The Department warmly congratulates Matthew Ricketts, who successfully defended his DMA dissertation in Composition, Texts—Textures—Intertexts: The Orchestral Worlds of Brian Cherney, on May 12, 2017. Dr. Ricketts' dissertation was advised by Alfred W. Lerdahl. The other members of the examining committee were George Lewis (chair), Zosha Di Castri, Michel Galante, and Chris Paul Harman.
