23 Notable alumni of
San Francisco Conservatory of Music

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San Francisco Conservatory of Music is 1826th in the world, 636th in North America, and 599th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 23 notable alumni from San Francisco Conservatory of Music sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. Barbara Eden

    Barbara Eden
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1931-.. (age 94)
    Occupations
    actorfilm actorstage actortelevision actorvoice actor
    Biography

    Barbara Eden is an American actress and singer, who starred as the title character in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie (1965–1970). Her other roles included Roslyn Pierce opposite Elvis Presley in Flaming Star (1960), Lieutenant (JG) Cathy Connors in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961), and a single widowed mother, Stella Johnson, in the comedy film Harper Valley PTA (1978) and in the television series of the same name.

  2. Yehudi Menuhin

    Yehudi Menuhin
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1916-1999 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    jazz musicianviolinistconductorpoliticianautobiographer
    Biography

    Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, was an American-born British violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. He played the Soil Stradivarius, considered one of the finest violins made by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari.

  3. Gordon Getty

    Gordon Getty
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1933-.. (age 92)
    Occupations
    businesspersonlibrettistfinancierclassical composercomposer
    Biography

    Gordon Peter Getty is an American businessman and classical music composer, the fourth child of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. His mother, Ann Rork, was his father's fourth wife. When his father died in 1976, Gordon assumed control of Getty's US$ 2 billion trust. His net worth was $2.1 billion in September 2020, making him number 391 on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans.

  4. George Duke

    George Duke
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1946-2013 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    record producersingerfilm score composercomposerjazz musician
    Biography

    George M. Duke was an American keyboardist, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer. He worked with numerous artists as arranger, music director, writer and co-writer, record producer and as a professor of music. He first made a name for himself with the album The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio. He was known primarily for 32 solo albums, of which A Brazilian Love Affair from 1979 was his most popular, as well as for his collaborations with other musicians, particularly Frank Zappa.

  5. John Adams

    John Adams
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1947-.. (age 78)
    Occupations
    composerautobiographerconductorlibrettist
    Biography

    John Coolidge Adams is an American composer and conductor. Among the most regularly performed composers of contemporary classical music, he is particularly noted for his operas, many of which center around historical events. Apart from opera, his oeuvre includes orchestral, concertante, vocal, choral, chamber, electroacoustic, and piano music.

  6. Isaac Stern

    Isaac Stern
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1920-2001 (aged 81)
    Enrolled in San Francisco Conservatory of Music
    Studied in 1928-1931
    Occupations
    writerviolinistconductor
    Biography

    Isaac Stern was an American violinist.

  7. Gwendoline Yeo

    Gwendoline Yeo
    Born in
    Singapore Flag Singapore
    Years
    1977-.. (age 48)
    Occupations
    film actormusicianvoice actortelevision actor
    Biography

    Gwendoline See-Hian Yeo is an American actress, best known for her roles as Dr. Kelly Lee on General Hospital, Xiao-Mei on Desperate Housewives, and Sun Fu in Broken Trail. She is also known for voicing different roles in voiceover projects.

  8. Rob Wasserman

    Rob Wasserman
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1952-2016 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    musician
    Biography

    Rob Wasserman was an American composer and bass player. A Grammy Award and NEA grant winner, he played and recorded with a wide variety of musicians including Bob Weir, Bruce Cockburn, Elvis Costello, Ani di Franco, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Stéphane Grappelli, Rickie Lee Jones, Van Morrison, Steve Morse, Aaron Neville, Lou Reed, Pete Seeger, Jules Shear, Brian Wilson, Chris Whitley, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, Laurie Anderson, Stephen Perkins, Banyan, Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, and Ratdog.

  9. Carla Kihlstedt

    Carla Kihlstedt
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1971-.. (age 54)
    Occupations
    singer-songwritercomposeruniversity teacherviolinistjazz musician
    Biography

    Carla Kihlstedt is an American composer, violinist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania and currently working from a home studio on Cape Cod.

  10. That 1 Guy

    That 1 Guy
    Years
    20th Century
    Occupations
    composermusical instrument maker
    Biography

    Mike Silverman, better known as That 1 Guy, is an American musician based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He frequently performs and records as a one-man band, singing and using a variety of homemade musical instruments.

  11. Eddie Henderson

    Eddie Henderson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1940-.. (age 85)
    Occupations
    jazz musiciantrumpeter
    Biography

    Eddie Henderson is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player. He came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of pianist Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band, going on to lead his own electric/fusion groups through the decade. Henderson earned his medical degree and worked a parallel career as a psychiatrist and musician, turning back to acoustic jazz by the 1990s.

  12. Sérgio Assad

    Sérgio Assad
    Born in
    Brazil Flag Brazil
    Years
    1952-.. (age 73)
    Occupations
    musiciancomposerclassical guitaristguitarist
    Biography

    Sérgio Assad is a Brazilian guitarist, composer, and arranger who often performs with his brother, Odair, in the guitar duo Sérgio and Odair Assad, commonly referred to as the Assad Brothers or Duo Assad. Their younger sister Badi is also a guitarist. Assad is the father of composer/singer/pianist Clarice Assad. He is married to Angela Olinto.

  13. Indre Viskontas

    Indre Viskontas
    Years
    20th Century
    Occupations
    opera singermusic educatorneuroscientist
    Biography

    Indre Viskontas is a Lithuanian-Canadian neuroscientist and operatic soprano. She holds a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles. While at UCLA she was a member of the Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab and Cogfog. and a M.M. in opera. She is a Professor of Psychology at the University of San Francisco and serves on the faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She is also the Creative Director of Pasadena Opera.

  14. Léopold Simoneau

    Léopold Simoneau
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1916-2006 (aged 90)
    Occupations
    opera singermusic educator
    Biography

    Léopold Simoneau, CC CQ was a French-Canadian lyric tenor, one of the outstanding Mozarteans of his time. In 1959 he became the first recipient of the Calixa-Lavallée Award.

  15. Marko Topchii

    Marko Topchii
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1991-.. (age 34)
    Occupations
    guitaristclassical guitarist
    Biography

    Marko Topchii is a classical guitarist from Ukraine. Topchii has won more than 100 awards worldwide in the international classical guitar competitions in the professional category. Among them, 55 first places in the competitions in the United States, Mexico, Australia, Japan, China, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Ukraine.

  16. Gyan Riley

    Gyan Riley
    Years
    1977-.. (age 48)
    Occupations
    jazz guitaristguitaristcomposer
    Biography

    Gyan Riley is an American guitarist and composer. He is a son of minimalist composer Terry Riley. They frequently toured together as a duo between 2016 and 2020. Gyan Riley studied at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He has released two solo albums and several collaborative recordings on John Zorn's Tzadik Records. He has also performed with Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, Zakir Hussain, Dawn Upshaw, Nels Cline, Lee Ronaldo, Iva Bittová., and currently frequently tours with Grammy-winning vocalist Arooj Aftab. Recently he was featured as a performer and composer for two acclaimed PBS documentary series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick: Hemingway, and The U.S. and the Holocaust. Currently Gyan is engaged as the 2023/24 Lou Harrison House Composer in Residence in Joshua Tree, CA.

  17. Alice Reinheart

    Alice Reinheart
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1910-1993 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    stage actorfilm actor
    Biography

    Alice Reinheart was an American actress, best known for her work in old-time radio. She also appeared on television. An article in the September 1940 issue of Radio and Television Mirror magazine described her as "pert, vivacious, beautiful and talented in writing and music as well as acting."

  18. Branden James

    Branden James
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1978-.. (age 47)
    Occupations
    singer
    Biography

    Branden James Smith, known as Branden James, is an American tenor who has performed as a soloist with American symphony orchestras. James came to prominence as a contestant on America's Got Talent during the show's eighth season.

  19. Lise Lindstrom

    Lise Lindstrom
    Occupations
    opera singer
    Biography

    Lise Lindstrom is an American operatic soprano. She is best known for the title role of Puccini's Turandot and also highly recognized in the dramatic repertory of Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner.

  20. Jean-Paul Penin

    Jean-Paul Penin
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1949-.. (age 76)
    Occupations
    conductor
    Biography

    Jean-Paul Penin is a French conductor.

  21. Sahba Aminikia

    Sahba Aminikia
    Born in
    Iran Flag Iran
    Years
    1981-.. (age 44)
    Occupations
    composermusician
    Biography

    Sahba Aminikia is an Iranian-born American contemporary music composer, artistic director, performer, educator and a TED Fellow. Aminikia is the founder and the artistic director of Flying Carpet Festival, the first performing arts festival for children living in war zones.

  22. Natasha Wilson

    Natasha Wilson
    Occupations
    opera singer
    Biography

    Natasha Te Rupe Wilson is a New Zealand soprano opera singer of Māori and Pākehā heritage.

  23. Mark Griffin

    Mark Griffin
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1954-2018 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    teachersculptor
    Biography

    Mark Griffin was an American spiritual teacher in the lineage of Bhagawan Nityananda. Griffin was an author on the philosophy and practice of Yoga Tantra. He emphasizes spiritual practice (sadhana), especially meditation. He was the founder and director of Hard Light Center of Awakening, a Los Angeles-based spiritual school that, according to its literature, offers intensive training in meditation and other practical techniques of Liberation. He was also an artist.