The Spring 2020 semester at USC Thornton brings with it an impressively packed calendar of events. Take a look at just a few of the many events in store, and join us for a memorable season of performances.
The Piatigorsky International Cello Festival will return to USC March 13–22 bringing together masters of the cello and young cellists from around the world.
USC Thornton has announced the third iteration the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival, a truly unparalleled, 10-day, 42-event that will take place from March 13-22, 2020.
The Piatigorsky International Cello Festival returned to USC for 10 magnificent days in May. Here’s a rundown of the amazing event.
Cellist and Furman University professor Christopher Hutton provides a daily first-person narrative of his experiences at the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival
A USC Thornton Piatigorsky Fellow looks forward to interacting with renowned players.
The acclaimed ensemble of alumni from the USC Thornton School of Music perform a series of concerts as part of the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival.
Through the voices of his former students, KUSC and the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival pay tribute to the historical legacy of cellist and Angeleno Gregor Piatigorsky.
Acclaimed cellist and Piatigorsky International Cello Festival artist Laurence Lesser recalls a serendipitous encounter with a Hollywood icon.
In the second installment of our Festival artist Q&A series, we spoke with Israeli-American cellist Amit Peled, who will be featured in a May 21st Lunch Concert.
Piatigorsky International Cello Festival fellows Cicely Parnas and Coleman Itzkoff share the stage for the first time this week, but their families have performed together before.
Archivist Carol Merrill-Mirsky offers a taste of the many scores, manuscripts, clippings, recordings, and films donated by the widow of Gregor Piatigorsky.
Karen Steinbach fell in love with the cello as a young girl. Now, in her retirement, she has taken up the instrument once again.
With the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival just around the corner, we asked cellist Christopher Hutton about which festival events he finds most enticing.
The first in an ongoing series, meet the exceptional artists who will descend on Los Angeles for the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival, a 10-day cello extravaganza in May, 2016.
In the early 20th century, a wealth of influential composers and musicians fled war-torn Europe for the United States – and many of them eventually arrived in Los Angeles to teach at USC, including renowned cellist Gregor Piatigorsky.
There’s so much University of Southern California and USC Thornton history in this photo featuring former faculty and celebrated musicians Jascha Heifetz (violin) and Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) from 1972. Perhaps you recognize current Keyboard Studies faculty Daniel Pollack at the piano!