Rebecca Wishnia

The student-run Hot Air Festival at S.F. Conservatory is always fresh, with a few highlights for new music fans.

A program of contemporary excerpts reveals both rough edges and refined ideas.

Violinist Leila Josefowicz is masterful in one of the composer’s finest scores.

The Kronos Quartet prepares us for the future of music with “Here and Now.”

Ensemble Signal shines in a program of recent Steve Reich works that demand precision and verve.

Stephen Eddins’s adaptation of a Eudora Welty story is the highlight of a strong program of works in progress.

Excerpts proved the rule at the latest set, hosted by composer Mason Bates and conductor Edwin Outwater.

From “unmixed pop” to the latest electronica experiments, a new music presenter is bringing in the millennial music lover.

With help from The Living Earth Show, the composer delivers an eerie, waterborne work inspired by Moby Dick.

A dazzling composition inspired by video-game conventions is the highlight of a perfect Halloween program.