Previews

Yo-Yo Ma brings the intimacy and power of three Johann Sebastian Bach solo cello suites to the Hearst Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley on Aug. 12 as a Cal Performances special summer event.

The 5th Milton and Peggy Salkind International Piano Duo Festival, in several locations, Aug. 7-9, will have all combinations and even ballet.

Hershey Felder brings the pianist Frederic Chopin to life in his solo show, Monsieur Chopin, now playing on the Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Thrust Stage through Aug. 10.

From medieval chants to premieres, the third International Russian Choral Music Festival gets underway Aug. 3 in San Francisco and runs through Aug. 10.

San Francisco’s Lamplighters Music Theatre kicks off their 62nd season with a swashbuckling perennial Gilbert & Sullivan favorite, The Pirates of Penzance.

So far as cellist Tanya Tomkins and pianist Eric Zivian know, there’s no other festival doing chamber music on period instruments. But there will be the Valley of the Moon Music Festival.

Canadian-American troubador Rufus Wainwright will make his debut at the Stern Grove Festival in San Francisco on Sunday, July 27.

Woody Guthrie’s American Song, the award-winning musical based on the life and music of the iconic American folk singer, returns to the Freight & Salvage for four performances.

Kids (and their parents) get to shake, rattle and rock at the free outdoor Kidchella summer concerts in Redwood City.

The great melodies and daffy humor of Gilbert and Sullivan are on display this week from the students of Summer Music West and Lamplighters Music Theatre.