral Curriculum:

Evaluation and Pedagogical Rubric



PhD in Music Education


Vicki Y. Walker

Inspiration from the Podium:

The Experiences of Maestra Anne Lundy



*Denotes Summer 2025 Graduate


Fall 2024 Music Graduates

Dewberry School of Music



Fall 2024 Graduates




Bachelor of Arts (Music)


Theo Rose Cobb (Music Technology)

Sean Alexander Leech (Music Technology)

Hannah Polissky (Music Technology)

Elijah Blessings Young



Bachelor of Music


Ian X. Harlow (Music Education)

Cole Thomas Krasznay (Music Technology)

John E. Mirabella (Performance)

Hyunjoo Jeong Scarlatoiu (Performance)

Paige E. Sharkey (Music Education)

Lydia K. Sorenson (Performance)

Xinyi Xu (Performance)



Master of Music


Victoria Bain (Music Education)

Stephen Joseph Gliatto (Music Education)

Jamiah Harrison (Music Education)

Elizabeth Marie Rigney (Music Education)



Graduate Certificate Music Education

Licensure for PK-12


Michelle Fegeas



Doctor of Musical Arts


Anh Nguyen (Performance)

Realism in Cuong Hoang's Piano Music: 

Vietnamese Imagery and other Cultural Influences

in Five Images and other Selected Pieces


Yiyao James Hao (Performance)

Application of Musical Narrative Theory

in Chinese Piano Solo Works



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