Previews

Benjamin Simon and the S.F. Chamber Orchestra delight in collaborating with youth ensembles such as the gifted Piedmont Choir.

Ensemble Parallèle presents the world premiere of Jacques Desjardins’ chamber orchestration of John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby

A much-lauded quartet soldiers on with two substitute players, due to a birth in the string family.

A cappella voices sing of darkness and introspection, in a rare appearance at Stanford University.

A consistently fresh ensemble from Europe explores the highways and byways of early music, including those leading to several composers of the Galante style.

Star violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock, in flight, doesn’t alight anywhere until she’s done, and she generally dazzles you before she deigns to perch on the smallest twig.

The third annual Bay Area Youth Orchestra Festival is coming to Davies Symphony Hall.

Youthful winners of an artists’ competition take to their instruments at the Mondavi Center in Davis.

Cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Christopher O'Riley pair up in a genre-blurring, sure-to-surprise performance in a San Francisco club.

Celebrate Chanukah with Ben Brussell’s high-energy klezmer band. Klezmer is a style of folk music from the Ashkenazic Jews in Eastern Europe.