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)
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  • 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)
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  • Jackie Lamar, DMA, UNT, “The History and Development of Vibrato for Saxophone” (1988)