Kenneth Foster
Kenneth Foster is a nationally recognized arts leader with more than thirty years of experience as an arts administrator, curator, educator and performing arts presenter. Immediately prior to coming to USC in 2013, where he designed and launched the Arts Leadership program (ARTL), he was the executive director of San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts… Continue reading Kenneth Foster
Leah Morrison
Leah Morrison, adjunct assistant professor of musicology, holds a PhD in musicology from USC and maintains two areas of specialization: plainchant and liturgical practice prior to 1500 and 19th-century music. Her dissertation, an edition of a fifteenth-century Carthusian plainchant manual, was supported by a Huntington Library Mellon Fellowship. She received a Heckman Postdoctoral Fellowship from… Continue reading Leah Morrison
Sung-Hwa Park
Sung-Hwa Park has served on the USC Thornton School of Music’s Keyboard Studies faculty since 2002, where she currently directs the Functional Skills program for keyboard majors. In November 2018, she was invited to give a workshop on concepts in modern class piano techniques with emphasis on keyboard harmony skills at the University of Taipei in… Continue reading Sung-Hwa Park
Neal Desby
Neal Desby, adjunct assistant professor at USC Thornton School of Music, first became serious about composing music during high school. While studying piano and oboe, he came under the influence of Jerry Grant, a successful composer of both concert and film music. The native of Los Angeles received his bachelor and master of music degrees… Continue reading Neal Desby
Andrew Shulman
Andrew Shulman, virtuoso cellist and conductor, is principal cellist with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and cellist with Los Angeles Piano Trio. He enjoys a richly varied career as recitalist, soloist, chamber musician, conductor and pedagogue, maintaining a flourishing studio at the USC Thornton School of Music. Many of his students have gone on to… Continue reading Andrew Shulman
Brian Head
Brian Head, associate dean, academic affairs, professor of practice, and director of undergraduate music theory, classical guitar and composition at USC Thornton School of Music, was voted Outstanding Thornton School Graduate of 1991. Brian Head was chosen in 1999 as the USC Gamma Sigma Alpha Professor of the Year. He is sought after as an ensemble… Continue reading Brian Head
Nick Stoubis
Nick Stoubis has distinguished himself as a world-class guitarist with an active career as a performer, composer, session-player, transcriber, author and educator. As an educator at USC since 1997, he has always been in high demand and popular as a professor with students throughout the university. He has coauthored four books in collaboration with other… Continue reading Nick Stoubis
Lisa Sylvester
Lisa Sylvester, coach/pianist/conductor, is a vocal coach and teaches courses in diction, vocal repertoire and accompanying on USC Thornton’s Vocal Arts Faculty. She is also faculty coach at OperaViva!, a summer training program for young singers in Verona, Italy. Sought after as a coach and recital collaborator, Lisa Sylvester has also given presentations at the conventions… Continue reading Lisa Sylvester
Adam del Monte
Acknowledged worldwide as a rare talent in flamenco and classical guitar genres, Adam del Monte transcends labeling and convention as a performer and composer in both genres. He incorporates a wide array of musical styles in his compositions for a unique sound and language of flamenco that is steeped in tradition and also progressive in… Continue reading Adam del Monte
Mark Weiser
Composer Mark Lanz Weiser’s music has been described as “brilliantly expressive” (Washington Post), “potent and well-made” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “ravishing” (San Jose Mercury News). His compositions have been performed by a variety of notable groups, including the Baltimore and Indianapolis symphony orchestras, the Oakland East Bay Symphony, Pulse Chamber Music, the Capitol Quartet, the… Continue reading Mark Weiser