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SFCM in 2021: A Notable Year in Review

SFCM Joins TikTok This year the Conservatory became one of the first music colleges in the country to join the video-focused social networking platform in November. Within weeks of its debut the account went viral with a video performance of horn student …
SFCM, Warren Wolf, Jazz, Vibraphonist, Christmas
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SFCM’s Warren Wolf is Jazzed for Christmas

By Mark Taylor There’s no shortage of Christmas music out there, but Roots, Jazz, and American Music instructor  Warren Wolf puts a new vibe on the holiday classics that hopes to make families the hippest ones on the block this holiday season. The father …
xander johns, Alexander Johns, TAC, SFCM,
Technology and Applied Composition Eighth Notes

SFCM TACtok Winner Announced

It’s not everyday you meet a jazz musician turned composition student, yet that is the unique music background of Xander Johns. Growing up in a musical family Johns started on the saxophone like his father, but after an injury left him unable to play, he …
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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 …
SFCM, Grammys, spatial audio, immersive audio, TAC
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SFCM Hosts GRAMMY Awards Listening Event

By Mark Taylor Next year the GRAMMY Awards will have gotten a little help from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM). The Recording Academy -- the learned academy of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other musical professionals that …
Opus 3 artist Shai Wosner.
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SFCM Masterclass with Shai Wosner: The Top Takeaways

This month Famous Pianist and Opus 3 Artist Shai Wosner gave a masterclass and performance for SFCM students. The partnership with the Opus 3’s alliance made in 2020 with SFCM , aims to improve and enhance the student experience. Here are the highlights …
SFCM orchestra, Edwin Outwater, Jaco Wong
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The Baton is Back at SFCM

By SFCM Newsroom Staff After a few years’ hiatus, SFCM’s conducting program has returned spectacularly under Music Director Edwin Outwater . In a collaborative and small studio, conducting students like Jaco Wong (PSC ’22), hone their skills through …
Ian Swensen, violin, sfcm,
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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 …
met opera, matt brewer, jazz bassist, sfcm
Double Bass met opera

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 …
Amy Schwartz Moretti
Strings Violin amy Schwartz

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 …
Nancy Hellman Bechtle
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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 …
Yvette Kraft, Violin, SFCM
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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 …
Nikolaus Hohmann, SFCM, Professor, Humanities, Sciences
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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 …
SFCM, TAC, Jess Konye
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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 …
Elisabeth Reed, SFCM Baroque Orchestra
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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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Roots, Jazz, and American Music rjam

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 …