
USC FemFest 2023 celebrates underrepresented voices in music
The one-day festival presents an inclusive safe space that challenges patriarchal oppression in the music industry.
The one-day festival presents an inclusive safe space that challenges patriarchal oppression in the music industry.
The USC Thornton School of Music shares music performed, written and/or produced by some of the school’s Black faculty and alumni.
USC Annenberg’s Taj Frazier examines this intersection of music, art and technology.
Ifunanya Nweke launched Jazz Hands for Autism, which has provided music training, vocational development and job placement for more than 150 musicians with autism.
Results highlight areas for state legislators and school leaders to consider as they expand music education programs across California.
USC program — supported by the university’s Good Neighbors Campaign — connects implant recipients with musicians to recapture and rediscover the feelings one gets from listening to music.
As the music school unveils a new master’s degree in popular music teaching and learning, graduates who are already teaching are adapting to the growing demand for music instruction beyond band, choir and orchestra.
USC Viterbi student Anshay Saboo shows users the concert festival lineup of their dreams.
Works by Bach, Brahms, Mozart and others are effective aids that improve sleep patterns and reduce stress, studies find.
It’s the fight song that begat a motto for an entire university, and this year it turns 100. Learn more about the history of the song — which didn’t win the university fight song contest.
Alumni and faculty from the Jazz Studies program lead a lengthy list of USC Thornton nominees
The alumnus and former faculty member — a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in music — will return as an associate professor of composition in fall 2023.
Mariachi Los Troyanos de USC is heavily booked, with gigs on campus, at major city events and on television.
The journey now starts with a class that mixes students from the classical, jazz, popular music and music production programs, and examines big ideas that cross all disciplines.
Rohan Chander wins the prestigious Gaudeamus Award 2022, despite some “really big technical issues.”
Events include an academic examination of the phenomenon as well as a concert featuring Korean musical artists Sejeong Kim and Kingdom.
The pieces are as iconic as Traveler, the Trojan Marching Band and the football program itself. But where the armament is crafted couldn’t be any farther from the bright lights and boisterous crowd of the Coliseum.
The new degree is designed for musicians wanting to transition into teaching as well as current K-12 teachers who want to immerse themselves in popular music pedagogy.
Third-year pop performance program students become session musicians and producers at L.A.’s historic Village Studios.
The celebrated musician, who died at 101, set a playing standard that continues today.
James A. Muhammad will oversee Classical California, the No. 1 classical music radio station network in the nation, which operates KUSC-FM in Los Angeles and KDFC-FM in San Francisco.
As dean of USC Thornton School of Music and USC Kaufman School of Dance, Cutietta introduced groundbreaking programs and oversaw the opening of the university’s first new school in more than 40 years.
EARTH WEEK: USC Thornton collaborates with Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy to create All The Truths We Cannot See: A Chernobyl Story.
In 2021, 23% of artists on the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End Chart were women — a far cry from the percentage of women in the U.S. population (51%).