Thornton Baroque Sinfonia

Citlali Garcia, Nicole Young, Alana Mailes, sopranos

Katelyn Hsu, mezzosoprano

Cameron Schubert, tenor

Jason Yang, bass

Diana Dawydchak, Nathan Nguyen, violins

Cecile McNeill, viola

Jaemin Lee, viola da gamba

Abi Koehler, violone & viola da gamba

Erin Young, theorbo**

Janina Kališnik, Pietro Ruscigno, Baroque guitar

Jason Yoshida, Baroque guitar & theorbo*

Marjana Jocif, Fernanda Olmedo Espinoza, recorder

Rotem Gilbert, Adam Gilbert, recorder & bagpipe*

Harrison Chiang, Baroque bassoon

Hejun Yang, harpsichord & organ

Special Guest: Mary Vanhoozer, hurdy gurdy & vielle

* Early Music Faculty

** Early Music TA

USC Thornton Early Music Faculty 

Adam Knight Gilbert, program director
Rotem Gilbert, early music ensembles & musicology
Jason Yoshida, plucked strings & early music ensembles
Jennifer Kampani, voice & early music ensembles
Lot Demeyer, baroque oboe & oboe band
Lucinda Carver & Ian Pritchard, harpsichord & historical keyboards

Mary Vanhoozer

Multi-instrumentalist Mary Vanhoozer grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she learned to play the Scottish fiddle and developed an enduring love of folk music. Traditional noëls from southern France played an equally formative role as they introduced her to the hurdy gurdy. Since acquiring her first gurdy, Mary has eagerly continued to research and perform a variety of repertoire, from medieval dances to French baroque suites and sonatas. Her published anthology, Playford’s Wheel, features 70 English country dance tunes transcribed for the hurdy gurdy. She has been featured in a concert of Renaissance dances broadcast live in southern California on KUSC radio and can be heard on the video game soundtrack Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: The Siege of Paris, by Grammy winning composer Stephanie Economou. A passionate educator and hurdy gurdy advocate, Mary curates concerts for educational institutions and serves as co-director of the Wheel Song Hurdy Gurdy Festival. Mary received degrees in piano performance from Wheaton College Conservatory (B.M.), the Eastman School of Music (M.M.), and the Cleveland Institute of Music (D.M.A).

Acknowledgements

Generous scholarship support for the members of the USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia is provided by the Colburn Foundation. We are also grateful for generous scholarship support from the Rutherford Fund, established by our dear late friend and donor Bill Rutherford. Special thanks to our generous friends and donors Tom Rosenthal, Bob Attiyeh and Mike Rosell. We offer very special thanks to the late Sharon Lilly for her years of generous support and friendship.

This concert is made possible with generous support for the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.

For more information, go to: https://dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/seminar-series/music-series/