San Francisco Conservatory of Music

San Francisco Conservatory of Music, formerly the California Conservatory of Music, founded in 1917, is a music school, with an enrollment of about 400 students. It was launched by Ada Clement and Lillian Hodgehead in the remodeled home of Lillian's parents on Sacramento Street.

Currently the school offers undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees as well as offering adult education and pre-college education. The only school of its kind on the west coast, it offers degrees in orchestral instruments, chamber music, composition, and conducting. Faculty include members of the San Francisco Symphony and Opera orchestras, as well as many internationally recognized soloists, chamber musicians, and composers.

Departments

• Bassoon     
• Clarinet
• Composition
• Conducting
• Double Bass
• Flute
• Guitar
• Harp
• Harpsichord
• Horn
• Oboe
• Organ
• Percussion
• Piano
• Piano Accompanying
• Trombone
• Trumpet
• Tuba
• Viola
• Violin
• Violoncello
• Voice

César Ulloa: Wisdom From a Master Teacher

Nor does Ulloa work just with San Francisco Opera Center. He is presently on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and of the Plácido Domingo–Thornton Program at Los Angeles Opera, and serves as principal vocal instructor and musical consultant for S.I.V.A.M., Mexico’s most prominent young artists program. He is also vocal coach for L’Atelier Lyrique de L’Opéra Montreal and Palm Beach Opera young Artist Studio; and he teaches at Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Dramatic Voices. All this, in addition to teaching master classes throughout the world, and being an adjudicator and vocal consultant to a number of musical institutions and foundations in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

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