{"id":436283,"date":"2026-08-18T13:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/436283\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:48:17","slug":"the-strad-news-san-francisco-conservatory-of-music-appoints-chair-of-string-and-piano-chamber-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/436283\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strad News – San Francisco Conservatory of Music appoints chair of string and piano chamber music"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) has announced violinist Wonhee Bae has its new chair of string and piano chamber music.<\/p>\n

Bae is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, the Royal College of Music, the Conservatoire National Sup\u00e9rieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, and the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Tanz K\u00f6ln. As a soloist, she won the first prize at the Lipizer International Violin Competition and was a prizewinner at the George Enescu International Violin Competition.<\/p>\n

She is also the first violinist of the acclaimed Esm\u00e9 Quartet, which won the 2018 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, the Possehl and Hans G\u00e1l music prizes. The group also won prizes at the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition and was a HSBC Laureate of the Acad\u00e9mie du Festival d\u2019Aix.<\/p>\n

Bae shared the news on social media:<\/p>\n

\u2018Grateful to be stepping into the role of Chair of String and Piano Chamber Music, and for the opportunity to give back to a part of music that has shaped so much of who I am.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m looking forward to continuing to build on the strong chamber music community at SFCM and creating meaningful opportunities for our students to learn, collaborate, and grow together.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m especially excited about our Chamber Tuesday series, which brings our chamber music majors together with wonderful guest artists throughout the year. Lots to look forward to this season.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Read more news stories here\u00a0 The San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) has announced violinist Wonhee Bae has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-436283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}