USC ornton - Music in the City of Angels Viewbook 2021-22 - USC Thornton School of Music
←
→
Page content transcription
If your browser does not render page correctly, please read the page content below
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THORNTON SCHOOL OF MUSIC USCornton Music in the City of Angels Viewbook 2021-22
USCornton School of Music
ree distinct divisions, one
extraordinary
As the music profession changes, the USC Thornton School Online Extras
school.
of Music offers an innovative education that prepares students Full stories and videos
for the features in
for careers at the highest level as performers, composers, this viewbook are at
music.usc.edu/viewbook
educators and industry leaders. We do this while making the
most of our location in Los Angeles, the nation’s center for Follow Us
creativity and original art of all kinds. Robert Cutietta
@USCThornton
Dean of the USC Thornton
School of Music
Classical Contemporary Research
Our three exceptional divisions offer cross-genre experiences
Performance & Music & Scholarly
unique among the country’s top music schools. As a leading Composition page 10 Studies
international research institution, USC offers students a page 4 page 16
rigorous, global education that enriches their artistic and
musical development.
visit us online @ music.usc.edu
USC Thornton students
(L-R) Klara Krklec, Gabriel
Maffuz-Anker, Tiffany Chung
and Johnny May in the
downtown Los Angeles
Fashion District.
“The students are fearless,
and I try to encourage that.
I say, ‘Hey no one’s done this,
so we can’t be measured
against anyone but ourselves.’”
– Kevin Lyman, Music Industry associate professor
Bassoonist Jaquain Sloan USCornton School of Music
in the downtown Los
Angeles Fashion District.
Sloan is now an Orchestra
Fellow at the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra.
On the
Horizon:
Bright
Futures
1 Classical Performance & Composition
Classical music is as vibrant as it has ever been, but the
profession is changing as musicians develop multifaceted
careers. Our curriculum challenges students to develop
a distinct artistic voice and create a thriving life and career
in music. Our goal? To train artists who will expand classical
music’s influence and impact, now and in years to come.
Read more at music.usc.edu/viewbook
Classical Performance & Composition Division
PROGRAMS
Choral &
Sacred Music
“If you monitor the Classical Guitar
New York arts press, Composition
Keyboard
you will quickly Collaborative
Arts
understand that Keyboard Studies
Los Angeles is hot. Organ Studies
The coast-to-coast “We Should Start
Strings
Vocal Arts &
current has changed an Ensemble” Opera
course: young New groups are fueled by
creative experimentation.
Winds &
Percussion
painters, writers A chamber music series inspired by the mixtape?
A large ensemble without a conductor? Recent
and musicians are Thornton classical performance alums are forming
groups that expand how music is made and pre-
flocking here.” sented. A quartet of strings students created The
Mixtape Series, bringing curated playlists to the
- Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times music critic
concert hall. (See photo on facing page.) Delirium
Musicum is a leaderless ensemble that welcomes
a collaborative approach to interpreting scores.
Choral Conducting
Adding Diversity Careers Take Off
to Orchestras Multiple opportunities for Jenny
USC Thornton partners on new Wong and Alexander Lloyd Blake.
fellowship for musicians of color. Jenny Wong MM ’13, DMA ’17 is now the Associate
USC Thornton is a key part of a rigorous multi-year Artistic Director of the LA Master Chorale. When she
training program for musicians of color that works conducts, her podium is in famed Disney Hall. While
to improve diversity in American orchestras. Since at USC, Alexander Lloyd Blake DMA ’19 founded
2018, the School has partnered with the Inner City Tonality, an ensemble that emphasizes social justice.
Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles That led to directing the National Children’s Chorus,
Chamber Orchestra to select and give practical then chorus master for the LA Opera’s summer
experience to promising orchestral musicians. camp and a session singer on The Lion King.
Mixtape Quartet (L-R: Michael Siess, Misha Vayman, Juan-Salvador Carrasco and
Nao Kubota) at The Art of Living Foundation in the University Park neighborhood.
6 USC Thornton School of Music / 2021-2022 @USCThornton / music.usc.edu 7
Classical Performance & Composition Division
USC Thornton alumni are
well represented on the of USC Thornton undergraduates
rosters of major American complete their degrees in six
orchestras, including: years, but most (73%) graduate
in four. The national six-year
Boston Symphony completion rate is 60%.
Chicago Symphony
Cincinnati Symphony
Detroit Symphony
Houston Symphony
Kansas City Symphony
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Nashville Symphony
New York Philharmonic
Pittsburgh Symphony
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Seattle Symphony
San Francisco Symphony USC Thornton Vocal Arts & Opera students Geovanna Nichols-Julien, left, and Allen Pearcy Galeana
at the famed Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
Moving a Season of Women
Calling the Performances Online Composers Shine
DMA student (below) Emails Lead to a
Instrument Doctors Video performances become highly Leaha Maria Villarreal’s Disney Hall Debut
Instrument repair is a rewarding career visual with images and animation. Piano, Voice or “The Warmth of Other Thomas Mellan BM ’17,
beyond the symphony hall. Composition? Suns” was performed MM ’20, an alum in
When the Student Symphony Orchestra of USC Pianist and baritone International Delivery! in the Bang on a Can Composition and Organ
Several Thornton alums have found satisfying performed Camille Saint-Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of Joshua Tan, Outstanding Classical Guitars! Marathon; Nina Shekhar Studies, briefly met
careers as specialists in rejuvenating damaged the Animals in a summer festival video, it launched DMA Graduate of 2020, After sending a classical MM ’20 earned a fellow- famed organist Cameron
instruments. We profiled go-to experts in the an ambitious season online to celebrate its tenth noted that his mentor, guitar from Spain to a tal- ship with the Young Carpenter in 2014,
repair of flutes, violones, basses, doubles basses, anniversary. The student-run ensemble, which is Bernadene Blaha, ented Nigerian musician, Musicians Foundation; thanks to an introduction
“insisted that I continue Mircea Gogoncea realized sophomore composition from professor emeritus
and trombones. Some continue to perform and led by many undergraduates from Thornton and
wearing my many musical it would cost less to student Anya Lagman’s Stephen Hartke. They
others have made repairs their intriguing, full-time features musicians from across USC, saw remote hats, whether as a pianist, send a second guitar if “Unravel” had its world stayed in touch, with
career, surrounding themselves with the instru- performances as an opportunity to add visual choral musician, or he picked it up himself première with the Los Mellan sending Carpenter
ments they love. elements to the music. composer.” Highlights: in India and delivered it Angeles Chamber Or- his compositions. In 2019,
Touring the Baltics and in person. He did, also chestra; and the opera a generous Carpenter
Poland with the USC delivering eight master “Enchantress of Num- shared the Disney Hall
Thornton Chamber classes, six lectures, bers” by Juhi Bansal BM stage with Mellan, who
Singers and his lecture several jam sessions ’06, MM ’08, DMA ’12 was played his new work,
recital playing piano with and one concert—all chosen by the LA Opera aptly titled Ballade de
extended techniques. during three days. for its school program. l’Impossible.
8 USC Thornton School of Music / 2021-2022 @USCThornton / music.usc.edu 9
USCornton School of Music
Always
Innovating
Always
Collaborating
2 Contemporary Music
From Popular Music to Screen Scoring to Jazz Studies, the
programs in the Division of Contemporary Music are among
the industry’s best and most celebrated. They have always been
musical pathfinders, and are also known for their embrace of
new technology and creative collaborations with new media,
dance, theater and musicians located around the world.
Student Hannah McCarthy
Read more at music.usc.edu/viewbook performs at the El Rey Theatre
as part of the annual Popular
Music Senior Showcase.
Contemporary Music Division
“There are so many
sides to being a composer
in the film industry.
The business. The creative.
USC does a wonderful A Daring Student in 2019,
job of giving you that A GRAMMY Nom in 2020
whole package.” Joey Messina-Doerning, a groundbreaking
student, has a red-hot career.
PROGRAMS
Jazz Studies
- Duncan Thum (’06, GC ’13) As a Music Production student, Joey Messina-Doerning
Emmy-nominated film composer and alum eyed the School’s vintage 80-channel SSL mixing Music Industry
in studio/jazz guitar and Screen Scoring
console and made an unprecedented request: Could Music Technology
he record the 78-musician USC Thornton Symphony?
Thornton faculty including veteran recording engineer Musical Theatre
Richard McIlvery, and Sharon Lavery, resident conduc- Popular Music
tor of the symphony, helped make it happen. Only
one year later, Messina-Doerning received a GRAMMY Students Samantha Shapiro and Josh Ginsburg perform with the Screen Scoring
nomination for Album of the Year as an engineer/ USC Thornton Jazz Orchestra at the Carson Center on campus. Studio Guitar
mixer on Haim’s Women in Music Pt. III.
Increasing the Number
A Meteoric Star of Black Film Composers Music Industry
Students Pivot to Fender Taps Thornton
of the Music Industry Sony/ATV and Bleeding Fingers Innovation in Virtual Production for Online Classes
His career started at USC Thornton, support a new scholarship. Jazz Studies Music Industry students Pop Students Stay Studio Guitar faculty
tapping into talent around him. Jazz Studies faculty did marketing, logistics, Close, Remotely and alums created new,
Black composers are vastly underrepresented in the member Vince Mendoza production, ticketing, Students in the Popular bite-sized lessons on
Justin Lubliner BS’12 (below left), started a market- film scoring community. Sony/ATV Music Publishing riffed off Ornette Cole- sponsorship and outreach Music program are each Fender Play for learning
ing and PR firm while still at Thornton, blogging and and Bleeding Fingers Music, in partnership with USC man’s 1960 Free Jazz in the digital space for other’s most loyal sup- acoustic or electric guitar,
doing promotion for EDM artists. Two years after Thornton, announced the USC Screen Scoring Diversity album and had students two big events, while cre- porters. They go to each bass or ukulele. Now,
graduation, he had his own record label, Darkroom Scholarship for Black composition students to enroll study abstract paintings atively combating atten- other’s gigs, suggest thousands have taken
for inspiration, and then dees’ Zoom fatigue. They each other for jobs and the online classes in
Records, an imprint at Interscope. The second client in Thornton’s celebrated Screen Scoring program.
record improvisations. pulled off a philanthropic endlessly collaborate blues, rock, country, folk
he signed was an unknown Billie Eilish. Helping The scholarship will provide tuition, housing, meals, Professor Bob Mintzer’s music festival focusing on projects. During a and pop. Nine members
her continue her dazzling rise, Lubliner remains relocation costs, equipment and software, and WDR Big Band performed on mental health, as well year of remote learning, of the USC Thornton
on a fast track. includes a professional apprenticeship. at JazzFest Bonn with as a career networking two upperclassmen community worked on
Knower, an avant-garde event using the immersive organized a game night, the project, including
group led by Louis Cole platform Degy World. inviting all the Pop Matt Lake (BM ’08, MM
’09. Mintzer then had Both were shepherded by students to meet the ’10, DMA ’18) (below).
Cole return to campus associate professor Kevin new freshman, as a way A few students even had
to play with the USC Lyman, creator of the to keep the family jobs at Fender waiting for
Thornton Jazz Orchestra. Vans Warped Tour. tradition alive. them upon graduation.
12 USC Thornton School of Music / 2021-2022 @USCThornton / music.usc.edu 13
of recent alumni said
they would likely enroll at
USC Thornton if they had the
chance to do it over again.
“Your college journey is going
to be uniquely your own. There’s no
need to compare your experience
with others – not one of you will have
the same exact path, and you’ll all
branch out in countless directions
which will all be incredibly rewarding
in different ways. Embrace it!” USC Thornton students
Lila Forde and Yafeu Tyhimba
– Shelby Wong ’20 (Piano Performance) at Grand Central Market in
downtown Los Angeles.
Alumnus Jim Wang leads USCornton School of Music
an orchestra rehearsal
at Lincoln Middle School
in Santa Monica.
Making
Research
Matter
3 Research & Scholarly Studies
USC Thornton integrates leading-edge research in our
coursework, from an award-winning podcast on pop, deep
dives into Early Music and jazz, the nation’s only Polish
Music Center, and innovative strategies in arts leadership.
Alumni are working on and off the stage—in higher education
and K-12 classrooms, archives, studios, and leadership posi-
tions throughout the arts. No one career looks like another,
and we train students for success in multiple career paths.
Read more at music.usc.edu/viewbookResearch & Scholarly Studies Division
number of neighborhood
children involved in Thornton’s
“My private teachers Community Engagement
Program each year
and all of the faculty
are some of the kindest
people I’ve ever known.
Our Thornton community
is very special.” PROGRAMS
- Nina Shekhar MM ’20, composer, pianist, flutist
Students Aren’t Arts Leadership
Limited to Their Majors Early Music
Robert Wang personifies how to multiply Performance
musical interests at USC Thornton. Music Teaching
Classical Guitar student Robert Wang BM ’23 ex- & Learning
panded his studies into Early Music and Musicology,
Musicology
an example of the many possibilities to study across
USC Thornton. He took Music Production classes Community
in basic recording and editing programs, and used Student Sam Ostroff performs on the harpsichord with the early music Engagement
the year of remote learning to master pro-level ensemble Baroque Sinfonia in the Newman Recital Hall on campus.
Polish Music
applications, while practicing the Renaissance Center
Designing Their lute, Baroque lute, Baroque guitar and theorbo.
Lives as Artists
Faculty Scholarship
Innovators and entrepreneurs create in Musicology
their own path in Arts Leadership. Musicians Need Technology Musicology faculty
Sustaining an arts collective in a former factory. Thornton offers a free class on digital frequently publish and
Promoting underrepresented voices in popular recording to all music students. Increasing the present their research Why Should
Diversity of Instructors Adding Funk at national conferences. Musicians Mentor?
music for social change. Combining podcasts and “From today onward, musicians and teachers will Acting on student to a Podcast Lisa Cooper Vest The USC Thornton
audible books for an original way to experience have to embrace technology to be successful,” and faculty input, the Nate Sloan, professor released her first book, Community Engagement
literature. These are just a few of the inventive and says Jason Yoshida MM’09 DMA ’14, an Early Music USC Thornton Board of of Musicology, has an Awangarda: Tradition Program places USC
community-engaging initiatives undertaken by lecturer. During the year of remote learning, he Councilors created The award-winning podcast, and Modernity in Post- Thornton majors in local
students in USC’s Arts Leadership (ARTL) program. taught a free course on digital recording open to Voices Fund to amplify Switched on Pop, that war Polish Music, late in public schools near the
the voices of musicians was lauded in The New 2020. Bruce Brown pre- University Park Campus
Entrepreneurial, individualized and interdisciplinary, all students. Designed so students would not
of color in our courses. Yorker for “charmingly sented papers on the use to work as mentors and
ARTL encourages driven arts innovators and need to buy expensive software, the popular class Online-only classes rigorous dissections of of vaudevilles, or popular instructors to more than
entrepreneurs to bring their aspirations to USC attracted students studying everything from proved to be a plus, Taylor Swift and Weeknd tunes, in an opéra- 6,000 students each
and learn how to create their own opportunities. Medieval music to jazz and pop. allowing more than three songs, slipping in a fair comique by Gluck and a year. “The only reason
dozen busy musicians, amount of music history ballet by Mozart, as well I play now is because I
such as jazz musician and theory.” He has a as his archival discovery was exposed to music at
Roscoe Mitchell, to special interest in funk of an 18th-century a young age in a public-
Zoom in from around the music, which he explored Tuscan apothecary’s school setting,” said
world, enriching classes in a multimedia article gargling prescriptions for alum Chelsea Sharpe
from across the school. for The New York Times. a young castrato singer. MM ’17.
18 USC Thornton School of Music / 2021-2022 @USCThornton / music.usc.edu 19An extraordinary
campus—full
of opportunities— Number of students, many of them
music majors, who live in USC Village,
in the heart of a 15-acre residential and retail center
across the street from USC Thornton.
Los Angeles Trader Joe's and Target, anyone?
USC The Trojan Family is Forever
USC Thornton roots run deep at major entertain-
ment and cultural institutions, from the GRAMMY
Museum and Hollywood studios to major orchestras
around the globe. Strong alumni networks are
active worldwide, and help open professional
doors for USC Thornton graduates.
Double Majoring at Other USC Schools
USC’s Arts District
Unusual for a research university, USC has six
world-class arts schools. Most are in a prime loca-
tion along 34th Street, making for a hub of artistic
endeavors. USC Thornton is based there, along with
Cinematic Arts and Dance. Dramatic Arts, Fine Arts
and Architecture are only a short walk away.
Artistic Collaborations
Artistic collaborations happen everywhere at
USC, both inside and outside of the classrooms.
A student gives step-by-step advice Each year, a collaboration between sophomore
on having two different majors. choreographers at the USC Glorya Kaufman School
Erica Lee BM ’21 completed degrees in Piano Per- of Dance and composers at USC Thornton results in
formance and Business Administration. She offers an annual showcase, Choreographers & Composers,
details, including a look at her Google Calendar where students perform original works in the
to show how she balances classes, practice and performance spaces at the Glorya Kaufman
dance rehearsals with a competitive hip hop team. International Dance Center.
@USCThornton / music.usc.edu 21ADMISSION TIMELINE
December 1
• Application deadline for all
programs
January – March
• Live auditions (by invitation only)
in January and early February
• Application and/or portfolio review Degrees & Majors
April 1* Undergraduate Majors include the Bachelor of
• Admission and financial Music (BM), Bachelor of Science (BS), and Bachelor
aid notification of Fine Arts (BFA) degrees.
April 15 Undergraduate Minors include Jazz Studies, Music
• Graduate enrollment Industry, Music Production, Music Recording, Musical
commitment deadline Studies, Musical Theatre, Popular Music Studies, and
May 1*
Songwriting.
• Undergraduate enrollment Graduate Programs include the Master of Arts (MA),
commitment deadline Master of Music (MM), Master of Science (MS), Graduate
Certificate (GCRT), Artist Diploma (ARTD), Doctor of
* Notification and commitment dates
can vary for undergraduate transfers
Musical Arts (DMA), and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).
Students Mircea
Gogoncea and Francesca Classical Performance & Composition
Boerio in the Broadway Brass (BM, MM, GCRT, ARTD, DMA)
Theater District in Choral Music (BM, MM, DMA)
downtown Los Angeles.
Classical Guitar (BM, MM, GCRT, ARTD, DMA)
Composition (BM, MM, DMA)
Keyboard Collaborative Arts (MM, GCRT, ARTD, DMA)
Financial Aid Organ (BM, MM, GCRT, DMA)
How to Apply Undergraduates: U.S. citizens (and some eligible
Percussion (BM, MM, GCRT, ARTD, DMA)
Piano (BM, MM, GCRT, ARTD, DMA)
non-citizens) can qualify for need-based financial Sacred Music (MM, DMA)
aid (see financialaid.usc.edu) and are strongly Strings (BM, MM, GCRT, ARTD, DMA)
encouraged to apply. USC meets the full USC-deter-
Vocal Arts (BM, MM, GCRT, DMA)
mined financial need for eligible students through
Woodwinds (BM, MM, GCRT, ARTD, DMA)
Application Process available funding from federal, state and university
sources. Eligible first-year undergraduates from Contemporary Music
1. Determine the specific application
families with an annual income of $80,000 or less Jazz Studies, Instrumental (BM, MM, GCRT, DMA)
requirements for your chosen program
with typical assets will attend USC tuition-free. Jazz Studies, Vocal (BM)
(details at music.usc.edu/admission).
More information at affordability.usc.edu. Music Industry (BS, MS)
of current USC Thornton students 2. Complete the appropriate USC Application Music Production (BM)
Academic scholarships are also available for
receive financial awards that for Admission (available at admit.usc.edu). Musical Theatre (BFA)*
undergraduate students. More information at
do not need to be repaid. Popular Music Performance (BM)
3. Complete the supplemental music portions of usc.edu/scholarships.
the USC application, and upload the appropriate Screen Scoring (MM)
Graduate Students: Applicants to scholarship- Studio Guitar (MM, GCRT, DMA)
media submission(s) (including prescreen mate-
eligible programs are automatically considered for * The BFA Musical Theatre is offered jointly with the USC
rial, as required) through the SlideRoom portal
Thornton scholarships based upon their application, School of Dramatic Arts and the USC Kaufman School of Dance.
(instructions at music.usc.edu/admission). Contact the USC School of Dramatic Arts for more information.
audition, and/or portfolio. Teaching assistantships
4. Perform an audition, if required, according to are also available for some graduate programs. Research & Scholarly Studies
the specific audition requirements of your chosen More information at music.usc.edu/finaid. Arts Leadership (GCRT, MS)
program (details at music.usc.edu/admission). Community Music (MM)
U.S. citizens (and some eligible non-citizens) can
For more information, contact: qualify for student loans up to the total cost of Early Music Performance (MA, GCRT, DMA)
213-740-8986 attendance, as well as work-study funding. More Music Teaching & Learning (MM, DMA)
uscmusic@usc.edu information at financialaid.usc.edu. Musicology (PHD)
22 USC Thornton School of Music / 2021-2022 @USCThornton / music.usc.edu 23Andrew Leff
Kevin Lyman
Viola Brian Malouf
Karen Dreyfus Tuba
Richard McIlvery
Yura Lee James Self
Loren Medina
Doug Tornquist
Cello Cynthia Tucker
Ralph Kirshbaum Percussion Vivian Wang
James Babor Richard Wolf Music Teaching
Andrew Shulman
Joseph Pereira Lindsay Wolfington & Learning
Double Bass William Coppola
Trojan Marching Band Music Technology Studio Guitar Front cover: Drummer Dominic
David Allen Moore Robert Cutietta, dean
Jacob Vogel Jae Deal Adam del Monte Anzalone on a downtown Los
Susan Helfter
Harp Charles Gutierrez Bruce Forman Angeles rooftop in front of the
Beatriz Ilari, chair Eastern Columbia Building.
Timothy Kobza
USC Thornton JoAnn Turovsky
Orchestral Repetoire
Contemporary Music
Jazz Studies
Sean Holt, vice dean
Brian Malouf Frank Potenza
Richard Smith
Peter Webster
Vince Womack
Copy: Evan Calbi, Allison Engel
Richard McIlvery Design: Rick Simner Design
Faculty Ben Hong
Vocal Arts & Opera
Bass
Alphonso Johnson
Timo Preece
Chris Sampson
Nick Stoubis, chair
Steve Trovato
Musicology
Bruce Alan Brown,
Photography: Cover photos
(front and back): Ben Gibbs; Kevin
Edwin Livingston Richard Schmunk, chair chair Cartwright (Mellan p. 9); Fender
Conducting Thomas Michael Allen
Darek “Oles” Oleszkiewicz Michael “Smidi” Smith Research & Joanna Demers, (Online Classes p. 13); Ben Gibbs
Lucinda Carver, Ken Cazan, resident (Contemporary p. 1, p. 2-3, p. 4,
stage director Jazz Composition Scholarly Studies vice dean
vice dean Musical Theatre* Opera p. 9, Classical Guitars p. 9,
Jeremy Frank Jason Goldman Adam Knight Gilbert p. 14-15, p. 22 ); Dario Griffin (Classi-
Cristian Grases Lyndia Johnson Arts Leadership
Sharon Lavery, Parmer Fuller, Vince Mendoza Helane Anderson Rotem Gilbert cal and Research p. 1, Mixtape
Karen Parks, Quartet p. 7, Instrument Doctors p. 8,
resident conductor musical theatre Bob Mintzer Snehal Desai Tim Greiving
head of music p. 10-11, Film Composers p. 12, Jazz
Larry J. Livingston, Rod Gilfry Kenneth Foster, director Leah Morrison Orchestra and Jazz Studies p. 13,
Percussion Jeffrey Allen
Classical Performance chair Lynn Helding Jazmín Morales Sean Nye p. 16, Designing p. 18, Baroque Sin-
Peter Erskine Ken Cazan
& Composition Troy Quinn Elizabeth Hynes Nate Sloan fonia p. 19, p. 25); Justin He (Lee
Brent McMunn, Roy McCurdy Popular Music Scott Spencer p. 21); Vance Jacobs (Diversity p. 6);
Jo-Michael Scheibe Aaron Serfaty Early Music Ellyn Jameson (Sloan p. 19);
Choral & Sacred Music music director Andy Abad Lisa Cooper Vest
Tram Sparks Lucinda Carver Chelsea Lauren/Variety/Shutterstock
Suzi Digby Lisa Sylvester, chair Jeffrey Allen
Carl St.Clair, Piano Lot Demeyer *Faculty, as of June 1, 2021 (Lubliner p. 12); Benjamin Peralta
Cristian Grases, chair Michael Arrom
principal conductor Winds & Percussion David Arnay Adam Knight Gilbert, *Musical Theatre is a partner-
(Artistic Collaborations p. 21); Gus
Mary Mattei Adriana Balic Ruelas (Cutietta p. 1, Village p. 21);
Sharon Lavery, chair Russell Ferrante director ship between the USC School
Jo-Michael Scheibe Keyboard Sean Holt, vice dean of Dramatic Arts, USC Kaufman
Joshua Tan (Piano, Voice p. 9);
Alan Pasqua Rotem Gilbert Leaha Maria Villarreal (Women
Tram Sparks Collaborative Arts Flute Paul Jackson, Jr. School of Dance, and USC
Jennifer Kampani Composers p. 9); Steve Yeater
Nick Strimple Kevin Fitz-Gerald Catherine Karoly Saxophone Alphonso Johnson Thornton. Contact the USC
Charles Koster School of Dramatic Arts for
(Wong p. 6).
Alan L. Smith, director James Walker Jason Goldman, chair Lyndia Johnson
Classical Guitar
Bob Mintzer Jason Yoshida more information. Printing: ColorGraphics
Brian Head Keyboard Studies Will Kennedy
Oboe Bob Sheppard Timothy Kobza
William Kanengiser Bernadene Blaha Marion Kuszyk
Pepe Romero Lucinda Carver, Trombone Ginny Luke
Joel Timm Patrice Rushen, chair
Scott Tennant, chair vice dean Allan Vogel Andy Martin
Kevin Fitz-Gerald Chris Sampson
Composition Clarinet Trumpet Richard Smith
Stewart Gordon
Composition Yehuda Gilad Ron McCurdy Andrea Stolpe
Jeffrey Kahane
Donald Crockett, chair David Howard Michael Stever Nick Stoubis
Sung-Hwa Park
Camae Dennis John Thomas Steve Trovato
Antoinette Perry Bassoon
Ted Hearne
Stephen Pierce Judith Farmer Vocal Jazz
Frank Ticheli Screen Scoring
Daniel Pollack Shawn Mouser Sara Gazarek
Nina Young Pete Anthony
Alan L. Smith, chair Kathleen Grace
Saxophone Jon Burlingame
Theory & Analysis
Organ Jessica Maxfield Music Industry Daniel Carlin, chair
Bill Biersach
Cherry Rhodes Andrae Alexander Siobhán Dougall
Neal Desby
Ladd Thomas, chair Horn Jonathan Azu Tim Greiving
Daniel Caputo
Steven Becknell Robert Borg Laura Karpman
Brian Head
Strings Julie Landsman Jeff Brabec Patrick Kirst
Veronika Krausas
Violin Todd Brabec Richard McIlvery
Eric Pham Trumpet
Lina Bahn, chair Michael Garcia, chair Lolita Ritmanis
Christopher Rozé Thomas Hooten
Margaret Batjer Mark Goldstein Eric Schmidt
Mark Weiser Jennifer Marotta
Martin Chalifour Jeremy Gruber Garry Schyman
Music for Dance Glenn Dicterow Trombone Joel High Lawrence Shragge Assistant professor Will Kennedy
Paul Hodgins Bing Wang Terry S. Cravens Michael Kaminsky Christopher Young
24 USC Thornton School of Music / 2021-2022USCornton
School of Music
Office of Admission
University Park Campus
TMC 200
Los Angeles, CA
90089-0851
213-740-8986
uscmusic@usc.edu
@USCThornton music.usc.edu
French horn student Anna Gilpatrick in downtown Los Angeles.You can also read
