Solange Appointed First Scholar-in-Residence at USC Thornton School of Music

Solange has been named the archetypal scholar-in-residence astatine USC Thornton School of Music and announced her three-year residency astatine the euphony schoolhouse connected Monday (Oct. 13).

Solange volition thatch a people successful collaboration with her multidisciplinary instauration Saint Heron, USC Thornton dean Jason King and different module members connected euphony curation. She volition besides big student-focused conversations and workshops (including 1 dedicated to “The Making of Eldorado Ballroom,” the bid she hosted astatine Walt Disney Concert Hall past October), and assistance module physique semipermanent frameworks for Thornton during her custom-designed residency, which kicks disconnected this week, the LA Times reported.

Launching successful autumn 2027, the euphony curation people volition “explore the process of constructing curatorial frameworks alongside the context, trade and instauration of philharmonic landscapes,” according to USC, and volition beryllium tentatively titled “Records of Discover: Methodologies for Music and Cultural Curatorial Practices.” She volition besides enactment successful USC’s forthcoming symposium by discussing women successful classical work, specified arsenic composer Julia Perry.

“For decades now, I’ve watched the improvement of euphony and euphony curation, and I consciousness similar I person thing capable to adhd to the conversation,” the Grammy-winning creator told the Times. “I consciousness truly inspired by the thought of my 15-year-old aforesaid being capable to person idiosyncratic benignant of locomotion maine done the footsteps of what I was astir to embark on. So if I can, successful immoderate role, beryllium a vas of guidance, it truly conscionable benignant of warms my bosom that I americium fixed the accidental to beryllium successful that space…. Being capable to assistance students navigate what that is for them is similar a imagination job.”

Solange is besides the 2nd subordinate to beryllium invited to articulation the Dean’s Creative Vanguard Program, joining her predominant collaborator Raphael Saadiq who became the inaugural member successful December. The Dean’s Creative Vanguard Program, which officially launched this twelvemonth nether the absorption of King, is designed to foster originative enactment betwixt distinguished artists and Thornton students. The inaugural includes masterclasses, workshops, backstage acquisition and nationalist discussions.