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Yuja Wang at SFCM

March 10, 2023
By Mark Taylor She has been called “possibly the most famous pianist on the planet,” whose concerts elicit gasps from the audience for her “ scintillating pianism, her fabulous gowns, and her adventurous spirit ”—and that was before her historic, marathon …
The Canadian Brass.
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The Best Takeaways from the SFCM Masterclass by Canadian Brass

March 8, 2023
By Alex Heigl SFCM hosted the world-famous Canadian Brass for a February residency that that featured a masterclass and a side-by-side performance with some of the Conservatory's brass students February 23. The group is represented by Opus 3 Artists, the …
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 bowes center

Living on Campus: Seven Students Share their Stories

March 6, 2023

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SFCM Media Relations and Strategic Communications Through our team of internal writers and editors, media and public relations veterans and a creative team, we tell and share the stories of one of the most prestigious music conservatories in the country. …
Jake Heggie
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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 …
SFCM faculty Jeff Anderle and Jerome Simas.
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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 …