22 Notable alumni of
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
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San Francisco Conservatory of Music is 1787th in the world, 629th in North America, and 593rd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 22 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.
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Barbara Eden
- Occupations
- television actorstage actorfilm actoractorvoice actor
- Biography
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Barbara Eden is an American actress who starred as Jeannie 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 film Harper Valley PTA (1978). Due to the success of the film, Eden reprised her role as Stella Johnson in a two-season television series, Harper Valley PTA.
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Yehudi Menuhin
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- politicianconductorviolinistjazz musicianautobiographer
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Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE, 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.
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Gordon Getty
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- financierbusinesspersoncomposer
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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.
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George Duke
- Occupations
- jazz musiciancomposerfilm score composersingerrecord producer
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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.
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John Adams
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- conductorautobiographercomposerlibrettist
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John Coolidge Adams is an American composer and conductor whose music is rooted in minimalism. Among the most regularly performed composers of contemporary classical music, he is particularly noted for his operas, which are often centered around recent historical events. Apart from opera, his oeuvre includes orchestral, concertante, vocal, choral, chamber, electroacoustic and piano music.
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Isaac Stern
- Enrolled in San Francisco Conservatory of Music
- Studied in 1928-1931
- Occupations
- violinistwriterconductor
- Biography
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Isaac Stern was an American violinist.
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Gwendoline Yeo
- Occupations
- television actorvoice actormusicianfilm actor
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Gwendoline See-Hian Yeo is a Singaporean 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 Domino and Mariko Yashida on Wolverine and the X-Men, Shinigami on Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Hamato Karai on Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Lady Shiva on Young Justice.
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Rob Wasserman
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- musician
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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.
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That 1 Guy
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- musical instrument makercomposer
- Biography
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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.
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Carla Kihlstedt
- Occupations
- violinistuniversity teachercomposersinger-songwritersinger
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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.
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Eddie Henderson
- Occupations
- trumpeterjazz musician
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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.
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Sérgio Assad
- Occupations
- classical guitaristcomposermusicianguitarist
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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.
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Indre Viskontas
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- music teacheropera singerneuroscientist
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Indre Viskontas is a Lithuanian-Canadian neuroscientist and operatic soprano. She holds a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience 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.
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Marko Topchii
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- classical guitaristguitarist
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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.
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Gyan Riley
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 47)
- Occupations
- jazz guitaristcomposerguitarist
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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.
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Alice Reinheart
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- film actorstage actor
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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."
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Branden James
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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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.
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Lise Lindstrom
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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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.
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Jean-Paul Penin
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Jean-Paul Penin is a French conductor.
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Sahba Aminikia
- Occupations
- musiciancomposer
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Sahba Aminikia is an Iranian-born American contemporary music composer, artistic director, performer, and educator. Aminikia is the founder and the artistic director of Flying Carpet Festival, the first performing arts festival for children living in war zones.
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Natasha Wilson
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New Zealand - Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Natasha Te Rupe Wilson is a New Zealand soprano opera singer of Māori and Pākehā heritage.
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Mark Griffin
- Occupations
- sculptorteacher
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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.
