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Ever wonder what piano lessons are like at SFCM? Watch a full-length one now in Osher Recital Hall with Professor Corey McVicar.

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SFCM Students Debut Ambitious Multidisciplinary ‘Art Is’ Showcase, Prep Second for Fall Four SFCM students are remaking San Francisco’s live performance landscape, one ambitious show at a time.

Four SFCM students are remaking SF’s live-performance scene with Art Is, a multimedia series fusing music, dance, poetry, visual art, and food. Their spring proof-of-concept drew big community support. Next show hits SFCM in September.

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Opera Parallèle Shows SF a New Side of Harvey Milk, with SFCM’s Help It’s hard to imagine taking on a San Francisco icon like Harvey Milk, and maybe harder still to imagine it being done via opera. But that’s just what San Francisco’s Opera Parallèle did this spring—wi...

Opera Parallèle took on Harvey Milk, with help from SFCM.

Nicole Paiement conducted, Catherine Cook starred, and students and alumni filled the stage.

“Harvey’s message is more important than ever.”

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NEWS: @jakeheggiemusic.bsky.social, composer of Dead Man Walking, Moby Dick, and Great Scott, joins the SFCM composition faculty in Fall 2025.

Called the “world's most popular 21st-century opera and art song composer” by the WSJ.

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Space Odyssey: TAC Students’ Year-Long Education in Spatial Audio SFCM’s flagship Studio G may be two stories underground, but the Conservatory’s students are exploring space there.

SFCM students are learning to mix in full 360° space, not just left and right.

Doug McCausland’s Spatial Audio course explores everything from mono to ambisonics, using tools like SPAT Revolution and Dolby Atmos.

“Spatial is here. It’s been here for a while.”

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Pre-College Student’s First-Ever Big Band Composition to Be Recorded at the Lincoln Center Pre-College Composition student Ethan Liao, 15, hit a home run on his first at bat this year when he submitted his first-ever big-band jazz chart to the Essentially Ellington Composition Competition h...

15-year-old Pre-College student Ethan Liao hit a home run with his first-ever big-band jazz chart, winning first prize in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington Composition Competition.

Next: a $1,000 prize, a lesson with Ted Nash, and a trip to NYC to hear his piece.

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Folklore to Film Scoring: SFCM Students Share Their Music Journey Every student at the Conservatory carries a unique spark—from a young violin prodigy, to a composer yearning to score the silver screen, that led them to study the language of music at SFCM.

From folk songs in Bulgaria to game music in San Francisco, every SFCM student has a story.

Fiona started on her mom’s violin. Lyric’s grandma introduced her to the flute. Theo blended folklore with tech.

Read their journeys:
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How Awadagin Pratt Led Beethoven from the Piano with SFCM's Chamber Orchestra If anyone wanted to make a Beethoven piano concerto harder, one of the logical suggestions might be, “Well, you could conduct it, too.”

If anyone wanted to make a Beethoven piano concerto harder, one suggestion might be, “Well, you could conduct it, too.”

That’s what SFCM piano faculty Awadagin Pratt did in April for SFCM’s spring Chamber Orchestra performance.

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SFCM Celebrates First Conducting Fellowship with California Symphony The California Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music recently celebrated the completion of a milestone project: A conducting fellowship with SFCM’s two conducting students and t

What does it really mean to be a music director?

SFCM conducting students worked with California Symphony Music Director Donato Cabrera to find out—on the podium and behind the scenes.

“What I’ve gained goes far beyond just musical insights.”

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SFFILM Premieres Four Films Scored by Students at SFCM They’re ready for their close-up.

They’re ready for their close-up.

SFCM students teamed up with indie filmmakers in a new fellowship with the San Francisco Int’l Film Festival. Free on-campus screening April 24.

Free on-campus screening April 24.

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High Notes and High Scores: SFCM Plays at Game Developers Conference From concert halls to consoles, SFCM brought its symphonic power to the Game Developers Conference (GDC) once again.

From concert halls to consoles: SFCM students brought iconic game scores to life on the Game Developers Conference main stage, with more live music at the G.A.N.G. awards.

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2025’s KDFC Sound Logo Winners on Their Paths to the Airwaves On the face of things, Ansh Patel and Aaron Pike took very different paths to getting their original compositions played on the radio, but it was at SFCM and the Tech

Congrats to Ansh Patel and Aaron Pike, winners of the 2025 KDFC Sound Logo Competition. Their original compositions, recorded with fellow students at SFCM, will now be heard across the state of California.

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Top Takeaways from Garrick Ohlsson and Daniil Trifonov’s SFCM Q&A It’s rare to have a pianist on the order of Daniil Trifinov take time out of a three-night engagement with a symphony to visit a music school—unless you’re attending the San Francisco Conservatory of ...

If you could ask Daniil Trifonov anything, what would it be?

SFCM students got that chance in a Q&A led by faculty pianist Garrick Ohlsson. From silent practice to golf before concerts, here’s what he shared:

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