Features

A Cal Performances program offers students an opportunity to meet South African dancers and learn about Gumboot and Pantsula traditions first-hand. Our photo essay tells the story.

With a top-notch faculty and wonderful collaboration and performance opportunities, the Conservatory enters the vanguard of jazz education.

They keep their artistic engines running while overseeing thousands of small details from multiple projects around the world. Here’s part two of a look inside their empire.

The trumpet virtuoso is inventing new protocols for compensating musicians outside of the concert hall.

New life for violins saved from the Holocaust, S.F. Conservatory goes global, and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio via Japan

The composer talks about Girls of the Golden West, premiering next week at San Francisco Opera.

Where can you hear great jazz in the Bay Area? Our compendium reveals all.

Kronos pursues 50 new quartets, music at the Filipino Film Fest, and a deluxe John Adams release.

With the structure in place, Bang on a Can continues to spread its gospel, looking forward rather than at its accomplishments.

The dynamic duo of chamber music have extraordinary vision and extraordinary influence. Here’s a portrait of these charismatic arts leaders.