Bear McCreary

Bear McCreary

male, 30 years old
American television composer, USCThorntonSchoolofMusic, musician, soundtracks, Avant-jazz, Music of Battlestar Galactica…17 Billion Miles of DNA
Bear McCreary (born February 17, 1979) is a classically trained composer and musician living in Los Angeles, California. He was born in Fort...
Flora L. Thornton

Flora L. Thornton

female
philanthropist, American, Los Angeles Opera, USCThorntonSchoolofMusic, Los Angeles Music Center
Flora L. Thornton is the widow of Tex Thornton. She is known for her philanthropic activity in the Los Angeles area, including her support of the...
Eleonore Schoenfeld

Eleonore Schoenfeld

female, deceased (2007)
polish, Russian, tchaikovsky, new york philharmonic, cellist, ballet…music educator, USCThorntonSchoolofMusic, Geneva International Music Competition
Eleonore Schoenfeld is considered one of the most influential cellists of the 20th century. Born in Maribor, Slovenia to a Polish father and a...

Shelly Berg

male
University of Miami, Frost School of Music, Ray Sings -- Basie Swings, University of Houston School of Music, USCThorntonSchoolofMusic, Moores School of Music…Cleveland Institute of Music
Shelly Berg (born Shelton Glen Berg August 18, 1955) is a jazz pianist from Cleveland, Ohio. His father was trumpet player Jay Berg. At the age of...
Elizabeth Pitcairn

Elizabeth Pitcairn

female
violinist, stradivarius, American, USCThorntonSchoolofMusic, Red Violin, Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Elizabeth Pitcairn, born December 5, 1973 into a musical Bryn Athyn, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania family, began the violin at age three and...
William Primrose

William Primrose

male, deceased (1982)
Scottish classical violist, USCThorntonSchoolofMusic, From GLASGOW, borodin, Guildhall School of Music, nocturne…the juilliard school, eastman school of music, Hollywood Walk of Fame, University of Southern California
William Primrose was a Scottish violist and teacher, probably the best known viola player of his time. Primrose was born in Glasgow and studied...

Peter Stumpf

male
Chamber music, American classical cellist, Hartford Symphony, Emerson String Quartet, USCThorntonSchoolofMusic, music educator…Curtis Institute of Music
Peter Stumpf is the current principal cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He was educated first at the Curtis Institute of Music and then the...
Marco Beltrami

Marco Beltrami

male, 43 years old
joy ride, Italian, Resident Evil composer, Red Eye, Yale School of Music, Italian-American…USCThorntonSchoolofMusic
Marco Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an Italian-American film composer. Beltrami was born in the small town of Fornero, Italy, but grew up on...

James Thatcher

male
Kristy Morrell, Pasadena Symphony, los angeles philharmonic, National Symphony of Mexico, Los Angeles Music Center Opera, Utah Symphony…USCThorntonSchoolofMusic
James Thatcher is an American born horn player who has performed on many film soundtracks. James Thatcher began his professional career at the age...
Rod Gilfry

Rod Gilfry

male, 50 years old
American operatic baritone, California State University, Fullerton, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Covina, Frankfurt Opera, Zurich Opera…USCThorntonSchoolofMusic, Thornton School of Music, Lyric Opera of Chicago, University of Southern California
Rod Gilfry is a leading American opera baritone. After launching his career at Frankfurt Opera in 1987, Gilfry quickly established a reputation for...