Recent Composition Area Accomplishments

 

Explore this page to learn more about the student composers of the LSU Composition Area and their current works, recent accomplishments, and more.

Doctoral Students

  • A Phenomenology of Music Composition-Perception, Creativity, and its Embodiment in Shaping Music Identity
  •  

  • Audience Participation Structures in the Concert Hall
  • D, Me, You, We, a Non-Opera for Actor, Chatbot, Musicians, and Audience
  •  

  • "En Clave" Tania Le贸n and Roberto Sierra: Autochthonous Music of Cuba and Puerto Rico, Contemporary Music Composition, and the 'Puente' in Between.
  •  

  • In Search of the Armorial Aesthetic: The Counter-Reform of Ariano Suassuna and the Compositional Techniques in Clovis Pereira's Suite Macambira
  •  

  • A Study of Indigenous North Vietnamese Ca Tru Music, and The Deities of the Kalachakra Mandala

  • A Synthesis of Contemporary Music Composition Pedagogy Practices for the Undergraduate and Graduate Level Sequences, and An Exploration of Time, Sound, and Space: An Aleatoric Event Score in Collaboration with the LSU Museum of Art
  • Nominated to represent LSU for competing in the CGS/ProQuest (Council of Graduate Schools) in the Arts and Humanities area.

  • (cello concerto with FELX ensemble)
  • The Rougarou Concerto and Initial Observations of the Felx Ensemble

  • The Seven Valleys for Orchestra and a Study of Music Composition Pedagogy

  • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra and "Nevertheless, She Composed: A Contemporary Survey of Women Composers of the Twenty-First Century"

  • Symphony No.2 and the Text Setting of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
  •  

  • Old School for the New School: Discussing the Importance of Motown Records in American Music History

  • Epic Beginnings: A Symphonic Work and Aaron Copland (the American Stravinsky) versus Igor Stravinsky 
  •  

  • Concerto for Horn and Orchestra and Sofia Gubaidulina's Serialism

  • Freedom Train, dissertation (for chamber ensemble and 2 singers)
  • Analysis and Utilization of Hip-Hop Techniques in Classical Music, monograph
  •  

  • Saba Bidar
  • Andrew Farrer
  • Dietrich Hitt
  • Filipe Rocha

Masters Students

  • Thesis submitted
  • Anticipated Graduation Date: Spring 2026

  • Thesis submitted
  • Anticipated Graduation Date: Spring 2026

  • Thesis submitted
  • Anticipated Graduation Date: Spring 2026

  • Can You See Nature?
  •   

  • Theme and Variations on an African Chant
  •  

  • The Recusant's Dream
  •  

  • Emily Somebody: a Chamber Opera in Three Acts
  •  

  • Bassoon Concerto: Color & Light
  •  

  • String Quartet No. 2 鈥� Lanterns (SQ)

  • Requiem for Orchestra and Choir 

  • Bryan Armond
  • Ty Blankenship
  • Elijah Boudreaux
  • Cameron Rogers-Johnson

Composition Minors

Po-Yu Fang (DMA, Bass Performance)
Jinxin Fu (PhD, EMDM)

Steven Wimberly (DMA, Percussion Performance, 2026)
Mason Cox (MM, Bassoon Performance, 2025)
Christopher Cunningham (MM, Choral Conducting, 2025)
Devin Bureau (MM, Choral Conducting, 2024)
Johan Pepper (DMA, Violin Performance, 2024)
Matthew Bardin (PhD, EMDM, 2023)
Katie DeLaMare (DMA, Cello Performance, 2023)
Austin Franklin (PhD, EMDM, 2023)
Tamyka Jordan (PhD, Music Theory, 2022)
Thomas Kim (DMA, Clarinet Performance, 2022)
William Thompson (PhD, EMDM, 2022)
David Walters (DMA, Choral Conducting, 2022)
Landon Viator (PhD, EMDM, 2020)
Shane Courville (DMA, Trumpet Performance, 2019)

Honors College Thesis Students

Jacob Fontenot 

Emery Gischler (2025)

Fresh Works by LSU Student Composers Available Through J.W. Pepper

From the contemporary to the historically inspired, the works in this collection were composed by students, alumni, and faculty from the LSU Composition Program and published through My Score, a simple, cost-effective solution for composers to promote and sell sheet music online while also maintaining their copyrights. Delve into the latest in self-published works from LSU and learn more about the composers who created them.

decorative photo of the lsu quad

Graduate Program Admittances

  • New York 九九福利网 Tisch School (Musical Theatre)
  • 九九福利网 of Southern California
  • 九九福利网 of Missouri - Kansas City
  • Pacific Northwest (Film Scoring)
  • Johns Hopkins - Peabody Institute
  • Hart School of Music
  • Berklee Valencia (Film Scoring)
  • Boston Conservatory of Music
  • 九九福利网 of York
  • Trinity Laban Conservatoire
  • Mannes School of Music
  • Manhattan School of Music
  • New York 九九福利网 - Concert Music
  • New York 九九福利网 - Film Scoring
  • Stony Brook 九九福利网
  • 九九福利网 of Tennessee - Knoxville
  • 九九福利网 of Houston
  • 九九福利网 of Michigan
  • 九九福利网 of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Job Positions Attained

  • Concordia College 
  • Idaho State 九九福利网
  • Lenior Rhyne 九九福利网
  • Louisiana Technical 九九福利网
  • McNeese State 九九福利网
  • M盲lardalen 九九福利网
  • Mississippi State 九九福利网
  • The Ohio State 九九福利网
  • Royal College of Music, Stockholm
  • 九九福利网 of Albany, SUNY
  • 九九福利网 of Nebraska - Omaha
  • Valdosta State
  • Vassar Calloge

Summer Programs & Conferences Attended

  • The American Prize
  • Atlantic Music Festival
  • Alba Music Festival
  • Bent Frequency - underscore
  • Brevard Music Center
  • Carnegie Hall Performances With CNME
  • Charlotte New Music Festival
  • Choral Arts Initiative
  • Choral Association of Japan
  • Civic Orchestra of Baton Rouge
  • Composer in Residence at 九九福利网 Presbyterain Church
  • Cortona Reading Session
  • East Carolina 九九福利网
  • Electric Four Corners New Music x CPI
  • Electronic Music Midwest
  • Ensemble Ipse
  • Film Scoring Academy of Europe Summer Workshop
  • LaTex
  • Highscore
  • Hypercube Composition Lab
  • Iceberg New Music
  • Marlboro Music Festival
  • Millennium Composers Initiative
  • Morton Gould Composer Award
  • Mostly Modern Festival
  • Multiple Commissions from Tampa Homegrown and Vermillion Duet
  • National Association of Teacher's Singing
  • National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Festival
  • N.E.O. Voice Festival
  • New Music on the Bayou
  • New Music on the Point
  • New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Community Partnership Grant
  • New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
  • NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression)
  • Norfolk New Music
  • NYU Screen Scoring Workshop
  • ORTUS International New Music Competition
  • Penn State New Music Festival
  • SCI Regional and National Conferences
  • SEAMUS
  • Sewanee Summer Music Festival
  • Sofia Symphonic Summit
  • Sound/Sight Art Collaboration
  • Splice Music Festival
  • UMKC Summer Composition Workshop
  • Versipel New Music
  • Viva 21st Century 50/50 Marathon
  • Walden Creative Musicians Retreat
  • Web Audio Conference