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Technology and Applied Composition Executive Director Steven Horowitz.
Technology and Applied Composition Technology and Applied Composition

SFCM Faculty Nominated for Game Audio Network Guild Award

January 15, 2025
If you’re interested in creating music for video games, SFCM faculty wrote the book on it, literally.   The Executive Director of SFCM’s  Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) Program  Steven Horowitz was nominated for Best Game Audio Article or …
San Francisco's Castro District (Credit: Dale Cruse)
Voice / Opera Studies Humanities and Sciences Professional Development winter term

SFCM’s Winter Term Brings San Francisco’s Nature, Art, and Activism into Focus

January 13, 2025
The San Francisco Bay Area has no shortage of hidden treasures, and SFCM’s 2025 Winter Term is showcasing enough of them to last a lifetime. The school’s annual Winter Term is a chance for students to explore areas outside of their usual academic work: …
David Sánchez (Credit: Nino Fernandez).
Roots, Jazz, and American Music roots jazz and american music

RJAM Professor Receives National Jazz Education Network Award

January 10, 2025
Roots, Jazz, and American Music (RJAM) Department Professor David Sánchez has been named as the 2025 LeJENd of Latin Jazz Award Recipient by the Jazz Education Network (JEN), an organization of educators and musicians dedicated to the music. Sánchez has …
Continuing Education student and attorney Danny Kim.
continuing education

Counsel vs Concertos: Attorney Balances Law and Melody

January 8, 2025
From legal briefs to musical sheets, he’s fluent in both As a legal counsel, Danny Kim’s principal area of practice is complex commercial litigation, but at SFCM, his area of practice is the piano. “Music is important to me because it allows me to …
Amithav Gautham
Roots, Jazz, and American Music roots jazz and american music

RJAM Guitarist Showcased in CBS Clip of Bay Area Indian Blues Musicians

January 6, 2025
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music is feeling a little blue in 2025—and that's a good thing. Roots, Jazz, and American Music (RJAM) Department freshman Amithav Gautham was recently featured in a video piece by CBS Bay Area news reporter Devin …
From left: Michael Tilson Thomas, Lara Downes, Joshua Bell, and Joyce DiDonato
opus 3 artists

Celebrating the Biggest Musical Moments at SFCM in 2024

December 20, 2024
Should auld performances be forgot… that’s what the internet is for. As SFCM turns the calendar to another year, the Newsroom is looking back on a busy year for the Conservatory and its students, who celebrated everything from new immersive concert hall …
SFCM's Catherine Cook shares the stage with Monét X Change.
Voice / Opera Studies opera

Drag, Drama, Comedy, Combine in Historic Opera with SFCM’s Catherine Cook

December 18, 2024
Technically, the world of opera isn’t a stranger to gender-bending roles with sopranos and mezzos in so-called “trouser” or “pants” roles—but nothing quite like this.  SFCM’s Chair of  Voice and Opera Studies   Catherine Cook performed with drag queen and …
'Meow and Forever.'
Opera and Musical Theatre winter term

Winter Term Undergrad Opera Wins National Opera Association Award

December 13, 2024
  SFCM voice faculty Rhoslyn Jones ’ staging of Jodi Goble’s Meow and Forever has been recognized as part of the 2023/24 National Opera Association Opera Production Competition. Twenty-one judges spent over 300 hours viewing the total submissions—and …
Collage of artists performing during SFCM's Spring 2025 season.
season announcement

SFCM Announces Spring 2025 Schedule of Live Performances

December 16, 2024
Sign up for Event Updates As we start a new season, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) is pleased to announce its spring concert series, featuring several exciting collaborations and concerts designed to dazzle audiences. SFCM puts on more …
Arjun Verma.

Sitarist Holds Pre-College Workshop on Indian Music

December 9, 2024
  Students in SFCM’s Pre-College were treated to an October workshop by Bay Area sitarist Arjun K. Verma , whose teaching lineage can be traced to Ali Akbar Khan, arguably the most famous Indian musician in the States other than Ravi Shankar. Verma has …
SFCM Opera and Musical Theatre 2024
Opera and Musical Theatre opera and musical theatre

SFCM Gets Groovy with ‘Così fan tutte’

December 4, 2024
It’s an effervescent and humorous tale of putting young love to the test, now taken to a far-out era of peace and love. SFCM Opera and Musical Theatre department delivered two (sold-out) performances of  Così fan tutte  in November—with the new twist of …
EBCP 2025
emerging black composers project

Emerging Black Composers Project Soars with New Birdsong Partnership

November 21, 2024
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) and  Birdsong Music Publishing have entered into an exciting new partnership that will further the goal of advancing the careers of young Black composers and their music. Starting in 2024 all competition …
Smart Start Early Childhood
pre-college

Smart Start: A Closer Look at SFCM's Youngest Maestros

November 20, 2024
To a young child, music can strum the strings of a developing brain, tuning it for a lifetime of discovery.  It's something Yulia Iskandar takes to heart when she brings her two sons, six-year-old Savva and eight-year-old Tioma, to SFCM every Saturday for …
Michael Tilson Thomas at SFCM.
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Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts Inspiring Coaching Session at SFCM

November 18, 2024
For students under the baton of Professor Michael Tilson Thomas, every note becomes a masterclass in brilliance.   “I was in shock for the entire reading, unable to fully comprehend the legend standing in front of me!" Zoe Yost, an SFCM viola student …