Lecture recital presented at Amati Hall, Seoul, South Korea in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.

Photograph of the inside of a New York City subway train cabin that contains orange and yellow chairs and silver metal hand rails. A yellow poster with a black outline of a cartoon person wearing a faces mask is hanging on the subway cabin's interior wall and reads "Stop the spread. Wear a mask." on the bottom of the poster, as well as "Wear a mask" on the cartoon's face mask with the same phrase but translated in Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Haitian Creole, and Bengali. Similar images of the black outline cartoon people wearing face masks are also included on the top border of the cabin walls on a yellow background.