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Composition

Composition Auditions

Welcome, composition students!  Below are the audition requirements for the Composition area. For full details—including application requirements and audition dates—please visit our Application & Auditions page . Audition requirements are updated each …
Telegraph Quartet Perfroming
String and Piano Chamber Music

Chamber Music Auditions

Welcome, chamber music students!  Below are the audition requirements for the Strings & Piano Chamber Music area. For complete application and audition details - including audition dates - please visit our Application & Auditions page. Audition …
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Strings Violin Viola Double Bass Brass Horn Trumpet Tuba Trombone Conducting Composition Technology and Applied Composition Guitar Piano Collaborative Piano Organ Percussion Woodwinds Bassoon Clarinet Flute Oboe Voice Harpsichord Historical Performance Harp Cello Academics String and Piano Chamber Music Admissions

Applications Are Open—Now What?

By Karen Meurer Bacellar Applying to music school can be a challenging process, especially when navigating materials—amidst a global pandemic—and answering that age-old question, “What is this music program looking for in a student?” Below are some …
SFCM students wearing masks outside 50 Oak building
Strings Violin Viola Double Bass Brass Horn Trumpet Tuba Trombone Conducting Composition Technology and Applied Composition Guitar Keyboard Piano Percussion Roots, Jazz, and American Music Woodwinds Bassoon Flute Oboe Voice Harpsichord Historical Performance Harp Cello String and Piano Chamber Music SFCM Orchestra telegraph quartet

How SFCM Handled COVID-19 This Past Year

By Karen Meurer Bacellar San Francisco was the first city in the United States to issue a mandatory shelter-in-place order due to COVID-19. March 17 will mark the one-year anniversary of that order, which was one of the strictest in the nation. The …
Julie Adams
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Julie Adams ’13 Makes European Debut

Julie Adams (BM ’11; MM ’13) made her European debut in a production of Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka at Staatstheater Braunschweig in Braunschweig, Germany. The celebrated soprano studied with César Ulloa , chair of voice, while at the San Francisco …
Faculty Member, Matthew Worth
Voice Matthew Worth

SFCM Voice Faculty Member Matthew Worth wins Grammy Award

San Francisco Conservatory of Music voice faculty member and baritone Matthew Worth was caught off-guard when a friend texted to say he’d won a Grammy. Richard Danielpour, Matthew Worth and conductor JoAnn Falletta (an Opus 3 Artist) at the 2018 premiere …
50 Oak Street
Piano Brass Strings Roots, Jazz, and American Music Composition Technology and Applied Composition Guitar Violin Historical Performance Conducting Percussion Woodwinds Voice Oboe Cello StopAsianHate StopAAPIhate

SFCM Students Take A Stand With Music

Music is universal. It brings us opportunities to learn together, laugh together, cry together, celebrate together—and even sometimes take a stand together. SFCM students are experiencing music’s power today, April 19, by performing pop-up style in San …
SFCM students Jarron Carlson ’22, Pierre Fontaine ’21, and Tamara McLeod ’21
Voice Composition Eighth Notes

Winners of the 9th Biennial Art Song Composition Competition

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music streamed the 9th Biennial Art Song Composition Competition on March 24, 2021. Switching off with the Choral Composition Competition year by year, this competition sees student composers present works written for …
Emma McAlister SFCM Student ’22
Voice Emma McAlister

Emma McAlister ’22 on living with fibromyalgia

In her own words, Emma McAlister (MM ’22) recounts her fibromyalgia diagnosis. I have a chronic illness called fibromyalgia. It's debilitating. Fibromyalgia affects musculature, causes chronic fatigue in muscles, difficulty in thinking and brain fatigue, …
Hansel and Gretel
Strings Violin Viola Cello Double Bass Harp Woodwinds Flute Oboe Clarinet Bassoon Brass Trumpet Horn Trombone Tuba Voice Guitar Percussion Keyboard Piano Collaborative Piano Harpsichord Organ winter term

The Sky's the Limit for SFCM's Winter Term

Interested in spending an afternoon exploring art, music, and movement under the guidance of composer, artist, choreographer, and director Meredith Monk? Want to take a piece of wood and make a custom clarinet barrel by hand? Jennifer Culp and Jeff …
Brandon Bell ’18, Kaitlin Bertschi ’18, Rita Moreno, Esther Tonea ’18, Jimmy Kansau ’04. Courtesy California Symphony
Voice chorus

SFCM Students Join Forces with the California Symphony

“If a work doesn’t mean something to the performers, what’s the point of performing it?” For soprano Esther Tonea ’18, music is about sharing something deeply personal. In her recent appearance as a soloist with the California Symphony and SFCM Chorus on …
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Voice Convocation

Speeches, Awards, and Performances at 2018 Convocation

SFCM held its annual Convocation ceremony Friday, September 21, an event that brought together the entire student body, faculty, and staff to celebrate the beginning of the school year. This year’s ceremony featured guest speaker Matthew Shilvock, general …
Powerhouse Additions to Voice Faculty at SFCM
Voice

Powerhouse Additions to Voice Faculty at SFCM

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) today announces the appointments of mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and soprano Marnie Breckenridge to its faculty. Von Stade, a longtime friend of the Conservatory and honorary doctorate recipient, will …
SFCM Faculty Member, Mason Bates, teaching a student
Composition Voice Roots, Jazz, and American Music

SFCM Faculty, Friends, and Alums Nominated for GRAMMYs

With the recent announcement of the nominees for next year’s GRAMMY Awards, members of the SFCM community can delight in finding a few familiar names. The San Francisco Symphony, which includes 30 members on faculty at SFCM, was nominated in the Best …
A violin student of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Voice Guitar Cello Violin Piano

2019 Concerto Competition Winners Announced

SFCM’s annual Concerto Competition never fails to bring exceptional talent forward to showcase some of the amazing artists coming through the institution. After weeks of performances in front of juries and audiences, the winners of this year’s Competition …
Wilford Kelly
Voice voice

Wilford Kelly ‘20 Wins SF Opera Tenure-Track Chorus Position

By Karen Meurer Bacellar In this Q&A, master’s student Wilford Kelly , who studies with César Ulloa , shares his breaking news and tells his personal tale of becoming a musician, shares a turning point in his commitment to singing, and reveals the mantra …
Decodea Story
Voice alumni

Transforming Lives Through Creativity and Music

By Karen Meurer Bacellar There’s a growing movement to use the power of the arts to help people break out of the cycle of incarceration by building self-esteem, community, and creative thinking. Several SFCM alumni and students are at the forefront of …
Esther Tonea at Concerto Winners Performance
Voice

Adler Fellow Esther Tonea (MM ‘18) makes her SF Opera Debut

By Karen Meurer Bacellar Since graduating from SFCM, Esther Tonea (MM ‘18) participated in the 2019 Merola Opera Program and was named an Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera, where she will make her debut this June in Verdi’s Ernani . It’s been a big …
Chasiti Walker sitting in front of SF City Hall
Voice voice

Met Opera National Council Audition Finalist Chasiti Walker ‘20

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 …