USC’s Thornton School of Music faculty and students have received a long list of honors and awards.
Of the six Grammy Thornton nominees this year four received awards. For Billy Childs his award was added to many received in previous years.
Keri Hui won first prize at the Coeur d’ Alene Symphony Young Artist Competition for piano performance. She also won first prize recently at the Aloha International Piano Competition.
Ken Kazan was awarded the Marlow Award for his production of Dead Man Walking.
The Wall Street Journal featured alumnus and now Professor Michael Tilson Thomas in a 70th birthday tribute. Thomas has a long list of honors including a National Medal of the Arts.
Adam and Rotem Gilbert received the Binkley Award.
BMI’s John Lennon Scholarship was awarded to Thornton’s Caitlyn Notey.
Roger Myers was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London.
Alumna, Elizabeth Ogonek, was selected for the position of “Composer in Residence” by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Opera News Magazine featured alumna, Angela Meade, on the cover. She earned her MM from Thornton in 2004.
…more in the next post.