Goodbye, Class of 2022!

Thursday, July 7, 2022
Graduating class of 2022

On Sunday, May 22, the ISM presented its newest graduates with their ISM certificates at a banquet in the Old Refectory at YDS. It was the first such gathering in three years and filled with an even fuller measure of joy, documented here by ISM communications coordinator Rondasia Curry. 

Prizes and Scholarships

  • The Hugh Giles Prize | Moe Graviet and C Han
  • The Hugh Porter Prize | EmmaRae Carroll and Jake Cunliffe
  • The Edwin Stanley Seder Prize | Carolyn Craig and Elizabeth Searcy
  • The Margot Fassler Prize in the Performance of Sacred Music | Benjamin Ferriby and Patrick McGill
  • The Aidan Kavanagh Achievement Prize | Madison Blonquist and Manuel Piazza
  • The Director’s Prize (best Colloquium presentation) | Nilaya Knafo (solo presentation) and Clare Byrne & Patrick McGill (team presentation)
  • The Richard Paul DeLong Prize | Gloria Yin
  • The Liturgical Studies Prize | Jenny Smith
  • The John Cook Prize | Clare Kemmerer
  • The Faculty Prize | Alexandra Dreher
  • Students’ Choice for Best Colloquium Presentation | Nilaya Knafo (solo presentation) and Ben Bond, Sydney Mukasa & Elizabeth Searcy (team presentation)
  • ISM Community Award | Jake Cunliffe and Alexandra Dreher

  • The Robert Baker Scholarship | Isaac Lee
  • The Mary Baker Scholarship in Organ Accompanying | Noah Klein
  • The Hugh Porter Scholarship | Yiran Zhao
  • The E. Stanley Seder Scholarship | Ryan Rogers
  • The Louise E. MacLean Scholarship | Kalvin Cummings
  • The Dominique de Menil Scholarship | Meredith Noorda

Students

  • C.E. AARON  Master of Arts in Religion 
  • MADISON YVONNE BLONQUIST  Master of Arts in Religion
  • BENJAMIN BOND  Master of Divinity
  • EMMARAE KING CARROLL  Master of Arts in Religion
  • HON LAM TEDDY CHENG  Master of Music
  • CAROLYN ANN CRAIG  Master of Musical Arts
  • JACOB CUNLIFFE  Master of Divinity
  • ALEXANDRA ELIZABETH DREHER  Master of Arts in Religion
  • BENJAMIN BAE STACKHOUSE FERRIBY  Master of Music
  • ETHAN MARK HAMAN  Master of Musical Arts
  • MATTHEW ALEXANDER INGWERSEN  Master of Music
  • CLARE FRANCES KEMMERER  Master of Arts in Religion
  • NILAYA SARAH KNAFO  Master of Arts in Religion
  • ABIGAIL DOROTHEA KROMMINGA  Master of Arts in Religion
  • MICHAEL JAMES CLIFTON LUKIN  Master of Music
  • PATRICK GEORGE McGILL  Master of Musical Arts
  • SYDNEY TENDO SSEMPA MUKASA  Master of Music
  • MANUEL GIOVANNI PIAZZA  Master of Music
  • KYLER SCHUBKEGEL  Master of Arts in Religion
  • ELIZABETH HOLLAND SEARCY  Master of Divinity
  • JENNY CLAIRE SMITH  Master of Arts in Religion
  • CHRISTINE SIMMONS STANG  Master of Divinity
  • MAURA ELIZABETH TUFFY  Master of Musical Arts
  • NATHANIEL M. WIDELITZ  Doctor of Musical Arts (expected 2026)
  • GLORIA ENLIN YIN  Master of Music