Co-Directors:
Adam Knight Gilbert, University of Southern California
Rotem Gilbert, University of Southern California
2025-2026
Friday, October 3, 2025
“Musical Revolutions in Italy, 1580-1680”
USC, University Park Campus
Newman Recital Hall
8:00 pm (PT)
USC Collegium Musicum directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
Sunday, November 16, 2025
“German and Dutch Lieder of the Renaissance”
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
427 South Junipero Serra Drive
San Gabriel, California 91776
2:00 pm (PT)
Friday, December 5, 2025
“From Terpsichore to Telemann: German Music of the Baroque Era”
with special guest Mary Vanhoozer
USC, University Park Campus
Newman Recital Hall
8:00 pm (PT)
Sunday, December 7, 2025
“Renaissance Music from Saint Nicholas to Christmas”
with USC Early Music Program Faculty, Alumni, and Students
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
427 South Junipero Serra Drive
San Gabriel, California 91776
2:00 pm (PT)
Friday, March 6, 2026
“Music of Revolutions in France and New Spain”
USC, University Park Campus
Newman Recital Hall
6:00 pm (PT)
USC Collegium Musicum directed by Jason Yoshida
Sunday, April 19, 2026
“French Chansons, Airs de Cours, and Devotional Songs”
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
427 South Junipero Serra Drive
San Gabriel, California 91776
2:00 pm (PT)
Friday, May 1, 2026
“Music of English, Scottish, and American Revolutions”
USC, University Park Campus
Newman Recital Hall
8:00 pm (PT)
Leuven Chansonnier in Perspective
This video is part of the Alamire Foundation’s series of 50 short documentaries in which international experts speak about the Leuven Chansonnier, a newly rediscovered 15th-century songbook.
In episode 1, Adam Knight Gilbert discusses whether or not the Leuven Chansonnier composer worked with existing melodies.
Live Recordings
Past Young Performers Festivals
USC Baroque Sinfonia – EMA’s 2022 Young Performers Festival
“Een nye liet”: Crossing Boundaries in Early-Modern Song and Dance (ca. 1450-1650)
The USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
Presented as part of the 2022 Young Performers Festival – https://www.youngperformersfestival.org
USC Early Music Ensemble (Young Performers Festival)
USC Thornton Early Music Ensemble
Los Angeles, CA
Adam Knight Gilbert, Director | Rachelle Romero, Early Music TA
This virtual concert includes socially-distanced solo and small-scale pieces performed by our ensemble members during quarantine, as well as live footage from their 2019-2020 season. The socially-distanced performances feature music from Italy, Germany, France, and Guatemala, spanning from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century.
USC Thornton Collegium Workshop (EMA’s 2019 Young Performers Festival)
McGill Baroque Orchestra
Thursday, May 23, 4:30pm
Trinity Episcopal Church, Bloomington, IN
Program:
Mi verry joy: Music from the Shores of England and France.
The interwoven histories of England and France in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries profoundly affected their poetry and music. This concert will feature music from the Ritson, Fayrfax and Henry VIII manuscripts in England, and from the Loire Valley chansonniers in France, featuring anonymous unica from the recently discovered Leuven Chansonnier. The repertory will span music from The Hundred Years’ War to shortly after the Wars of the Roses. Settings of poems by King Henry VIII and by Duke Charles d’Orléans, who was a prisoner in England for 25 years and wrote verse in French and English, will play a special part in our concert.
Published Album
“D’ye hear the News?” Selections from the 1689 London Popery Collections
Listen in itunes.
Sponsored by USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and Yale University Press
MUSIC PERFORMED BY Members of the USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia.
