2022-2023
August 26, 2022
Alejandro Acosta, Robert Wang, and Adam Gilbert, USC
“Soundwalking Through the Mission Past”
October 7, 2022
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Rotem Gilbert and Jason Yoshida
Concerto delle Donne: Music by and for Women in early Baroque Italy
Compositions by Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Caccini, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani and Isabella Leonarda
Newman Recital Hall, USC
October 28, 2022
Kathryn Cok and Wouter Verschuren, Royal Conservatoire, The Hague
Musicology Forum: “Giants of the Dulcian Family: An Exploration of the Doppelfagott and the Fagotcontra in Music of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuires” and
“Eloquent Fingers: Indications and Implications of Fingering in Historical Keyboard Music”
Herklotz Seminar Room, USC
November 19, 2022
USC Collegium Musicum, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
“Hoy comamos y bebamos!” Music of Renaissance Spain from Cancionero de Palacio
Cammilleri Hall, USC
December 2, 2022
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Rotem Gilbert and Jason Yoshida with guest Mary Vanhoozer
Une jeune pucelle: French Baroque Noels and Dances
Newman Recital Hall, USC
January 20, 2023
Ireri Chávez-Bárcenas, Bowdoin College
Musicology Forum: “Music and Culture in Puebla de Los Ángeles”
Herklotz Seminar Room, USC
March 3, 2023
Nell Snaides, GEMAS, and Alejandro Acosta, USC
Musicology Forum: “Performing Torrejón y Velasco’s La púrpura de la rosa and Francisco Javier García Fajer’s Missa in D”
Herklotz Seminar Room, USC
March 3, 2023
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert and Jason Yoshida
Early Modern Music in the Americas featuring Torrejón y Velasco’s La púrpura de la rosa and Francisco Javier García Fajer’s Missa in D
Newman Recital Hall
April 15, 2023
USC Collegium Musicum, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
Early Music of Armenia and Cyprus
Cammilleri Hall, USC
April 28, 2023
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert and Jason Yoshida
Musica Antiqua Polonica IV: Music from Early Modern Poland
Newman Recital Hall
Co-sponsored with USC Thornton School of Music.
2020-2021
Friday, October 30, 2020
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
“O Rosetta”: Songs of Love and Youth from Seventeenth-Century Italy
Led by Rotem Gilbert, Jason Yoshida, and Jennifer Kampani
The Thornton/LIVE web stage online
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
Vaya de jacara nueva: Join in a New Dance
Led by Rotem Gilbert, Jason Yoshida, and Jennifer Kampani
The Thornton/LIVE web stage online
Friday, December 11, 2020
Musicology Forum: Elsa de Luca, CESEM, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
“Silent Music, Secret Writing: An Overview of Old Hispanic Notation and Visigothic Cryptography”
Online
Friday, January 22, 2021
Musicology Forum: Diane Oliva, USC Society of Fellows
“Seismic Music: Peruvian Devotions, Earthquake Disasters, and the Seven Last Words”
Online
Friday, February 5, 2021
Musicology Forum: Haig Utidjian
“Sweet in melody and voice”: Words, neumes, and music in the odes of St. Gregory of Narek
Online
Friday, February 19, 2021
Musicology Forum: Ron Daise, Brookgreen Gardens
“The Musicology of Gullah Geechee Culture”
Online
Friday, March 12, 2021
Musicology Forum: Sarah Mead, Brandeis University
“Navigational Instruments: Charting Early-Modern Musical Geography”
Online
Saturday, March 20, 2021
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
“Socially Distant Grounds and Airs”: A live-streamed concert featuring Baroque songs, psalms, and dances from England
Led by Rotem Gilbert, Jason Yoshida, and Jennifer Kampani
The Thornton/LIVE web stage online
Friday, April 9, 2021
Musicology Forum: Karen Cook, University of Hartford
“Magister Johannes Pipardi: Music Theory in Late Medieval Avignon”
Online
Friday, April 16, 2021
Musicology Forum: Cathy Ann Elias, De Paul University
“Una voce poco fa: Restoring the madrigals of Pietro Havente and Don Salvadore di Cataldo”
Online
Saturday, May 1, 2021
USC Collegium Musicum
“Madrigals of Pietro Havente and Don Salvadore di Cataldo”
Led by Adam Gilbert, Jason Yoshida, and Jennifer Kampani
Youtube
Friday, April 30, 2021
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
“Pièces de caractère: Music of the French Baroque”: A live-streamed concert of French baroque music, featuring character pieces that invoke historical persons and scenes of nature.
Led by Adam Gilbert, Jason Yoshida, and Jennifer Kampani
The Thornton/LIVE web stage online
2019-2020
Friday, October 11, 2019
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
Musica Polonica III: Musical Treasures of the Polish Baroque
Rotem Gilbert, director
University of Southern California
Saturday, November 16, 2019
USC Collegium Workshop
Flow my Tears: Lutes Songs of Early-Modern England
Jason Yoshida, director
University of Southern California
Friday, December 6, 2019
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
Terpsichore: Michael Praetorius and the Muse of Dance
Rotem Gilbert, director
University of Southern California
Friday, March 6, 2020
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
Tempest Toss’d: Theatrical Music of Restoration England
Adam Knight Gilbert, director
University of Southern California
Friday, April 3, 2020
Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
“Dangers in the Music Room”
University of Southern California
Online
Friday, April 17, 2020
Cathy Ann Elias, DePaul University
“Una voce poco fa—until the performance! Restoring the madrigals of Pietro Havente and Don Salvadore di Cataldo”
University of Southern California
Online
Saturday, April 18, 2020
USC Collegium Workshop
Italian Madrigals Lost and Found
Adam Knight Gilbert, director
University of Southern California
Friday, May 1, 2020
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
La Barca di Venetia per Padova
Adam Knight Gilbert, director
University of Southern California
2018-2019
Friday, October 5, 2018
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
Fiori musicali: Musical Flowers of 17th-Century Italy
University of Southern California
Saturday, November 17, 2018
USC Collegium Workshop
Mirie it is while sumer ilast: Song & Dance of Early Modern England
University of Southern California
Friday, November 30, 2018
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
“Tonos humanos y sagrados”: Music from the Golden Age of Spain
University of Southern California
Friday, March 1, 2019
Dietrich Bartel, Canadian Mennonite University
Musica Poetica: Early Modern Music and Rhetoric
University of Southern California
Friday, March 1, 2019
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia & Musicians from Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan, Armenia
East Meets West: Music Across the Borders of Austria, Poland, and Armenia
University of Southern California
Saturday, April 13, 2019
USC Collegium Workshop
Engin soubtil: Subtle Songs of Early-Modern France
University of Southern California
Friday, April 26, 2019
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
When Jubal struck the corded shell: Music about the Power of Music
University of Southern California
2017-2018
Friday, October 6, 2017
Capriccio Stravagante
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
Directed by Rotem Gilbert
University of Southern California
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
In the Moment: Music for Sarode and Tabla
David Trasoff, sarode
Abhijit Benerjee, tabla
University of Southern California
Sunday, November 5, 2017
The Llibre Vermell de Montserrat
USC Collegium Workshop
Directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
University of Southern California
Friday, December 1, 2017
“Noëls d’autrefois”: Music of the French Baroque
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
Directed by Rotem Gilbert
University of Southern California
Friday, March 2, 2018
Improvisation Across Boundaries
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
Directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
University of Southern California
Saturday, April 21, 2018
From Bingen to Żagań: German Devotional Song before 1500
USC Collegium Workshop
Directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
University of Southern California
Friday, April 27, 2018
“Mysteries and Muses”: Music of the German Baroque
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
Directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
University of Southern California
2016-2017
Friday, December 2, 2016
Music of Hieronymous and Michael Praetorius
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Rotem Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Early Music Faculty Concert
Adam Gilbert, shawm, recorder, bagpipe
Rotem Gilbert, shawm, recorder, bagpipe
Jason Yoshida, guitar, theorbo, percussion
with special guests Adam Bregman, sackbut and Malachai Bandy, shawm, viola da gamba
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, March 3, 2017
Griot! With Guest Lamin Kuyateh
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
Saturday, April 22, 2017
USC Collegium Workshop presents “1517: Singing and Dancing Toward a Dangerous Year”
Directed by Adam Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, April 28, 2017
“Strike the Viol, Touch the Lute”: Music of Restoration England
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Rotem Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
2015-2016
Friday, October 9, 2015
“Musica Antiqua Polonica”: Musical Treasures of Early Modern Poland
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
with special guest Stefan Plewniak, baroque violin
USC, University Park Campus
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Polish Music Center Paderewski Lecture
Musical Treasures of Early Modern Poland with special guest Stefan Plewniak, baroque violin
USC, University Park Campus
Saturday, November 14, 2015
“J’ay pris amours”: Amorous Chansons of Renaissance France
USC Collegium Workshop, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
USC, United University Church
Friday, December 4, 2015
“Ein Kind ist uns geboren”: A German Christmas in the Time of War
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, March 4, 2016
“Airs de cour”: Courtly Song of Early Modern France
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, April 8, 2016
Claire Fontijn, Wellesley College
Musicology Forum Lecture
“Hildegard the Instrumentalist and the Psalterium decem chordarum of Joachim de Fiore”
USC, Doheny Memorial Library
Saturday, April 9, 2016
“Trionfo d’Amore”: Music of Medici Florence
USC Collegium Workshop, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
USC, United University Church
Friday, April 29, 2016
“Songs and Masques”: Consort Songs and Dances of Royal England
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
2014-2015
Friday, December 5, 2014
Andrés, where has all the livestock gone?: Christmas in the Iberian Lands: Spanish
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Medieval Music for Voice and Vielle
Anne Azéma (voice)
Shira Kamman (vielle)
USC, United University Park Church
Friday, February 13, 2015
Adam and Rotem Gilbert: Early Music Faculty Concert, Make a Joyful Noise
With Ciaramella
Adam Gilbert, Rotem Gilbert, Doug Milliken (shawm, recorder, bagpipe)
Greg Ingles, Erik Schmalz (slide trumpet, sackbut, recorder)
Jason Yoshida (lute, guitar, percussion)
Malachai Komanoff Bandy (viola da gamba)
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, March 6, 2015
Les Plaisirs d’Amour: Music of the French Opera and English Court
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert with Baroque Dancer Linda Tomko and Friends
Music of the English Chapel Royal and dances of the French Operas, featuring Linda Tomko and a troupe of Baroque Dancers.
USC, University Park Campus
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Por Qué Llorax: Spanish and Ladino Songs of Love and Loss
USC Collegium Workshop, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert and Rachelle Fox
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, May 1, 2015
Gods, Love, and Jealousy
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
2013-2014
Friday, October 11, 2013
Napoli! Baroque Music from the “New City”
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Music from the Hundred Years’ War
USC Collegium Workshop, directed by Rotem Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Lutenist Paul O’Dette in Recital
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, December 6, 2013
Heinrich Schütz, Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi (“The Christmas Story”)
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, February 21, 2014
“From Marble and Brick to the Names of the Lord in Music”
The History of a Pythagorean Symbol in Music and Culture
Lecture by Adam Knight Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, March 7, 2014
Parisian Carnival and Lent
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert, with special guest Baroque dancers, Linda T. Tomko and Olsi Gjeci
Featuring Sacred Music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Carnival Dances of the French Court
USC, University Park Campus
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Early Music Faculty Concert
Adam and Rotem Gilbert (recorder)
with special guests: Malachai Komanoff Bandy (viola da gamba), Jason Yoshida (theorbo/baroque guitar), Doug Miliken (dulcian/baroque bassoon), Arthur Omura (harpsichord)
Featuring music by Marco Uccellinin, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Johann Sebastian Bach
USC, University Park Campus
March 27, 2014
Colloquium with Dorothy Porter, University of Pennsylvania
“Ceci n’est pas un manuscrit: Considering what Digitization does to Manuscripts”
“Working with Digitized Manuscripts: New Approaches to Old Sources.”
USC, University Park Campus
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Cantigas de Santa Maria
USC Collegium Workshop, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert and Rachelle Fox
USC, University Park Campus
April 24, 2014
Colloquium with Deborah McGrady, University of Virginia
“Are Digitized Manuscripts Made for Scholarship? The Remediated Codex as the New Object of Medieval Studies”
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, May 2, 2014
Adriano Banchieri, La Pazzia Senile (1598) (“The Crazy Old Fool”)
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
2012-2013
Friday, September 14, 2012
Masque of Devils
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia,
directed by Rotem Gilbert
Performance of the Masque of Devils from The Tempest (1674), Act II, scene 4 by Pelham Humfrey (1647-74), Pietro Reggio (1632-85), Matthew Locke (c. 1621-1677)
Soloists:
Stacey Helley — mezzo-soprano
Karina Kallas — soprano
Tara Bailey — soprano
Katina Mitchell — soprano
Joel Nesvedba — baritone
Vicente Chavarria — baritone
Arthur Omura — harpsichord
Huntington Library, Overseers’ Room
Friday, October 12, 2012
Early Music Masterworks
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Rotem Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Music of Trecento Italy
Lucente Stella
USC Collegium Workshop
Directed by Rachelle Foxand Rotem Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, December 7, 2012
A Baroque Christmas from Spain and the New World
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Rotem Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, February 22, 2013
This Sweet Siren
USC Early Music Faculty Recital with Adam Knight Gilbert and Rotem Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, March 8, 2013
Music from Hamburg, Leipzig, Dresden, and the German Lands
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert, featuring music from Hieronymous Praetorius.
USC, University Park Campus
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Schoon liedekens, oudt en nieu: Renaissance Music by the Flemish Folk and Polyphonic Masters
USC Collegium Workshop
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, May 3, 2013
La Pellegrina 1589: Music for a Magnificent Florentine Wedding
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
2011-2012
Thursday, September 22, 2011
“Pergolesi Rediscovered”
The USC Thornton Discovery Singers and Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Suzi Digby
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, October 7, 2011
Scenes from Henry Purcell’s Fairy Queen
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, November 18, 2011
“The Power of Sound and Sing-Song”: The Production of Star Tenor John Beard (c. 1717-1791)
Lecture by Berta Joncus
USC, University Park Campus
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
USC Collegium Workshop, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert, Rachelle Fox, and Rotem Gilbert
Nova vobis gaudia: Chansons and Motets of Fifteenth-Century France
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, December 2, 2011
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
“Only the Good Die Young”: Sacred Music by Giovanni Antonio Rigatti and Johannes Vierdanck
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, March 2, 2012
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, with Special Guest Lucinda Carver, Harpsichord, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
German Concerti for Viola d’Amore, Harpsichord, Lute and Orchestra
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, March 9, 2012
Mary-Jo Arn, Medieval Academy of America
“Playing with the Enemy: Charles d’Orleans Writes Poetry in England”
USC, University Park Campus
Saturday, March 24, 2011
Ciaramella, directed by Adam and Rotem Gilbert
Variations on a Moveable Ground
USC, University Park Campus
Saturday, April 14, 2012
USC Collegium Workshop, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert, Rachelle Fox, and Rotem Gilbert
“Cupid’s Fire”: An Evening of English Madrigals and Lute-Songs
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, April 27, 2011
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
Scenes from Cavalli’s Giasone
USC, University Park Campus
2010-2011
Friday, September 24, 2010
Ruben Valenzuela, Rachel Fox, Paul Sherman, Charles Koster and Susan Feldman
Faculty Performance
USC
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
USC Collegium Musicum
The White King: Music from the Court of Maximilian I
USC
Friday, December 3, 2010
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
Chantons je vous prie! A Concert of French Noels
USC
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Ciaramella, directed by Adam and Rotem Gilbert
A Piper’s Noel
USC
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Popery Music Project
USC
Friday, February 4, 2011
Ross Duffin
Special Musicology Forum Lecture
“Shakespeare’s Song Book”
USC, University Park Campus
Monday, February 7, 2011
Ross Duffin
Master Class: “Tuning and Temperament”
With the Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, February 25, 2011
Zoe Saunders
“Anonymity and Ascription in the Alamire Manuscripts: Inviting the public to sing from the Original Notation”
USC, University Park Campus
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Virtuosi Paulo Pandolfo and Thomas Boysen
Viola da gamba, theorbo and baroque guitar
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, March 4, 2011
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
“A Venetian Carnival”
Directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
USC, University Park Campus
Saturday, April 9, 2011
“The Play of Robin and Marion”
Staged Production by the USC Collegium musicum
Directed by Adam Knight Gilbert, Rachelle Fox, Rotem Gilbert
USC, United University Church
Friday, April 29, 2011
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
“An Italian Calendimaggio”
with members of Musica Angelica
Vivaldi’s “Tempeste di MAre” and the recently discovered Dixit Dominus (RV 807)
Directed by Adam Knight Gilbert
USC, Newman Recital Hall
2009-2010
Friday, October 9, 2009
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
Sound the Trumpet: Music by Henry Purcell
Friday, October 30, 2009
Musicology Lecture by Adam Knight Gilbert
Argentum et aurum: Henricus Isaac (c. 1450-1517) and Divine Alchemy
Co-sponsored by the USC Thornton School of Music Musicology Forum Lecture
USC, Herklotz Room
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
New Esterhazy Quartet
An Anniversary Evening of Haydn String Quartets
Performed on Original Instruments
USC, United University Church
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
USC Collegium musicum
Hard by a Crystal Fountain: A Concert of English Madrigals and Carols
USC, United University Church
Friday, December 4, 2009
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
Exultent caeli: Music of Seicento Italy
USC
Friday, February 12, 2010
Capella Artemisia (Bologna, Italy)
My Sister, My Spouse: the Song of Songs in the Convents
USC, United University Church
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Ciaramella, directed by Adam & Rotem Gilbert
O sidus Hyspanie: Music of Renaissance Spain
USC, United University Church
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
USC Collegium musicum
Musica dei, domum optimi: Orlando di Lasso and his Time
USC, United University Church
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia
Angels and Demons: A Baroque Extravaganza
featuring members of Musica Angelica
USC, Newman Recital Hall
2006-2007
Friday, October 13, 2006
A Concert of 19th-Century Music for Russian Guitar
Performed by John Schneiderman
USC, Hoose Library
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Baroque Ground Bass Jam Session: or, What can You Do with Greensleeves?
Led by Adam Knight Gilbert
USC, Fisher Gallery
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
USC Collegium
Jesuit Bolivian Music: Spanish Devotional Music from the Old and New World
USC, Fisher Gallery
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Performed by Ensemble Ciaramella, an ensemble for music of the 15th century
A Program of Sacred and Secular Music from Renaissance Europe
USC, University Park Campus
Friday, April 6, 2007
USC Collegium
A Concert of Music from the Collections of Columbus in Seville and Padre Martini in Bologna
USC, University Park Campus
Monday, April 9, 2007
A Concert of English Ballads
performed by Lucy Skeaping
USC, University Park Campus
Saturday, April 14, 2007
A Day of Shape-Note Singing
Led by Adam Knight Gilbert and Members of the Southern California Sacred Harp Signing Community
USC, Bowne Classroom in Mudd Philosophy Hall
