Timeline of the San Francisco Conservatory Of Music
1917
Pianists Ada Clement and Lillian Hodghead open the Ada Clement Piano School in the home of Hodghead’s parents on Sacramento Street in Laurel Heights.
1923
The school is renamed and incorporated as the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
1925
Composer Ernest Bloch signs on as director. Students during that decade include violinists Isaac Stern, left, and Yehudi Menuhin.
1956
The conservatory moves into its longtime home at Ortega Street and 19th Avenue, left.
1966
Milton Salkind begins a 25-year term as president, one that brings a new degree of expansion and professionalism to the school.
1972-83
John Adams teaches composition and other subjects at the conservatory.
1992
Colin Murdoch, left, the school’s dean, moves into the presidency.
2006
The conservatory relocates to its current home on Oak Street near Civic Center.
2013
David Stull becomes president.
2017
The conservatory celebrates the institution’s 100 years.