Graduate Alumni PLacement
Our graduate program has a high rate of placement of its graduates in academic and other professional positions. Below is a sampling from those who have graduated since 1986 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
Ann Labounsky (PhD 1991)
Professort of Organ, Chair of Organ and Sacred Music, Duquesne University
Ping-hui Li (PhD 1991)
Associate professor of music, University of Puerto Rico
Damien Pwono (PhD 1992)
Executive Director Global Intitiative on Art, Culture &Society
The Aspen Institute, Washington,D.C.
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)
Associate 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, now Baranovitch (PhD 1997)
Associate Professor and Head of Department of Asian Studies, University of Haifa
Blase Scarnatti (PhD 1998)
Associate Professor, Northern Arizona University
Tong Soon Lee (PhD 1998)
Associate 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)
Associate 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)
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies, Northeastern University (Boston)
Sylvia Nanyonga-Tamusuza (PhD 2001)
Asociate Professor, Makerere University (Uganda)
Kent Engelhardt (PhD 2001)
Coordinator of Jazz Studies, Youngstown State University
George Dor (PhD 2001)
Associate Professor, University of Mississippi
Leonora Saavedra (PhD 2001)
Associate Professor, University of California - Riverside
Kenneth Prouty (PhD 2002)
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Mark Peters (PhD 2003)
Associate professor of music and music department chair,
Trinity Christian College
Lei Ouyang Bryant (PhD 2004)
Assistant Professor, Skidmore College
Gary Fineberg (2004)
Assist. Prof. of Music, Music Dept. Co-Chair, Director of Jazz Studies, Director Brass Studies, The College of New Jersey
Hessun Kim (PhD 2004)
Adjunct Instructor, Kookmin University, Soeul National University, Korean National Unieversity of Arts
Jason B. Grant (PhD 2005)
Staff Editor, "Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works"
Packard Humanities Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Kayoung Lee (PhD 2005)
Researcher at Yonsei Music Research Institute
Yonsei University, Seoul,Korea
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
Federico Garcia (PhD 2006)
Founder and director of Alia Musica
Michael Stephens, (PhD 2007)
Assitant Professor, Chadron State College
Eun-Young Jung (PhD 2007)
Assistant Professor, University of California at San Diego
Shanna Lorenz (PhD 2007)
Assistant Professor, Occidental College
Carlos Peña (MA 2007)
Assistant Music Librarian, University of Pittsburgh
Pedro Aponte (PhD 2008)- Assistant professor of music, James Madison Uniersity School of Music
Sister Marie Agatha Ozah, PhD 2008
Assistant Professor, The Mary Pappert School of Music, Duquesne University
J.S. Kofi Gbolonyo (PhD 2009)
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
James Ogburn (PhD 2009)
Lecturer, Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand
Geri Allen, MA
Associate Professor, Deptartment of Jazz and Contemporary Inprovisation
University of Michigan
Christopher Pak, ABD
Tenured Faculty, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts
Steve Knopoff, MA
Tenured faculty at the Elder School of Music, University of Adelaide
