Summer 2026 Commencement Program
Summer 2026 Commencement Ceremony
College of Music & Dramatic Arts
Friday, August 14th, 2026
9:00am
LSU Maravich Assembly Center
Summer 2026 Graduating Class
Undergraduate Degrees
Ahmir James Hall
Performance
Lily Hodges
Voice
Payton Anna Kahn
Flute
Graduate Degrees
Please note that graduate degrees are officially conferred by the Pinkie Gordon Lane Graduate School.
Hope Kathryne Ayers
Brass Performance
Lecture Recital: Counted In: Including Female Composers in Orchestral Horn Audition Repertoire
Allen Nicholas Brown III
Brass Performance
Non-Thesis Research
Luis Bernardo Castro
String Performance
Lecture Recital: From Obscurity to the Stage: A Stylistic and Pedagogical Exploration of the Four Concert
Etudes by Mikhail Bukinik
Chun Ka Lam
Piano Performance
Monograph: A Pedagogical Exploration of Haydn's Early Keyboard Sonatas: No. 7 in C Major, No.8
in G Major, And No. 11 in G Major
Roberto Carlos Mochetti Jr.
String Performance
Monograph: Teaching Through Sound: Approaches to the Use of Fixed Media in Pedagogical Viola
Etudes
Wenxin Sha
Vocal Performance
Lecture Recital: An Analytical and Performance Guide to Jake Heggie’s of Gods and Cats and Thought
Unspoken for Baritone and Piano
Elijah Swan
Brass Performance
Lecture Recital: The Student Performer’s Guide to Creating a Consortium
Justin Barnett
Experimental Music & Digital Media
Dissertation: Neural Parallel Intelligence – and the Future of Creative Practice: Human-Computer
Co-Creation in Digital Media Performance
Andrew Farrar
Composition
Dissertation: Musical Objects, Territories, and Otherness
Jinnan Liu
Piano Pedagogy
Dissertation: Effects of Peer Tutoring Training Duration and Group Piano Level on Harmonization and Transposition Achievement and Learning Attitudes of Undergraduate Non-Keyboard Music Students
Carlos Gustavo Román Echeverri
Experimental Music & Digital Media
Dissertation: The Eco-Systemic Sound Lab: Experimental Sound and Music and the Interplay of Art,
Science, and the Environment
Matthew Peter Wood
Music History
Dissertation: Perpetual Purgatory: Lamennais’s Religious Influence on the Music and Persona of Franz
Liszt
LSU Alma Mater
Where stately oaks and broad magnolias shade inspiring halls,
There stands our dear old Alma Mater who to us recalls,
Fond memories that waken in our hearts a tender glow,
And make us happy for the love that we have learned to know.
All praise to thee, our Alma Mater, molder of mankind,
May greater glory, love unending, be forever thine.
Our worth in life will be thy worth, we pray to keep it true,
And may thy spirit live in us, forever LSU.
For a full list of LSU College of Music & Dramatic Arts faculty and staff, please visit our college directory.
The appearance of a name in this program is presumptive evidence of graduation but is not to be regarded as conclusive. Students whose names are listed more than once in this program are receiving multiple degrees. The names of some students may not be listed in this program due to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. Because of printing deadlines, honors designations may not be accurate.