CMC in the News

Feb. 15, 2022 KQED Chloe Veltman 100-Year-Old SF Community Music Center Breaks Ground on New Building The San Francisco Community Music Center (CMC) is breaking ground Wednesday on a new building next door to its existing facility on Capp Street in The Mission. Julie Rulyak Steinberg, executive director of the 100-year-old non-profit, says the expansion […]

Feb. 28, 2022 San Francisco Examiner James Ambroff-Tahan Community Music Center celebrates 100 years with a concert on steroids For 100 years now, San Francisco’s Community Music Center has stood out for its mission of making music accessible for all people, regardless of financial means. It has offered classes tuition-free or on a sliding scale […]

Download full press release COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER MARCH 2 CENTENNIAL GALA TO HONOR ROSELYNE CHROMAN SWIG, BETTY WONG, SHIRLEY WONG-FRENTZEL AND LA DOÑA GUEST ARTISTS INCLUDE SEAN JONES, PENE PATI, AMINA EDRIS, ALEXANDER STRING QUARTET, FREDERICA VON STADE, JAKE HEGGIE, JOHN SANTOS, JASON VIEAUX AND PAULA WEST PERFORMANCES, DINNER AND AUCTION BENEFIT COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER’S […]

CMC Blog

This year’s Juliet McComas Keyboard Marathon, Gather Together: Music of Connection and Collaboration, grew out of a simple but meaningful idea: strengthening connection within our piano faculty. During an October faculty meeting, several members expressed a desire to build more connection across the department and to involve colleagues who had not participated before. From that […]

If you’ve ever talked yourself out of performing somewhere because the room just didn’t feel right, Sophia Welte gets it.The singer-songwriter and pianist has played at both of CMC’s Open Mic Nights — and she’ll tell you straight up what makes this one different from every other open mic she’s been to. “At other open […]

If you make original music and live in the Bay Area, here’s an opportunity worth knowing about. San Francisco Public Library’s Bay Beats platform — a digital collection dedicated to local music — is now accepting submissions through May 31, 2026. And CMC has a history with it: faculty members Larry Dunn and Rita Lackey […]