Program

Finn Roy
The Greenery of Winter  

Shengyuan Li
River    

009 Night
Midnight Falling    

Jacob Katz
City Rain    

Chloe Donovan 
After the Storm    

Oliver Wang
Styx    

Ian Alexander
The Woods    

Chanho Han
Moonlight Waltz    

Andrew Ellis
Постой Друг Мой (Wait My Friend)  

Anping Chen
Instant    

Imji Lim
Summer  

Sacha Feldman
Untitled  

Xander Johns
Wandering Knight    

About SFCM’s Technology and Applied Composition Department

Get ready for a career on the edge of art and technology. Since its inception only a few years ago, the Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) program has taken off like no one could have imagined. This highly exclusive course of study gives students a direct path into the worlds of film scoring, video game sound design, and other rewarding musical avenues. Featuring instruction from some of the most visible composers in the industry today, the TAC music degree readies you for a cutting-edge compositional life, bridging art and technology in the most dynamic ways imaginable.
 

About Daria Novoliantceva

Daria Novoliantceva (b. 1986) is a Russian composer, arranger and orchestrator working mainly in scoring for films and animation, as well as music for theater. Her original arrangements for a cappella choir have a special place in her work. Novo earned her master’s degree in choral conducting from the Saint Petersburg State Conservatory named after N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov in 2010. While studying at the Conservatory, she worked as a singer and arranger for the Saint-Petersburg Concert Choir conducted by Vladimir Begletsov, where she composed her first program of arrangements entitled “Forbidden Songs” (2008). Since 2013 Novo has held the position of orchestrator in residence for the St. Petersburg Theater of Musical Comedy. Novo has worked as an orchestrator alongside many famous russian film composers such as Ivan Burlyaev (Prizrak, Attraction), Maksim Koshevarov (“Young Guard”), Dmitry Noskov ("Quackerz"), Michail Chertischev (“Barboskiny”, “Luntik”). Daria Novo is the laureate of the Youth prize of St. Petersburg in the field of Art (2013). In 2017 she graduated from a Professional Study Diploma in Technology and Applied Composition at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In 2018 Novo was commissioned to write music for the highly anticipated world premiere of SF Ballet’s Choreographer in Residence Yuri Possokhov. Currently working at San Francisco Conservatory of Music as a recording engineer and music composition teacher.