Co-Directors:
Adam Knight Gilbert, University of Southern California
Rotem Gilbert, University of Southern California
2023-2024
Friday, October 6, 2023
“Death and Love in Venice”: Venetian Music of the Baroque Era
Celebrating music by Claudio Monteverdi, Barbara Strozzi, Tarquinio Merula, Giovanni Batista Rigatti, and Antonio Vivaldi
University of Southern California
Newman Recital Hall
8pm (PT)
Friday, October 20, 2023
“Why Josquin? New Questions in Old Musicology”
University of Southern California
Herklotz Seminar Room, Doheny Music Library
1 – 2 pm (PT)
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Pre-concert lecture: “The Music of William Byrd”
University of Southern California
Cammilleri Hall, Brain and Creativity Institute
7 pm (PT)
USC Collegium musicum directed by Jason Yoshida
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
“”Sing Joyfully”: The Music of William Byrd”
Join the USC Collegium musicum in celebrating the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd.
University of Southern California
Cammilleri Hall, Brain and Creativity Institute
8 pm (PT)
Friday, December 1, 2023
“”From Heaven on High”: Christmas Music of the German Baroque Era”
featuring music by Michael Praetorius, Heinrich Schütz, Johann Rosenmüller, and Dietrich Buxtehude
University of Southern California
Newman Recital Hall
8 pm (PT)
Friday, January 19, 2024
Discussion of Inclusive Music Histories: Leading Change through Research and Pedagogy (2024)
University of Southern California
Herklotz Seminar Room, Doheny Music Library
1 – 2 pm (PT)
Friday, February 23, 2024
“Symbolism and Memory in Fourteenth-Century Music Theory”
University of Southern California
Herklotz Seminar Room, Doheny Music Library
1 – 2 pm (PT)
Friday, March 1, 2024
Music from Guatemala, Mexico, and California
featuring the music of Rafael Antonio Castellanos, music of the Missions of California and songs of the Mexican Son jarocho tradition with singer David Morales, and Guest Ensemble Son Tios (Jorge Andresge Herrera, Federico Zúñiga, Victor Murillo, and Laura Cambron)
University of Southern California
Newman Recital Hall
8 pm (PT)
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Repeat performance
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
429 S Junipero Serra Dr, San Gabriel, CA
2 pm (PT)
Friday, April 12, 2024
“The Aspersion Antiphons of Seville Cathedral c. 1500”
University of Southern California
Herklotz Seminar Room, Doheny Music Library
1 – 2 pm (PT)
USC Collegium musicum directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
Saturday, April 13, 2024
“Silver and Gold”: Music for the Medici Popes”
a concert of music composed and performed for the Medici Popes Leo X from 1513 – 1610, featuring Henricus Isaac’s mysterious Missa Argentum et aurum
University of Southern California
Cammilleri Hall, Brain and Creativity Institute
7:30 pm (PT)
This event is co-sponsored by EMSI, USC Thornton School of Music, & Collaborations in History, Art, Religion, and Music (CHARM).
Friday, April 26, 2024
Master of the High (and Low) Baroque
featuring music of High Baroque Masters Telemann, Bach, and Handel alongside street songs, broadside ballads, and selections from John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera
University of Southern California
Newman Recital Hall
8 pm (PT)
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
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Sponsored by USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and Yale University Press
MUSIC PERFORMED BY Members of the USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia.
