Co-Directors:
Adam Knight Gilbert, University of Southern California
Rotem Gilbert, University of Southern California
2026-2027
Adam Gilbert’s 20th Anniversary as Early Music Program Director
Friday, October 2, 2026
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Rotem Gilbert & Jason Yoshida
USC, University Park Campus
Newman Recital Hall
700 Childs Way, Los Angeles, CA
8:00 p.m. (PT)
Join us for a reception following the performance.
400 Years to John Dowland
Sunday, November 22, 2026
USC Collegium Musicum, directed by Jason Yoshida
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
427 South Junipero Serra Drive, San Gabriel, CA
2:00 p.m. (PT)
A Latin American Christmas
Friday, December 4, 2026
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Rotem Gilbert & Jason Yoshida, with special guest, Mary Vanhoozer, playing the hurdy gurdy
USC, University Park Campus
Newman Recital Hall
700 Childs Way, Los Angeles, CA
8:00 p.m. (PT)
Ciaramella: Sounds of the Celestial Spheres
Sunday, December 6, 2026
Directed by Adam Knight Gilbert & Rotem Gilbert
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
427 South Junipero Serra Drive, San Gabriel, CA
2:00 p.m. (PT)
Arise My Muse: Music of Henry Purcell
Friday, March 5, 2027
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Rotem Gilbert & Jason Yoshida
USC, University Park Campus
Newman Recital Hall
700 Childs Way, Los Angeles, CA
8:00 p.m. (PT)
Music from Renaissance Spain
Sunday, April 11, 2027
USC Collegium Musicum, directed by Jason Yoshida
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
427 South Junipero Serra Drive, San Gabriel, CA
2:00 p.m. (PT)
Geniuses of Harmony and Counterpoint: Music of Bach & Telemann
Friday, April 30, 2027
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Rotem Gilbert & Jason Yoshida
USC, University Park Campus
Newman Recital Hall
700 Childs Way, Los Angeles, CA
8:00 p.m. (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.
Alamire: Leuven Chansonnier in Perspective
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.
