GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
Dissertation Advising
Chair, Wenru Yang, The Analysis of Chinese Music Elements and Compositional Style in Selected Piano Works of Gong Xiaoting, DMA Dissertation: In progress
Chair: Vicki Walker, Inspiration from the Podium: The Experiences of Black Female Band Directors and Orchestra Conductors, Ph.D. Dissertation: In progress
Chair: Michael Walker, The Impact of David Baker’s Pedagogy in the Field of Jazz Improvisation Education. Ph.D. Dissertation: In progress
Chair: Faith Zuniga, Death in Russian Piano Trios: Selected Elegiac Trios of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, and Sviridov. DMA Dissertation: Fall 2022
Committee Member, Colton Morris, A Complementary Pair: Analyzing the Inclusion of Drum Set and Multiple Percussion Within University Percussion Curricula DMA Dissertation: Successfully defended, Spring 2022
Committee Member, Brendan Schnabel, Using Transcription to Develop a Personal Jazz Improvisational Style. DMA Dissertation: Successfully defended, Spring 2021
Chair: Lisa Eckstein, A Study of Twelve Selected Works by Mark Camphouse: An Analysis of His Characteristic Sound and the Stories Behind His Music. DMA Dissertation: Successfully defended, Fall 2020
Committee Member: Mark Theile, The Original Wind Band Commissions of “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band. DMA Dissertation: Successfully defended, Summer 2020
Chair: Jeremy Cochran, Transcription as Interpretation: A Comparative Analysis of Oscar Navarro’s II Concerto for Clarinet and Symphony Orchestra with the Composer’s Own Transcription for Wind Band. DMA Dissertation: Successfully defended, Spring 2019
Committee Member: Margaret M. Woods, Alleviating the Difficulties in Teaching Multicultural Choral Music. Ph.D. Dissertation: Successfully defended, Spring 2018
Chair: Nathan St. Pierre, Using Achievement Goal Theory to Investigate Pre-Service Music Teacher’s Attitudes Toward Grading Practices. Ph.D. Dissertation: Successfully defended, Fall 2017
Thesis Advising
Chair: Seika Van Keuren, The Asian American Musical Experience: Teacher Perceptions Through the Lens of Critical Race Theory. MM Thesis: Successfully defended, Fall 2020
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
Dissertation Advising
Chair: David Hanan, Predictors of Work Engagement Among College Music Education Faculty, Ph.D. Dissertation: Successfully defended, Spring 2017
Chair: Janci Bronson, Predictors of Piano Performance Achievement Among Young Piano Students: Ages 8-13, Ph.D. Dissertation: Successfully defended, Fall, 2016
Chair: Beth Mattingly, Katalin Forrai and the Development of the Kodaly Concept in Early Childhood Music Education, Ph.D. Dissertation: Successfully defended, Summer, 2016
Chair: Cindy Tseng, An Investigation of Student Flow Experiences in the Collegiate Group Piano Classroom, Ph.D. Dissertation: Successfully defended, Spring 2016
Committee Member: Bryan Powell, An Exploratory Study on the Effects of Curriculum and Pedagogy at a School of Popular Music: A Collective Case Study, Ph.D. Dissertation: Successfully defended, Spring 2016
Committee Member: Susan Adams Johnson, A Study of Recruitment of Undergraduate Music Students from the Perception of Music Faculty Practitioners and Administrators, Ph.D. Dissertation: Successfully defended, Fall 2015
Committee Member: Sean Patrick Kelley, Early-Career to Late-Career Development Among Successful University Band and Wind Ensemble Conductors in the Pedagogical and Interpretive Approach to Significant Works for Winds and Percussion, DMA Dissertation: Successfully defended, Spring 2015
Chair: Elizabeth Maughan, Factors Affecting Elementary General Music Educators’ Work Engagement, Ph.D. Dissertation: Successfully defended, Fall 2013
Co-Chair: Hector Landa, An Investigation of the Career Decision Making Process of Graduate Piano Students, Ph.D. Dissertation: Successfully defended, Summer 2013
Committee Member: Paula Hutton, The Effect of Feedback on Musical Aptitude Scores, Ph.D. Dissertation: Successfully defended, Spring 2013
Committee Member: Jesse Heetland, An Annotated Bibliography of Published Compositions for One Trumpet and Organ, 1998-2008, DMA Dissertation: Successfully defended, Spring 2013
Co-Chair: Christian O’Donnell, An Investigation of the Effect of the Instruction in Edwin Gordon’s Tonal and Rhythm Patterns on Secondary Students’ Advanced Measures of Music Audiation Scores, Ph.D. Dissertation: Successfully defended, Spring 2011
Co-Chair: Theresa Camilli, Personal and Social Factors that Predict Students’ Length of Piano Study, Ph.D. Dissertation: Successfully defended, Fall 2010
THESIS ADVISING
Committee Member: Bradley Regier, A Measurement of Self-Efficacy Among Oklahoma Secondary Band Directors in Jazz, Concert, and Marching Band Pedagogy, MME Thesis: Successfully defended, Spring 2016
Chair, Tara Kizer, Perceptions from the K-12 Educational Community Towards the Inclusion of a Secondary Fiddle Music Curriculum in the State of Oklahoma, MME Thesis: Successfully defended, Spring 2015
Chair, Kara Rhodes, Factors Affecting Attrition and Retention in Instrumental Music, MME Thesis: Successfully defended, Summer 2014
Chair, Abigail Bruce, Examining the Learning Styles of Secondary Instrumental and Vocal Music Students, MME Thesis: Successfully defended, Fall 2013
Chair: Molly Baugh, Instructional Methods of Advanced Placement Music Theory Teachers: A Nationwide Survey, MME Thesis: Successfully defended, Fall 2011
Committee Member: Stacey Garrepy, In Search of a New Stylistic Ideal: The German Motets of Heinrich Schutz, Master of Music (MM) Thesis: Successfully defended, Spring 2011
Dr. Charles R. Ciorba 