[1] He is on the Board of Directors of National Public Radio's From the Top and teaches at New York University's Clive Davis Institute.

[8] From 2015 to 2016, he was the bassist on CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as a member of the house band, Jon Batiste and Stay Human.

[6] Thurber wrote the score for Antony and Cleopatra, a co-production between The Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, UK and The Public Theater.

[15] From 2012 to 2017, Thurber wrote the music for several of The Public Theater's Mobile Shakespeare productions including Pericles, Macbeth, and Twelfth Night.

[17] In 2016, Thurber wrote and performed his one man musical The Booty Call, which was produced for a month long run at The Barrow Group Theater.

The piece is a quadruple concerto written for and featuring pianist Kris Bowers, clarinetist Mark Dover and violinist Charles Yang.