Yehuda Gilad, associate professor of clarinet, is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes including the Israel-American Cultural Foundation Scholarship and the Robert Simon Award in Music. Professor Gilad studied clarinet with Giora Feidman and Mitchell Lurie, and chamber music with Jerome Lowenthal, Brooks Smith and Marcel Moyse. He has performed with the Israel Philharmonic, the Marlboro Music Festival, the Music Academy of the West, and the San Francisco Chamber Music Festival, among others. Gilad is the founder of the Joyeaux Woodwind Chamber Ensemble and the Yoav Chamber Ensemble which has performed on the Carnegie Recital Hall Chamber Series. The Yoav Ensemble's Orion recording received the 1989 Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Sponsorship Award in 1980. Also active as a conductor, Mr. Gilad has appeared with orchestras throughout the United States, The Peoples' Republic of China, Europe and Israel. Professor Gilad is a frequent clinician and solo performer in major schools in the United States, Europe and Asia. He is also on the faculty of the R.D. Colburn School of Performing Arts, which honored him with its Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award in 1979. In 1988 he received the Distinguished Teacher Award from the Secretary of Education and the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars.
Gary Glaze, professor of vocal arts, has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Studio; the New York City Opera (14 seasons) at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center and the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles; the Netherlands Opera (Amsterdam); the Prague National Opera; Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires; and the Metropolitan Opera summer parks series. Glaze joined the Metropolitan Opera roster in 1986 for Verdi's Falstaff. He has appeared with orchestras throughout the United States under such distinguished conductors as Eduardo Mata, Sir David Willcocks, John Nelson, Mario Bernardi, Raymond Leppard and Arthur Fiedler. He has been a soloist in New York at Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, Town Hall and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His chamber music appearances have included the Marlboro Music Festival, the Newport Festival and the Library of Congress. For six seasons he was the artistic director of the Berkshire Opera Company in Lenox, MA, and has been a faculty member at Temple, Princeton, Hofstra and Rhode Island universities, as well as the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Professor Glaze received his master's degree at the University of Michigan and has received awards from the Rockefeller Fund for Music, the Sullivan Foundation, the Corbett Foundation and the Kathryn Long Trust of the Metropolitan Opera. Recently he has toured Great Britain as tenor soloist with the Boston Festival Orchestra and Chorus, given concerts at the Sun Valley, Idaho Opera House and for the Palm Beach Symphony Society. In fall 1995, he was appointed director of the Bay View (Michigan) Summer Music Festival and Conservatory.
Pamela Goldsmith was raised in Los Angeles and attended the University of California, Los Angeles, Mannes College of Music and Stanford University, where she received a doctor of musical arts degree. Her principal teachers were Paul Doktor, William Kroll and William Primrose. She taught at Stanford University, California State Universities Los Angeles, Fullerton and Northridge, and currently teaches viola, chamber music and pedagogy at USC. She has been a member of the American Symphony Orchestra (Stokowski), Casals Festival Orchestra and the Lincoln Center Chamber Orchestra; she was principal viola of the Cabrillo Music Festival. Chamber music experience includes: the Group for Contemporary Music at Columbia University, Camerata String Quartet, Stanford Chamber Players and Sitka Music Festival. She has participated in numerous first performances of contemporary music, and has presented solo recitals across the country, on radio and television. Recently she participated as performer and lecturer in the International Viola Society Congress, the International Viola d'Amore Congress (Stuttgart and England), and the International Master Courses (Kapaonik, Yugoslavia). Ms. Goldsmith is an emeritus winner of the "most valuable player" award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Her viola playing has been heard on countless records, films and television shows. She is vice president of the American Viola Society and she also plays the viola d'amore. Her articles on the application of scholarly research to performance style have appeared in many journals.
Stewart Gordon, professor of keyboard studies, holds a doctorate in performance from the Eastman School of Music. He has studied with Olga Samaroff, Walter Gieseking, Cecile Genhart and Adela Marcus. He founded the William Kapell Competition at the University of Maryland, where he was chair of the Piano Division and later, of the Department of Music. Between 1985 and 1988, Dr. Gordon was vice-president for academic affairs and provost of Queens College at City University of New York. He has recorded music of Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Schumann, the Portuguese composer Freitas-Branco, and has concertized in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He is a co-author of The Well Tempered Keyboard Teacher (Schirmer) and the Music Thru MIDI series (Alfred). He is the sole author of Etudes for Piano Teachers (Oxford) and A History of Keyboard Literature (Schirmer). He recently founded the Savannah Onstage music festival, the American Traditions Competition in Savannah and the Cultural Heritage Competitions in New York City.
Joe Harnell has composed scores for The Bionic Woman, The Incredible Hulk, Santa Barbara, Cagney and Lacey, and August on Seventh Avenue. Mr. Harnell is on the faculty of the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Program.
Stephen Hartke, associate professor of theory and composition, was the Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, Italy, in 1991. His music, both orchestral and chamber, is widely performed, with major performances including those by the New York Philharmonic, Moscow State Philharmonic, Canadian National Arts Centre Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of Albany, Baltimore, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City, Louisville, New Jersey, Phoenix and St. Louis. From 1988 to 1992, he was composer-in-residence with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. He has received awards and grants from the ASCAP Foundation, BMI, Chamber Music America, the Fulbright Senior Scholar program, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, the Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards, Meet the Composer and the National Endowment for the Arts. He holds degrees in composition from Yale, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Brian Head, composer and guitarist, is a faculty member in both the classical guitar and the theory and composition departments. His compositions have been published by Alfred Music and Guitar Solo Publications and recorded on GSP Recordings, Massax Productions and Digital Revolution. He was named the "outstanding graduate" of the School of Music at USC upon receiving a master's degree in classical guitar and composition, and he received a bachelor's degree in both music and mathematics as a chancellor's scholar at the University of Maryland. A winner of several national guitar competitions, he is renowned today as an ensemble guitarist. His compositions have been performed in many cities in the U.S. and abroad including: Merkin Hall in New York, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., as well as in Tokyo, Madrid, Mexico City and Dubai.
Lloyd Hebert, a pianist specializing in jazz improvisation, is a graduate of the University of Southwest Louisiana. He served as a band director for 12 years in Louisiana public schools while performing as a jazz musician and later taught private keyboard improvisation in Louisiana and Texas. Mr. Hebert has performed with the Harry James, Glenn Miller (directed by Ray McKinley), Tony Pastor and Boyd Raeburn orchestras and in ensembles for Anthony Newley, Jimmy Smith, George Benson, Buddy Rich, Al Hirt, Stevie Wonder, Carl Fontana and Frank Rosolino. He has published a basic theory book, The Music Game, and is currently completing a text on improvisation, composing and performing as a jazz pianist.
Ward Holmquist, assistant professor, is music director of the USC Opera program. His professional experience includes 11 years as a full-time member of the Houston Grand Opera music staff, the final three as resident conductor. While in Houston, he led over 20 productions in a wide variety of musical styles, including world premieres of challenging contemporary works, general operatic repertoire and innovative musical theatre works. He was closely involved in world premieres of operas by John Adams, Phillip Glass, and Carlisle Floyd, with whom he studied privately. Mr. Holmquist's education includes bachelor and master of music degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory, and a graduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, as a student of renowned accompanist John Wustman. In 1983 he received a Fulbright grant to study conducting and opera coaching at the Hochschule fŸr Musik in Vienna, Austria. He led the world premiere recording of Robert Moran's A Dracula Diary for BMG/Catalyst. Guest conducting engagements have taken him to Chautauqua Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Utah Opera, and Utah Festival Opera, as well as the Madison Symphony, Houston Symphony and the Houston Ballet.
Boyde W. Hood, trumpeter and member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, received degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Ball State University. Mr. Hood is a former member of the Dallas Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Marlboro Festival and the Victoria, British Columbia Symphony. He has recorded for major motion picture and television studios.
James F. Hopkins studied composition with Halsey Stevens, Quincy Porter and Edward T. Cone. He received his bachelor's degree from USC, master's degree from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. His compositions have been performed by: the National Symphony, Antal Dorati, conductor; Denver Symphony, Gunther Schuller, conductor; Los Angeles Philharmonic; Portland Symphony; Fine Arts Quintet; the Western Arts Trio. He has received commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pasadena Chamber Orchestra, Chicago's Church of the Ascension, the American Guild of Organists and USC. Dr. Hopkins has participated in recordings by the Chicago Brass Quintet, the Western Arts Trio and the USC Chamber Singers. He is composer-in-residence with the Pacific Chorale.
David Howard, bass clarinetist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has served as principal clarinet of the New Haven Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Colorado Music Festival, and the Ojai Festival. A student of Mitchell Lurie, Leon Russianoff and oboist Robert Bloom, Mr. Howard attended the Music Academy of the West and the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, where he received the Henry Cabot Prize and the C.D. Jackson Memorial Award. He is currently a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's New Music Group and Chamber Music Society. His solo recording, Capriccio: Mid-Century Music for Clarinet, with Zita Carno, piano, has recently been released on Centaur Records. Mr. Howard holds a degree in Russian literature from Yale University.
Elizabeth Hynes, soprano, is very active on the operatic and concert stage. In 1993, Ms. Hynes opened the New York City Opera season as Cio-Cio-San in the American premiere of the original 1904 version of Madama Butterfly. She has sung Madama Butterfly with the opera companies of Caracas, Vancouver, San Diego, Opera Pacific, Florentine and Houston. Ms. Hynes was seen on a nationwide PBS Live from Lincoln Center telecast as the Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro. Her European debut was as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with the English National Opera. Concert appearances include the Chicago Symphony, Sir Georg Solti conducting, and engagements with orchestras including Madrid, Barcelona, New Zealand, Cleveland, Los Angeles and the Tonkuenstler Orchestra of Vienna on two American tours. Ms. Hynes is an assistant professor of voice at USC.
