I just saw this announcement: https://sfcm.edu/bowes-center
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music announces the expansion of its campus and the construction of the Ute and William K. Bowes, Jr. Center for Performing Arts (The Bowes Center) in San Francisco’s Civic Center. The $185 million performing arts center and residential tower is slated to open fall of 2020.
The new, 12-story building will provide housing for 420 students and accommodate two concert halls (featuring hundreds of performances annually with over 90% of them free and open to the public), a restaurant with a live performance space, multiple classrooms and rehearsal spaces for ensembles, practice rooms, a recording studio and technology hall, a large observation deck and garden, conference facilities, a student center, and several apartments for visiting artists and faculty.
The Center for New Media on the second floor will comprise studio space, lesson rooms, and listening booths available to SFCM’s Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) and Roots, Jazz, and American Music (RJAM) students. TAC was designed in partnership with leading artists working in the corporate sector of Silicon Valley, and RJAM in conjunction with SFJAZZ, now the largest presenter within its genre in the United States. The models for these programs are expansive: TAC offers curricular direction that includes video game and film music, experimental music, sound design, and production (a skill set that has become increasingly necessary in today’s diverse market), while RJAM provides a holistic view of jazz, delving into an early history of the art form—as far back as its roots in Africa—and connecting it to a contemporary musical zeitgeist.
Occupying the space between the lower two levels, the Technology Hall will offer a multipurpose performance and workshop space for multimedia projects and productions developed primarily by SFCM’s TAC program. The adjacent Recording Room will include state-of-the-art recording equipment that directly interfaces with all of the Bowes Center’s performance spaces.