Co-Directors:
Adam Knight Gilbert, University of Southern California
Rotem Gilbert, University of Southern California
2024-2025
Friday, October 4, 2024
“‘Shepherds and Nymphs Composing’: 17th-Century Italian Music of Claudio Monteverdi, Francesca Caccini, and Chiara Margarita Cozzolani”
University of Southern California
Newman Recital Hall
8pm (PT)
Friday, November 8, 2024
“English Music Theory ca. 1300”
University of Southern California
Herklotz Seminar Room, Doheny Music Library
1:00 pm (PT)
USC Collegium musicum directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
Sunday, November 10, 2024
“Pilgrimage Music from the Cantigas de Santa Maria and Llibre Vermell de Montserrat”
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
428 South Mission Drive, San Gabriel, CA
2:00 pm (PT)
Sunday, December 1, 2024
“A French Christmas”
Great Music at Saint James, Classical Sundays at Six
Saint James-in-the-City
3903 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
6:00 pm (PT)
Friday, December 6, 2024
“‘Jouez hautbois, résonnez musettes!’: A Concert of 17th-Century French Noels”
University of Southern California
Newman Recital Hall
8 pm (PT)
Friday, January 31, 2025
“Music and Drugs in the longee durée”
University of Southern California
Herklotz Seminar Room, Doheny Music Library
1:00 pm (PT)
Friday, March 7, 2025
“Mission Music of the Americas”
With Special Guests: Students from Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland
University of Southern California
Newman Recital Hall
8 pm (PT)
Repeat concert: Saturday, March 8, 2025
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
428 South Mission Drive, San Gabriel, CA
2:00 pm (PT)
Friday, April 4, 2025
“English Madrigals on the Jesuit Stage: Musical Theatre of Martyrdom at the Venerable English College, Rome”
University of Southern California
Herklotz Seminar Room, Doheny Music Library
1:00 pm (PT)
USC Collegium Musicum directed by Adam Knight Gilbert and Jason Yoshida
Saturday, April 26, 2025
“Villançicos and Tonos humanos from Iberia and Latin America: Spanish Songs of the Siglo de Oro and Beyond”
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
428 South Mission Drive
San Gabriel, CA
2:00 pm (PT)
Friday, May 2, 2025
“The Corded Shell: The Power of Music from Purcell to Handel”
University of Southern California
Newman Recital Hall
8 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.
