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SFCM Professor Chosen for National Mentoring Program

Composition Chair David Conte has been picked to be part of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Mentoring Program for Composers. This unique mentoring opportunity for emerging and early career art song composers aims to promote and …

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Instructor Ian Swensen: Six Things Every Musician Should Know

By Mark Taylor Ian Swensen knows his strings. The violin player has been teaching at SFCM for decades after starting out as a child prodigy from a very musically talented family. A world class clarinet player as a father, and an exceptionally talented …

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Historic Met Opera Performance: How SFCM Played a Part

By Mark Taylor On opening night, “ Fire Shut Up In My Bones ,” received a nearly eight minute standing ovation, and one SFCM professor and musician was there playing a part in the historic performance at the NYC Metropolitan Opera house. Not only was it …

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SFCM Alumnus Teddy Abrams Wins ‘Conductor of the Year’

By Mark Taylor Maestro Teddy Abrams has been named ‘Conductor of the Year’ for 2022 by America’s oldest classical music magazine, Musical America . The maestro graduated from SFCM at the age of 18 with a Bachelor of Music and, after furthering his musical …

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SFCM Alumnus Returns for Chamber Music Tuesday

By Mark Taylor SFCM Chamber Music Tuesdays allows chamber music majors to perform with world-renowned guest artists. The series is led and curated by SFCM Chair of String and Piano Chamber Music, Dimitri Murrath . Ahead of the concert, we get to know SFCM …

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Remembering longtime SFCM Supporter Nancy Bechtle

Well-known arts patron, maven of causes, and generous supporter Nancy Hellman Bechtle died this week at age 83. Bechtle and her husband, Joachim, joined SFCM’s board in 1973. She was also honorary co-chair for SFCM’s Spring 2017 Gala and the Bechtles were …

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SFCM Violinist to Perform on NPR

By Mark Taylor It’s the most popular one-hour weekly syndicated classical program on public radio and this month it will feature SFCM violin player Yvette Kraft. “This show is definitely an exciting first for me!” Kraft said of her upcoming performance on …

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Celebrating 30 Years at SFCM: Catching up with Professor Nikolaus Hohmann

By Mark Taylor You emigrated to the Bay area from Germany as a child? I arrived in California’s Bay area as a 9-year-old, I was expecting more palm trees, and a warmer surf! What brought you to America? My mother was a teen in Interwar Germany, and had …

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Sonic Bloom: From Plant to Production

If plants could talk, what would they say? What would they sound like? That’s a question Jess Konye is trying to answer, using music and a lot of technology. The second year Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) student at SFCM has created a music …

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SFCM Baroque Orchestra Brings Back the Classics With a New Twist

By Mark Taylor On October 31st, the SFCM Baroque Orchestra will present a historical performance unlike any other. Viola da gamba and Baroque cello instructor Elisabeth Reed helped direct the show that brings together a variety of classics, and a few …

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SFCM to Host Fifth Biennial Rubin Institute for Music Criticism

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, OCTOBER 25, 2021—The fifth biennial Stephen and Cynthia Rubin Institute for Music Criticism will take part in June 16-20, 2022—the first time the Institute will be held in the spring and the first time it will be hosted at the San …

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Off with a Bang! Big Band Debuts at SFCM

By Mark Taylor One new ensemble at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music has students more than jazzed about being a part of its inaugural semester. It’s called Big Band. The Roots, Jazz, and American Music (RJAM) ensemble pulls nearly a dozen different …

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San Francisco Conservatory of Music and National Brass Ensemble Announce Live Concert, Recording Project, and Student Summer Academy

San Francisco, CA— The San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) is pleased to announce a new collaboration project with the National Brass Ensemble (NBE), which will include a live concert, recording event, and National Brass Ensemble Summer Academy for …

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Taking on a Tchaikovsky Solo

It has been called the biggest horn solo in orchestral horn history and this weekend graduate student Henry Nordhorn will perform it for the first time with the SFCM Orchestra . For horn players, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 immediately …

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Ray Chen on Perspective, Performance, and Playing

By Mark Taylor He has been described as a violinist who redefines what it means to be a classical musician in the 21st Century. Born in Taiwan, and raised in Australia, Ray Chen started playing violin at age 4, and was accepted into Curtis Institute of …

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