Julie Rulyak Steinberg, Executive Director
(415) 647-6015 x173
Alba Reyna-Farje, Marketing Director
(415) 647-6015 x175
Michelle Lee, Marketing Manager
(415) 647-6015 x186
Links and Downloads
Community Music Center was founded nearly 100 years ago with the desire to bring together a diverse and vibrant community through the unifying power of music. Racism has no place in our community. We denounce violence against black, brown, and indigenous people. We stand in solidarity with the black community in calling for justice in […]
Aired March 2 and March 3 on CNN Staying Well by Lauren Lee CNN coverage of the CMC Older Adult Choir Program and the Community of Voices Study in collaboration with UCSF and the San Francisco Department of Aging and Adult Services (DAAS). The story features interviews with CMC Older Adult Choir staff and singers […]
Friday, February 22, 2019 San Francisco Chronicle Datebook Joshua Kosman Does voice have a gender? For trans singers, old categories are breaking down
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 […]