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SFCM's First Korean Club Sets Down Roots

February 20, 2023
By Alex Heigl San Francisco can be a lot to take in at first—especially if you're coming from South Korea. That's where SFCM's Korean Club founders Eugenia Coe and Alina Kwon come in.  "We have a lot of Korean students, both international and …
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Composition Conducting Grammys

SFCM Alliance Celebrates GRAMMY Wins

February 7, 2023
by Alex Heigl The San Francisco Conservatory of Music family is celebrating after music's biggest night. Mason Bates' Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra   was awarded the GRAMMY for Best Engineered Album in the classical category for …
Wonhee Bae and Matt Worth.
Voice / Opera Studies String and Piano Chamber Music chamber music

Matt Worth Marks First-Ever Vocalist at Chamber Music Tuesday with Wonhee Bae

February 6, 2023
By Alex Heigl It’s well Worth your time. SFCM voice faculty Matt Worth (baritone) is the first-ever vocalist featured in a Chamber Music Tuesday program on Feb. 7 , singing a Schubert lieder that dovetails with the centerpiece of the evening's other guest …

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Award-Winning Composer Jake Heggie Workshops New Opera at SFCM

January 30, 2023
By Mark Taylor He has been called “arguably the world's most popular 21st-century opera and art song composer,” and he spent part of January at SFCM workshopping a new work. Jake Heggie came to campus to workshop the brand new opera Intelligence, set to …
Jon Anderson's 'The Color of Love' at SFCM.
Opera and Musical Theatre musical theatre

SFCM Helps Prog-Rock Legend Jon Anderson Realize New Marc Chagall Musical

January 26, 2023
By Alex Heigl Legends from two very different mediums were onstage at SFCM in January, when former Yes frontman Jon Anderson's musical about the life of modernist painter Marc Chagall got a workshop courtesy of Opera and Musical Theater Chair Heather …
SFCM faculty Jeff Anderle and Jerome Simas.
Woodwinds Clarinet clarinet

SFCM Faculty Launch First-of-Its-Kind Bass Clarinet Summer Intensive

April 10, 2023
By Alex Heigl "For a long time, the bass clarinet was just a nothing, like auxiliary, the donkey of the orchestra," SFCM Woodwinds Chair Jeff Anderle jokes of his instrument. "But in the last like 10 or 20 years, it's really fully emerged; it's come out …
a performance of the consul at SFCM
Strings Violin Viola Double Bass Brass Horn Trumpet Tuba Trombone Conducting Composition Technology and Applied Composition Guitar Keyboard Piano Collaborative Piano Organ Percussion Roots, Jazz, and American Music Woodwinds Bassoon Clarinet Flute Oboe Voice / Opera Studies Harpsichord Historical Performance Harp Cello Academics Humanities and Sciences Music History and Literature Music Theory and Musicianship Professional Development String and Piano Chamber Music Baroque Ensemble Brass Chamber Ensemble SFCM Chorus Guitar Ensemble New Music Ensemble Opera and Musical Theatre SFCM Orchestra Percussion Ensemble Woodwind Chamber Music Improvisation Coaching and Excerpts Clarinet Ensemble Baroque Violin Baroque Viola Baroque Cello Viola da Gamba Historical Keyboards Baroque Voice Historical Plucked Strings Brass Choir Sfcm

A New Conservatory Model

April 7, 2023
In December 2022, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) announced —along with its existing partners Opus 3 Artists and Pentatone—that it would acquire the London-based artist management company Askonas Holt, thus growing its network in the …
SFCM students with their teacher at Davies Symphony Hall.
Strings Violin Eighth Note

SFCM Students Perform with San Francisco Symphony

April 6, 2023
Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 is known for many things, including its colossal closing movement, which now also includes a moment two SFCM students will never forget.  “I’m still shook from the bass drum in the last movement of the symphony,” said Suni …
Students meet with SFCM President David Stull in the Bowes Center.
Strings Violin Viola Double Bass Brass Horn Trumpet Tuba Trombone Conducting Composition Technology and Applied Composition Guitar Keyboard Piano Collaborative Piano Organ Percussion Roots, Jazz, and American Music Woodwinds Bassoon Clarinet Flute Oboe Voice / Opera Studies Harpsichord Historical Performance Harp Cello Academics Humanities and Sciences Music History and Literature Music Theory and Musicianship Professional Development String and Piano Chamber Music Baroque Ensemble Brass Chamber Ensemble SFCM Chorus Guitar Ensemble New Music Ensemble Opera and Musical Theatre SFCM Orchestra Percussion Ensemble Woodwind Chamber Music Improvisation Coaching and Excerpts Clarinet Ensemble Baroque Violin Baroque Viola Baroque Cello Viola da Gamba Historical Keyboards Baroque Voice Historical Plucked Strings Brass Choir David Stull

Pizza with the President

April 5, 2023
Though students are accustomed to hearing from their president at formal gatherings like convocation and commencement, it’s less often that they gather with one another for a casual catch-up. To meet more students and hear directly from them, SFCM …
bill luth, lara downes, david stull, donagh collins, sean hickey
Strings Violin Viola Double Bass Brass Horn Trumpet Tuba Trombone Conducting Composition Technology and Applied Composition Guitar Keyboard Piano Collaborative Piano Organ Percussion Roots, Jazz, and American Music Woodwinds Bassoon Clarinet Flute Oboe Voice / Opera Studies Harpsichord Historical Performance Harp Cello Academics Humanities and Sciences Music History and Literature Music Theory and Musicianship Professional Development String and Piano Chamber Music Baroque Ensemble Brass Chamber Ensemble SFCM Chorus Guitar Ensemble New Music Ensemble Opera and Musical Theatre SFCM Orchestra Percussion Ensemble Woodwind Chamber Music Improvisation Coaching and Excerpts Clarinet Ensemble Baroque Violin Baroque Viola Baroque Cello Viola da Gamba Historical Keyboards Baroque Voice Historical Plucked Strings Brass Choir kdfc

Can Classical Music End its Love Affair with Crisis?

April 3, 2023
By Beth Giudicessi This March, a panel of leading voices in classical music came together at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) to ask—and answer—daring questions about the future of the industry. “The classical music world, by its very …
students smile and wave on a trial in front of the golden gate bridge holding their instruments

Welcome to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music!

歡迎來到舊金山音樂學院   祝贺你被旧金山音乐学院录取! 在旧金山音乐学院，我们正在推进一种全新的音乐教育模式，为学生们建立一个有益的音乐职业生涯与终身学习的道路。凭借我们与艺术经纪公司Opus 3 和Askonas Holt 以及格莱美获奖唱片公司 Pentatone 的合作，连同我们享有盛誉的师资力量、设施以及在旧金山音乐中心的地理位置，没有一所音乐学院具有与之相当的能力来培养与定义21世纪的音乐家。 …
Jake Heggie
Strings Violin Viola Double Bass Brass Horn Trumpet Tuba Trombone Conducting Composition Technology and Applied Composition Guitar Keyboard Piano Collaborative Piano Organ Percussion Roots, Jazz, and American Music Woodwinds Bassoon Clarinet Flute Oboe Voice / Opera Studies Harpsichord Historical Performance Harp Cello Academics Humanities and Sciences Music History and Literature Music Theory and Musicianship Professional Development String and Piano Chamber Music Baroque Ensemble Brass Chamber Ensemble SFCM Chorus Guitar Ensemble New Music Ensemble Opera and Musical Theatre SFCM Orchestra Percussion Ensemble Woodwind Chamber Music Improvisation Coaching and Excerpts Clarinet Ensemble Baroque Violin Baroque Viola Baroque Cello Viola da Gamba Historical Keyboards Baroque Voice Historical Plucked Strings Brass Choir jake heggie

SFCM Announces Acclaimed Composer Jake Heggie as 2023 Commencement Speaker

March 30, 2023
Hailed by the Associated Press as "one of the pre-eminent contemporary opera composers," Jake Heggie will speak and headline as part of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s (SFCM) 2023 commencement exercises on May 19 at the Herbst Theater in San …
David Russell (right) with an SFCM guitarist.
Guitar guitar

Guitarist David Russell Visits SFCM for Rare Teaching Residency

March 29, 2023
By Alex Heigl "I see myself as a sharp injection of enthusiasm," guitarist David Russell says of how he approached his weeklong teaching residency at SFCM in March. And that enthusiasm was reciprocated by students at faculty at the Conservatory, given …