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SFCM Hosts Concert with Special Guest Angela Davis November 4
October 18, 2016
Cello
Strings
cello
Cellist to Attend Piatigorsky Festival
November 17, 2015
With 26 internationally known cellists, performances by the Emerson String Quartet, Calder String Quartet, the LA Phil, and an orchestra of 100 cellos, the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival is one of the world’s biggest musical events devoted to …
Guitar
guitar
SFCM to Host Biasini Guitar Competition and Festival in January
November 21, 2015
SFCM will host the Third International Maurizio Biasini Guitar Competition and Festival , an event celebrating the tradition and proclaiming the future of classical guitar, from January 14 to 17. The biennial competition marks its first visit to the …
Composition
Piano
composition
SFCM's American Prize Winners
November 24, 2015
SFCM was extraordinarily well represented this year among winners of the American Prize , a series of national competitions spanning musical categories. Faculty member David Garner ’79 (pictured) won first prize in the chamber music composition …
Technology and Applied Composition
tac
TAC Students Learn From Pros at SFCM Game Scoring Session
November 24, 2015
If Mozart or Beethoven were alive today, instead of conducting their music from concert hall podiums, they’d likely be sitting in front of a 32-channel Neve Console, directing session players through talkback, and making sure the engineer captured a clean …
Woodwinds
Oboe
Clarinet
woodwind
Symphony and Opera Principals Join Woodwind Faculty
December 11, 2015
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music announces the appointment of two principal artists from the San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Opera Orchestra to its woodwind faculty. Carey Bell, principal clarinet with the San Francisco Symphony, and …
Piano
piano
SFCM Appoints New Piano Faculty
December 22, 2015
SFCM is expanding its piano faculty with the appointment of two distinguished artists, Jon Nakamatsu and Corey McVicar. In addition, the Conservatory has named legendary pianist Leon Fleisher as artist-in-residence for the coming academic year. Beginning …
Guitar
guitar
Alum Marries Guitar and Voice
January 8, 2016
Guitarist John Britton ’12 has released an arrangement of Shubert’s famously dark Lied, Erlkönig, with a Canadian publishing house as a teaser for a larger anthology of music for voice and guitar. The recent graduate is on something of a quest to …
orchestra
Eric Dudley Appointed as Music Director of the SFCM Orchestra
February 4, 2016
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music announced the appointment of Grammy-winning musician and conductor Eric Dudley as music director of the SFCM Orchestra for the 2016–17 academic year. Scott Sandmeier, music director of the SFCM Orchestra since 2013, …
Voice / Opera Studies
Opera and Musical Theatre
voice
Mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer joins SFCM Voice Faculty
February 8, 2016
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music announces the appointment of renowned singer, writer and educator Susanne Mentzer to its voice faculty. “We are thrilled to have internationally acclaimed American mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer join our voice …
Composition
composition
Caroline Shaw Residency at SFCM
February 16, 2016
Caroline Shaw, recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in music for her work Partita for 8 Voices, will be in residence at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in March 2016. Shaw, who recently performed as soloist in Lo, a violin concerto she wrote, …
Voice / Opera Studies
Opera and Musical Theatre
opera
More Than a "Student Opera" - Così fan tutte
February 18, 2016
Given the opportunity to mount their own opera, SFCM vocal students have taken the bull by the horns. "These are roles that we wanted to sing, and we did our research and it turns out that there are quite a few opera companies mounting Così in their …
winter term
Creating a Space to Grow - Winter Term at SFCM
February 24, 2016
“Look at the most exciting things happening in the music world today, those ideas can usually be traced back to a time when the originators were in school and had the courage to pursue an idea from its beginning.” —Provost & Dean Kate Sheeran SFCM’s …
String and Piano Chamber Music
Violin
Viola
Cello
Strings
chamber music
Borromeo String Quartet at SFCM
March 3, 2016
The award-winning Borromeo String Quartet, an ensemble hailed for its "edge-of-the-seat performances" by the Boston Globe, which called it "simply the best there is," will be in residence at SFCM, March 14–17. Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, the …
Piano
piano
Garrick Ohlsson at Commencement
March 9, 2016
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music will grant Garrick Ohlsson , long regarded as one of the world's leading exponents of the music of Frédéric Chopin, the honorary degree of Doctor of Music at this year's commencement ceremony on May 20, 2016. The …