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Voice Opera and Musical Theatre Program

SFCM Students Slay in 'A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder'

Despite its lethal premise, SFCM's latest Opera and Musical Theatre production delivered death with a lot of laughs, show tunes, and killer vocals.  The zany musical is about a penniless Monty Navarro (SFCM's Seth Hanson) who murders eight relatives, all …
SFCM's BSU prepares for its Feb. 24 concert.
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Black Student Union Lifts Up Student Composers and Collaborators from All Corners

It was appropriate that the SFCM Black Student Union's February 23 concert ended with a rendition of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," as the evening was an exercise in just that. BSU members Jay Hernandez and Adrian Jackson spearheaded this year's concert …
Hot air festival
Professional Development performances

Student-Run Hot Air Festival Takes off Again at SFCM

The  Hot Air Festival  once again touches down at SFCM March 3 with its multi-venue, day-long celebration of contemporary and expansive classical music.  In partnership with SFCM’s Professional Development team, the student-led festival will return for …
SFCM students on the first day of classes in 2023.

Student Affairs

As a professional school, SFCM is committed to providing an extraordinary education that prepares our graduates to pursue fully engaged lives as citizens of the world. Our core mission is to transform our students: artistically, intellectually, …
Jack Gao.
String and Piano Chamber Music competition

SFCM and Walter W. Naumburg Foundation Celebrate Partnership with Concert

It makes sense for a foundation aimed at identifying the best classical musicians in the world to partner with SFCM.  To that end, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music is inaugurating a new alliance with the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation with a concert …
Aaliyah Capili, Britton Fugazzi, Fabio Valery Villanova, Jennifer Redondas, Joshua Gordon, Lauryn Kurniawan, Lorenna Garcia.
Strings Violin Viola Trombone Technology and Applied Composition Bassoon Voice student life

My Life in Music: Seven Students Share Their Stories

Like the notes of a symphony, everyone's story in music is different—as is a student's journey to SFCM. The moments that led up to picking up an instrument that would change your life vary greatly, from five-year-old Joshua Gordon, whose mother gave him a …
Yuki Yokota and Joshua Choi
Professional Development opus 3 artists

Catching Up with the Inaugural Class of SFCM Interns at Opus 3 Artists

Two SFCM students walked out of the first SFCM Opus 3 Internship program with a deeper understanding of not just an artist-management company, but the music industry as a whole. Choi and Yokota were selected in December for the first-of-its-kind …
Daniel Woods with a student.
pre-college

SFCM Pre-College Program on Writing the Prelude to Success

Daniel Wood, SFCM's Chair of Musicianship and Composition for the Pre-College division , is a case study in saying "yes." After having subbed at the Conservatory, he took over teaching a musicianship class, and in short order expanded that to composition …
SFCM Grammy Nominations
Conducting Piano conducting

SFCM Faculty and Alum Take Home Gold at 'Music's Biggest Night'

Congratulations are in order for SFCM faculty member Awadagin Pratt and alum Teddy Abrams, both of whom took home GRAMMY Awards Sunday as part of "music's biggest night." Pratt, who teaches piano, picked up a statue for Best Contemporary Classical …
Lara Downes.
SFCM Orchestra orchestra

SFCM Orchestra Featured on Reimagined 'Rhapsody in Blue' Release

The music may be blue, but the orchestra was feeling anything but after recording a reimagined  Rhapsody in Blue  for the piece's 100th anniversary.  In addition to performing the reimagined rhapsody in concert in October (which was a sold-out success), …
Noah Sanchez
Trombone Composition

Meet A Student: Noah Sanchez

"I started playing in sixth grade, wind ensemble, but because I joined late, I didn't have an instrument in time, so the teacher let me use his flugelhorn, and so I started out on that. That led me to euphonium in seventh grade, and then I jumped to …
The cast of 'Dido & Aenas.'
Voice Opera and Musical Theatre Program opera

Undergrads Take the Stage for SFCM's Winter Term Operas

With the return of its undergraduate opera class to the school's Winter Term, SFCM is "at the forefront putting undergrads front and center," voice faculty  Rhoslyn Jones explains. While younger students "have a lot of opportunities here, to have a named …
From left: Cory Todd, Jason O'Connell and Emma Markowitz
Technology and Applied Composition recording services

Meet the Team that Records (Almost) Everything Played at SFCM

A week of recording at SFCM might see everything from a guest ensemble of traditional Chinese musicians to an array of synthesizers to a full-sized symphony orchestra, but the Conservatory's Recording Services department is more than up to the task. …