Elizabeth Campbell is a musicology Ph.D. student at the
University of California, Davis. She graduated from Indiana
University in 2017 with master’s degrees in musicology and
library science after completing a bachelor’s degree in music at
Luther college in 2014. Her research interests include
Renaissance vocal polyphony and amateur music making in the
United States, in particular the music of the early
twentieth-century women’s suffrage movement.
Melita Anastasia Denny is a student in the UC Davis Ph.D. program
in musicology. She earned a bachelor’s of science degree in viola
da gamba performance from Indiana University Jacob’s School of
Music, graduating with distinction in 2009. During her studies at
IU, she also did additional work in music history with research
interests centering on the history of music theory and imitative
counterpoint in Renaissance sacred polyphony.
Andressa Gonçalves Vidigal is a Ph.D. student in musicology at
the University of California, Davis. She is Brazilian and grew up
in the city of Maringá, Paraná. She holds a bachelor’s degree in
music from Universidade Estadual de Maringá and a master’s en
route from University of California, Davis. Her current
studies are funded by the Brazilian agency CAPES (Coordination
for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel); from whom she
received the esteemed Doutorado Pleno (Full Doctoral)
Scholarship.
Jonathan Minnick is a third-year musicology PhD student at UC
Davis. Jonathan graduated with a Bachelor’s of Music in trombone
performance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
in 2016. At UNC, he performed in many ensembles across the campus
while also focusing on musicological studies, leading to an
honors thesis exploring Richard Strauss’s Alpine Symphony. This
thesis explores the Alpine Symphony in terms of its historical
origins, cultural influences, symphonic characteristics, and
extensive tone painting.
She received a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts with a
concentration in Fine and Performing Arts and a minor in Music
Performance from the Louisiana Scholars’ College at Northwestern
State University of Louisiana. There, she wrote an undergraduate
thesis, “Female Characters in Opera of the Enlightenment through
the Late-Romantic Era: Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, and Puccini.”
Her primary research interests are in late nineteenth-century and
early twentieth-century Spanish nationalism, especially as
related to the work of Felipe Pedrell and Manuel de Falla.
B.M. Performance (flute), UC Santa BarbaraM.A. Musicology, Pennsylvania State University
Claire Thompson is a doctoral candidate in musicology at UC
Davis. She has a B.M. in performance (flute) from UC Santa
Barbara, and a master’s degree in musicology from Pennsylvania
State University. Her research interests include music aesthetics
and the cultural and political aspects of opera and operetta. Her
dissertation explores the creation, dissemination, and reception
of nineteenth-century Italian operas based on the works of Sir
Walter Scott. She is a recipient of the Hubert H. and Barbara P.
Jeremiah Trujillo is an active soloist, collaborative pianist,
and historical musicologist. He is the recipient of numerous
awards, including a special prize for the interpretation of a
nineteenth-century Romantic work at the 2013 San Francisco
Young Pianists Competition. He is a recipient of the 2018
Faculty Recognition Award for Excellence in Musical Performance
at UC Davis, and the 2014 Eisner Prize for Music, awarded at
UC Berkeley. Jeremiah was also a finalist in the 2013 Carmel
Music Society piano competition, held at Sunset Center in Carmel,
CA.
Serena Yang is a doctoral candidate in musicology at the
University of California, Davis. Her research interests include
twentieth- and twenty-first-century music, interdisciplinary
studies, cultural studies, and Asian music. Yang holds a
bachelor’s degree in violin from National Sun Yat-Sen University,
Taiwan, and a master’s degree in music history from the
University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (under
the supervision of
bruce d. mcclung).
