The USC Thornton School of Music is a private music school in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1884 only four years after the

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, the Thornton School is the oldest continually operating arts institution in

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. The school is located on the USC University Park Campus, south of

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. The Thornton School is noted for blending the rigors of a traditional conservatory-style education with a forward-looking approach to training the next generation of musicians. Highly regarded internationally, the school is widely ranked as one of the top 10 schools of music in the United States.

History

The USC Thornton School of Music was founded in 1884 and dedicated in 1999. It was named in honor of philanthropist Flora L. Thornton following a $25 million gift from her foundation. At the time, this was the largest donation to a school of music in the United States. In 2006, she donated an additional $5 million to support the facility needs of the school. USC Thornton School of Music Newman Recital Hall

USC Thornton School of Music Newman Recital Hall

Programs

USC Thornton offers Bachelor's, Master's and Doctorate degrees in more than 20 disciplines across the school's three divisions – Classical Performance and Composition, Contemporary Music, and Research and Scholarly Studies. Many disciplines also offer graduate certificates. Thornton is one of the few highly-regarded music schools in the United States to offer a degree program in

early music Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750). Originating in Europe, early music is a broad musical era for the beginning of Western classi ...

. Students of baroque, renaissance and medieval music (vocal or instrumental) may enroll in a specialized degree program. Thornton was one of the first schools of music to offer an undergraduate program in

music industry The music industry consists of the individuals and organizations that earn money by writing songs and musical compositions, creating and selling recorded music and sheet music, presenting concerts, as well as the organizations that aid, train, ...

, a program still regarded as among the best in the country, and currently offers both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Music Industry. Thornton offers the only comprehensive program in Scoring for Television and Film. It also has a program in studio guitar performance. In 2017, USC Thornton launched new professional master's degree programs in Arts Leadership; Community Music; and Music Industry, designed to train musicians in new ways to imagine a contemporary music career. In 2018, USC Thornton announced a new model of classical music education for undergraduate Classical Performance and Composition students. Hallmarks of USC Thornton's redesigned curriculum include restructured lessons, rehearsals, and classes to prepare students for a vibrant career in music. USC-Bing Theatre

USC Thornton School of Music Schoenfeld Symphonic Hall

Performance halls and studios

* Bing Theatre * Bovard Auditorium * Carson Center * Joyce J. Cammilleri Hall * MacDonald Hall *

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Hall * Schoenfeld Symphonic Hall * Songwriter's Theater * Tommy's Place

Faculty

In 2007, USC Thornton alumnus and Distinguished Professor of Composition

Morten Lauridsen Morten Johannes Lauridsen (born February 27, 1943) is an American composer. A National Medal of Arts recipient (2007), he was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1994 to 2001, and is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus o ...

became the eighth classical composer to receive the

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. Two years later, in 2009, alumnus and Judge Widney Professor of Music at USC Michael Tilson Thomas also received the National Medal of Arts. The following list is limited to individuals who have articles in Wikipedia.

Choral Music

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Jo-Michael Scheibe Jo-Michael Scheibe (born 1950) was the former chair of the Department of Choral and Sacred Music at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. Following an unplanned and unannounced sabbatical in Fall of 2022, Scheibe r ...

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Classical Guitar

* Brian Head * William Kanengiser * Pepe Romero *

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Composition

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Stephen Hartke Stephen Paul Hartke (born July 6, 1952) is an American composer. Hartke is best known as the composer of ''Meanwhile – Incidental Music to Imaginary Puppet Plays,'' winner of the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 201 ...

, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Composition * Ted Hearne * Veronika Krausas *

, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Composition *

Frank Ticheli Frank Ticheli (born January 21, 1958) is an American composer of orchestral, choral, chamber, and concert band works. He lives in Los Angeles, California, where he is a Professor of Composition at the University of Southern California. He was ...

* Christopher Trapani * Nina C. Young

Conducting

* Carl St.Clair * Michael Tilson Thomas, Judge Widney Professor of USC

Early Music

Jazz Studies

Peter Erskine Peter Erskine (born June 5, 1954) is an American jazz drummer who was a member of the jazz fusion groups Weather Report and Steps Ahead. Early life and education Erskine was born in Somers Point, New Jersey, U.S. He began playing the dru ...

Russell Ferrante Yellowjackets is an American jazz fusion band founded in 1977 in Los Angeles, California. History In 1977, guitarist Robben Ford, for his first solo album, recruited keyboardist Russell Ferrante, electric bassist Jimmy Haslip and drummer R ...

Sara Gazarek Sara Gazarek is an American jazz singer from Seattle. Life and career Gazarek was born in Seattle, Washington and moved to Los Angeles in 2000 to attend the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. In college her teache ...

Jason Goldman Jason "Spicy G" Goldman, known professionally as Spicy G, is an American music producer, songwriter, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, and educator. He co-produced Michael Buble's Grammy Nominated, Juno winning, platinum selling 2016 album '' Nob ...

Alphonso Johnson Alphonso Johnson (born February 2, 1951) is an American jazz bassist active since the early 1970s. Johnson was a member of the jazz fusion group Weather Report from 1973 to 1975, and has performed and recorded with numerous high-profile rock and ...

Andy Martin Anthony Robert Martin-Trigona, usually known as Andy Martin (born 1945), is an American perennial candidate who has never been elected to office, running as both a Democrat and a Republican. He has filed over 250 political lawsuits nationwide ...

Roy McCurdy Roy McCurdy (born November 28, 1936) is a jazz drummer. Career Before joining Cannonball Adderley's Quintet in 1965 and staying with the band until Adderley's death in 1975, he had played with Chuck and Gap Mangione in the Jazz Brothers (1960–1 ...

* Vince Mendoza *

Bob Mintzer Robert Alan Mintzer (born January 27, 1953) is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and big band leader. Early life Mintzer was born and raised in a Jewish family in New Rochelle, New York, on January 27, 1953. He attended the Inter ...

Darek Oles Darek Oleszkiewicz (born February 20, 1963), also known as Darek Oles, is a jazz bassist, composer, arranger, and educator. Biography Oleszkiewicz was born in Wrocław, Poland, on February 20, 1963. He lived in Kraków in the early 1980s, then ...

Alan Pasqua Alan Pasqua (born June 28, 1952) is an American rock and jazz pianist. He studied at Indiana University and the New England Conservatory of Music. His album ''Standards'' with drummer Peter Erskine was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2008. As a ...

Bob Sheppard Robert Leo Sheppard (October 20, 1910 – July 11, 2010) was the long-time public address announcer for numerous New York area college and professional sports teams, in particular the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (1951–2007), a ...

Keyboard Studies

* Michael Arrom * Stewart Gordon *

Jeffrey Kahane Jeffrey Alan Kahane (born September 12, 1956) is an American classical concert pianist and conductor. He was music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for 20 years, the longest of any music director in the orchestra's history. He is ...

* Daniel Pollack * * Alan Louis Smith

Music Education

* Robert Cutietta

Music Industry

* Kevin Lyman *

Brian Malouf Brian Malouf (born September 8, 1955) is an American producer, engineer, and mixer who has worked with acts such as Michael Jackson, Queen, Madonna, Pearl Jam, Stevie Wonder, Dave Matthews Band, Tokio Hotel, Wolfmother, and All Time Low. Al ...

* Richard Wolf

Musicology

* Bruce Alan Brown

Organ Studies

Popular Music

Paul Jackson Jr. Paul Milton Jackson Jr. (born December 30, 1959) is an American fusion/urban jazz composer, arranger, producer and guitarist. He was born and raised in Los Angeles. Jackson knew by the age of fifteen that he wanted to become a professional musi ...

* Patrice Rushen

Screen Scoring

* Laura Karpman * Garry Schyman *

Christopher Young Christopher Young (born April 28, 1957) is an American composer and orchestrator of film and television scores. Many of his compositions are for horror and thriller films, including '' Hellraiser'', ''Species'', ''Urban Legend'', '' The Grudge ...

Strings/Harp

Glenn Dicterow Glenn Dicterow (born December 23, 1948), is an American violinist and former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. He is on the faculty of the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music where he holds the Jascha ...

Karen Dreyfus Karen Dreyfus is a violist who currently teaches at the USC Thornton School of Music. Ms. Dreyfus has distinguished herself as a recipient of many prizes, including the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation, Naumburg Viola Competition (1982), the Lionel T ...

* Ralph Kirshbaum * Andrew Shulman * JoAnn Turovsky

Studio/Jazz Guitar

* Bruce Forman * Frank Potenza * Richard Smith

Theory/Aural Skills

* Brian Head * Veronika Krausas

Vocal Arts and Opera

Rod Gilfry Rodney Gilfry is a leading American operatic baritone. After launching his career at Frankfurt Opera in 1987, Gilfry quickly established a reputation for stylish singing and acting. A renowned Mozart specialist, he has given acclaimed performan ...

Winds and Percussion

* Yehuda Gilad *

Julie Landsman Julie Landsman (born April 3, 1953) is an American-born French horn player and teacher. Landsman was Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera from 1985-2010. Prior to her appointment with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Landsman served as co-pr ...

Jim Self James Martin Self (born August 20, 1943) is an American tubist and composer from Los Angeles. Self has performed extensively in Los Angeles and internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral tubist, and, most notably, as a studio mu ...

Allan Vogel Allan Vogel is an American oboist and educator. He was the former Principal Oboe of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Education Vogel studied piano and voice at the New York High School for Music and Art, but eventually changed his focus to ob ...

* James Walker

Notable alumni

* Michael Abels, composer * Eric Abramovitz, principal clarinet

Toronto Symphony Orchestra The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) is a Canadian orchestra based in Toronto, Ontario. Founded in 1906, the TSO gave regular concerts at Massey Hall until 1982, and since then has performed at Roy Thomson Hall. The TSO also manages the Toronto ...

* Lorin Alexander, composer *

Herb Alpert Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American trumpeter who led the band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s. During the same decade, he co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss. Alpert has recorded 28 albums that have landed on the ...

, trumpeter and co-founder of

A&M Records A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962. Due to the success of the discography A&M released, the label garnered interest and was acquired by PolyGram in 1989 and began distr ...

* Piotr Anderszewski, pianist * Christophe Beck, film and television score composer *

Marco Beltrami Marco Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an American composer and conductor of film and television scores. He has worked in a number of genres, including horror ('' Scream'', '' Mimic, The Faculty, Resident Evil, The Woman in Black, A Quiet P ...

, film score composer *

Alec Benjamin Alec Shane Benjamin (born May 28, 1994) is an American singer-songwriter from Phoenix, Arizona. His 2018 breakthrough single "Let Me Down Slowly" reached the top 40 in over 25 countries and has amassed over 1 billion streams on Spotify as of Apri ...

, singer and songwriter * Robert Bernhardt, conductor * Jerry Blackstone, choral conductor *

Bruce Broughton Bruce Harold Broughton (born March 8, 1945) is an American orchestral composer of television, film, and video game scores and concert works. He has composed several highly acclaimed soundtracks over his extensive career and has contributed man ...

, composer * Harold Budd, ambient/avant-garde composer *

Roberto Cani Roberto Salvatore Cani (born 17 October 1967) is an Italian violinist. Roberto Cani was a prizewinner in the Paganini (Genoa, 1990), Jeunesses Musicales (Belgrade, 1991), and Courcillon (France, 1991) International Competitions. He also won ho ...

, concertmaster,

Los Angeles Opera The Los Angeles Opera is an American opera company in Los Angeles, California. It is the fourth-largest opera company in the United States. The company's home base is the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, part of the Los Angeles Music Center. Leader ...

Orchestra * Todd Carey, singer-songwriter and musician *

Reeve Carney Reeve Jefferson Carney (born April 18, 1983) is an American actor and singer-songwriter. He is best known for originating the role of Peter Parker/Spider-Man in '' Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark'' on Broadway and playing Orpheus in the original ...

, singer-songwriter and musician *

William Edward Childs William Edward Childs (born March 8, 1957) is an award-winning American composer, jazz pianist, arranger and conductor from Los Angeles, California, United States. Early life When he was sixteen he attended the Community School of the Performing ...

, jazz pianist and composer *

Nicolas Chumachenco Nicolas Chumachenco or Chumachenko (27 March 1944 – 12 December 2020) was a Polish-born violin soloist, professor, and director of the Queen Sofía Chamber Orchestra. He won the Merit Diploma Konex Award in 1999, as one of the best Bow Instrume ...

, violinist * Gerald Clayton, jazz pianist * Louis Cole, multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter * Rozzi Crane, singer-songwriter * Daedelus, producer and multi-instrumentalist *

Tamar Davis Tamar may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * ''Tamar'' (album), by Tamar Braxton, 2000 * ''Tamar'' (novel), by Mal Peet, 2005 * ''Tamar'' (poem), an epic poem by Robinson Jeffers People * Tamar (name), including a list of people with ...

, R&B singer *

John Dearman John Dearman is a Grammy Award-winning classical guitarist and one of the founding members of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ). Known to LAGQ fans as the group's seven-string virtuoso who supplies the deep-bass lines for numerous pieces in ...

, classical guitarist * Martin Denny, creator of exotica music * Alan de Veritch, principal violist,

New York Philharmonic The New York Philharmonic, officially the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc., globally known as New York Philharmonic Orchestra (NYPO) or New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, is a symphony orchestra based in New York City. It is ...

; principal violist,

Los Angeles Philharmonic The Los Angeles Philharmonic, commonly referred to as the LA Phil, is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California. It has a regular season of concerts from October through June at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and a summer season at th ...

, retired concertmaster,

* Eldar Djangirov, jazz pianist *

Dean Drummond Dean Drummond (January 22, 1949 – April 13, 2013) was an American composer, arranger, conductor and musician. His music featured microtonality, electronics, and a variety of percussion. He invented a 31-tone instrument called the zoomoozophone ...

, composer and conductor * William Eddins, conductor * Taylor Eigsti, jazz pianist * Jack Eskew, arranger/orchestrator *Flea ( Michael Balzary), bassist, trumpeter and actor * Grace Fong, pianist and music educator * Nmon Ford, baritone *

John Frizzell John B. Frizzell (born in Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian screenwriter and film producer. After several years writing, directing and co-producing the documentary series ''A Different Understanding'' for TVOntario, Frizzell joined partners Niv Fic ...

, film and television score composer * Neil Galanter, concert pianist * Kathryn Gallagher, singer and actress *

, jazz musician and singer * Grant Gershon, conductor and pianist *

, opera baritone * Renée Elise Goldsberry, actress *

Jerry Goldsmith Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed scores for five films in the ''Star Trek'' franchise and three in the ''Rambo'' franc ...

, film score composer *

Ludwig Göransson Ludwig Emil Tomas Göransson (; ; born 1 September 1984) is a Swedish composer, conductor and record producer. He has scored films such as ''Fruitvale Station'', the ''Rocky'' franchise entries ''Creed'' and ''Creed II'', ''Venom'', and '' Ten ...

, composer and conductor * Annie Gosfield, composer * Donald Grantham, composer and music educator *

Maria Grenfell Maria Grenfell (born 1969) is an Australian music teacher and composer of New Zealand origin. Early life and education Maria Grenfell was born in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia in 1969. She grew up and was educated in Christchurch, New Zealand, where s ...

, composer *

Danny Grissett Danny Grissett (born 1975) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer. Early life Grissett was born in Los Angeles in 1975. He first played the piano at the age of five, taking classical music lessons. He graduated with a B.A. in ...

, jazz pianist *

Tina Guo Tina Guo () (born 28 October 1985) is a Chinese-born American cellist and erhuist from San Diego. Her international career as a cellist, electric cellist, erhuist, and composer is characterized by videos featuring theatrical backdrops and elabora ...

, cellist * Thomas Hampson, lyric baritone *

Lionel Hampton Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. Hampton worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich, to Charlie Parker, Charles ...

, jazz musician * Lisa Harriton, singer, songwriter and keyboardist *

Jane Henschel Jane Henschel (born 2 March 1952) is an American operatic mezzo soprano. Henschel, who was born in Wisconsin, studied at the University of Southern California, and then pursued further studies in Germany, where she has made her home. Her num ...

, soprano * Wataru Hokoyama, composer *

Marilyn Horne Marilyn Horne (born January 16, 1934) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer. She specialized in roles requiring beauty of tone, excellent breath support, and the ability to execute difficult coloratura passages. She is a recipient of the Natio ...

, mezzo-soprano *

James Horner James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) was an American composer. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements, and for his frequent use of motifs associated with Celtic music. Horner's first film score was in ...

, film score composer *

James Newton Howard James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American film composer, music producer and keyboardist. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, and nine nominations for Academy Awards. His film scores ...

, film score composer * Matthew Howard, principal percussion

, jazz fusion guitarist * Tommy Johnson, film and television tubist, tuba pedagogue * Martin Katz, piano accompanist, conductor and music educator *

Vladimir Khomyakov Vladimir Vladimirovich Khomyakov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Хомяко́в; born August 6, 1984) is a classical pianist. Early years Vladimir Khomyakov was born in Kirovorgad ( Ukraine) to a family of professional ...

, classical pianist * King Princess, singer and songwriter (incomplete degree) * Rudolf Koelman, violinist, professor and recording artist *

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, composer *

Robert Kral Robert Joseph Kral (born 5 July 1967) is an Australian film and television composer. He is best known for composing music scores for horror, superhero, and many animated WB productions. He scored the TV series, ''Angel'' (the spin-off of ''Buffy ...

, film score composer * Giorgi Latso, concert pianist and composer *

, composer *

Benjamin Lees Benjamin Lees (January 8, 1924 – May 31, 2010) was an American composer of classical music. Early life Lees was born Benjamin George Lisniansky in Harbin, Manchuria, of Russian-Jewish descent. Lees was still an infant when his family emigrat ...

, composer * Christopher Lennertz, film and television score composer * Charles Lloyd, jazz musician * Bear McCreary, television score composer * Mark McKenzie, composer *

Angela Meade Angela Meade (born 1977) is an American operatic soprano. Life and career Born in Centralia, Washington, Meade started her education at Centralia Community College before going on to earn a Bachelor of Music degree in Voice from Pacific Luthera ...

Metropolitan Opera The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is opera ...

principal artist, soprano * Moontower, electro-pop trio * Ronald Muldrow, jazz musician * MUNA, electronic pop band * Roger Neill, film and television score composer * Kelley O'Connor, mezzo-soprano *

Martin O'Donnell Martin O'Donnell (born May 1, 1955) is an American composer known for his work on video game developer Bungie's series, such as ''Myth'', ''Oni'', ''Halo'', and ''Destiny''. O'Donnell collaborated with his musical colleague Michael Salvatori f ...

, composer for video games * Dwight Parry, principal oboe,

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Its primary concert venue is Music Hall. In addition to its symphony concerts, the orchestra gives pops concerts as the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. The Cinc ...

Christopher Parkening Christopher William Parkening (born December 14, 1947) is an American classical guitarist. He holds the Chair of Classical Guitar at Pepperdine University under the title Distinguished Professor of Music. Biography Parkening was born in Los Angel ...

, classical guitarist * Leonard Pennario, pianist * Jeff Peterson, slack key guitarist *

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, composer of contemporary classical music *

Cynthia Phelps Cynthia Phelps (born 1961 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California) is an American violist whose versatile career involves work as a chamber musician, solo artist, and orchestral musician. Phelps is currently the Principal Violist of the New York P ...

, principal violist,

Elizabeth Pitcairn Elizabeth Pitcairn (born December 5, 1973) is a renowned American classical violinist who is noted for performing on the 1720 "Red Mendelssohn" Antonio Stradivari violin. In addition to a solo career, Pitcairn is President and Artistic Director ...

, violinist * Harvey Pittel, saxophonist *

Gene Pokorny Gene Pokorny (born May 15, 1953) is an American tubist. He has played with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since his appointment by Georg Solti in 1988. He has also played with the Israel Philharmonic, the Utah Symphony, the Saint Louis Symphony ...

, principal tuba,

Chicago Symphony Orchestra The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) was founded by Theodore Thomas in 1891. The ensemble makes its home at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and plays a summer season at the Ravinia Festival. The music director is Riccardo Muti, who began his tenu ...

Basil Poledouris Basil Konstantine Poledouris (; August 21, 1945 – November 8, 2006) was an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores, best known for his long-running collaborations with directors John Milius and Paul Verho ...

, film score composer *

Harve Presnell George Harvey Presnell (September 14, 1933 – June 30, 2009) was an American actor and singer. He began his career in the mid-1950s as a classical baritone, singing with orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States. His career re ...

, singer and actor *

Brian Ralston Brian Ralston (born April 12, 1974) is a composer and musician living in Los Angeles. Ralston is a 2020 Hollywood Music In Media Awards winner for his contemporary classical piece "I think I'm Quite Ready For Another Adventure" inspired by Tolkien ...

, film score composer * Robert Ralston, pianist and organist *

Lee Ritenour Lee Mack Ritenour ( ; born January 11, 1952) is an American jazz guitarist who has been active since the late 1960s. Biography Ritenour was born on January 11, 1952, in Los Angeles, California, United States. At the age of eight he started play ...

, session musician * Jessica Rivera, soprano *

Leroy Robertson Leroy Robertson (December 21, 1896 – July 25, 1971) was an American composer and music educator. Robertson was born in Fountain Green, Utah. One of his earliest instructors was Anthony C. Lund. He graduated from the New England Conservato ...

, composer and music educator *

Robert Xavier Rodriguez Robert Xavier Rodríguez (born June 28, 1946) is an American classical composer, best known for his eight operas and his works for children. Life and career Rodríguez received his early musical education in his native San Antonio and in Aus ...

, composer *

Douglas Romayne Douglas Romayne (born Douglas Romayne Stevens on June 21, 1964, in Corning, NY) is a professional musician whose work includes creating scores, score mockups and proofing. In 2018 he began performing as a singer-songwriter at many of the Californ ...

, film and television score composer *

Nathaniel Rosen Nathaniel "Nick" Rosen (born June 9, 1948 in Altadena, California) is an American cellist, the gold medalist of the 1978 International Tchaikovsky Competition, and former faculty member at the USC Thornton School of Music and the Manhattan School o ...

, cellist *

Elizabeth Rowe Elizabeth Singer Rowe (née Singer, 1674–1737) was an English poet, essayist and fiction writer called "the ornament of her sex and age" and the "Heavenly Singer". She was among 18th-century England's most widely read authors. She wrote ma ...

, principal flute,

Boston Symphony Orchestra The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the second-oldest of the five major American symphony orchestras commonly referred to as the " Big Five". Founded by Henry Lee Higginson in 18 ...

* Patrice Rushen, R&B singer, songwriter, composer and pianist * Stefan Sanderling, conductor * Andrew Sandwick, bass clarinet

* William Schmidt, composer * Garry Schyman, composer for film, television and video games * Tom Scott, session musician * Daniel Slatkin, film score composer *

Jason Solowsky Jason Robert Solowsky (born November 9, 1977) is an American music composer for film and television. A classical pianist and guitar player, his compositions can be heard in over 100 films, many of which have been released by Lionsgate, Sony Pictu ...

, film score composer *

Lya Stern Lya W. Stern (born 1950) is a violinist, recording artist and violin teacher. Born Lya Weiss to a Jewish family in Cluj, Romania, Stern moved to the United States as a teenager. She is married to Larry Stern and has two children. Education Ste ...

, violinist * Thomas Stevens, trumpeter, composer and educator * Tomas Svoboda, composer and music educator *

Salli Terri Salli C. Terri (September 3, 1922 – May 5, 1996) was a singer, arranger, recording artist, and composer. Record audiences still cite Terri's "haunting" vocals, with ''Hi-Fi Review'' originally describing her as ''"a mezzo soprano whose velvet ...

, singer and songwriter * Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor, composer and pianist * Fiona Thompson, cellist * Martin Tillman, composer and cellist *

Oleg Timofeyev Oleg Vitalyevich Timofeyev (russian: Оле́г Вита́льевич Тимофе́ев, ''Oleg Vital'evič Timofeev''; born January 12, 1963, in Moscow), is an American musicologist, specializing in lute and Russian guitar. He is best known f ...

, musicologist and classical guitarist *

Dale Turner Dale Turner may refer to: * Dale Turner (cricketer), Australian cricketer * Dale Turner (trumpeter) Dale Turner (born 1943 in Minnesota) is an American trumpet player, best known for being a member of the American new wave band Oingo Boingo. ...

, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer/arranger * Zeynep Üçbaşaran, pianist * Video Game Pianist (Martin Leung), classical pianist *

Walter Werzowa Walter Werzowa (born 15 December 1960) is an Austrian composer, producer and owner of LA-based music production studio Musikvergnuegen. He is most famous for composing the "Intel bong" jingle and the 1980s hit " Bring Me Edelweiss" as part of the ...

, composer and founder of

Musikvergnuegen Musikvergnuegen (), sometimes abbreviated to ''MusikV'', is a music and sound design production company located in Los Angeles, California. The company name translates into English as "enjoyment of music". It was founded by Austrian-born composer W ...

Mack Wilberg Mack J. Wilberg (born February 20, 1955) is an American composer, arranger, conductor, and choral clinician who has been the music director of the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square (Choir) since 2008. Early life and education Wilberg was bor ...

, conductor, composer and arranger; director,

Mormon Tabernacle Choir The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, formerly known as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, is an American choir, acting as part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It has performed in the Salt Lake Tabernacle for ...

Remi Wolf Remi Francis Wolf (born February 2, 1996) is an American singer and songwriter from California. As a senior at Palo Alto High School, she appeared as a contestant on ''American Idol'' in 2014. After completing her studies at USC Thornton School ...

, singer and songwriter * Andrew York, classical guitarist and composer * 24kGoldn, artist and rapper (incomplete degree)

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USC Thornton Polish Music Center websiteScreen Scoring websiteMusic Library at USC Libraries
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Music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspe ...

Educational institutions established in 1884 University subdivisions in California 1884 establishments in California