<p>The composition faculty at the USC Thornton School of Music will add two young composers. The composition faculty already has Medal of Arts recipient, Morten Lauridsen and noted composer Frank Ticheli.</p>
<p>Andrew Norman will join Thornton in August 2013. He studied at USC and Yale. Norman is the Composer in Residence with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. His musical interests are varied. He has composed for both symphony and chamber orchestras. He was honored with the ASCAP Kaplan Prize, the Rome Prize and the Berlin Prize. He also won the ASCAP Nissim Prize and was a Charles Ives Fellow. His composition was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize.</p>
<p>Ted Hearne, another prize winning composer, will join Thornton in 2014. He holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, Yale School of Music and studied at the Royal College of Music. He is both a composer and conductor. Hearne is a Charles Ives Fellow, the 2009 winner of the Gaudeamus Prize and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He is a founding member of Sleeping Giant. He earned both a MM and a MMA.</p>