DMA Recipients - Saxophone Performance
- Jack Thorpe, DMA, UIUC, (2023)
- Scott Augustine, DMA, UIUC, "Ida Gotkovsky's Saxophone Works: A Comparative Study of Brilliance, Variations Pathetiques, and Incandescence"(2022)
- Matthew Storie, DMA, UIUC, "Developing a jazz tonal concept for the classical saxophonist" (2022)
- Evan Clark, DMA, UIUC, “Shrieks, Screams and Sighs: Constructions of Gender and Sexuality in William Bolcom’s Lilith" (2020)
- Pin-Hua Chen, DMA, UIUC, "An Analysis and Performance Guide for Three Saxophone Works by John Anthony Lennon: Distances Within Me, Aeterna, and Elysian Bridges" (2016)
- Christopher Anderson, DMA, UIUC, "The Use of Traditional Japanese music as an Inspiration for Modern Saxophone Compositions: An Interpretive Guide to Joji Yuasa’s Not I but the wind… and Masakazu Natsuda’s West, or Evening Song in Autumn" (2014)
- Collin James Wilson, DMA UIUC, "A Player's Guide to the Music of Barry Cockcroft: Performance and Preparation of Beat Me and Rock Me!" (2014)
- Drew Whiting, DMA, UIUC, "A Performer's Guide to Leslie Bassett's Compositions for Saxophone" (2013)
- Joyce Griggs, DMA, UIUC, “’Democratic Polyphony’ in Percy Grainger’s Saxophone chamber works” (2012)
- James Michael Holmes, DMA, UIUC, “Integrated Soundscapes – A Performer’s Guide to the Saxophone and Computer-Processed Music of Dr. Edward Martin (2012)
- Henning Schröder, DMA, UIUC, “Global Reflections of the Saxophone Image, Adaptation and Power of a New Instrument in Carnatic Music” (2011)
- Nathan Mandel, DMA, UIUC, “Milton Babbitt and his Works for Saxophone: Historiographic and Performance Perspectives” (2009)
- Kenneth Tse, DMA, UIUC, “A Performer’s Guide to Saxophone Music by Jindrich Feld” (2008)
- Mike Bovenzi, DMA, UIUC, “A Performer’s Guide to the Saxophone Music of Perry Goldstein” (2006)
- Will Campbell, DMA, UIUC, “An Analysis of the Improvisational Style of Dick Oatts” (2005)
- Vanessa Sielert, DMA, UIUC, “Alto Saxophone Mouthpiece Pitch and Its Relation to Jazz and Classical Tone Qualities” (2005)
- Matt Olson, DMA, UIUC, “Self-Expression in the Present Tense: An Examination of the Unique Elements of Jerry Bergonzi’s Improvisational Style” (2004)
- James Romain, DMA, UIUC, “A Study of the Saxophone Music by Mark Engebretson” (2003)
- Jackie Lamar, DMA, UNT, “The History and Development of Vibrato for Saxophone” (1988)