Salute 2025

Salute is an affectionate farewell tribute from the faculty and staff of the Tisch School of the Arts to the graduating class.

Unlike typical graduation ceremonies, where students are called to the stage individually, Salute instead celebrates our students’ achievements through live performances. The show features words of wisdom from our dean, a distinguished keynote speaker, a member of the graduating class, and department chairs. The Tisch Salute to the Class of 2025 will take place on Friday, May 16th at 11AM at Radio City Music Hall.

HONORED SPEAKER: Maggie Rogers '16 (BFA, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music)

Originally from Maryland, multi-platinum, GRAMMY® Award-nominated producer/ songwriter/ performer Maggie Rogers released her breakthrough EP Now That The Light Is Fading in 2017.  Widely hailed as an artist to watch, Rogers shared her critically acclaimed debut album Heard It In A Past Life in 2019 and immediately found tremendous success: entering Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart at No. 1 and debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The album earned raves from the likes of NPR, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, TIME Magazine, Vogue, and many more. Heard It In A Past Life also landed Rogers a Best New Artist nomination at the 62ndGRAMMY® Awards.  The album, which contains the Platinum hits “Light On” and “Alaska,” has amassed over 1 billion streams globally and is certified Gold in the U.S. In 2022, Rogers released her follow up album Surrender to widespread acclaim and embarked on two sold-out headline tours across Europe and North America.

Rogers’ third album Don’t Forget Me is out now.  Pitchfork said, “the singer-songwriter’s third album is her strongest yet, the sound of a wise, clear-eyed, melodious prodigy coming into her own voice,” while SPIN praised her “transcendent songwriting.” The New Yorker deemed Rogers’ Don’t Forget Me as “the loosest and most elemental music she’s made…burly, coltish, tender, fun,” and Rolling Stone named Don’t Forget Me as one of their “100 Best Albums of 2024.” Rogers recently wrapped “The Don’t Forget Me Tour, Part II” —her first-ever headlining arena tour— which included two sold out shows at New York City’s Madison Square Garden and the Kia Forum in Inglewood, CA. Her television performances include “Saturday Night Live,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “Austin City Limits,” “Today” and “CBS Sunday Morning.”

Rogers holds a BFA in Recorded Music and English Literature from New York University (Class of 2016) and a Master’s Degree in Religion and Public Life from Harvard Divinity School.