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Edwin Outwater, Michael Myers, Simon James and Jack Nicholson.
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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 …
SFCM's Bowes Center.
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SFCM's Bowes Center Scoops Up Two More Architectural Awards

SFCM's groundbreaking Bowes Center continues to rack up awards for its architecture on the international stage, nabbing two awards in the 2022 Architecture MasterPrize competition. Submitted by the building's design firm,  Mark Cavagnero Associates , The …
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 …
Brad Hogarth (Credit: Hardy Wilson)
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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 …
Catherine Cook in Rossini’s “Barber of Seville.” (Credit: Stefan Cohen)
Voice opera

SFCM's Catherine Cook Awarded Medal by San Francisco Opera

The San Francisco Opera recognized three of its sturdiest pillars Sunday, awarding the SFO Medal to SFCM's Frederica Von Stade Distinguished Chair in Voice Catherine Cook —along with bass-baritones Philip Skinner and Dale Travis—for over 30 years of …
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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 …
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Keyboard Professional Studies Certificate Curriculum

Life isn’t an audition. Any music school can make you a better player. Our interconnected courses are built to transform you intellectually, artistically, professionally, and individually. You’ll understand the roots of your music, freeing you to take it …

Guitar Professional Studies Certificate Curriculum

Life isn’t an audition. Any music school can make you a better player. Our interconnected courses are built to transform you intellectually, artistically, professionally, and individually. You’ll understand the roots of your music, freeing you to take it …
Susanne Mentzer Mozart
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SFCM’s Susanne Mentzer Performs Mozart in Japan

By Mark Taylor It’s considered one of the greatest operas ever written, but for Susanne Mentzer , Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro also occupies a special place in her heart, and her career.  The voice professor and mezzo-soprano just performed in the famed …
bowes center
bowes center

Bowes Center Honored with Coveted Architecture Award

If it could, the Bowes Center should take a bow itself. The 12-story building was selected as one winner of the prestigious 2022 International Architecture Awards in the category for Museums and Cultural Buildings.    Designed by Mark Cavagnero, of Mark …