Mark Weiser Featured on New Capital Quartet Album
Composition faculty Mark Weiser’s Song for Margot was included in Capitol Quartet’s recently released album. Flex is available on Amazon and CD Baby. Read the article.
Acclaimed Opera Singer Mentions Alan Smith During Interview
Piano faculty and chair of the keyboard studies programs Alan Smith was mentioned by Stephanie Blythe in an interview posted on Carnegie Hall’s YouTube channel. close
Donald Crockett’s The Face Reviewed in the Los Angeles Times
USC Thornton composition chair Donald Crockett’s new, multimedia opera, The Face (libretto by USC poetry faculty David St. John) received its world premiere at the Aratani/Japan American Theater in Los Angeles at the end of August. Read the article.
Glenn Dicterow Mentioned in Broadway World
Broadway World features new violin faculty Glenn Dicterow in its preview of the New York Philharmonic’s all-Russian program on September 29, in which music director Alan Gilbert leads the orchestra in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scherezade, spotlighting Dicterow as concertmaster. Read the article.
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
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
David Howard
David Howard, adjunct associate professor of winds and percussion, has been a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 1981 when he was hired by then music director Carlo Maria Giulini. He has performed and given masterclasses at international festivals in Tel Aviv, Vancouver, Helsinki, Beijing, and Stockholm. He and a small contingent of Philharmonic colleagues coached… Continue reading David Howard
Scott Tennant
Scott Tennant is a founding member of the the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, the Grammy-winning ensemble composed entirely of alumni of the USC Thornton School of Music, and is himself considered to be one of the world’s top classical guitarists. During his student years at USC (1980-1986), he studied with Pepe Romero and James Smith and… Continue reading Scott Tennant
Chris Rozé
The music of Chris Rozé has been performed throughout the U.S. by ensembles such as the Boston Chamber Music Society, Earplay, Music Mobile, NuClassix, the Wellesley Music Conference, the Atlantic String Quartet with Laura Flax, The Washington Island Music Festival Chamber Players, Ingrid Gordon (founder of Percussia), the Zinkali Trio and others. His clarinet quintet,… Continue reading Chris Rozé
Ola Gjeilo’s “Dark Night of the Soul” performed by the USC Thornton Chamber Singers
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