page_title: San Francisco Community Music Center
section_title: Programs, staff, and faculty
hierarchical_section_title: San Francisco Community Music Center / Programs, staff, and faculty
caption_attribution_description: English: Reuben Zellman conducts the New Voices Bay Area TIGQ (Transgender/Intersex/Genderqueer) chorus at the National AIDS Memorial on World AIDS Day 2019.
context_page_description: The San Francisco Community Music Center is a nonprofit music school located in San Francisco, California, US. The CMC is the oldest community arts organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. The school's stated mission is to make "high quality music accessible to people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities, regardless of financial means."
context_section_description: Julie Rulyak Steinberg serves as the Community Music Center's executive director. Sylvia Sherman is the program director.
  The CMC serves over 3100 students annually. Private lessons and group classes in voice, instruments, composition, and music theory are offered, with tuition assistance available on a sliding scale. 
  The CMC hosts several tuition-free programs, including choirs for adults aged 55 and older, the Mission District Young Musicians Program for students aged 13 to 18, and the New Voices Bay Area TIGQ Chorus, a mixed voice choral ensemble for transgender, intersex, and genderqueer singers, led by Reuben Zellman.  Former ambassador and philanthropist James Hormel was one of the first donors to help fund the New Voices chorus.
  Guest performers and instructors at the school have included Emanuel Ax and Marcus Shelby.
caption: The New Voices Bay Area TIGQ chorus performs at the National AIDS Memorial on World AIDS Day 2019.
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