Guitar

The Conservatory's Guitar Department features 5 world-renowned guitar faculty dedicated to mentoring a new generation of excellent guitarists, interesting and expressive artists and performer-teachers. Guitar students at SFCM are given a broad range of skills and opportunities, through collaboration with composers, instrumentalists and vocalists, through teaching and scholarship and through extensive opportunities to perform. An extensive collection of 25+ instruments, including a Smallman, 2 Rubios and a lute, enhances this comprehensive program of study.

Classes to Visit

  · 5 guitar faculty
  · Over 40 guitar students total in program
  · Weekly guitar class, as well as master classes offered by
    guest artists
  · Opportunities to play chamber repertoire and early music and
    to collaborate with other instrumentalists
  · Opportunities to collaborate with the composition department
  · Instrument collection of 25+ instruments includes a Smallman,
    2 Rubios, 2 theorbos, 2 Baroque guitars, lutes and 19th
    century guitars
  · 8 guitar department recitals per year and an annual
    Guitar/Voice Department collaboration.
  · Bi-Annual Guitar Concerto Competition - winner plays with SFCM
    Conservatory Orchestra
  · Bi-Annual Wesley Day Solo Guitar Recording Competition
    awards the winning student a fully funded CD production and a
    CD release tour of California cities
  · SFCM Guitar Ensemble performs regularly throughout Northern
    California. Highlights include the 2000 tour with Steve Reich as
    well as the commission and premier of works by Steve Mackey,
    Terry Riley, Jorge Liderman and many others
  · The Bay Area is one of the most active classical guitar scenes in
    the U.S.
  · The 2008 GFA International Convention and Competition were
    held in San Francisco, and the new facilities at SFCM were
    used for competition and evening concerts

FACULTY

Sérgio Assad
Lawrence Ferrara
Richard Savino
David Tanenbaum chair, guitar department
Marc Teicholz

We encourage prospective students to contact the guitar faculty to arrange a consultative lesson. The guitar faculty and the Office of Music Admission are happy to answer any specific questions that you have about our program.

DOWNLOAD THE GUITAR DEPARTMENT MANUAL (pdf)

LINK TO APPLICATION INFORMATION

LINK TO AUDITION REPERTOIRE

Guitar Ensemble (Monday), 2:00-3:50 pm
Guitar Pedagogy (Tuesday), 2:30-4:20 pm
Guitar Literature: Classical and Romantic (Wednesday), 3:00-4:50 pm
Guitar Performance (Thursday), 12:00-12:50 pm