SAN FRANCISCO, CA—As the new year approaches, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) is pleased to announce its spring 2022 concert series, which includes a combination of in-person and live-streamed events. 

New this season, patrons can reserve tickets online using SFCM's site! 

We are excited to announce for the first time we are inviting the public to concerts and events inside the new Bowes Center. On February 12th, the Conservatory will play host to an open house at the new Ute and William K. Bowes, Jr. Center for Performing Arts designed by Mark Cavagnero Associates (MCA). It is a “vertical campus” where students can create, learn, and share music. This open house will be open to neighbors and the general public to get their first look inside the venue where 90% of concerts will be free to the public. 

Our building at 50 Oak street has been officially renamed the Ann Getty Center for Education, where we will continue to have classes, performance and masterclasses. 

Continuing this Spring season is the popular, “Chamber Music Tuesday” which will feature world-renowned guest artists like Itamar Zorman, and Marcy Rosen in collaboration with SFCM chamber music alumni, faculty, and students.

The SFCM Opera and Musical Theatre program will welcome Opus 3 Artist James Darrah to direct La Clemenza di Tito, as an exploration of opera+film.

Further highlights include performances by the SFCM Orchestra led by SFCM Music Director Edwin Outwater and guest and student conductors; a New Music Ensemble performance led by its director, Nicole Paiement; a baroque period program by the SFCM Baroque Orchestra; Fully-staged opera & musical theatre productions of The Apple Tree, and The Enchanted Pig; Multiple exciting collaborative performances with Roots, Jazz, and American Music students and SFJAZZ in Miner Auditorium. 

Calendar listings are below. Some events require ticketing. Please see SFCM’s performance calendar for a complete concert schedule and to register for attendance. Details and programs are subject to change.

CALENDAR LISTINGS - Spring 2022 EVENT HIGHLIGHTS:
All concerts are open to the public. Select concerts will be livestreamed. 

Tuesday, February 8, 7:30 PM
SFCM Chamber Music Tuesday feat. Faculty Artists

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Barbro Osher Recital Hall, 200 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 
Ute and William K. Bowes Jr. Center for Performing Arts

Program:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor
Mieczysław Weinberg: String Trio
Gabriel Faure: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor

The popular Chamber Music Tuesday series continues with renowned SFCM faculty members Simon James, Ian Swensen, Dimitri Murrath, Jennifer Culp, and Jean-Michel Fonteneau, performing with students from the Chamber Music Program
About SFCM String and Piano Chamber Music

Saturday, February 12th, 7:30 PM
SFCM Orchestra with Edwin Outwater

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Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, 50 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA
Ann Getty Center for Education

Program:
Maurice Ravel: Alborada del Gracioso
Maurice Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2
Juan Prieto: Romancero gitano: Preciosa y el aire
Gabriela Lena Frank: Walkabout: Concerto for Orchestra

Edwin Outwater conducts the SFCM Orchestra in works by Maurice Ravel, Gabriela Lena Frank, and a world premiere of alumnus composer Juan María Prieto Iborra’s 2020 Highsmith Competition winning composition. This award is given to a student or alumnus showing great compositional skill and promise. The concert also includes student conductor Jaco Wong.
About Edwin Outwater

Sunday, February 13th, 2:00 PM
SFCM Baroque Ensemble  co-directed by Corey Jamason and Elisabeth Reed

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Barbro Osher Recital Hall, 200 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA
Ute and William K. Bowes Jr. Center for Performing Arts

Program:
Luigi Boccherini: Cello Concerto in G Major
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto in A Minor
Antonio Vivaldi: Cello Concerto in D Minor

This performance highlights SFCM Baroque Ensemble Concerto Competition winners Rocío López Sánchez, Annemarie Schubert, and Kyle Stachnik. 
About the Historical Performance Program

Thursday, February 17th, 7:30 PM and Friday, February 18th, 7:30 PM
SFCM Opera and Musical Theatre presents The Apple Tree

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Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, 50 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA
Ann Getty Center for Education

Michael Horsley, Music Director
Michael Mohammed, Ensemble Director and Stage Director

The Apple Tree
Music by Jerry Brock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick 

What tempts you after you have taken a bite of forbidden fruit? The songwriting team behind Fiddler on the Roof explores that question by bringing together three playlets based on stories by Mark Twain, Frank R. Stockton, and Jules Feiffer. Full production of the contemporary musical with an SFCM cast. 
About SFCM Opera and Musical Theater

Saturday, February 19th, 7:30 PM
SFCM New Music Ensemble with Nicole Paiement

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Program:
Tyshawn Sorey: In Memoriam Muhal Richard Abrams
Anna Thorvaldsdóttir: Fields 
Ian Dicke: Grand Central
Linda Buckley: Amhrain Amergin
Takemitsu: Tree Line

The SFCM New Music Ensemble presents contemporary pieces representing a range of living composers influencing today’s music scene. This concert is conducted by New Music Ensemble Director, Nicole Paiement, as well as conducting student Jaco Wong.
About Nicole Paiement

Sunday, February 20, 7:30 PM
SFCM presents RJAM Side-By-Side: Rising Stars

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Miner Auditorium, SF JAZZ, 201 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA

SFCM is proud to partner with SFJAZZ for this concert. The stellar faculty cast includes the SFJAZZ Collective's Warren Wolf, David Sanchez, Edward Simon, and Matt Brewer, along with luminaries Joshua Redman, Carmen Bradford, Julian Lage, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, Matt Wilson and many others.
About RJAM 

Tuesday, March 8th, 7:30 PM
SFCM Chamber Music Tuesday feat. Marcy Rosen

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Barbro Osher Recital Hall, 200 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA
Ute and William K. Bowes Jr. Center for Performing Arts

Program:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 21 in D Major
Ludwig Van Beethoven: Sonata for Cello & Piano No. 2 in G minor
Johannes Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G Major

Featuring cellist Marcy Rosen, SFCM faculty and students from the Chamber Music Program perform works by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. Marcy Rosen twice won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, as a chamber musician and as a soloist. Since 1986 she has been Artistic Director of the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival in Maryland, and has been a long time participant at the Marlboro Music Festival. This performance also features SFCM faculty Ian Swensen, Dimitri Murrath, and Weicong Zhang.
About SFCM String and Piano Chamber Music

Friday, March 11th, 7:30 PM and Sunday, March 13th, 2:00 PM
SFCM Opera presents Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito

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Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, 50 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA
Ann Getty Center for Education

James Darrah, director and creative producer
Curt Pajer, conductor
Raviv Ullman, co-director

La Clemenza di Tito 
Music by W.A. Mozart
Libretto by Caterino Mazzolà

 Los Angeles based director and Opus 3 Artist James Darrah directs this production of Mozart’s opera in two acts as an exploration of opera+film, featuring students in the SFCM Opera and Musical Theatre program.
About SFCM Opera and Musical Theatre 

Saturday, March 12th, 7:30 PM
SFCM Chamber Orchestra with David Chan

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Barbro Osher Recital Hall, 200 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 
Ute and William K. Bowes Jr. Center for Performing Arts

Program:
Arnold Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 63 in C Major, "La Roxelane"
Huang Ruo: A Dust in Time
Florence Price: String Quartet arranged for String Orchestra

Concertmaster of New York's MET Opera Orchestra, David Chan leads the SFCM Orchestra as guest conductor in a wide range of works for chamber orchestra, from Haydn to Huang Ruo. David Chan is also Music Director of the Montclair Orchestra and Camerata Notturna, and Artistic Partner of the Mainly Mozart's celebrated Festival of Orchestras.

Friday, April 1st, 7:30 PM
SFCM Wind Ensemble with Brad Hogarth, featuring Rhoslyn Jones

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Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, 50 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA
Ann Getty Center for Education

Program:
Kenneth Amis: Driven!
John Adams: Grand Pianola Music, featuring 3 sopranos from SFCM
John Mackey: Songs from the End of the World featuring Rhosyln Jones

The SFCM Wind Ensemble collaborates with the voice department featuring SFCM voice faculty Rhoslyn Jones, as well as students from the Voice program.  This concert is conducted by Wind Ensemble Director Brad Hogarth. The concert also includes student conductor David Baker.

Saturday, April 9th, 7:30 PM and Sunday, April 10th, 2:00 PM
Historical Performance presents Handel’s Giulio Cesare

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George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare

Featuring vocalists from the Opera and Musical Theatre program, and instrumentalists from the Historical Performance program, the SFCM Historical Performance department presents Handel's operatic masterpiece of Cesar’s conquest of Egypt, and it’s queen, Cleopatra.

About the Historical Performance Program

Tuesday, April 12th, 7:30 PM
SFCM Chamber Music Tuesday feat. Faculty Ar

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Barbro Osher Recital Hall, 200 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA
Ute and William K. Bowes Jr. Center for Performing Arts

Program:
George Walker: “Lyric for Strings”
Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E-flat Major
Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major

The SFCM Chamber Music Tuesday series features SFCM faculty Eric Chin, Joseph Maile, Ian Swensen, Pei-Ling Lin and Dimitri Murrath in performance with students from the SFCM Chamber Music Program

Saturday, April 23, 7:30 PM
SFCM Orchestra with Edwin Outwater featuring SFCM Conservatory Chorus & SF Girls Chorus & SF Boys Chorus

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Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, 50 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA
Ann Getty Center for Education

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3

Edwin Outwater conducts the SFCM Orchestra as they conclude the season with Mahler’s longest and biggest symphony. The San Francisco Girls Chorus and San Francisco Boys Chorus join in this monumental collaboration, with members of the SFCM Conservatory Chorus, to celebrate the end of the orchestra season.
About Edwin Outwater

Sunday April 24th
RJAM & SFJAZZ Joe Henderson Festival Side-by-side at SFJAZZ

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Miner Auditorium at SFJAZZ, 201 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA

SFCM is proud to partner with SFJAZZ for this concert. The stellar faculty cast includes the SFCM Orchestra with Edwin Outwater, featuring members of the SFCM Conservatory Chorus, SF Girls Chorus & SF Boys Chorus, SFJAZZ Collective's Warren Wolf, David Sanchez, Edward Simon, and Matt Brewer, along with luminaries Joshua Redman, Carmen Bradford, Julian Lage, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, Matt Wilson and many others.

Thursday, April 28th, 7:30 PM and Friday, April 29th, 7:30 PM
SFCM Opera and Musical Theatre present The Enchanted Pig

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Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, 50 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA
Ann Getty Center for Education

Heather Mathews, stage director
Curt Pajer, conductor

The Enchanted Pig, 
A Musical Tale
Music by Jonathan Dove
Libretto by Alisdair Middleton

“Love makes you happy. Love makes you cruel”. It’s the old story – King goes off to war, tells his daughters not to go into a locked room containing the Book of Fate, daughters don’t listen and one of them ends up marrying a pig. Drawing on Romanian and Norwegian folk tales, this magical show, which has its trotters in the worlds of opera and musical theatre, has delighted audiences in the UK and USA since its premiere in 2006. SFCM cast to be announced. 

About SFCM Opera and Musical Theatre 

Tuesday, May 3rd, 7:30 PM 
SFCM Chamber Music Tuesday feat. Itamar Zorman

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Barbro Osher Recital Hall, 200 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA
Ute and William K. Bowes Jr. Center for Performing Arts

Program:
Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 12 in C minor, “Quartettsatz”

Dora Pejačević: Sonata for Violin & Piano in B-flat minor, “Slavonic”

William Grant Still: Lyric Quartette

Johannes Brahms: String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major

The Chamber Music Tuesday concert series concludes its inaugural season with award-winning Isreali violinist Itamar Zorman performing in chamber ensembles with SFCM students and faculty. Itamar is winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and the International Tchaikovsky Competition. This concert will also feature SFCM faculty Dimitri Murrath, Jennifer Culp, and Weicong Zhang.

About SFCM String and Piano Chamber Music

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