05/03/2026
Congratulations to Tyler Mazone for completing his Doctor of Musical Arts from Michigan State University!
Tyler is bimodal (wears a hearing aid in one ear and a cochlear implant in the other ear). He might be the only Deaf graduate student who completed a doctorate in musical composition with the help of sign language interpreters over five years!
Here in Tyler's own words, is his own experience of being a doctoral music student at MSU -
https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2026/04/student-view-tyler-mazone?collectionName=Student%20Views