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SFCM to Offer Bachelor of Music Concentrations

A change is coming for some SFCM graduates and their transcripts. Starting in fall 2022, the Conservatory will offer optional bachelor of music concentrations in arts leadership, teaching, and technology. SFCM strives to educate students to succeed in …

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First-Ever SFCM Class Merges Jazz with Baroque

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Music Conservatories Across North America Present Virtual Concert to Benefit Ukraine

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SFCM mourns the loss of Carol F. Buck

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SFCM Student to Perform in Europe After Winning International Competition

By Alex Heigl For SFCM student Lavinia Chen, the road to one of Europe’s most iconic concert halls started in childhood. But it was her recent first-prize win in the 2022 International Grand Prize Virtuoso Music Competition that sealed the deal. And she …

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Sound the Horn: How the National Brass Ensemble Returned to SFCM

By Alex Heigl The journey to bring brass musicians from seven major US cities together began with a single album. The 1968 album The Antiphonal Music Of Gabrieli , featuring principal brass from the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the …

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The Composition of Music Criticism: The Rubin Institute Returns To SFCM

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12-Year-Old Pre-College Phenom Performs with Seattle Symphony

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Recording at Skywalker Sound: SFCM Gets an Inside Look

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PG&E Power Outage Cancels Events at Ann Getty Center

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TAC Student's Studies Take Them to Prestigious Parisian ‘Sound Institute’

By Alex Heigl Located next to Paris’ world-famous Centre Pompidou, the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM), is a forward-thinking research center dedicated to avant-garde and electro-acoustic music—and it's where Jenna Flohr …

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SFCM Guitar Professor to Perform Three World Premieres in Chile

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SFCM Featured in TV Series ‘Sister Cities’

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Masterclass: Oboist Frank Rosenwein Talks Powdered Wigs and Finding Your Spark

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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Student Blog: The Formula of Live Performance

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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

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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 …