
Vicente Chavarria awarded Belgian American Education Foundation Fellowship
USC Thornton DMA student in early music, Vicente Chavarria, was awarded a Belgian American Education Foundation Fellowship. Chavarria will study for a one-year postdoc at KU Leuven in Belgium with Professor David Burn, one of the foremost scholars of Renaissance polyphony in Europe. Chavarria serves as artistic director of Flos Campi, an early music ensemble… Continue reading Vicente Chavarria awarded Belgian American Education Foundation Fellowship

Houston Early Music Festival to Welcome Ciaramella
Ciaramella, the early music ensemble led by USC Thornton faculty Rotem and Adam Gilbert, will travel to Texas for a performance on Sun., Feb. 15 at Houston’s First Evangelical Lutheran Church. Broadway World mentioned the performance, noting that in 2014 the Gilberts received the prestigious Thomas Binkley Award from Early Music America in recognition of… Continue reading Houston Early Music Festival to Welcome Ciaramella

Jason Yoshida
Jason Yoshida specializes in solo and continuo performance on lutes and historical guitars. In a Los Angeles Times review, Mark Swed described a solo lute performance of Yoshida’s as “eloquent and serious.” He received international recognition for his CD Mozart Encomium, featuring the world premiere recording of Scheidler’s virtuosic Variations on a theme by Mozart for baroque lute. Yoshida… Continue reading Jason Yoshida

Lot Demeyer
Lot Demeyer is quickly emerging as one of the West Coast’s leading Baroque oboists. She has performed on historical and modern oboes, as well as recorder, with world-class organizations like LA Opera and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, as well as LA Chamber Orchestra, Musica Angelica, Bach Collegium San Diego, Long Beach Opera, California Bach Society, Bach… Continue reading Lot Demeyer

Weicheng Zhao and Fang Gao to perform at Calgary Organ Festival and Symposium
Current USC Thornton doctoral candidate Weicheng Zhao (MM ’14, DMA ’16) is one of two organists to perform on the Young Artists’ Platform during the Calgary Organ Festival and Symposium. His wife Fang Gao (GCRT, ’16), who is currently a student in the Early Music program, will join him in a concert at the Cathedral Church of the Redeemer in… Continue reading Weicheng Zhao and Fang Gao to perform at Calgary Organ Festival and Symposium
Adam & Rotem Gilbert receive Thomas Binkley Award from Early Music America
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USC Baroque Sinfonia performs “La Pellegrina”
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USC Baroque Sinfonia performs La Pazzia Senile
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USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia performs “Bourée pour les Bergers et les Bergères” from Alcione
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USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia performs “Jubilate Musica” and “Balletto di villanelle” from La pazzia senile
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