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USCorntonU N I V E R S I T Y O F S O U T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A THORNTON SCHOOL OF MUS IC
VIEWBOOK 2016/ 17
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Classical Performance & Compositionpage 2
ContemporaryMusicpage 8
Scholarly &ProfessionalStudiespage 12
Robert CutiettaDean of the USC ThorntonSchool of Music
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At the USC Thornton School of Music, we celebrate our location in Los Angeles, the nation’s center for creativity and innovation. As the music profession changes, we offer a forward-thinking education that prepares students for careers at the highest level as performers, composers, educators and industry leaders.
Our three exceptional divisions offer cross-genre experi-ences unique among the country’s top music schools. As a leading research institution, USC offers students a rigor-ous, broad-based education that enriches their artistic and musical development.
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Full stories and videosfor the features in this viewbook are atmusic.usc.edu/viewbook
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LOS ANGELES:ALL THE CITY’S
A STAGE
1 classical performance & composition
Part of a growing trend, students across USC Thornton’s Classical Performance & Composition division are forming new chamber ensembles and commissioning classmates, professors and alumni to create and premiere original works across Los Angeles. Two groups, Sakura (shown here) and Hocket, are blossoming in the city’s thriving music scene.
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Sakura cello quintet (L to R: Jonathan Dormand,Michael Kaufman, Yoshika Masuda, Sarah Rommel,
Peter Myers), at the USC/Jefferson Metro stop
One Composer, Two Philharmonic PremieresLightning strikes twice for student composer Julia Adolphe, a doctoral composition student, had her Dark Sand, Sifting Light performed by theNew York Philharmonic in 2014, a work premieredduring USC Thornton’s New Music for Orchestraconcert a few months earlier. Now, she has receiveda commission from the same orchestra for a newviola concerto to be played by principal violist andThornton alumna, Cynthia Phelps ’78.
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Hitting the Streets of Los AngelesA groundbreaking mobile opera features USC Thornton faculty, alumni and students People do many things while stuck in traffic, but sing arias? Hopscotch, the celebrated mobile operaby The Industry that unfolded throughout the city,featured an artistic team that is a cross-section ofclassical and new music in Los Angeles, includingmore than 20 USC Thornton faculty, alumni and students. Horn players Matt Otto, a DMA candidate,and alumna Tawnee Lynn Pumphrey performed onthe rooftop of a Toy District loft 24 times a day. Said Otto: “It’s one of the most complex creative endeavors I’ve ever been involved with.”
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“If you monitor the New York arts press, you will quickly understand that Los Angeles is hot. The coast-to-coast current has changed course: young painters, writers and musicians are flocking here.”- Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times music critic
classical performance & composition
PROGRAMS
Choral & Sacred Music
Classical Guitar
Composition
Keyboard Collaborative Arts
Keyboard Studies
Organ Studies
Strings
Vocal Arts & Opera
Winds & Percussion
USC Thornton alumni are well represented on the rosters of major American orchestras: New YorkPhilharmonic (4, incl. assistant concertmaster & principal viola), Boston Symphony (1, principalflute), Chicago Symphony (5, incl. principal tuba and assistant principal bassoon), San Francisco Symphony (5, incl. the conductor), Los Angeles Philharmonic (18, incl. principal percussion and timpanist, assistant principal cello and viola), and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (16, incl. principal harp, percussion and trumpet, assistantprincipal viola, and composer in residence).
of recent alumni said they would likely enroll at USC Thornton if they had to do it all over again.
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Scholarship Woodwind Quintet (L to R: Sarah Minneman, Anna Lenhart, Stephanie Bell, Sergio Coelho, Emily Schoendorf), outside Disney Hall.
Piatigorsky Interna-tional Cello FestivalReturns to USCA Who’s Who of cellistsspent 10 days on campus,and 109 of them per-formed on one stage atDisney Hall.
Student is Loaned TwoLegendary ViolinsA student of Midori Gotowon an internationalcompetition and sud-denly had a Stradivariusand a Guarneri.
A Springtime Celebra-tion of ComposerMorten LauridsenThe National Medal ofArts winner reflected onhis extraordinary careerin 10 short videos.
Read these stories and see the videos at music.usc.edu/viewbook
A Day in the Life of a Classical GuitaristHave guitar, will tour internationally An average day at USC Thornton for Mak Grgić is anything but ordinary. The award-winning classicalguitarist and doctoral candidate is always on the go,from his class studies to the weekly concert series he curates, Music@Rush Hour, to rehearsals for hiscurrent project, Duo Deloro, with flamenco guitaristand faculty member Adam del Monte.
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Bringing Music Behind BarsEvan Pensis, a senior in the Keyboard Studiesdepartment, performedbefore an Arizona audi-ence that had likely notheard live classical musicin years. Pensis playedtwo recitals for 300 in-mates at the ArizonaState Prison’s facility inFlorence. Said Pensis:“Some of the responsesthat I got were the mostpowerful things anyonehas ever said to me.”
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We Heard Her Here, FirstSoprano Yelena Dyachek’16 was selected as awinner at the Grand Fi-nals of the MetropolitanOpera National CouncilAuditions. Several Thorn-ton Vocal Arts alumni, in-cluding baritone JosephLim ’10 and soprano An-gela Meade ’04, havewon the competition inpast years and gone onto flourishing interna-tional careers.
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Melting the Borders Between Film, Animation and MusicThe USC Thornton Symphony and conduc-tor Carl St.Clair traveledto Santa Barbara in Sep-tember for a stunningmultimedia presentationof Modest Mussorgsky’sPictures at an Exhibitionat the historic GranadaTheatre, a collaborationwith animators from the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
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Why is this Man in aRed Sweater and Sunglasses Singing on Campus?Students from the Choral& Sacred Music depart-ment turned into a flashmob on Hahn Plaza be-fore the holidays, per-forming a version ofBetelehemu, a Nigeriansong, in preparation forthe annual Choral WinterGala. The gala featured250 singers and instru-mentalists, including theUSC Thornton TromboneChoir, Scholarship BrassQuintet and more.
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Each year, 5 student composers havetheir works premiered by the USC Thornton Symphony in the unique NewMusic for Orchestra program. These premieres often lead to commissions with major American orchestras.
classical performance & composition
of USC Thornton undergraduates complete their degrees in six years, but most (72%) graduate in four. The national six-year completion rate is 59%.
88% Students (L to R): Victoria Fox, Diana Newman, Anthony Moreno, Amy Lawrence, from the USC Thornton Opera production of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea
PLAYINGTHE STAGE
OF LEGENDSSome musicians go their whole lives without playing the Troubadour, the legendary West Hollywood hall of rock, but every spring seniors in the Popular Music program perform their original music on the same stage where Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, the Byrds, Elton John, Carole King and hundreds of others have played.
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Popular Music seniors at the Troubadour
2 contemporary music
Assignment: Write Your Own Jazz Peek into any rehearsalroom in the Jazz Studiesprogram and you willhear something you’venever heard before. Theemphasis is on originalmusic. Alex Hahn ’16 and Jon Hatamiya ’16(pictured above), newlyminted fellows at the Thelonious Monk Insti-tute of Jazz, wrote nu-merous compositionsduring their time at USCThornton. “I want to lighta creative fire under themusicians,” said facultymember Russell Fer-rante. “I want them toget excited about makingmusic that’s theirs.”
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EDM ExtravaganzasStart HereWhere do EDM artistssuch as Skrillex andZEDD get their lightshows, video projectionsand special effects? Theygo to Production Club, adesign and logistics firmfounded by USC alumni.Many of the companyprincipals met when they were students in the Music Industry pro-gram. They gave back byinviting current studentsto see the behind-the-scenes work of creatingfestival magic.
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Digital Music Making in His Dorm RoomA new degree in music productionToday’s producers literally do it all: composing and arranging, performing live and in the studio, audioengineering and mastering. USC Thornton’s newMusic Production degree covers all these bases plusthe business side of music. Tom Carpenter, part ofthe inaugural class, got a head start on his career by turning his room into a makeshift studio.
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The Art of the Musical DirectorWhen Karina DePianocame to USC, she didn’tknow what a musical director was. Luckily forher, she enrolled in thePopular Music program,one of the industry’sbest. Even before gradu-ation, Karina toured as a keyboardist for singersTroye Sivan and Rita Ora.With Patrice Rushen’sguidance, she led bandsfeaturing her classmateswhile working toward a career as a musical director.
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Laying Down Tracks in Capitol Records Studio AIn the studio where Sinatra, McCartney andNeil Young recorded, the USC Thornton JazzOrchestra played a com-position by a Thorntonscoring student, whilestudents from Thorntontechnology classes as-sisted in the controlroom. It’s one of manyexamples of strong USC-Hollywood connections.
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Ben Bram and ScottHoying Win SecondGRAMMY Awards with Pentatonix Music Industry gradBram is the arranger for the a cappella supergroup, which includesformer Popular Musicstudent Hoying.
Drummer Ana Barreiro ’15 Uses Jazz to Spotlight Sexual Violence AgainstWomen in Africa She rounded up USC mu-sicians to compose andrecord music for YouTubevideos on women whosurvived attacks.
Read these stories and see the videos at music.usc.edu/viewbook
contemporary music
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PROGRAMS
Jazz Studies
Music Industry
Music Technology
Popular Music
Screen Scoring
Studio/Jazz Guitar
“We prepare and expect students to work. I recommended a student to sub for me with a big band, and the leader decided he would keep on calling my student instead of me. I thought that was great. It’s thrilling to see your students excel.”- Peter Erskine, director of Drumset Studies
of recent USC Thornton graduates expressed confidence that they will have a career in their chosen field.
83%Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Fellows Jon Hatamiya ’16 (left) and Alex Hahn ’16 in downtown Los Angeles
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CREATING ASPACE FOR
ARTISTSIt’s called the Eastside Café, but it isn’t a coffee shop. It’s a community gathering space in East Los Angeles hosting classes, exhibitions and music. Every Saturday, graduate student Angela Flores leads a traditional jam session. Through the USC Arts Leadership program, she is working with her community to convert a group of abandoned bungalows near the café into artists’ studios.
See more at music.usc.edu/viewbook Angela Flores (center,playing jarana jarocha) at the Eastside Café
3 scholarly & professional studies
The Missing MaestroDoes a chamber orches-tra need a conductor?Clarinetist and ArtsLeadership student Ben-jamin Mitchell doesn’tthink so. He founded theKaleidoscope ChamberOrchestra, a leaderlessensemble, along withother students who werepart of an innovative ini-tiative in collaborativeand conductorless musi-cianship spearheaded bythe USC Thornton Or-chestra program.
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Bringing Music ToNeighborhoodsEach year, more than 125 USC Thornton stu-dents provide music pro-gramming for more than10,000 students andadults across Los Angelesas part of USC Thornton’sCommunity EngagementPrograms. Students fromall three divisions are in-volved in music classesat 14 schools and per-formances at 55 commu-nity sites. “It’s the moststressful and time-con-suming part of my week,but it’s also the most re-warding,” said Vocal Artsstudent Nuriel Abdenur.
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Ask the Dean“Why are all the greattenors Italian?” “What’sthe difference between amagnificat, a jubilate, arequiem and a mass?”“How can lefties survivein the strings section?”Each week on ClassicalKUSC’s “Arts Alive” pro-gram, radio listeners fromacross the world pick thebrain of USC ThorntonDean Robert Cutietta.Tune in each week, or lis-ten to the podcast to hearthe answers to thesequestions and more.
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DMA student Richard Perez teaching at Marco Forster Middle School, San Juan Capistrano
“We study early music because there is a mistaken notion that old music is outdated. When you perform a piece of music, you are hearing the echoes of music and ideas that still resonate today. It feels alive.”- Adam Gilbert, director of the Early Music program
scholarly & professional studies
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Wellness for a LongMusical CareerKeck Medicine of USCotolaryngologists, physi-cal therapists and ortho-pedists keep musiciansand singers in peak shape.
Musicology ChairJoanna Demers GetsRaves for Groundbreak-ing New BookShe delves into 21st century philosophy, artand music with an imagi-native literary style.
Essentials of OrchestraManagement ProgramMoves from New York to USC ThorntonUSC Thornton’s ArtsLeadership programhosts the immersiveseminar to develop fu-ture orchestra leaders.
Read these stories and see the videos at music.usc.edu/viewbook
PROGRAMS
Arts Leadership
Early Music Performance
Music Teaching & Learning
Musicology
Outreach
Polish Music Center
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The Emphasis is on Performing with FeelingTeaching students to prize passion as well as perfectionFor middle school bands and orchestras, festivalstoo often reward careful, reserved performances,said DMA student Richard Perez (facing page).Technical proficiency is important, but Perez takespride in students performing in an authentic way,with feeling. His research looks at how playing in a group creates a sense of belonging, thereby elevating a community. “Music is a means of social advancement,” he said.
Read more at music.usc.edu/viewbook
Developing a Vietnamese Children's SongbookA thesis turns into a love letter to a family’s cultural homelandTina Huynh (left), a doctoral student in Music Teaching & Learning, turned to children’s songs as a reflection of Vietnamese-Americans’ bridge to their language and culture while raising their children so far away. The Vietnamese Children’sSongbook, an illustrated children’s book with a CDof traditional songs, was completed in 2016. WhatHuynh hopes to highlight with her book is the sim-ple wonder of connecting childhood with history.
She said: “How much more meaning would your life have if you knew where you came from, if you knew the history of your
people and the songs of your people?”See more at music.usc.edu/viewbook
of current doctoral students presented papers at scholarly conferences during the past year.
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Collaborate Across Campus
Nearly one-fourth of USC Thornton undergraduatespursue a major or minor in a discipline outside ofmusic, attracted by the offerings at a top researchuniversity that include 162 undergraduate majorsand 155 minors.
The Brain and Creativity Institute at the USC Dornsife School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, wherethe effects of music on brain development is onearea of study, is popular, as is USC’s fabled School ofCinematic Arts, with concentrations in filmmaking,animation, game design and other disciplines. Otherstudents seek out courses at the highly ranked Marshall School of Business, Viterbi School of Engi-neering and 19 other schools and academic units.
Welcome to the (Arts) Neighborhood
Unusual for a research institution, USC boasts sixworld-class arts schools: music, dance, cinematicarts, dramatic arts, architecture and fine arts/design.Most are adjacent to the USC Thornton buildings,forming a creative arts neighborhood. USC’s exten-sive program of visiting performers and events, Visions and Voices, brings arts and humanities tothe entire campus.
The Trojan Family is Forever
USC Thornton roots run deep at major entertain-ment and cultural institutions, from the GRAMMYMuseum and Hollywood studios in Los Angeles tomajor orchestras around the world. Strong alumninetworks are active worldwide, and help open professional doors for Thornton graduates.
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USCAn extraordinarycampus—full of opportunities—in the heart of Los Angeles
number of students to be housed in USC Village,the new $700 million residential-retail project opening fall 2017.
Application Procedures
1. Determine the specific application requirements for your chosen program (details at music.usc.edu/admission).
2. Complete the appropriate USC Application for Admission (available at usc.edu/admission).
3. Complete the supplemental music portions ofthe USC application, and upload the appropriatemedia submission(s) (including prescreen mate-rial, as required) through the SlideRoom portal (instructions at music.usc.edu/admission).
4. Perform an audition, if required, according to the specific audition requirements of your chosenprogram (details at music.usc.edu/admission).
For more information, contact:[email protected]
Financial Aid
University-wideAll domestic students are encouraged to apply for need-based financial aid.
Academic scholarships are also available for undergraduate students. For more information, visit usc.edu/financialaid.
USC Thornton SchoolApplicants to scholarship-eligible programs are automatically considered for music scholarshipsbased upon their application and audition.
Teaching assistantships are available for somegraduate programs. Applications can be down-loaded from music.usc.edu/admission.
Undergraduate Majors include the Bachelor of Music (BM), Bachelor of Arts (BA), and Bachelor of Science (BS) degrees.
Undergraduate Minors include Jazz Studies, Music Industry, Music Production, Music Recording, MusicalStudies, Musical Theatre, Popular Music Studies, andSongwriting.
Graduate Programs include the Master of Arts (MA), Master of Music (MM), Graduate Certificate (GCRT), Artist Diploma (ARTD), Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA), and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).
Classical Performance & CompositionBrass (BA, BM, MM, GCRT, ARTD, DMA)Choral Music (BA, MM, DMA)Classical Guitar (BA, BM, MM, GCRT, ARTD, DMA)Composition (BM, MM, DMA)Keyboard Collaborative Arts (MM, GCRT, ARTD, DMA)Organ (BA, BM, MM, GCRT, DMA)Percussion (BA, BM, MM, GCRT, ARTD, DMA)Piano (BA, BM, MM, GCRT, ARTD, DMA)Sacred Music (MM, DMA)Strings (BA, BM, MM, GCRT, ARTD, DMA)Vocal Arts (BA, BM, MM, GCRT, DMA)Woodwinds (BA, BM, MM, GCRT, ARTD, DMA)
Contemporary MusicJazz Studies, Instrumental (BA, BM, MM, GCRT, DMA)Jazz Studies, Vocal (BA)Music Industry (BS)Music Production (BM)Popular Music Performance (BM)Screen Scoring (MM)Studio/Jazz Guitar (MM, GCRT, DMA)
Scholarly & Professional StudiesArts Leadership (GCRT, MPA)Early Music Performance (MA, GCRT, DMA)Music Teaching & Learning (MM, DMA)Musicology (PHD)
Gainful Employment Disclosures
The United States Department of Education re-quires that not-for-profit educational institutionsdisclose certain types of information regardingprograms that do not lead to a degree. These fed-eral regulations are designed to provide informa-tion about programs leading to gainfulemployment in a recognized occupation.
In the USC Thornton School of Music, three pro-grams are subject to these federal requirements: (1) the Artist Diploma program; (2) the GraduateCertificate program in Arts Leadership; and (3) theGraduate Certificate program in Music Performance.The required information for these programs is available at music.usc.edu/admission/gainful-employment-disclosures.
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Undergraduate singer/songwriter Madison Douglas in the Los Angeles Arts District
ADMISSION TIMELINE
December 1• Application deadline for all programs
• All materials must be received by this date
January – March• Live auditions (by invitation only) held in late January and early February
• Application and/or portfolio review
April 1• Admission and financial aid notification
April 15• Graduate enrollment commitment deadline
May 1• Undergraduate enrollmentcommitment deadline
of current USC Thornton students receive financial awards that do not need to be repaid.
70%How to Apply
Degrees & Majors
Classical Performance & Composition
Choral & Sacred MusicAlvin BrightbillSuzi DigbyCristian GrasesMary ScheibeJo-Michael Scheibe,chair
Tram SparksNick StrimpleLadd Thomas
Classical GuitarBrian Head, chairWilliam KanengiserPepe RomeroScott Tennant
CompositionCompositionDonald Crockett, chairSean FriarStephen Hartke
(Emeritus Professor)Ted HearneMorten LauridsenAndrew NormanFrank Ticheli
Theory & AnalysisBill BiersachNeal DesbySarah GibsonBrian HeadVeronika KrausasRobert S. MooreJeffrey ParolaJonathan PattersonChristopher RozéMark Weiser
ConductingLucinda Carver, vice dean
Sharon LaveryLarry J. Livingston, chairMichael PowersH. Robert ReynoldsCarl St.Clair, principal conductor
Keyboard Collaborative ArtsKevin Fitz-GeraldAlan L. Smith, director
Keyboard StudiesBernadene BlahaLucinda Carver,vice dean
Kevin Fitz-GeraldStewart GordonJeffrey KahaneSung-Hwa ParkAntoinette PerryStephen PierceDaniel PollackAlan L. Smith, chair
OrganCherry RhodesLadd Thomas, chair
StringsViolinLina BahnMargaret BatjerMartin ChalifourGlenn DicterowMidori GotoBing Wang
ViolaChe-Yen ChenKaren Dreyfus
CelloRalph Kirshbaum, chairAndrew Shulman
Double BassDavid Allen Moore
HarpJoAnn Turovsky
Chamber MusicKaren Dreyfus, director
Orchestral Repetoire Ben Hong
Trojan Marching Band Arthur C. Bartner
Vocal Arts & OperaAngela BlasiKen Cazan, chairParmer Fuller,musical theatre
Rod GilfryLynn HeldingElizabeth HynesBrent McMunn, music director
Lisa Sylvester
Winds & PercussionFluteJames Walker
OboeMarion KuszykJoel TimmAllan Vogel
ClarinetYehuda GiladDavid HowardMichele Zukovsky
BassoonJudith FarmerShawn Mouser
TromboneAndy Martin
TrumpetRon McCurdyMichael SteverJohn Thomas
Vocal JazzSara GazarekKathleen Grace
Music IndustryDaniel BellJeff BrabecTodd BrabecStacy BrightmanDoug FrankMichael GarciaMark GoldsteinDax KimbroughKenneth Lopez, chairLoren MedinaVivian WangRichard WolfLindsay WolfingtonPaul Young
Music TechnologyAndrew GarverCharles GutierrezRichard McIlveryJonathan PattersonRichard Schmunk, chair
Popular MusicAndy AbadJeffrey AllenRobert AndersonAdriana BalicNdugu ChanclerSean HoltAlphonso JohnsonTim KobzaMelissa ManchesterDavid PoePatrice Rushen, chairChris Sampson, vicedean
Richard SmithAndrea StolpeSteve Trovato
Screen ScoringJongnic BontempsChris BrooksBruce BroughtonJon BurlingameDaniel Carlin, chairSean DougallLaura KarpmanPatrick KirstRichard McIlveryEric SchmidtRick SchmunkGarry SchymanLawrence ShraggeChris Young
Studio/Jazz GuitarAdam del MonteBruce FormanPat KelleyTimothy KobzaFrank Potenza, chairRichard SmithNick StoubisSteve Trovato
Scholarly & Professional Studies
Arts LeadershipHelane AndersonKenneth Foster, chairDana GioiaMaria Rosario Jackson
Early MusicLucinda CarverLot DemeyerSusan FeldmanRachelle FoxCheryl Ann FultonAdam Knight Gilbert, director
Rotem GilbertCharles KosterWilliam SkeenJason Yoshida
Music Teaching & LearningRobert Cutietta, deanSusan Helfter, chairBeatriz IlariPeter Webster, vice dean
MusicologyBruce Alan BrownAndrew CashnerJoanna Demers, chairAdam Knight GilbertRotem GilbertDana GioiaLeah MorrisonSean NyeTim PageScott SpencerLisa Vest
Front cover: Chelsea Sharpe,master’s student in violin performance, in the LA ArtsDistrict. Angel wings mural by Colette Miller.
Copy: Evan Calbi, Allison Engel
Design: Rick Simner Design
Photography: Noé Montes(cover, p. 2-3, 5, 11, 15, 18-19,back cover); Dana Ross (Hop-scotch, p. 4); Marko Ocepek(Mak Grgic, p. 6); Mark Cowl-ing/Casa Grande Valley News-papers Inc. (Evan Pensis photo p. 6); Kristina Jacinth (USCThornton Opera, p. 7); AdamBorecki (Yelena Dyachek, p. 7);David Sprague (p. 8-9); ErinOffenhauser (Tom Carpenter,p. 10); Becerra/Elefante Col-lective (p. 12-13); Freepik (radioillustration, p. 15); Chris Shinn(p. 16, cinema p. 17); IanEvanstar (p. 21)
Printing: ColorGraphics
SaxophoneJessica Maxfield
HornSteven BecknellKristy Morrell, chair
TrumpetBoyde Hood
TromboneAmy BowersTerry S. Cravens
TubaNorman PearsonJames SelfDoug Tornquist
PercussionJames BaborJoseph Pereira
Contemporary Music
Jazz StudiesBassAlphonso JohnsonEdwin LivingstonDarek “Oles” Oleszkiewicz
Jazz CompositionJason GoldmanVince MendozaBob Mintzer
Jazz HistoryThom Mason
PercussionNdugu ChanclerPeter ErskineRoy McCurdyAaron Serfaty
PianoDavid ArnayRussell FerranteAlan Pasqua
SaxophoneJason GoldmanBob Mintzer, chairBob Sheppard
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USC Thornton Faculty
Professor Lucinda Carver coaching chamber music.
USCorntonSchool of Music
Office of AdmissionUniversity Park CampusTMC 200Los Angeles, CA90089-0851phone: [email protected]
music.usc.edu@USCThornton
Popular Music students playing on a rooftop east of downtown Los Angeles