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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 …
A photo of a student in class at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music

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 …
SFCM Students
season

San Francisco Conservatory of Music 2019-20 Season

June 27, 2019
San Francisco Conservatory of Music 2019-20 Season “Music and Nature” SEASON HIGHLIGHTS SFCM Ensembles Led by Eminent Conductors Including Nicole Paiement, Edwin Outwater, Joseph Young, Steven Schick, Christopher Rountree, and others Opera Productions …
Handel Aria Competition Winners
Guitar Voice / Opera Studies Opera and Musical Theatre Violin Strings pre-college

SFCM Students and Alumni Shine in Competitions

June 13, 2019
Several SFCM alumni and a current student have recently been the recipients of some top prizes on the competition circuit. Soprano Morgan Balfour ’18 came in first place at the 7th Annual Handel Aria Competition, held on June 7 at the University of …
Women in Classical Music Panelists
Strings Academics Humanities and Sciences Violin

SFCM Faculty Lead Public Panel on Women and Music

June 4, 2019
The discussion surrounding women’s roles in classical music—their representation among the ranks of orchestras, the differences between the musical landscape of yesteryear and today and the hurdles that still must be crossed—is one that has recently seen …
Evan Pengra Sult
Woodwinds Flute

Get to Know Evan Pengra Sult ’19

June 3, 2019
“I thought the flute and the violin had the prettiest sounds, and I was going to play one of those,” remembers Seattle native Evan Pengra Sult. “My dad thought that the flute probably sounded better when it was played badly, so my parents said, ‘Let’s go …
SFCM Alumni at Burning Man Festival

Alumni Bring More Heat to Burning Man

September 11, 2019
Three years ago, Courtney Wise ’12 and collaborator Robert Dekkers had a vision to bring together two of the most revolutionary experiences of their respective times: the controlled chaos of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and the unbridled structure of …
Jaz Sawyer
Percussion pre-college

Drummer Takes Off-Beat Path to Success

September 27, 2019
Jaz Sawyer is Bay Area through and through. He started playing drums as a young boy at Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco. “I learned under the maestro and legendary choir and music director John Turk,” recalls Sawyer. “He and the …
Violinist, Simon James against a wall with his violin
Violin

Simon James: Perfectly Practiced in Every Way

September 10, 2019
The traditional model of a conservatory education resembles the lather, rinse, repeat directions on a shampoo bottle: practice, lesson, repeat. Effective though formulaic and vocational in nature, the approach places students on a trajectory towards the …
Alton Sato KDFC Sound Logo Winner 2019
Technology and Applied Composition Technology and Applied Composition

KDFC Sound Logo Competition Winners

August 8, 2019
Alton Sato ’21 has been named the winner of the 2019 KDFC Sound Logo Competition. A multimedia composer studying in the Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) program, Sato won the top prize in the fourth annual contest. The Sound Logo Competition is a …