Where music meets opportunity.
Performances
Sat
Oct
3
Concert
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Concerto Competition
Concerto Competition Winners' Concert
7:30 PM
Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall
Mon
Oct
5
Faculty Artist Series
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Strings
Faculty Artist Series: Cordula Merks, violin
7:30 PM
Sol Joseph Recital Hall
Sun
Oct
11
Concert
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Historical Performance
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Orchestra
Vivaldi, Handel, and Telemann with the SFCM Baroque Orchestra
2:00 PM
Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall
Mon
Oct
12
Faculty Artist Series
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RJAM
Faculty Artist Series: Warren Wolf, RJAM Vibraphone
7:30 PM
Barbro Osher Recital Hall
Tue
Oct
13
Concert
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Chamber Music
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String and Piano Chamber Music
Chamber Music Tuesday featuring Yubeen Kim
7:30 PM
Barbro Osher Recital Hall
Fri
Oct
23
Stories
conducting
September 25, 2026
Conducting student Grace Wahlen debuts with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra on September 26 with Jennifer Higdon's blue cath
voice
September 23, 2026
Alissa Goretsky stepped from SFCM's graduation stage to the world's opera halls.
percussion
September 17, 2026
James Nickell is trading in San Francisco's fog for something a little sunnier.
piano
September 15, 2026
Stephen Prutsman is hard to pin down.
His impressive list of achievements on paper—fourth place in the 1990 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition; second in the 1991 Queen Elisabeth Competition; recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant—only nod at his wide-ranging career.
Convocation
September 11, 2026
SFCM has officially welcomed its class of 2031.
The Conservatory rang in the Fall 2026 semester with its September Convocation by honoring some of its own and—of course—playing music.
voice
September 8, 2026
Among opera pedagogues, César Ulloa's voice stands out.
orchestra
August 26, 2026
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music is proud to announce its performance schedule for the fall 2026 season, a forward-thinking and wide-ranging selection of live music moments drawn from canonical repertoire as much as the contemporary.
conducting
August 19, 2026
Job placement in under a year: Fall 2025 Conducting graduate Donald Lee III has been named Music Director of Opera Memphis (OM), the institution announced in August.
composition
August 12, 2026
2013 Composition alum James Craft can now add "Emmy-winning" to his title.
jazz
August 10, 2026
Roots, Jazz, and American Music guitar student Tri Pham had a busy four months from March to July, when he appeared first with the Oakland Symphony (OS) in March before traveling to perform the same program with the Minneso
