Curious about studying music at CMC? Join us for Demo Days and see for yourself! We’re opening select classes and ensembles for visitors to observe our unique musical offerings. These free demos are a perfect opportunity to experience our welcoming community, hear a wide range of musical styles, meet our talented faculty, and preview thoughtful curriculum. Our staff and faculty will also be glad to answer your questions about enrolling for Winter Quarter.
Classes have limited capacity for guests, registration is required. Class details and schedules listed below.
More details listed below. Click the links to read the full class description.
Monday, December 5–Saturday, December 10
Class times listed below.
Classes will take place at one of the following locations (listed in description):
Masks at CMC are recommended but not required. Thank you for helping to keep our community safe and healthy. Learn more about our COVID policies here.
Beatles Ensemble with Scott Feichter
Mission District Branch: Tuesday 12/6 from 6:30–8pm in the Director’s Office
Beginning String Orchestra with Loretta Taylor
Richmond District Branch: Saturday 12/10 from 11am–12:30pm
Argentine Tango Dance – Beginner/Advanced Beginner with Sonja Riket
Mission District Branch: Monday 12/5 from 6:30–7:30pm in the Concert Hall
Black Music Studies Program with Maestro and Nola Curtis
Jones United Methodist Church. Online participation via Zoom also available.
• Rock & Soul Forever Tuesday 12/6 from 7–8pm
• The So-called Jazz Revolution Tuesday 12/6 from 8:15–9:15pm
Bluegrass Workshop & Jam with Erik Pearson and Tregar Otton
Mission District Branch: Monday 12/5 from 12–1pm in the Concert Hall
Children’s Chorus with Beth Wilmurt
For ages 8–12. Registration slots for student visitors. Parents are welcome to accompany children to observe the chorus. Please select only one date.
Mission District Branch:
Monday 12/5 from 4–5:30pm in the Concert Hall
or Wednesday 12/7 from 4–5:30pm in the Concert Hall
Cuban Popular Dance Music 101 with Tregar Otton
Mission District Branch: Wednesday 12/7 from 5:30–7pm in the Concert Hall
Cuban Charanga Ensemble with Tregar Otton
Mission District Branch: Wednesday 12/7 from 7:15–8:45pm in the Concert Hall
Jazz and Blues in the Aural Tradition with Charlie Gurke
Mission District Branch: Saturday 12/10 from 2–3:30pm in the Concert Hall
Music For Children with Irene Chagall
For ages 4–7. Registration slots for student visitors. Parents are welcome to accompany children to observe the class. Please select the time slot appropriate for your child’s age.
Mission District Branch:
• Wednesday 12/7 from 3–3:45pm for ages 4–5 in Room 9
• Wednesday 12/7 from 3:45–4:30pm for ages 6–7 in Room 9
Music Theory I with Jono Kornfeld
Mission District Branch: Thursday 12/8 from 7–7:55pm in Room 9
Standards Ensemble I: The Great American Songbook with Charlie Gurke
Mission District Branch: Wednesday 12/7 from 6:30–8pm in the Director’s Office
Standards Ensemble II: The Jazz Composers with Charlie Gurke
Mission District Branch: Wednesday 12/7 from 8:15–9:45pm in the Director’s Office
Tango Ensemble with Scott O’Day
Mission District Branch: Monday 12/5 from 6:30–7:30pm in Room 9
Woodwind Ensemble with Annelise Zamula
Richmond District Branch: Wednesday 12/7 from 4:30–6pm in Room D
Enjoy a festive December performance of Christmas villancicos and more by Coro CMC del Centro Latino de San Francisco, directed by Martha Rodríguez-Salazar and accompanied by Jennifer Peringer. This choir for older adults and adults with disabilities is a collaboration between Community Music Center and Centro Latino de San Francisco Community Center. The choir sings songs in Spanish from Latin America and the class is taught bilingually in Spanish and English.
Featuring CMC faculty, staff, and alumni musicians:
Lisa Larribeau, flute
Sylvia Sherman, bass
Gian Marco Velasquez, percussion
St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church
1661 15th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
FREE
Masks are strongly encouraged but not required for all attendees. Thank you for helping to keep our community safe and healthy!
Students enrolled in CMC’s Coro de Cámara perform baroque, classical, and folk music from Latin America and Spain in different styles ranging from the 16th to 21st century. The group is led by Martha Rodríguez-Salazar, director and Jennifer Peringer, accompanist.
Bethany Center
580 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
FREE
Masks are required for all attendees. Thank you for helping to keep our community safe and healthy!
Enjoy a festive December performance of Christmas villancicos and more by CMC Solera Singers of Mission Neighborhood Center, directed by Martha Rodríguez-Salazar and accompanied by Jennifer Peringer. This choir for older adults and adults with disabilities is a collaboration between Community Music Center and Mission Neighborhood Center. The choir sings songs in Spanish from Latin America and the class is taught bilingually in Spanish and English.
Featuring CMC faculty, staff, and alumni musicians:
Jennifer Peringer, accordion
Lisa Larribeau, flute
Sylvia Sherman, bass
Gian Marco Velasquez, percussion
Mission Neighborhood Center
362 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
FREE
Masks are strongly encouraged but not required for all attendees. Thank you for helping to keep our community safe and healthy!
CMC faculty member Shirley Wong-Frentzel hosts a selection of music and poetry from the early Renaissance to European classics to popular 20th century Americana performed on voice, winds, strings and keyboard. Program features CMC faculty, advanced students, and guests. Music by Bach, Dufay, Shannon, Chopin, Obradors, Cornysh, folk songs from England, Ukraine, and Lebanon, and more! Additional program details TBA.
This concert is limited-capacity, RSVP is required. Request a spot on the guest list using the online form here.
Masks are required for all guests and performers.
Saturday, December 10, 2022 at 3:00pm
Osher Performance Center @ Byer Square – Frank Residences
1 Avalon Ave, San Francisco, CA 94112
Please enter the facility from Avalon Ave. Walk up through a circular turn around and you’ll see a glass door on the right—this is the entrance where you sign in. Someone will guide you to the theater from this entrance. (Street parking on Avalon or Mission Streets is best.)
Students enrolled in lessons and ensembles at Community Music Center’s Richmond District Branch will perform a wide variety of music at our Fall Quarter recitals. Enjoy an afternoon of music and support our hard-working students and faculty. Masks are recommended but not required for this venue.
Sunday, December 11 at 12:00pm and 2:30pm
CMC Richmond District Branch
741 31st Ave, San Francisco, CA 94121
Please note: Audience capacity for these recitals are very limited and reserved for our performers and their guests.
Additional Fall Recitals at Richmond District Branch:
Additional recitals will be hosted by the Mission District Branch at Congregation Sha’ar Zahav. See event calendar for details.
Students enrolled in lessons and ensembles will perform a wide variety of music at our Fall Quarter recitals. Enjoy an afternoon of music and support our hard-working students and faculty.
Sunday, December 11 at 4:00pm
Congregation Sha’ar Zahav
290 Dolores St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Free
Masks are strongly encouraged but not required for all attendees. Thank you for helping to keep our community safe and healthy!
Sha’ar Zahav is a fragrance-free environment. Please do your best to follow these guidelines when you visit our synagogue building:
For more information on this subject, including why it’s important and a list of Fragrance-Free products, visit eastbaymeditation.org
Additional Fall Recitals at Sha’ar Zahav:
Additional recitals will be hosted at the Richmond District Branch. See event calendar for details.
Join CMC Faculty Sonja Riket for a free participatory masterclass in Embodiment & Expression for Musicians. Discover somatic education at CMC and learn tools for injury prevention, rehabilitation, and performance enhancement for musicians of all types and levels.
Tuesday, December 13, 2022 from 12:30–2:00pm
Mission District Branch – Room 9
To attend this free class, please RSVP at least 24 hr prior to class with your name and choice of instrument or voice with the instructor: heartofembodiment@earthlink.net or (415) 661-1852
This demo class is a preparation for Winter Quarter at CMC (January 3–March 26, 2023). Learn more about Embodiment & Expression for Musicians classes and Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement private lessons here.
Masks are strongly recommended but not required at CMC. Thank you for helping to keep our community safe and healthy!
Tools for Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation and Performance Enhancement
“Embodiment & Expression for Musicians” is a unique course of study in the SF Bay Area, based on the integration of two somatic modalities: the Feldenkrais® Method and Body-Mind Centering®, the work of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.
Our body is our instrument. How we use it influences the quality of our movements and the sounds we make with our voices and instruments.
In both this group class and in private lessons, you will learn tools to free yourself from tension, pain and injury; improve your posture, breathing, tone and coordination; enhance your ease in technical proficiency; and help you find a dynamic expression and creativity in performing, composing and improvising. These tools are based on embodied anatomy and physiology, movement skills and guided attention.
For more information, visit:
www.heartofembodiment.com
www.feldenkrais.com
www.BodyMindCentering.com
‘Tis the season for giving back and spreading good cheer! Enjoy a festive evening of caroling with I.T. Bookman Older Adult Choir and the Curtis Family C-notes, lead by faculty Maestro Curtis and Nola Curtis.
I.T. Bookman volunteers will also distribute food to unhoused residents of the Civic Center and Tenderloin neighborhoods.
The choir for older adults and adults with disabilities is a collaboration between Community Music Center and I.T. Bookman Community Center. The choir sings gospel, jazz and popular songs.
Thursday, December 15 from 5–7pm
Civic Center Plaza, across from the SF Public Library
100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA
FREE
This event is outdoors. Masks are encouraged but not required. Thank you for helping to keep our community safe and healthy!
Enjoy a festive afternoon of outdoor performances by the I.T. Bookman Older Adult Choir lead by faculty Maestro Curtis and Nola Curtis as part of of I.T. Bookman Holiday Senior Brown Bag Lunch. The choir for older adults and adults with disabilities is a collaboration between Community Music Center and I.T. Bookman Community Center. The choir sings gospel, jazz and popular songs.
Merced Heights Playground
801 Shields St, San Francisco, CA 94132
FREE
This event is outdoors. Masks are encouraged but not required. Thank you for helping to keep our community safe and healthy!
