Previews

The orchestra’s season opener features a Kevin Puts piece he created with their support when he was an up-and-coming composer.

The expansive festival embraces everything from cassette culture to the hip-hop/noise frontiers of Daveed Diggs’ clipping.

First, there was Opera on Tap, now there is “Bach and Brew” a homey little affair coming to a San Francisco brewery in September.

The great trumpeter and, now, classical composer, appears at Lesher Center Jazz this weekend, and shares some of the lessons he’s learned over his lifetime.

Being a deaf dancer, says Antoine Hunter, is a two-way mirror in which you are acutely aware of the differences between how you see yourself and how others see you.

Enterprising director Josh Shaw makes the most of a cultural touchstone to bring Mozart’s opera to life.

The world’s best-known cellist celebrates collaboration in a new film: The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. He discusses the film with SFCV.

The well-curated 2016 program adds voices to the mix of period instruments.

Berkeley’s biennial early music fest is ambitious and far-reaching once again.

The long-running event features more than 400 dancers and musicians representing 20 world cultures.