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Topping Out Ceremony

  … Tour Opportunities As we near the grand opening of the Bowes Center, we will periodically be offering opportunities to see the building virtually and in person. We look forward to sharing our new home for music with you! Students, prospective students …
Zhenwei Shi
Viola viola

Success on the Audition Circuit

November 14, 2019
San Francisco Conservatory of Music graduates are no strangers to jobs in top orchestras around the country, but landing such a job right out of school? That’s the chance of a lifetime. Last November, 24-year-old Zhenwei Shi ’19 won the position of …
Sam Marshal with PSD student Eliza Carrington
Technology and Applied Composition composition

“Concrete Genie” Composer Coaches SFCM Students and Alumni

November 11, 2019
A video game composer and member of the music department at Sony Interactive Entertainment since 2013, and a mentor to aspiring video game composers at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Marshall emphasizes that starting over is just part of the …
Bowes Center
bowes center

Bowes Center Update | February 2020

February 6, 2020
The newest addition to campus doubles SFCM’s physical space, provides dorm room housing for 420 students, which are sound-proof suites so students can practice on site, plus brings state-of-the-art teaching facilities and three new performance halls to …
Michelle Sung
Flute flute

Flutist Michelle Sung’s (M.M. ‘20) life with Focal Dystonia

January 23, 2020
“Keep your eyes on the prize,” say coaches because seeing the finish line helps the journey feel easier. But how do you finish a race when you don’t know where the finish line is? Or worse—if the finish line even exists? This bleak uncertainty was flutist …
Student jumping up in excitement while outside
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Yes, you can live in San Francisco on a student budget

April 14, 2020
By Karen Meurer Bacellar It’s no secret that San Francisco is an expensive city to live in. What often does feel like a secret is this: It’s totally possible to live in San Francisco on a budget—even a student one. Below are some things to do that allow …
Musical Theatre Students Performing on a balloon filled stage
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Performance Opportunities at SFCM

April 14, 2020
SFCM presents over 500 performances a year collectively attended by more than 26,000 people . Students perform in solo recitals, large and small ensemble concerts, fully staged operas and musical theater productions. While performance opportunities vary …
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Conducting conducting

Edwin Outwater Appointed Music Director Ending Two-Year Search

April 9, 2020
“ Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed…enriched, ennobled, encouraged – they then act in a way that may affect the course of events… ” –Leonard Bernstein In the past two decades, savvy classical …
Chasiti Walker sitting in front of SF City Hall
Voice / Opera Studies voice

Met Opera National Council Audition Finalist Chasiti Walker ‘20

April 6, 2020
By Karen Meurer Bacellar Before sheltering-in-place became the new normal, Chasiti Walker (MM ‘19; PGD ‘20) had the chance to sing on the Metropolitan Opera stage as a finalist in the company’s National Council Auditions, a premiere competition for …
Simon James with violin made by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume in 1827
Violin violin

Rare Violin Connects generations of students across the Country

December 11, 2019
The classical music world is small, intimate even. Over a musician’s lifetime, it’s typical to bump into old colleagues or friends from school or summer festivals or professional engagements in different ensembles, concerts, and even airport lines. But …
Elbphilharmonie
piano

Danke schön, Hamburg

December 9, 2019
The game—nay, the challenge —was posed to a jet-lagged yet surprisingly chipper delegation of SFCM trustees, donors, and staff who, in November, accompanied three of SFCM’s distinguished piano faculty and head technician to Hamburg, Germany, on a quest to …
Meredith Kufchak
Viola viola

Meredith Kufchak ’16 Wins Principal Viola at Dallas Symphony

December 9, 2019
The road to becoming the Principal Viola of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra took Meredith Kufchak ’16 on a journey of thousands of miles across the United States. And she didn’t win just one job; she won three. From her hometown of Columbus, Ohio, where she …
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国际学生 - 如何申请入学

国际学生 - 如何申请入学 我们的学生来自世界各地，为我校的协作环境贡献了丰富的思想，天赋才华，风俗，和各文化种背景。我们有着约460人的学生群体，他们来自34个国家，35个州，说着20种余不同的语言。超过百分之40的学生为国际学生。 英文语言能力 母語不是英語的學生必須繳交托福、雅思的成績或ELS語言中心的證書，才能達到入讀音樂院的英文水平標準。 以下时间表含秋季入学招生的重要截止日期。春季入学的申请人请参照单独的截止日期指南。 12月1日 …
Martin Katz
Collaborative Piano artist in residence

Martin Katz in for Ten Artist-in-Residence Visits in 2020-21

December 4, 2019
Hailed by the New York Times as “the gold standard of accompanists” Martin Katz’s list of frequent collaborators reads as a who’s-who of opera stars: Marilyn Horne, Frederica von Stade , Kathleen Battle, Kiri Te Kanawa, Cecilia Bartoli, and Jose Carreras, …
Ballet on Point
Collaborative Piano ballet

Ballet Piano – On Point

November 26, 2019
Last January, when pianist Geoffrey Lee (MM ‘20) heard about a SFCM winter term course in Ballet accompaniment, he had no idea he’d be asked to step out on the dance floor in a room full of mirrors to practice pliés and arabesques —words he barely knew …