Adam K. GILBERT is Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of the Early Music Program at University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. He received his PhD at Case Western Reserve University, and taught Musicology for two years at Stanford University. He was the recipient of the 2008 Noah Greenberg Award and co-recipient of the 2014 Thomas Binkley ward with his wife Rotem, with whom he directs the ensemble Ciaramella. He has performed on recorder, shawm, bagpipes, and other historical woodwinds for years with groups including Ensemble for Early Music, Piffaro, and the Waverly Consort. His research includes Renaissance improvisation, composition, and symbolism, music and rhetoric, bagpipes and shawms, and performance practice.
