Adjunct Faculty
Director, Choral Activities
ebasilio@SanDiego.edu
(619) 260-4111
Office: Camino 176
Edwin L. Basilio, Ed.D., serves as the chief administrator and artistic director of the elite Choral Scholars and the USD Concert Choir.
Director of Liberal Studies
Visiting Professor of Music
kaye@SanDiego.edu
(619) 260-2243
Office: Camino Hall 142J
Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 9:30-11:00 am, Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30-2:00 pm, Fridays 1:30-3:00 pm.
Kay Etheridge is professionally a classical pianist, music educator, piano teacher and adjudicator who has lived in San Diego since 1982. She maintains an active performing career and each year can be heard as both soloist and chamber musician on various concert series within the southern California region. In addition to directing the Liberal Studies program at USD, she is a member of the music faculty and teaches music history, jazz history, music education, applied piano and class piano.
Lecturer
troitman@sandiego.edu
Pianist Tatiana Roitman Mann has appeared as a soloist and recitalist across North America and Europe. The BBC hailed her performance of G. Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with Oxford Pops Orchestra as "formidable...both accurate and with rarely seen joy." Mann's radio broadcasts include H. Villa-Lobos' Mystic Sextet, on NPR's Performance Today, and B. Bartok's Contrasts heard n New York's classical music station, WQXR. As a performer of contemporary works, she premiered Speak No Evil by E. McKinley at the American Composer's Forum, and performed For Don by M. Babbitt, with the composer in attendance, in celebration of his 90th birthday at Tanglewood's Contemporary Music Festival. As the recipient of the Peggy Rockfeller Memorial Fellowship at Tanglewood, she worked with James Levine, Dawn Upshaw, Yo-Yo Ma, Charles Rosen and Claude Frank.
Mann's recent engagements include Stravinsky's Petrushka with the San Diego Symphony, several performances on their SDSO's "Symphony Exposed" series, as well as a recording of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with Hot Springs Music Festival, Don Vappie and the Creole Jazz Serenaders for the Naxos album titled Jazz Nocturne' - American Concerti of the Jazz Age, to be released in 2010. Upcoming performances include Mainly Mozart "Joyful Noise" outreach series, and several chamber music and concerto engagements in San Diego and L.A.
