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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Eric Dudley Appointed as Music Director of the SFCM Orchestra
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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, …
Susanne Mentzer
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 …
Caroline Shaw Residency at SFCM
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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, …
News - More Than a Student Opera - Cosi fan tutte
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 …
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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 …
Borromeo String Quartet at SFCM
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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 …
Garrick Ohlsson at Piano
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 …
Works for Orchestra by Mason Bates
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Mason Bates - Works for Orchestra

March 28, 2016
Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony have released an exhilarating album of composer and SFCM faculty member  Mason Bates ' large-scale works for orchestra and electronica. These are the first-ever recordings of his  Liquid Interface   a …
David Taylor '17 Wins Highsmith Award
Composition composition

David Taylor '17 Wins Highsmith Award

March 28, 2016
SFCM has awarded its top composition prize, the annual Highsmith Award, to graduate student  David Taylor '17  for his piece  Within a Forest Dark.  Taylor is originally from New Zealand and studies with David Conte. Conte describes the piece as, "a very …
SFCM alumni on stage Avery Fisher Grants
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SFCM Alumni Win Avery Fisher Grants

March 28, 2016
On Tuesday, March 29 it will be announced that violinist Alexi Kenney (alumnus of SFCM's Pre-College Divison) and cellist Jay Campbell (SFCM Collegiate alumnus) are among the recipients of the  2016 Avery Fisher Career Grants.  The Avery Fisher Career …
Technology and Applied Composition Technology and Applied Composition

Inaugural TAC Studio Project Wins 3 Awards

March 28, 2016
The soundtrack for the game  Gathering Sky,  the work of SFCM TAC ( Technology and Applied Composition ) faculty member  Dren McDonald,   was one of the first outings for the TAC studio and utilized the state-of-the-art equipment in the studio's arsenal. …
Roots, Jazz, and American Music rjam

SFCM Honors Trustee William K. Bowes, Jr. and Announcements

April 12, 2016
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music celebrated its annual gala on March 21, honoring trustee  William K. Bowes, Jr .  The gala served as the announcement of the Conservatory's new, ground-breaking  Roots, Jazz, and American Music (RJAM)  program— the …
String and Piano Chamber Music trio

Trio Audace Wins Chamber Music Competition

April 29, 2016
A piano trio comprised of SFCM students Da Huang (violin), Edward Luengo (cello), and Ning Zhou (piano), received first prize at the 2016 Coltman Chamber Music Competition at Concordia University in Austin, Texas. Named after Austin Chamber Music Center …
Roots, Jazz, and American Music rjam

San Francisco Conservatory of Music Celebrates Annual Gala

April 29, 2016
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music celebrated its annual gala on March 21, honoring trustee  William K. Bowes, Jr . with Conservatory's inaugural honorary doctorate of humane letters. Co-chaired by trustees  Barbro Osher  and  Deepa Pakianathan , …
Michael Kropf Commissioned to Compose a Work for the 2016 Cabrillo Festival
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Michael Kropf Commissioned to Compose for 2016 Cabrillo Festival

April 29, 2016
Michael Kropf '16  has been commissioned to compose  Spinning Music,  an orchestral work to be premiered at the 2016  Cabrillo Festival . Through John Adams' Pacific Harmony Foundation, Maestro Marin Alsop and Mr. Adams (who taught at SFCM from 1972 until …
Jana Ma' 19 Wins KDFC Sound Logo Competition
Technology and Applied Composition composition

Jana Ma '19 Wins KDFC Sound Logo Competition

May 2, 2016
SFCM and San Francisco premiere classical radio station, KDFC, partnered to challenge students with a sound logo competition. A sound logo, the acoustic equivalent of a visual logo, is often used to reinforce brand recognition, and KDFC has committed to …