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Former name | Ada Clement Piano School |
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Type | Private music conservatory |
Established | 1917 |
Founders | Ada Clement, Lillian Hodgehead |
Accreditation | WSCUC |
Endowment | 43,498,000[ citation needed] |
President | David H. Stull |
Dean | Jonas Wright |
Students | 480 (2021) [1] |
Address | 37°46′32″N 122°25′13″W / 37.77556°N 122.42028°W |
Colors | Raspberry and gold [2] |
Website |
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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]
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]
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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.