Summary of Three Dissertation Recitals

Three dissertation recitals were given to fulfill the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts. The first dissertation lecture-recital was presented in Britton Recital Hall on November 13, 2020. It featured a lecture on Carl Vine and His Piano Sonatas with a focus on Vine as a composer, his compositional styles and techniques, and an analysis of his Piano Sonata No. 1 (1990) and No. 3 (1997) with a performance of both works. The second dissertation recital was performed in Britton Recital Hall on February 5, 2021. The program consisted of music by Frédéric Chopin: Rondo, Op. 1; Mazurkas, Op. 24; Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52; and Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58. The third dissertation recital was given in Britton Recital Hall on March 25, 2021. It consisted of a set of works in various genres: Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 904 by Johann Sebastian Bach; Fantasia in C minor, K. 475 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Piano Sonata No. 2 “Sonata-Fantasie” in G-sharp minor, Op. 19 by Alexander Scriabin; and Piano Sonata No. 2 (1997) by Carl Vine.AMUMusic: PerformanceUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/167948/1/pianoxy_1.pd