HAUTE SCENE
Ute Bowes and David Stull, Conservatory president
Yo-Yo Ma and guests at the top of the Bowes Center
The new Ute and Wiliam K. Bowes, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts
CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC GALA 2021 BY CAROLYNE ZINKO | PHOTOS BY DREW ALTIZER PHOTOGRAPHY
THE WILLIAM K. BOWES, JR. FOUNDATION’S $46 MILLION gift to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2018 was among the largest donations ever made to an American music school. Three years later, here’s the scoop: The money helped fund the new, $200 million Ute and William K. Bowes, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts, a 170,000-square-foot, 12-story building with student housing, dining, classrooms, rehearsal and performance spaces, and a radio station all in one. At the gala, leading arts patrons were dazzled by the edifice and performances by world class musicians, including famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Virginia Foo and Timothy Foo, Conservatory board chairman
Bernard and Barbro Osher
Stanley and Helen Cheng
Qing Dong and Ellen Fong
Joshua Redman of SF JAZZ and Elliott Felson
