Love all sorts of early music, from Arcadelt to Zielenski? Does the mere mention of a Landini cadence or musica ficta turn you on? If so, check out USC's Early Music Department page.
Over the past several decades, the performance of early music has evolved from a highly specialized activity into a major facet of professional music making to which an ever-increasing, international audience has responded. The profession of early music involves its specialists in a broad range of activities: Solo and ensemble performance, research and writing, program-planning, the preparation of performing editions and historically-informed arrangements, and ensemble direction and teaching, to mention some of the main ones. The aim of the two graduate degree programs in early music performance is to immerse majors in all of these activities and to insure that graduates leave the USC-Thornton School with sufficient knowledge and expertise to begin careers in the profession of early music, whether in the US or abroad.
Ensemble:
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, Adam Knight Gilbert, director
Faculty:
Lucinda Carver
Susan Feldman
Rachelle Fox
Adam Knight Gilbert
Rotem Gilbert
Paul J. Sherman
Scott Shubeck
William Skeen
Shanon Zusman
Vicente Chavarria, Graduate Teaching Assistant
