San Francisco Conservatory Of Music

San Francisco Conservatory of Music
	The SFCM's Bowes Center building in 2022
Former name	Ada Clement Piano School
Type	Private music conservatory
Established	1917
Founders	Ada Clement, Lillian Hodgehead
Endowment	43,498,000[citation needed]
President	David H. Stull
Dean	Jonas Wright
Students	480 (2021)
Address	50 Oak Street; San Francisco , California ; 94102; [ ⚑ ] 37°46′32″N 122°25′13″W / 37.77556°N 122.42028°W
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Website	www.sfcm.edu

Short description: Music school in California, U.S.

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) is a private music conservatory in San Francisco , California , United States. As of 2021, it had 480 students.^[1]

History

The Oak Street building in 2017 (fisheye perspective)

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music was founded in 1917 by Ada Clement and Lillian Hodghead as the Ada Clement Piano School.^{[citation needed]} In 1923, the name was changed to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In 1956 the Conservatory moved from Sacramento Street to 1201 Ortega Street, the home of a former infant shelter.^{[citation needed]} It resided there for fifty years, before moving to its next location at 50 Oak Street in 2006.^{[citation needed]}

In 2020, the SFCM added the new Bowes Center at 200 Van Ness Avenue (across from Davies Symphony Hall), a 12-story building that includes dorms (eight floors) with acoustic insulation for 400 of its students, 27 rent-controlled apartments for residents of the older building that was replaced by the construction, and some public performing spaces, including a penthouse concert room with views towards the north and west.^[3]^[1] The Bowes Center's $200 million cost was largely funded by donors, including $46.4 million from the William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation.^[4]^[1] The San Francisco Chronicle's architecture critic John King characterized the building's design as "[pushing] against the strict rules of the historic district but [respecting] the air of gravitas. For starters, the building is skinned in translucent glass that conceals insulation and the structural frame — a touch that adds a milky visual depth ..."^[1] As of 2021, the Bowes Center was envisaged to fully open to the public in February 2022.^[1]

In 2020, SFCM announced a partnership with the talent management company Opus 3 Artists, and in May 2022 it acquired the Dutch classical music label, Pentatone, funded by a private donor.^[5] The music website "Classical Voice" described this "combination of a music-education organization with two professional music businesses" as "unusual."^[5]

Leaders

Ada Clement and Lillian Hodghead, 1917–1925
Ernest Bloch, 1925–1930
Ada Clement and Lillian Hodghead, 1930–1951
Albert Elkus, 1951–1957
Robin Laufer, 1957–1966
Milton Salkind, 1966–1990
Stephen Brown, 1990–1991
Milton Salkind (Acting President), 1991–1992
Colin Murdoch, 1992–2013
David Stull, 2013–present

Notable faculty

Jeffrey Anderson (tuba)^[6]^[7]
Elinor Armer (composition)
Alexander Barantschik (violinist and Concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony)
Dusan Bogdanovic (composer and guitarist)
Luciano Chessa (composer, music history and literature)
David Conte (composer)
Jacques Desjardins (composer)
Mason Bates (composer)
Patricia Craig (voice)
Eugene Izotov (oboe)
Mark Lawrence (trombone)
Susanne Mentzer (voice)
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
David Tanenbaum (guitar)
Deborah Voigt (voice)^[8]
Indre Viskontas (soprano)

Notable alumni

Barbara Eden (singer)
Léopold Simoneau^[9] (tenor)
Peter Scott Lewis (composer)
Miguel del Aguila (composer)
Isaac Stern (violinist)
Aaron Jay Kernis, Pulitzer Prize winning and Grammy Award-winning composer, member of the Yale School of Music faculty

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 King, John (2021-11-21). "S.F.'s Civic Center has a new landmark — and it shows how the district should evolve" (in en-US). https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-s-Civic-Center-has-a-new-landmark-and-16636455.php.
↑ "SFCM Brand Guide". http://jaucodesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/BrandGuide-SFCM-WEBVIEW.pdf.
↑ "The Bowes center". https://sfcm.edu/about-us/bowes-center.
↑ "San Francisco Conservatory of Music Gets $46 Million Gift" (in en-US). The New York Times. April 25, 2018. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/arts/music/san-francisco-conservatory-music.html.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Kotapish, Paul (2022-05-17). "SF Conservatory of Music Acquires Pentatone" (in en). https://www.sfcv.org/articles/music-news/sf-conservatory-music-acquires-pentatone.
↑ "Jeffrey Anderson". San Francisco Symphony. https://www.sfsymphony.org/Data/Event-Data/Artists/A/Jeffrey-Anderson.
↑ "Jeffrey Anderson". San Francisco Conservatory of Music. https://sfcm.edu/faculty/jeffrey-anderson.
↑ "Deborah Voigt Joins San Francisco Conservatory of Music Faculty". https://www.broadwayworld.com/san-francisco/article/Deborah-Voigt-Joins-San-Francisco-Conservatory-of-Music-Faculty-20160505.
↑ Christophe Huss (August 26, 2006). "Léopold Simoneau (1916–2006) – Mozart rappelle les siens" (in fr). Le Devoir. https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/musique/116875/leopold-simoneau-1916-2006-mozart-rappelle-les-siens. "Dans les années soixante-dix, il enseigna le chant au San Francisco Conservatory of Music et à l'école des beaux-arts de Banff, avant de s'installer à Victoria, où il fonda, en 1982, avec son épouse Pierrette Alarie, le Canada Opera Piccola destiné à la formation des jeunes chanteurs canadiens."

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[:0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 King, John (2021-11-21). "S.F.'s Civic Center has a new landmark — and it shows how the district should evolve" (in en-US). https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-s-Civic-Center-has-a-new-landmark-and-16636455.php.

[2] "SFCM Brand Guide". http://jaucodesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/BrandGuide-SFCM-WEBVIEW.pdf.

[3] "The Bowes center". https://sfcm.edu/about-us/bowes-center.

[4] "San Francisco Conservatory of Music Gets $46 Million Gift" (in en-US). The New York Times. April 25, 2018. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/arts/music/san-francisco-conservatory-music.html.

[:1-5] 5.0 ^5.1 Kotapish, Paul (2022-05-17). "SF Conservatory of Music Acquires Pentatone" (in en). https://www.sfcv.org/articles/music-news/sf-conservatory-music-acquires-pentatone.

[6] "Jeffrey Anderson". San Francisco Symphony. https://www.sfsymphony.org/Data/Event-Data/Artists/A/Jeffrey-Anderson.

[7] "Jeffrey Anderson". San Francisco Conservatory of Music. https://sfcm.edu/faculty/jeffrey-anderson.

[8] "Deborah Voigt Joins San Francisco Conservatory of Music Faculty". https://www.broadwayworld.com/san-francisco/article/Deborah-Voigt-Joins-San-Francisco-Conservatory-of-Music-Faculty-20160505.

[Huss-9] Christophe Huss (August 26, 2006). "Léopold Simoneau (1916–2006) – Mozart rappelle les siens" (in fr). Le Devoir. https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/musique/116875/leopold-simoneau-1916-2006-mozart-rappelle-les-siens. "Dans les années soixante-dix, il enseigna le chant au San Francisco Conservatory of Music et à l'école des beaux-arts de Banff, avant de s'installer à Victoria, où il fonda, en 1982, avec son épouse Pierrette Alarie, le Canada Opera Piccola destiné à la formation des jeunes chanteurs canadiens."

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