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USC Thornton faculty member Troy Quinn conducts an outdoor symphony performance

Conductor Troy Quinn Takes Center Stage with the Rhode Island Philharmonic

August 11, 2021

USC Thornton faculty member Troy Quinn leads the 2021 summer pops series for the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra.


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April Chung releases children’s book with corresponding piano compositions

August 6, 2021

April Chung (MM ’16), an alum from the Keyboard Studies program, published a children’s book, “The Enchanted Bells,” with Balestier Press in May.


Portrait of Dean Robert Cutietta

July 20: A Message from the Dean on Fall 2021 Reopening

July 28, 2021

From the office of Dean Robert Cutietta – July 20, 2021


A Letter from the Director

July 27, 2021

Welcome to Arts Leadership at USC, a graduate program that redefines how we think about and practice arts leadership in the 21st Century. What makes Arts Leadership unique is its contemporary vision. The world is at a critical moment – one in which the extraordinary changes in demographics, economics, technology, globalization, environmentalism, and social practice… Continue reading A Letter from the Director


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Ralph Kirshbaum

November 13, 2015

The distinguished career of Texas-born cellist Ralph Kirshbaum encompasses the worlds of solo performance, chamber music, recording, and pedagogy, and places him in the highest echelon of today’s cellists. Possessed of “wonderful tone, utter technical reliability and the imagination to make the music feel both spontaneous and well planned” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review), Kirshbaum enjoys the affection… Continue reading Ralph Kirshbaum


Organist couple

November 2, 2015

L’incoronazione di Poppea poster

L’incoronazione di Poppea

November 20, 2013

Politics, sex, and religion—the stuff of all great opera! Claudio Monteverdi’s 17th century masterpiece, L’incoronazione di Poppea, combines all of the above with the sublime Baroque music of one of the great masters of the genre.

November 20, 22, and 24, 2013
Bing Theatre
USC University Park Campus


Studio/Jazz Guitar ensemble Wire Choir performs “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”

November 4, 2013

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Studio/Jazz Guitar ensemble Super Axe performs “3 Windows, Part 3”

October 28, 2013

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Studio/Jazz Guitar ensemble Cinematic performs “I Guess There’s Next Year”

October 28, 2013

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