Graduate Alumni PLacement
Our graduate program has a high rate of placement of its graduates in academic positions. Below is a sampling from those who have graduated since 1990 to give you an idea of what paths some of our recent graduates have followed after leaving the University of Pittsburgh.
PhD in Music
Sau-yan Chan (PhD 1986)
Professor of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
J. Lawrence Witzleben (PhD 1987)
Professor of Music, University of Maryland College Park
Steven Saunders (PhD 1990)
Professor, Colby College
Anne Steele (PhD 1991)
Professor of Music, Duquesne University
Ping-hui Li (PhD 1991)
Associate professor of music, University of Puerto Rico.
Ying Fen Wang (PhD 1992)
Associate Professor, National Taiwan University
Robert Grimes (PhD 1992)
Associate Professor and Dean, Fordham University
Mark Sunkett (PhD 1993)
Associate Professor, Arizona State University
Cosmo Barbaro (PhD 1993)
Associate Professor, Edinboro State University
Helen Rees (PhD 1994)
Professor, UCLA
Andrew Kohn (PhD 1995)
Assistant Professor, West Virginia University
Nancy Guy (PhD 1996)
Associate Professor, Univ. of California, San Diego
Patricia Opondo (PhD 1996)
Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Barbara White (PhD 1997)
Associate Professor, Princeton University
Nimrod Bernovitz (PhD 1997)
Assistant Professor, University of Haifa
Blase Scarnatti (PhD 1998)
Associate Professor, Northern Arizona University
Tong Soon Lee (PhD 1998)
Assistant Professor, Emory University
John Marcinizyn (PhD 1998)
Artist-Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University,
Adjunct Instructor, Seton Hill University
Loyda Camacho (PhD 1998)
Adjunct Professor, Montgomery County Community College of PA
Gillian Rodger (PhD 1998)
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Kwasi Ampene (PhD 1999)
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado
Robert Metil (PhD 2000)
Instructor, University of Pittsburgh,
Adjunct Professor of Music, Chatham College
Emmett Price (PhD 2000)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Sylvia Nanyonga-Tamusuza (PhD 2001)
Assistant Professor, Makerere University (Uganda)
Kent Engelhardt (PhD 2001)
Coordinator of Jazz Studies, Youngstown State University
George Dor (PhD 2001)
Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi
Leonora Saavedra (PhD 2001)
Associate Professor, University of California - Riverside
Kenneth Prouty (PhD 2002)
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Ahmed Madkour (PhD 2002)
Assistant Professor, Wheaton College
Mark Peters (PhD 2003)
Assistant Professor, Trinity Christian College
Lei Ouyang Bryant (PhD 2004)
Visiting assistant professor, Skidmore College
Jason B. Grant (PhD 2005)
Staff Editor, "Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works"
Packard Humanities Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts
S. Alexander Reed – (PhD 2005)
Prof. of Music – Graduate Theory Program
University of Florida
Carolina Delgado-Santamaria (PhD 2006)
Professor, Departamento de Musica, Facultad de Artes, Ponitifica Universidad Javeriana, Bogata, Colombia
Nathan Bowers – (PhD 2007)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, University of Pittsburgh Greensburg
Federico Garcia – (PhD 2006)
Part-time Instructor of Music, Chatham University
Michael Stephens, (PhD 2007)
Assitant Professor, Chadron State College
