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With their formal USC Thornton training in studio/jazz guitar behind them, the New West Guitar Quartet is taking Wide Awake, a newly-recorded second album, to Berlin, where the group is representing the City of Los Angeles. Read the Story.

Thornton Alumni in the News

March 28, 2008

THE LDS NEWSROOM: Two-time USC alumnus Dr. Mack Wilberg (MM '81, DMA '85) was officially named as the new music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. "As music director, Wilberg will oversee all musical and creative aspects of the choir, the Orchestra at Temple Square, the Temple Square Chorale and the Bells on Temple Square, including selecting repertoire for concerts, recordings and tours and providing the creative direction for the weekly Music and the Spoken Word broadcast."

February 14, 2008

THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH: Jazz vocalist Sara Gazarek (BS '04) was recently profiled in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and in the article she recalled her studies at Thornton. While there, she began to expand her musical boundaries, first listening to instrumental jazz, then focusing on other legendary jazz vocalists, the story reported. After being offered record deals, Gazarek asked for advice from John Clayton, whom she refers to as her “jazz father.” “John told me that before I recorded, I needed to have a distinctive sound,” Gazarek said. “And he told me the best way to do that was to work with my own group.”

September 16, 2007

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Cellist Frank Su Huang's (GRCT '89) recording of "Yi Feng (Lost Style)" appears on a new CD of works by Chinese composer Ge Gan-ru. “'Yi Feng' was written for the cellist Frank Su Huang, one of Mr. Ge’s students at the Shanghai Conservatory; heard here is an unedited performance Mr. Huang taped in Shanghai in 1983. The boomy, metallic recording, rough but listenable, makes the music sound even more otherworldly. A sense of history being made is palpable.”

September 2007

GRAMOPHONE: Pianist Wojciech Kocyan's (DMA '00) new CD featuring works by Rachmaninov, Scriabin, and Prokofiev chosen as one of the 50 greatest classical music recordings ever made. “Small label and unknown pianist deliver world-class artistry and first-rate engineering. Wojciech Kocyan not only stands ground allongside Pollini, Ashkenazy and Richter, but he also offers original insights that totally serve the music. If you see this disc, grab it.”

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