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sfcm grammy award nominations
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SFCM Faculty Nominated for GRAMMY Awards

By Mark Taylor The so-called “biggest night in music” will once again feature SFCM talent. Nominations for the 65th annual GRAMMY Awards include musical works by SFCM Roots, Jazz and American Music Artistic Director Joshua Redman , Professor of …
meta4, tac students
Technology and Applied Composition Technology and Applied Composition

TAC Students and Finnish String Quartet Meta4 Fight Climate Change with Music

By Alex Heigl Climate change is an unfortunate reality of life in the 21st-century. And as with every "new normal," musicians are rising to the challenge of processing this with their art. In fact, Finnish string quartet and Opus 3 Artists Meta4 made an …
emerging black composers project
emerging black composers project

Applications Now Open for 2023 Emerging Black Composers Project

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM), in partnership with the San Francisco Symphony , announced today that applications are now open for the third annual Emerging Black Composers Project (EBCP). The San Francisco Symphony, led by Music Director …
Edwin Outwater, Michael Myers, Simon James and Jack Nicholson.
Conducting Strings edwin outwater

The SFCM Guide to Horror Movie Music

By Alex Heigl If you're looking for classical musicians with a pedigree in horror, SFCM's Music Director Edwin Outwater and String Department Chair Simon James should be at the top of your list. As a violinist, James has played on the score of dozens of …
Brad Hogarth (Credit: Hardy Wilson)
Woodwinds woodwinds

NASCAR, the Blues and Queen Mary Meet in Wind Ensemble Concert

Where can you find music about NASCAR, the blues and Queen Mary, all in one program? Turns out, the answer is the SFCM Wind Ensemble's fall concert. Taking place Nov. 10, the evening's program is a conscious attempt by the ensemble's director Brad Hogarth …
Michael Abels
Technology and Applied Composition Technology and Applied Composition

Award-Winning Film Composer Michael Abels Visits SFCM

From the first note in the opening credits of the Oscar-winning film Get Out , audiences are introduced to a sound they may have never heard before: something composer Michael Abels has dubbed “gospel horror.” That dark, unique sound—and Abel's …
Philharmonia Fantastique
Composition composition

SFCM Professor’s 'Philharmonia Fantastique' Premieres on Apple TV

By Mark Taylor It is being described as the "biggest step forward since Fantasia itself." And the composer himself is calling it very much an SFCM “homegrown project.”  SFCM professor and composer Mason Bates ' Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the …
SFCM RJAM students perform at SFJazz.
Roots, Jazz, and American Music roots jazz and american music

Jazz's Past Meets Its Future at SFJAZZ and SFCM Side-By-Side Concert

By Alex Heigl With his one-of-a-kind musical—and sartorial—style and aura of inscrutable hipness, pianist/composer Thelonious Monk has been an object of endless fascination for generations of jazz fans and musicians. That includes the one currently …
Ian Swensen Jonathan Swensen
Strings Violin performance

SFCM’s Ian Swensen Performs with Nephew in First Ever Joint Concert

There is coming from a musical family and then there is coming from the Swensen family, where music truly is a family affair.  With a world-class clarinet player as a father and a talented pianist as a mother, violinist Ian Swensen and his two siblings …
Marco Behtash Scott Pingel.
Strings Double Bass alumni success

SFCM Grad Joins Prestigious London Conservatory Faculty

It’s the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, and playing one is no easy task, let alone teaching it. But SFCM graduate Marco Behtash is preparing for a lifetime of both after being officially appointed to …
Yuja Wang SFCM
Piano press release

Pianist Yuja Wang to Headline SFCM Fundraiser on November 17

SFCM is pleased to announce critically acclaimed and world-renowned pianist Yuja Wang as the headline performer at its annual fundraising celebration on November 17, part of efforts that will enable 100% of full-time students at SFCM to receive merit aid …