Jonathan Mack received his B.M. and M.M. in voice performance from USC. He received the Martha Baird Rockefeller Grant in 1978 and 1980 as well as numerous awards during his studies at USC. He also won First Prize in the Metropolitan Opera Western Regional Auditions in 1977. Mr. Mack's operatic experience includes Santa Fe Opera, Merola (San Francisco), Opera Midwest, Landesbuhne Hannover, Buhnen der Hansestadt Lubeck, Theater Kiel, Stadtische Buhnen Dortmund, Los Angeles Opera Theater, Utah Opera, Kentucky Opera, Netherlands Opera, LA Music Center Opera and Opera Columbus, and he has performed extensively with various leading orchestras under Zubin Mehta, Carlo Maria Giulini, Pierre Boulez, Andre Previn, Michael Tilson Thomas, Simon Rattle, Lawrence Foster, Leonard Slatkin, Robert Shaw, Helmut Rilling and Richard Hickocks. He has taught at Chapman College and at California State University, Long Beach. M - O
Patrice Madura, assistant professor of music education, received her doctor of music education degree from Indiana University. Her minor fields of study were choral conducting with Jan Harrington and jazz studies with David Baker. Dr. Madura has taught and conducted various choral ensembles at Indiana University and Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. Previously, she taught choral and general music to grades one through 12 in both public and private schools, and has served as vocal jazz clinician at choral festivals. While earning a master's degree from San Diego State University, she worked professionally as an accompanist and piano teacher.
Thom David Mason, professor of music and founder of the Department of Jazz Studies at USC, received his bachelor of science degree from the University of Wisconsin in music education, his master of music degree in music theory and composition from De Paul University and his doctorate in composition from Northwestern University. He has appeared as guest soloist on saxophone and woodwinds throughout the United States, Canada, Central America, Germany, Israel, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Professor Mason is chairman of the Jazz Arts Foundation and member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Jazz Society. He has written two books, The Art of Hearing and Ear Training for Improvisors, and is author of several articles in the field of jazz education. He has also served as woodwind editor for the Jazz Educators Journal. Dr. Mason has recorded two albums under his own name and performed on numerous jazz and pop music albums as a sideman.
Ingrid Matthews won first prize in the Erwin Bodky International Competition for early music in 1989, and has since become one of the most sought after baroque violinists in North America. A graduate of Indiana University, where she studied with Josef Gingold and Stanley Ritchie, Ms. Matthews has recorded for Sony Classical, Focus and Skylark, and is the music director of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra. She performs internationally with such leading early music ensembles as Tafelmusik, the Bach Ensemble, American Classical Soloists and Zephyrus, and has participated in the early music festivals of Boston, Berkeley, Utrecht, Stuttgart and the Mostly Mozart Festival of New York. Previously, she has taught baroque violin and chamber music at Indiana University, the University of Toronto and Clayton State College.
Stephen Maxym, bassoonist, was solo bassoonist with the Metropolitan Opera Association for 36 years. His distinguished career has included positions as solo bassoonist with the Pittsburgh Symphony and appearances with the Marlboro and Newport Chamber Music Festivals. He has recorded for the RCA Victor and Columbia labels and has appeared as solo bassoonist under the baton of such notable conductors as Fritz Reiner, Otto Klemperer, Bruno Walter, James Levine, Herbert von Karajan, Igor Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein. He has published articles in numerous pedagogical journals and has held teaching positions at Juilliard, Hartt College of Music, the New England Conservatory, the Manhattan School of Music and Yale. His former students currently hold positions in the principal symphony orchestras of Minnesota, New York, the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco, Atlanta, Israel and Frankfurt.
Richard J. McIlvery, director of the Recording Arts Program, has been a professional guitarist and studio musician since 1963 and a recording engineer since the early 1970's. As a musician he toured with Waylon Jennings, performed on sound tracks of Howard the Duck, Things Are Tough All Over, Action Jackson, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, What's Love Got To Do With It and appeared on over 100 albums and singles. As an engineer his credits include over 200 albums and singles, numerous films and TV shows such as The Shadow, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Birdland, Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman, Civil War Journals, Beverly Hills 90210 as well as commercials for radio and television. He has worked with Mark Isham, Michael Kaman, Patrick O'Hearn, Danny Elfman, Patrick Seymour, David Cassidy, Waylon Jennings, Xuxa and Thomas Dolby. Mr. McIlvery composed the orchestral score for Spaceflight, the highest rated PBS documentary to date, as well as seven other nationwide PBS documentaries and specials. He is a member of the Audio Engineering Association Education Committee, a member of the Board of Directors for the Music Entertainment Industry Educators Association and a continuing panel member of the Mix Magazine TEC Awards Nominating Committee. He has lectured on recording, music business and film scoring technologies at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland; Audio Engineering Society, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Shobi Music Business College, Tokyo, Japan; Manitoba Audio Recording Industry Association, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Donald McInnes, professor of viola, is renowned for his performances with major orchestras, in recitals, chamber music and master classes. His current faculty position at USC was formerly held by his teacher William Primrose. He has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Orchestre Nationale de France, Pittsburgh Symphony, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, CBC Radio Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Mexico City Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony and Seattle Symphony, among others. His career includes associations with such artists as Leonard Bernstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Zara Nelsova, Janos Starker, Menahem Pressler, Yo-Yo Ma and Isaac Stern. Mr. McInnes is an active recording artist who can be heard on Columbia, RCA, Deutsche Grammophone and Angel (EMI) recordings. He has introduced many new works for viola including those commissioned for him by such composers as William Schuman, Vincent Persichetti, Paul Tufts, Robert Suderburg, Robert Linn and Thomas Pasatieri. He regularly appears at leading summer music festivals in North America and abroad such as Banff, Marlboro, Gstaad, Ambler, International String Workshop and Interlochen. His students have received the first prize at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, the Friday Morning Musical Club National Competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the CBC National Competition in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the National American String Teachers Association Viola Competitions. During the summer, Mr. McInnes serves on the faculty of the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California.
George McIntyre has a bachelor of music and a master of music degree in studio guitar performance from USC. He has worked as a session guitarist for television and motion pictures in Los Angeles since 1988. He also operates his own MIDI Project Studio where he works on music cues for motion pictures, television shows and commercials as well as professional album projects. Some of the live and studio projects he has been associated with are Dizzy Gillespie, L.A. Law, Quantum Leap, Bright Angel, Taco Bell and The Heidi Chronicles.
Janice McVeigh, soprano and adjunct assistant professor of vocal arts, holds degrees from Hamline University and Claremont Graduate School and has studied at the Music Academy of the West and USC. Her former teachers include Marie Gibson, Lotte Lehmann, Herta Glaz and Gwendolyn Koldofsky. Ms. McVeigh has performed leading roles with the San Francisco Opera, the Riverside Opera and the Euterpe Opera of Los Angeles. She is an active recitalist and oratorio soloist and has appeared with the Pasadena Chamber Orchestra, the William Hall Chorale and the Monday Evening Concerts Contemporary Music Series. She has received awards from the Metropolitan Opera and the Gladys Turk Foundation and has been the winner of numerous vocal competitions.
Composer/arranger Vince Mendoza has been heralded by critics as a master of contemporary idioms. Since his first musical alliance with drummer Peter Erskine in 1985, artists such as Gary Buron/Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker, Charlie Haden, Andy Narell and John Abercrombie have prominently featured Mendoza's compositions and arrangements on their albums. His solo albums on Blue Note, "Start Here" and "Instructions Inside" were critical triumphs that featured such artists as John Scofield, Joe Lovano, Ralph Towner, Bob Mintzer, Randy Brecker, Peter Erskine and others. "Start Here" was one of Jazziz magazine's "Top Picks of 1991" and Mendoza was recently recognized as best composer/ arranger by Swing Journal's critics poll in Japan. His work on the recently released compact disk, "The Vince Mendoza/Arif Mardin Project: 'Jazzpana'" brought him a 1994 Grammy nomination for best instrumental arrangement. Mendoza's work as an arranger can also be heard on the Yellowjacket's "Greenhouse" release with artists such as Chaka Khan, Brenda Russel, Al Jarreau, Al DiMeola, David Liebmann, Sadao Watanabe, Joe Zawinul, the GRP ALL STAR big band and various pop artists. His television music has been nominated for an Emmy. His music for the World Cup closing ceremonies was broadcast worldwide. Mendoza has been commissioned to compose for such groups as the Turtle Island String Quartet, the Debussy Trio, the L.A. Guitar Quartet, the Metropole Orchestra and the Koln Radio Orchestra. He actively conducts concerts of his music in Europe, Scandinavia, Japan and the United Kingdom. He has appeared at the Montreux Jazz Festival and his music was featured at the 1993 Berlin Jazz Festival. Mendoza, originally from Connecticut, resides in Los Angeles. He has degrees from Ohio State University and USC.
Jean-Pierre Michelou received his B.A. in electronic music and audio engineering from California State University, Dominguez Hills, and received master's degrees in jazz studies and trumpet performance at USC. He is frequently in demand as a performer, lecturer and clinician, and his performance credits include the Pacific Symphony, and programs with Jose Carreras, Andy Williams, Martina Arroya, Natalie Cole and Helen Reddy. At USC, he is production coordinator for the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Program.
Praised by the Los Angeles Times for his "power, virtuosity and mastery of tone color (that) is vivid and evocative," Korean born pianist Ick-Choo Moon is the recipient of numerous awards including an unprecedented four Canada Council Arts Grants, and prizes from the Montreal International Competition, Geneva International Competition and Gina Bachauer International Competition at the Juilliard School. In 1989, Mr. Moon gave a critically acclaimed New York recital debut at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall as a winner of the William Petschek Award, one of the highest honors given by Juilliard to its pianists. Since making his United States debut in 1979 with the Minnesota Orchestra under Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Mr. Moon has performed as soloist with the Montreal Symphony, the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, McGill Chamber Orchestra, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony, the Calgary Philharmonic, the Seoul Philharmonic and the Korean Symphony among others. In 1991, he completed a successful tour of the former Soviet Union that included recital and concerto appearances in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kiev. After private studies in Korea and Canada, Mr. Moon studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and Indiana University, and received his doctorate from the Juilliard School. His major teachers were Gyorgy Sebok and Sascha Gorodnitzki.
Robert S. Moore, associate professor of theory and composition, received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and is a graduate of Centenary College. Dr. Moore is a recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Rockefeller Foundation. He is winner of the Sutherland Dows Composition Prize. His recordings include Music from Distant Places (Music Gallery). He has been visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Center for Experiments in Television. Dr. Moore has previously held faculty appointments at the Oberlin Conservatory and Yale University.
A native of Southern California, Erica Muhl is rapidly winning status as one of America's noted young composers. Performances and broadcasts have come from, among others, Italy's Orchestra della RAI, The Women's Philharmonic, the Charles Ives Center for American Music, the Arditti Quartet, the Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Minnesota Opera, Venezuela's National Philharmonic Orchestra, National Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Radio-Televisione Italians. She has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Opera America, the Meet the Composer Foundation, ASCAP and the Rotary International Foundation. In 1991 Ms. Muhl was honored with a first prize for Excellence in the Arts from the City of Los Angeles. In 1993 she was the recipient of the prestigious Whitaker Commissioning Prize from the Women's Philharmonic in San Francisco. That commission resulted in the orchestral work, What is the sound of an angel's voice..., which was premiered in 1994 to great critical acclaim. Although born in Los Angeles, Ms. Muhl's orientation has always been international. At age 16, she was invited to study with legendary teacher, Nadia Boulanger, at the American Conservatory in Paris. After returning to California to earn her bachelor of music degree, she returned to Europe for graduate studies at the Academia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Academia Chigiana in Siena, studying with prominent Italian composer, Franco Donatoni. In 1991 she completed a doctorate of musical arts at USC. Along with Boulanger and Donatoni, her primary teachers have included Aurelio de la Vega and James Hopkins. Through master classes and symposia she has worked with William Kraft, John Harbison, Samuel Adler, Chinary Ung, Olly Wilson and George Crumb.
Mezzo-soprano, Cynthia Munzer, has sung over 20 roles with the Metropolitan Opera, both in New York at Lincoln Center and on tour in the United States and Japan. She has sung over 200 performances with the Met, many of which have been heard on the Texaco Metropolitan Opera broadcasts. She has appeared as leading guest artist with 37 other opera companies, including the Dallas Opera, Washington Opera, L'Opera de Montreal and the Houston Grand Opera. As concert guest soloist Ms. Munzer has performed with more than 40 orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, National Symphony, American Symphony and Hong Kong Philharmonic. She has performed in many music festivals, including the Aspen Festival, New York Mozart Bicentennial Festival, Brattleboro Festival, Wolftrap Festival, Carmel Bach Festival and Oregon Bach Festival. Ms. Munzer is the recipient of the following awards: The Metropolitan Opera National Council First Place Winner, Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Award, Gramma Fisher Foundation Award, Goeran Gentele Award, Geraldine Farrar Award and the Sullivan Foundation Award.
Barbara Northcutt, oboist, performs as principal of the Joffrey Ballet Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, Pasadena Chamber Orchestra, Master Symphony and the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. She was principal oboist for the films Cocoon, Star Trek III, Gorky Park, and Project X. Miss Northcutt is substitute co-principal oboist for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She is a graduate of USC where she studied with William Criss.
David Oakes is a lecturer in studio jazz guitar. He studied classical guitar with Pepe Romero, flamenco guitar with Jan Serrano and jazz guitar with Ted Greene and Ron Eschete. Mr. Oakes received a bachelor of music degree in 1978 from the North Carolina School of the Arts. He premiered the first recording of the Bayside Concerto for guitar and strings by third stream composer George Roumanis. In addition, he has completed studio recording projects for both NBC and Paramount Studios.
Judith Oas-Natalucci, lecturer in vocal arts, received a bachelor of music degree in piano as well as a bachelor of arts degree in music education from Concordia College of Moorehead, Minnesota, before completing her graduate studies and a subsequent eight year tenure as instructor of voice at Moorehead State University. She went on to teach in New York City for 10 years, and then continued her teaching career in Rome. Ms. Oas-Natalucci's students have won many national and international competitions, including the Geneva Vocal Competition, Queens Prize in Belgium and the Metropolitan Opera national competition. Her students have achieved major international careers at the Metropolitan Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Deutsche Opera Berlin, Vienna Staatsoper, Munich National Theater as well as the Australian Opera and companies of New Zealand.
Giulio Maria Ongaro, associate professor of music history and literature, was born in Venice, Italy, where he studied economics at the University of Venice. After moving to the United States in 1975, he received a B.M. in flute at the University of Iowa and, later, graduate degrees in musicology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His primary research interest is the music of the Italian Renaissance; he has published articles on this field and on other topics in several leading American and European journals. He is currently working on a book on the development of instrumental performance in late Renaissance Venice, a project funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
