Crowden Music Center

Need a distraction from the stress of the season? Have a little silly fun and make your own blob opera song!

Some festive musical celebrations as we depart for our Winter Break. Wishing everyone a safe and warm winter filled with joy and music See you again in January, Crowden!

Today is Beethoven's 250th birthday! Check out all the livestream performances curated by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in celebration of his musical legacythere's a wealth of fantastic performances for you to enjoy Do you have an all-time favorite Beethoven piece?

Happy Halloween! A budding young cellist from a galaxy far, far, away performs Suzuki's "Perpetual Motion" in Crowden's festive Virtual Recital. If he didn't have accompaniment he'd be playing Han Solo

#tbt to a recent visit from the internationally acclaimed, Grammy-winning composer Mason Bates to our John Adams Young Composers Program. Our students got to hear about Bates’ creative process, composing with electronics, and what it’s like to collaborate on multimedia projects. Thanks for stopping by and sharing your incredible knowledge and experience with us, Mason!

Crowden students are getting into the spooky spirit! Eighth Grade Leadership organized a scary writing contest and we loved reading all the creative entries. "The Dark Hallway" is the winner selected from the 3rd grade. You can read the rest of the winners here: https://www.crowden.org//TheCrowdenSchool_ScaryStoryContes

#FacultyFriday We're enjoying this recent chamber performance featuring Crowden faculty pianist Jennifer Lee, from the Musical Meditations Concert Series at the beautiful St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco

Be sure to save the date: Crowden's annual music carnival is going virtual this year! Join us online for family friendly festivities and musical discovery, including Very First Concerts with our friends at San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. Stay tuned more more details

Don't miss this free event on Friday hosted by Berkeley Symphony featuring some inspired local composers, including Samuel Carl Adams (Crowden School Class of '00)!

SF Music Day Broadcast starts at noon todaydon't miss a whole day of performances by amazing local artists, including Crowden faculty and friends in a variety of styles.

Scenes from the week: chamber music rehearsal with Rem

What a lineup! InterMusic SF's annual SF Music Day is broadcasting live online this Sunday, featuring performances by Crowden faculty member Liz Dorman, and our friends and frequent guest artists Jeremy Cohen, Telegraph Quartet, Del Sol String Quartet, Mads Tolling, and many more fantastic musicians. Learn more and watch online: https://www.intermusicsf.org/sf-music-day/

Some seventh grade students getting into the spirit of #UnityDay2020 yesterday with their orange outfits and accessories. Unity Day has past, but don't forget that promoting acceptance, tolerance, and inclusion to fight bullying happens everyday.

Today is #UnityDay2020, started in 2006 by PACER Center to raise awareness of bullying in schools and promote the teaching of acceptance and tolerance. Students are participating by wearing orange today, and engaging in discussions and activities throughout the week in their classes. At Crowden we want all our students to feel empowered to be themselves and to choose kindness, acceptance, and inclusion. Won't you join us to take a stand against bullying, and put on your best orange outfit?

Explore the music of Charles Ives today on his 174th birthday with the San Francisco Symphony's "Keeping Score" series.

ICYMI: Sarah Lee presented a wonderful viola recital as part of Monterey Symphony's Balcony Sessions last week. Sarah is also a Crowden Faculty member we're glad to have her teach in our Suzuki Strings program. Brava! Check out more Balcony Sessions for some great performances

Forget the Monday blues, how about some Monday tango! Crowden School alumnus Noah Bendix-Balgley (Violin, 1st Concertmaster Berliner Philharmoniker) and Ödön Rácz (Double Bass, Wiener Philharmoniker) are making us want to dance with this rendition of Astor Piazzolla. Both are members of Philharmonix, a Vienna Berlin music club bringing together all-star musicians to mix classical, jazz, folk, Latin, and pop musicwith a dash of pure musical passion.

Yoga time! Make sure you take a stretch break in between all those Zoom meetings. Our bodies are our instruments, too.