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Songfest 2022 Concerts San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Bowes Center Festival Information: songfestus@gmail.com • https://www.songfest.us/ concerts-2022 Ticketing Information: boxoffice@sfcm.edu • 415-503-6275 on Monday-Friday 10a-4pm   The health and …
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SF Ballet Orchestra and SFCM Tango in Joint Concert

You might call it a concert two years in the making. SFCM teamed up with musicians from the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra (SFBO) for a performance featuring winners from SFCM Concerto Competitions previously put on hold due to the pandemic.  Daniel Tan, …
SFCM clarinet performance and TAC student Eugenia Coe.
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New TAC Student Arrives From a Surprising Place: Clarinet Performance

By Alex Heigl While a clarinet might initially seem a little out of place among the massive speakers and mixing boards in SFCM’s state-of-the-art Studio G, Eugenia Coe is working to change that.  Coe finishes her undergrad as a clarinetist in 2022 and …
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SFCM’s Lennie Moore Breaks Down the Sounds of ‘Star Wars’

By Alex Heigl Few movie franchises have had as much an impact on the way we think about the future as Star Wars . And the sounds of the screeching TIE fighters, humming lightsabers and Darth Vader’s ominous breath are inextricable from John Williams’ …
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PG&E Power Outage Cancels Events at Ann Getty Center

Due to Pacific Gas and Electric outages in our neighborhood, SFCM will be canceling all events at the Ann Getty Center scheduled after 2pm PT today, Thursday, July 28, 2022. We expect power to be restored to the building by 7pm PT this evening and for all …
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SFCM Guitar Professor to Perform Three World Premieres in Chile

By Mark Taylor It’s a project more than five years in the making—and it’s taking one SFCM professor to one of the southernmost parts of the world to perform. Musician David Tanenbaum is conducting the National Guitar Ensemble of Chile in world premieres …
Shanghai exchange students at SFCM.
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SFCM Featured in TV Series ‘Sister Cities’

Music is a barrier-breaking universal language, and today SFCM students come from all over the world to study music, but it wasn’t always that way.  It started with just five students back in 1981, the year after San Francisco and Shanghai's Sister City …
Donato Cabrera and the California Symphony. (Credit: Kristen Loken)
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Six SFCM Grads and Alumni Win California Symphony Spots

By Alex Heigl The California Symphony is beginning to look like an SFCM reunion. Six recent grads and alumni scored wins with the nearly 40-year-old symphony orchestra, under the leadership of Music Director Donato Cabrera since 2013. Alexandra Simpson …
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What 'Stranger Things' Gets Right About Music Therapy

By Mark Taylor “Music reaches parts of the brain words can't.” That line, exclaimed during a pivotal new episode of Netflix’s Stranger Things may be used to further the plot of the imagined storyline, but it turns out it's based very much in reality. The …
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On the Record: A Deep Dive on SFCM’s New Label, Pentatone

By Alex Heigl It can be hard to know where to dive in with a back catalog as impressive as PENTATONE’s, but that’s where Sean Hickey comes in. Appointed the head of the label—now a part of the groundbreaking alliance between SFCM and management company …
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SFCM Faculty Speak on the Fillmore District, Where Jazz Bloomed in San Francisco

“The Harlem of the West” was a big nickname, but the Fillmore District earned it. During jazz’s commercial peak in the 1950s and ‘60s, the San Francisco neighborhood was home to a bustling array of jazz venues, attracting some of the genre’s top talents …
SFCM guitar instructor Meng Su.
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Guitarist Meng Su Scores 2nd Baker Artist Award

By Alex Heigl Congratulations are in order for SFCM guitar instructor Meng Su, who has been awarded the 2022 Mary Sawyers Baker Prize for music by the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance and the William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund. "Very honored to receive …