Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas to Join USC Thornton Faculty

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<p>Medal of Arts holder, Michael Tilson Thomas, will accept an endowed chair at the USC Thornton School of Music. Thomas has conducted in symphony halls across the nation and in Europe. He has been awarded eleven Grammy awards, a Peabody award and is a Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France. Thomas is the founder of the New World Symphony. He is an alumnus of USC and studied there with Ingolf Dahl. </p>

<p>Other additions to the Thornton School faculty have been young conductors Ted Hearne and Andrew Norman, Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpet, Karen Dreyfus, viola, Glenn Dicterow, violin, Michael Tree, viola, Lady Suzi Digby, choral music.
and Che-Yen Chen, viola.</p>

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<p>Ted Hearne and Andrew Norman are composers, not conductors @Georgia Girl. Sean Friar is now teaching composition, as well.</p>

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<p>Thank you for the correction. It should have been written “young composers” as you stated. </p>

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<p>Just played Donald Erb’s piece “Reconnaissance” with is for violin, double bass, piano, percussion, Moog synthesizer and Moog polyphonic instrument; late 1960’s Nonesuch vinyl with Michael Tilson Thomas on the Moog synth.</p>